Steel Cage Death Match: Drew vs. Taibbi on Clark

Author and New Yorker political journalist Elizabeth Drew has a piece on Wesley Clark in the current New York Review of Books. Read Matt Taibbi's article in the The Nation (highlighted in an earlier thread) and follow it up with the Drew piece. You'll probably be left in some doubt as to whether they're writing about the same man. Drew's piece is considerably less imaginative—no mention of any resemblance between Clark and reptiles, no empty eyes of a sociopath— but considerably more informative. I'll leave it to the readers to decide which writer has the stronger credentials when it comes to profiling candidates and whether Taibbi's work is a hallucinatory hatchet job on a major Democratic candidate, but you oughtn't to read Taibbi's article without the counterweight of Drew's.