Monday, October 08, 2007

What's That?   [Jonah Goldberg]

During the Grapevine segment tonight Brit Hume referred to Jonathan Adler — our Jonathan Adler — as a Hillary Clinton supporter. Or that's how he made it sound. Someone has some 'splainin' to do.

Update: Ah, the confusion comes from the Examiner — Hume's cited source for the item. Here's how they wrote it up:

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”

Adler told The Examiner that it is “simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.”

I don't have Hume's text available, but he might have rephrased "admirer" as "supporter."

10/08 07:22 PMShare