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Using a two-week-old book review as the springboard, Andy "Eduwonk" Rotherham leaps into the Rod Paige muck. Apparently, the review of Paige's book is awful because it doesn't criticize teacher unions enough and Paige's book is "lousy" because it distorts the debate about how to best trash teacher unions.

Bonus slime: Rotherham offers up a perfect example of his particular brand of smear artistry by repeating the reviewer's only criticism of teacher unions and adding an odd list of liberals who don't like teacher unions.

Our post about the review, which we did, uh, two weeks ago when the review first ran, is here.

Posted by John on April 30, 2007 05:19 PM | Permalink

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