Eric Alterman responds to an attack by a hack journalist

Eric Alterman shows how an intelligent angry man can take after a fool who attacked him.

John Cloud is the so-called journalist who wrote the puff piece on Ann Coulter that disgraced the cover of Time Magazine recently. When Eric Alterman wrote an article that described the Coulter piece as “a morally and intellectually indefensible work of journalism” Cloud replied with an attack of indefensible personal invective in an interview with the Colombia Journalism Review, some of which Mr. Alterman has reproduced in his response.

Go read it. It is an excellent rebuttal of both Cloud and Coulter, and makes you wonder what is wrong with Time Magazine (again.) It is also very well written.