The Drudge Report is no longer linking to the Kirchick hit piece. I guess Matt Drudge has realized that it doesn’t even meet the National Enquirer level of believability and has decided to disassociate himself from such a trashy piece. FOX News won’t even link to it!

From the comment section on the TNR article, I think the following post sums it up nicely:

I’m a black guy. I’m having trouble determining which candidate to support. Should I support one who advocates dismantling the single largest institutionally racist program that has oppressed African Americans (hint: its initials are WOD), but who may have had an employee or two who wrote some stupid things twenty years ago that should have been edited? Or should I support the candidate(s) who pose with the working class black mom, may play a jazz instrument (ooo, how “black” of them), and yet advocates (explicitly or passively) the continued incarceration of hundreds of thousands of non-violent young black men? Hmm, tough call. What do you think I should do, TNR? You seem to have a real deep understanding of modern racial sociopolitical issues.

I would also like to note that the “Free At Last” moneybomb, scheduled on January 21st to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, has the same number of pledges through 5 days as the Nov. 5th Moneybomb.