Literacy

I can't be sure, but sometimes I think that Andrew Sullivan is illiterate, or, at the very least, got very low scores in reading comprehension.

Yesterday, Sullivan bashes Glenn Reynolds about a posting Glenn put up regarding the media writing articles that contain falsehoods about the war effort. In it, Sullivan keys on four unfortunate words Reynolds writes:

I've done it myself, with regard to the war crimes originally reported by Zeyad, problems with CERP, etc. Reporting on things taht are actually going wrong, without the "see, Bush is horrible!" spin, and false facts, that we're getting elsewhere, is actually helpful, and we could use more of it. It would, however, be work, and it might help Bush out, which is apparently unforgivable.

Italics mine. He then goes on a wild rant about how Glenn is blindly covering for Bush, when Glenn has called out the President more than once. What Sullivan completely misses is Reynolds's point, that criticizing the war is legitimate, but using misinformation to do it is wrong. In fact, Glenn welcomes criticism in his post.

It's sad when Sullivan goes on one of his hysterical rants. Any kid with with 6th grade reading comprehension skills could have understood Glenn's post better than Sullivan did.