Michael Weiss explains. Sticking up for the integrity and seriousness of Anne Applebaum is part of it:
I’m under no illusion that an Obama administration will usher in a period of American "healing." The politics of polarization has always been with us, and it’s in no danger of expiring in the Age of Blogorrhea. But how sad that those paid to do the hard thinking about the future of conservatism should all rush to prove that they’ve got the intellects of four-year-olds, and the temperaments of Comintern agents.
The Dish 