Once upon a time, I used to actually respect Michael Kinsley in that weird sort of "hey, he's a likeable nerd" kind of way. But he seems to have drifted, like many pundits do, into trying to maintain his Kewl Kidz Klubkard by writing sophomoric crap like Broder and Will. I guess it's all part of "paying your Kewl Kidz Duez".

He manages to continue the "Webb was mean to Bunnypants" line in todays post:

Webb seems to believe that because he served in Vietnam, anyone who could have but didn't should shut up. That includes people who opposed that war -- that is, who got it right -- as well as those who supported it. ... Webb avoided the receiving line and then, when Bush came up and asked him how his son was doing, he basically told the president to flake off. Webb's self-righteousness can be obnoxious. ...

I guess he missed the backstory from Jim Moran of Virginia that Beloved Leaders handlers told the Deciderer to tread carefully around Webb in discussing his son. Said son having just been up-close-and-personal to an IED that killed three of his buddies. He also misses the fact that Webb was responding to Bunnypants being an asshole with his "that's not what I asked you" comment, so Mikey, do we all now kiss the ring of the the Royal Idiot?

Kinsley has fallen a long way over the years in his quest to be a Kewl Kid. This is just more evidence of decline. I wonder when we are going to get the Concern Troll column from him "I used to be Democrat, until they elected Nancy Pelosi as Speaker..."

I will give him pointz for at least calling out Jenna and Not-Jenna on their emulation of their parents "give a shit" attitude about the suffering and dying of young Americans sent to fight in a War of Choice started by their brain-dead father.