Contrary to Jason Mattera's latest attack on Campus Progress, on me, on National Review editor Alston Ramsay, on Fat Joe, George Soros, and others, my concern is less about whether Mattera is nice and more about whether he's capable of writing a truthful, accurate sentence --and, if he's not, why he serves as "spokesman" for a non-profit educational organization with an annual budget of thirteen million dollars. Correcting his errors, including in this morning's rant, would have to be someone's full-time job, but let me just point out one of the latest to give you a sense of his craft. Mattera writes:

"I did resurrect a claim that Campus Progress granted me press credentials, but that claim didn't come from Young America's Foundation's President Ron Robinson, as Halperin asserts. The resurrection was courtesy of David Halperin … According to a blog post by him, 'Campus Progress granted [Jason Mattera] press credentials to cover our National Student Conference….'"

I couldn't imagine that I wrote that, but I clicked on Jason's hyperlink to check. Here's what I wrote:

"John McCormack of the National Review writes, 'I hope that Jason [Mattera] and YAF [Young America's Foundation] reconsider' their denial of press credentials for our CampusProgress.org student reporter, Julie Siegel, to cover the annual YAF Conservative Student Conference. Way to go, John! As McCormack notes, Campus Progress granted him press credentials to cover our National Student Conference last week. And, as CampusProgress.org editor Elana Berkowitz noted on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Saturday, YAF press gatekeeper Jason Mattera himself has written two years in a row about the Campus Progress conference for National Review."

It's clear from the sentence itself, and from everything else we have written on this subject, that I was saying that Campus Progress granted press credentials to John McCormack, not to Jason Mattera.

Indignant, Sneering, and Wrong, [Jason].