Flying Pig
Hold on to your hats, folks. For once – and only once – I am about to defend the Daily Monopoly Dog Trainer Los Angeles Times, just a little bit. Recently, Monopoly staff writer William Arkin wrote an exceptionally nasty piece on Lt. General Jerry Boykin, in which Arkin accused Boykin of “believing in a Christian ‘jihad.’”
Critics of Arkin, including Hugh Hewitt, Patterico and Lileks, have been quick to pounce on the fact that Arkin put quotation marks around the word jihad, despite the fact that Boykin had (obviously) never used that word himself. In my view, the quotation marks were probably the only thing in that article, aside from the spelling of Boykin’s name, that Arkin actually got right. Here’s the quote, in context:
