Former Bush speechwriter, now Washington Post columnist, won't provide comments about criticism to Washington Post

This is fun on several levels. First, there is a major cat fight brewing among former Bush speech writers. Several of them are trashing Michael Gerson, who is now a columnist for the Washington Post. It's pretty ugly. But the Washington Post can't get its own columnist, Michael Gerson, to respond to the criticism:

In a review of Gerson's new book, "Heroic Conservatism," Frum offers several examples of what he terms the author's self-aggrandizement, saying that Gerson inflated his role in the development of the president's AIDS initiative in Africa and in writing a potential concession speech for George W. Bush on Election Day 2000.

Gerson, now a Washington Post columnist and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, did not respond to requests for comment.

Maybe the Washington Post can pay him to write a column about the mess.