The Enemy of My Enemy

WorldNetDaily draws the latest over-heated attack on a member of the Obama administration from an unlikely source — the autobiography of Princeton University professor Cornel West. In his new book, West claims that then-Harvard University President Larry Summers encouraged him to help “f**k up” Prof. Harvey Mansfield, apparently an encouragement to get back into Summers’ graces. WND gets a statement from Mansfield:

Larry Summers was not out to get me. I was not present at the famous interview between him and Cornel West, but in my opinion (Summers) merely used my name in a clumsy attempt to cajole Cornel West into behaving more like a professor, less like a celebrity. Larry Summers was doing many good things at Harvard before his enemies there succeeded in ousting him.