I agree with Malkin. The matter should be dropped.
It may have been tactically clever to toss it out, since it obliged Webb to waste more time dealing with it than it took to raise it, it might sway a few voters, esp. in rural VA away from Webb and direct quotations from an opponent's writings aren't likely to push voters away as a dirty trick.
Still it's not worth spending more time on.
I agree with Malkin and with you.
Pulpfiction,,that is what webb writes and people do read it.
If Allen were clever, he would let others make it an issue but make Webb and object of ridicule,,the man writes like a 13 year old with too much testosterone.
Malkin is right on this.