February 15, 2013 4:59 am

"For the last several weeks, as you are no doubt aware,... news
outlets—most of them conservative—have been investigating secretary of
defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s positions, finances, associations,
career history, and utterances. Which seems to us to be precisely what
you would expect an intrepid and creative and entrepreneurial press to
do when the president of the United States nominates a controversial
former senator to one of the most important cabinet posts in the land.

Apparently, though, and without our knowing it, you and I have passed
through an inter-dimensional portal and have entered a black-is-white,
up-is-down twilight zone in which asking for information pertaining to
a public figure constitutes participation not only in a McCarthyite
“smear machine,” but also in a “campaign, orchestrated by
controversial anti-Arab figures,” with the goal of “smearing and
intimidating the Arab-American community.”......."

google can take you to the article in its entirety if you want to read
it all