Jim Lindgren has got to be the most annoying partisan hack ever to blog on the Volokh Conspiracy. His latest piece of hackery consists of trying to make a private joking comment by John Kerry to Tom Brokaw ("I must have been drinking the night before..." about an exam he did not do too well on) into a serious admission of alcoholism. Disgusting.

And can you even imagine the outcry on the part of conservatives against the mainstream media if Tom Brokaw, on election morning, revealed a similar private, off-camera, potentially-embarassing-if-misconstrued comment by President Bush?