As I pointed out. . .

. . .in my previous post, and Ross Douthat makes crystal clear in his response to Ezra Klein, Barack Obama's supporters are being forced to resort to the most idiotic justifications imaginable. What's more troubling, however, is that in Klein's case, he isn't even being forced to do it. Given the fact that Obama has now rejected Wright's sentiments, Klein is effectively left standing pants-down in the glaring light of his of his own foolishness.

Stanley Kurtz does a wonderful job of highlighting the kind of sophistry that the left will use to comfort itself in the days ahead, over at The Corner. It really is a thing of beauty to anyone who has encountered one of those types who tend to frequent the comments sections of liberal bulletin boards on the Web and UseNet, posting lengthy condescensions of right wingers filled with passages lifted directly from the books their philosophy professors required them to purchase for the class, but that the bookstore wouldn't buy back at the end of the semester.