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Andrew Sullivan gave John Derbyshire an Yglesias Award (Sully’s prize given to someone who ballsily tells the truth to his or her own side) for calling Newt Gingrich a rotten hypocrite. Derb said: Newt’s chutzpah knows no bounds, though. Back during the 2008 presidential campaign, he told a Fox News interviewer that then-Senator Obama ought to return […]

Andrew Sullivan gave John Derbyshire an Yglesias Award (Sully’s prize given to someone who ballsily tells the truth to his or her own side) for calling Newt Gingrich a rotten hypocrite. Derb said:

Newt’s chutzpah knows no bounds, though. Back during the 2008 presidential campaign, he told a Fox News interviewer that then-Senator Obama ought to return contributions he had received from Freddie Mac and its sister racket, Fannie Mae. Just last year Newt brought out a campaign book in which he argued for getting rid of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Now here he is in Iowa this week defending Freddie Mac. Quote: “Every American should be interested in expanding housing opportunities.”

Know who else deserves an Yglesias Award? The NRO combox commenter “Barry,” who, on Derb’s anti-Newt thread, lit into those jumping on Derb:

So because Derb doesn’t like Gingrich, he’s obviously a shill for Romney? That seems to be what many of these posts are saying. In fact, it’s a common theme for NR commenters in general: if there’s a post related to the primary race, and it doesn’t attack Romney unremittingly, then it’s obviously the work of a Rombot, which, of course, includes everybody at NR (including Derb, which is laughable on the face of it), which is, after all, part of the evil, never-to-be-trusted “establishment,” whatever that is. Probably whatever Rush says is the establishment, while pulling down nine figures.

Reading these comments drives me to despair. There’s little more thought here at NRO than an average Krugman column. We may says we oppose the left, but we’ve totally adopted their methods and ways of thinking.

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