If You Seek His Monument, Look At His Columns

Bob Somerby and Scoobie Davis make the important point that the true measure of Michael Kelly, at least for persons who care about the integrity of journalism, is the content of his work. By that measure, Kelly came up very short. Kelly may have been a charming man when he was sitting around gossiping and swapping Clinton cock jokes with MoDo and P.J. O'Rourke. But, as Somerby and Davis point out, his public legacy is one of rabid, bitter and inaccurate screeds against President Clinton and Vice President Gore.