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With apologies to Kevin Drum, who was pretty damn clever to try to name that phenomenon after himself, I still prefer the term "nutpicking" for boosting anonymous comments up to the level of "the views of the left".
As to Howie Kurtz, there is no bigger "useful idiot" in the media today. He is utterly incapable of finding the important point of any story he covers. Also, he's the right wing's dream columnist, in that he repeats every smear job the put forward with such neutral and brief commentary that he carries water for people even when claiming their attacks aren't exactly fair, per se.
