Monday, November 17, 2008

Rahm Rumors (Rahmors?)

Jim Zogby fact-checks some of the crap floating around about the nine-fingered wonder, e.g. he lost his finger confronting a Syrian tank during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. (Actually he lost it in a meat-slicing accident while working at Arby's as a teenager.) What conspiracy theories lack in veracity they sometimes make up for in imagination.

For what it's worth, the best assessment I've seen of Rahm's Middle East views is by the estimable Lara Friedman of Americans Peace Now (scroll down to III). The way she boils it down: he's not as progressive as some might like, but he's "stayed off the really bad stuff."
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