Stutts! Stutts! Stutts!

I well remember sitting next to my Stutts University classmate Mike Rubin as we took the required Introduction to Peevish Amour Propre freshman year. God, did Mike study hard, and it all paid off: Professor Blythewiggam gave him the highest score any Stuttsian has ever received. (Due to grade inflation, this was an AAA++++++++++++++++++++)

And just as we always knew he would, Mike has gone far in the world, as part of the neoconservative JV. He was interviewed for the upcoming Vanity Fair piece, previewed here:

Michael Rubin, former Pentagon Office of Special Plans and Coalition Provisional Authority staffer: "Where I most blame George Bush is that through his rhetoric people trusted him, people believed him. Reformists came out of the woodwork and exposed themselves." By failing to match his rhetoric with action, Rubin adds, Bush has betrayed Iraqi reformers in a way that is "not much different from what his father did on February 15, 1991, when he called the Iraqi people to rise up, and then had second thoughts and didn't do anything once they did."

Mike didn't take kindly to this "pre-election hit job" slur upon his honor:

re: Vanity Fair [Michael Rubin]
I stand by what I say—which is not different than what I have said elsewhere. But, perhaps it is time for Vanity Fair to publish the full transcripts of all interviews. If they have nothing to hide—for example taking quotes out of context—then they should have no worries. Vanity Fair: Publish the full transcripts. Now. Before the elections. Stop playing games.

We learned many things in Introduction to Peevish Amour Propre: how to take offense when the help at the club doesn't remember your favorite drink; why to end your cutting sarcastic remarks with a "good day, Sir!"; the three best vocal inflections to communicate your net worth; etc. But no one ever told us how to imply that a U.S. election turned on the publishing of the "full transcripts" of an interview with us.

Man, Mike should be TEACHING that class now!