Ellie Reeve is mad that Frank Foer didn't stand by her
husband forever. Jon Chait chimes in:
"The basis [for the retraction] was just that Scott is
maddening," he said. "He's just flaky, he's irresponsible, he
doesn't do things that are in his own obvious interest to do.
… Scott was the guy who lives in the group house and is
supposed to pay the electric bill and just doesn't, and the lights
get shut off. Frank was the guy who had the lights shut out on
him."
And then Frank was the guy who blamed the Army for the lack of
electricity.