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BROCK: "I don't know what Sidney [Blumenthal]'s job was at the White House, but if it involved disseminating the truth about the right-wing's operations, I don't think that is the kind of 'attack structure' I'm referring to. The 'attack structure' of the right has no regard for the truth of an allegation so long as it is politically useful."

READER: "Didn't he meet or talk with 'Sidney' many times during his conversion process? [Yes, about 30 to 50 times, as it emerged during Blumenthal's failed lawsuit against Matt Drudge.] If so, how would he not know what Sidney's job was? Additionally, Sidney's job was thoroughly explained in news articles at the time."

BROCK: "I was living in a mutual use society and as a result never learned what true friendship is, or how to give rather than take."

READER: "So it's the Right Wing's fault that David has subsequently betrayed all of his friends in the intervening time. Furthermore, shouldn't he have learned 'what true friendship is' and the other stuff by his early 20s (when he joined the Right)? Isn't that the job of parents, to teach that to their children at a young age?"

The Reader forgets that Brock was a Kennedy liberal before he became a righty, which might explain what he learned and didn't learn at an early age. Nonetheless, and to be fair, there are those can vouch for his inability to "give rather than take." Word is, for instance, that he never so much as thanked any of his overworked researchers on the Hillary book, for which he had received a modest million-dollar advance.

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Bill Clinton, Law