What’s more fun than a deft literary gutting among colleagues? Here’s Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, emptying out Time columnist Joe Klein from xiphoid to pubic arch. Sample:

Then there’s this whole business of liberals who are accused of “rooting” for failure in Iraq…You don’t have the right to get us into this mess and then turn around and call us traitors. Your credibility is long gone on this issue; shut up about us…

Our opposition to the war was based on our absolute conviction that it would end in disaster — which it incidentally has. But according to Klein, if we see a guy step off the top of the Empire State Building, we’re supposed to root for him to nail the dismount.