The rot that has infested so much of the left

"Kos is whining now about a campaign against him, 'led by InstaPundit,'" says InstaPundit:

I haven't led a campaign, or called for people to de-link him, or anything . . . I just noted Kos's comments. And what bothered me about it wasn't Kos. It was that Kos -- who I used to think of as a reasonable if partisan lefty -- seems to be infested with a degree of hatred that I previously associated with the Democratic Underground and other fringe sites.

As Michele Catalano notes, Kos said a nasty dumb thing, and everybody has noticed. But it's not about Kos. It's about the rot that has infested so much of the left, of which Kos's remarks were merely the latest manifestation. . . Kos has been rather a weasel about first making the comments, then hiding them, then issuing a bogus pseudo-apology, and now -- as if there were more to this than dumb statements on a blog that led to some angry commentary and email -- he's playing the victim and bragging about how he's nobly standing up to a lynch mob.

As we were just saying, The blogosphere giveth, and the blogosphere taketh away.