Last Word On Siegel

To just make a brief point The New York Times seems to have overlooked, while sockpuppetry is bad, being an ass to Ezra Klein not to be approved of, and the "blogofascism" episode absurd, the genuinely problematic thing Lee Siegel did as a blogger was repeatedly smear someone as a pedophile utterly without evidence. I'm not sure whether or not what he was doing amounted to libel, but it certainly seemed close to me.