When your five minutes of fame are over, you need to find something else to write about. The creep Weigel is still trying to keep alive his one claim to "fame." Justin Raimondo wastes no time in jumping on it.

Reason is fast losing subscribers and readers over this. Take a look at the comments attached to Weigel's post: they sure have Weigel's number. Almost to a man (and woman) they are wondering: whose side is Reason on? Why are they bringing up this tired old "controversy"? Who benefits -- the friends or the enemies of liberty? So intent are these would-be commissars on purging the movement of anyone who doesn't kowtow to their PC gods that they lose sight of the fact that Ron Paul is a bestselling author who has done more for the cause of liberty than Reason could ever hope to.

Justin is right, of course. And he adds:

Yeah, well screw you, Weigel, and screw Reason magazine - Ron Paul is the future of the libertarian movement, and you are yesterday's flotsam.

Personally, I don't write off all of Reason magazine. There's much good there - disagreement or not - and several excellent writers: Gillespie, Walker, Sullum, Doherty, etc. Some of the newer writers of the "free mind" capacity don't even make it on my radar map, but that's okay. There's nothing wrong with the variety that Reason offers its readers. But some very unlibertarian types at Reason - Welch, Bailey, and Weigel, for instance - draw the ire of many libertarians who don't see what value these types add to the understanding and furtherance of libertarianism. Then there are a couple of other ex-Cato staffers who joined the hate & blame Ron Paul/Lew Rockwell bandwagon so as to make the right friends in the Beltway and mainstream media. And none of those people matter a bit. However, I can certainly sweep that flotsam under the rug and enjoy the interesting libertarians at Reason who still carry on with some excellent work. But I commend Justin for his tireless efforts in terms of setting things straight. I don't know what the libertarian-o-sphere would do without him and his tremendous passion for saying it as it really is.