Freaks and Greeks

Here's a tale of a foreign-born bigoted right-wing drunk who's not Steve Dunleavy:

Mr. Frum, ex-White House speechwriter and National Review contributing editor, calls Taki (as the wealthy Greek is known) a drunk and an anti-Semite. Taki, co-editor with Patrick Buchanan of the American Conservative magazine, calls Mr. Frum a liar.

Like so many affairs of honor, this one involves a woman, in this case Mr. Frum's wife, author Danielle Crittenden. Mr. Frum says a drunken Taki "cornered Danielle" at a dinner party in the late 1990s.

"From across the room, I caught her marital distress signal and came over to intercede," Mr. Frum wrote last month in National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "Taki retreated immediately and in a slurred voice offered what I suppose was intended as an apology. 'This is why I am an anti-Semite � the Jews take all the most beautiful women.' "

A "cheap-shot lie," says Taki.

Why anyone should care about this trio of losers -- except to ridicule them -- is beyond me.