ShrewdWatch

Here's the latest shrewd comment from Slate's own Hack Kerouac, Bob Kaus:

If President Bush were to tell the Swift Boat Veterans, "Those are great ads. Please run more of them," he'd immediately be accused by the Kerry campaign (and maybe the Federal Elections Commission) of illegal "coordination" with an allegedly independent political group. ... Now suppose Bush did what Kerry and David Broder want him to do and told the Swifties "Those are terrible ads. I call on you to stop running them." Why isn't that also illegal coordination? Coordination involves telling someone when to start and also when to stop, no? [I'm indebted to alert kf reader S.K. for this point.] ...

Even Kaus must realize how utterly stupid this is, since he's blaming it on a reader.

Meanwhile, check out this shrewd, Weisbergian logic: Bush is a sleazy, dishonest race-bating bigot, but evil "Bush-haters" -- people who think Bush is a sleazy, dishonest race-bating bigot -- have immunized Bush from criticism.