re: #213 wrenchwench

I never suggested he was a wingnut.

I suggested he hangs around with racists.

Not everyone who hangs around with racists is a wingnut.

‘Hangs around with’ - you make it sound like this is a purely social thing, and nothing to do with journalism. Do you have anything to suggest that Wiegels interest is not journalistic?

From your link:

And RS McCain says:

…Weigel and I are good buddies…

He continues:

And I’ve plied Hitchens with Johnny Walker while he told bawdy jokes at a DuPont Circle beer joint.

Gosh it’s all coming out now! Hitchens ‘hangs around’ with racists too! Not to mention religious nutcases of all sorts. No really, this couldn’t possibly just be McCain in a desperate attempt to deflect criticism of his extreme right wing friends associations! He wouldn’t do that!/