"As a political writer, [Frank] Rich is a marginal crackpot — just this side of a flat-out shelled nut. And yes — he's done gigantic harm to liberal interests over the course of the past dozen years. And yet, sensitive liberals cry and complain when someone dares to notice the problem. Why would a Democrat dislike Rich's work? Frankly, because he has read it," Bob Somerby, criticizing Frank Rich from the left. I wouldn't be so harsh, but it's ballsy, that's for sure.