Matt Zeitlin

Stephen Suh of Cogitamus, in the midst of an impressive defense of being an angry partisan, makes a pretty elementary mistake:

Goldberg and people like him – such as Ramesh Ponnuru – want to argue that the Islamic terrorists who rail against the licentiousness of our culture are both connected to the secular, inclusive liberal movement and are absolutely correct: American culture actually is too hedonistic, too licentious. Oh, and it’s all those darn liberals’ fault.

While it goes without saying that an “angry partisan Democrat” wouldn’t be a huge fan of Ponnuru, Stephen Suh was probably thinking of a different conservative Indian pundit. While Ramesh certainly isn’t a social liberal, it was Dinesh D’Souza, not Ramesh Ponnuru, who wrote an entire book placing the blame for Islamic terrorism on liberalism. This was probably an innocent mistake, but still, when writing angry partisan screeds (not that there is anything wrong with that) it’s generally good not to confuse ones opponents on account of them having similarly foreign-sounding names and being part of the same ethnic group.

UPDATE: Suh has since corrected the mistake, and it clearly was an honest one.