I don’t know what the rules should be, but since today my sometime friend Joe Klein chose to describe the eminent Bernard Lewis, who has forgotten more about Islam than Joe Klein has ever known about any subject, as a “quasi-racist” because of Lewis’s unbelievably well-informed ideas about the interplay of Islam and nationhood — which include the “quasi-racist” notion that Muslims can govern themselves democratically — I say: Let the netroots chew him up.