Daily Kos: Our Founding Moonbat:
It has been said that his journalism is “unfair” and “vicious” and “takes a back seat to everyone, including Jayson Blair, in terms of ethics”, that it “might well have been the best fiction written in the English language”, that “every dip of his pen stung like a horned snake”, and that he was “loose cannon” whose “ninety-proof prose” incited the “rabble”. His lifelong political enemy called him “the great incendiary” and a “master of the puppets”, deplored his “obstinacy and inflexible disposition”, and also accused him of “defalcation” (a quaint expression for embezzlement). It’s been said that “like most men contending solely for a principle he was distinctly a ‘trouble-maker.'” And finally, the authorities declared that his “offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration but that of condign punishment.”
Some fire-breathing excerpts interwoven within the piece. Bracing stuff . . . and all too apropos.