[cyncooper]

It was being shopped by Chris Lehane.

Andrew Sullivan needs to be smacked, he's been so off base lately.

[karenbarinka]

Bet Andy enjoys being smacked!

[Howlin]

Well, I got a response from Sullivan:

I emailed him:

How kind of you to automatically blame the GOP for the Kerry story; I guess you missed Craig Crawford's MEMO today, huh?

And he wrote me back a snippy little note:

i didn't do that.
can you read?
andrew

And so I wrote him back:

Yes, I can read.

Does

"I'm beginning to worry that the Republicans might be behind this smear-job on Kerry."

mean something I don't know?

There's absolutely NO HINT that the GOP is behind this.