Apparently Canadian bloggers aren't the only ones who think The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell is snake oil salesman with a very good vocabulary.

James Wolcott takes a swipe at Gladwell on his blog, calling him "a slick hustler of clever simplifications." But that's nothing compared to what Vanity Fair's 'Zorro of the Zeitgeist' has to say about newly-installed Washington correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg, citing his:

[R]evulsion at the neocon propaganda and scaremongering disseminated under the guise of reporting by Jeffrey Goldberg, whose lollapalooza about so-called links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda ("The Great Terror") helped grease us into war. (That his expose was immediately hailed by The Weekly Standard told you all you needed to know about whose purposes were being served.)

At the Newsstand [James Wolcott]
Malcolm Gladwell: Canadian-on-Canadian Critical Beat-Down Victim

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