As I suspected, I’m getting lots of email from people outraged that I won’t see the movie. As I said in the column, that’s fine. I simply refer them to all the liberals who’ve seen the film and who say the film is a crock.

But I am really stunned by is the way that David Edelstein, Nick Confessore, William Raspberry and numerous other liberals admit that A) the film is chock full of lies and cheap shots and B) It’s great and they hope everyone sees it and that it changes the public’s mind about the war. Isn’t this shameful? What am I missing?

Couldn’t a David Duke with talent make a hateful, racist film full of distortions and half truths about blacks or Jews which was the nevertheless brilliant filmmaking? What conservative would survive with his career intact if he said “Sure, all that stuff of about genetic inferiority and a Zionist plot was unfair. But Duke does make excellent points about the unintended consequences of affirmative action and people should see the film.”

It’s by no means a perfect analogy, but I am simply amazed by the willingness of so many honest liberals to embrace what they recognize as dishonest merely for the sake of zinging the other guy.