John Podhoretz of the NYPost has a terrific column today, criticizing those journalists who rushed last year to defend Sami al-Arian as the victim of McCarthyism. Al-Arian has not been convicted of anything, of course, but Podhoretz points out that some media liberals are so desperate to see something sinister in any move against Islamists in American life that they blind themselves to evidence contrary to their ideological assumptions. His closing is great: “Idiots? Yes. Useful? Not any more.”