CORNEL WEST UPDATE: His star may be setting, but he can still score a fawning, one-sided feature in the Star Tribune. Note how it manages to give the impression that Larry Summers called West a “lazy negro,” though in fact those are West’s words, not Summers’s.

And note this line about Summers: “It’s that assumption — that decency is something that has to be proven — that’s racist in many ways.”

Hmm. I thought that to be a University Professor at Harvard you had to be more than just decent. I thought you had to be, well, really good.