Quickly, because I’m in the middle of some stuff here, is James Fallows’s take on yesterday’s news:

That the Clinton family would dignify the American Spectator, of all publications, is astonishing to anyone who was alive in the 1990s.

That they would bless this attempt to paint Merrill McPeak as an anti-Semite is grotesque.

If this wasn’t clear in my ramble last night, that’s what this is about. The American Spectator and Scaife haven’t had some epiphany and suddenly decided to behave like normal, if opinionated, magazines. They have simply decided to back a different side.

This isn’t an improvement for those of us not in the Clinton campaign. In fact, it’s encouraging the same crappy behavior they exhibited during the Clinton years. It’s wrong, period.