Here comes that awful feeling again.

Are these accusations true? Was Bush's much-praised chief speechwriter, a seemingly self-effacing and bookish evangelical Christian, truly the Eve Harrington of the West Wing? The anecdotes have a haunting specificity." Is Michael Gerson (whom I've praised here before) an inveterate blowhard, or did the strong man kick sand into Matthew Scully's cereal? Slate's Tim Noah referees a dispute between two veteran GOP speechwriters over the true authorship of Dubya's better moments.