Too much attention on Rudy's rubber room foreign policy advisors?

My pal Eli Lake (yes, complete neocon stooge and running dog but still my good friend, long story) has a new article out in the New York Sun noting how the Rudy team is getting a little uncomfortable about all the attention his advisors Norman Podhoretz, Michael Rubin, Daniel Pipes and others are getting. So they're going to send out semi-sane advisor Charles Hill for a round of conversations with journalists, presumably to calm everyone's nerves.

Rudy's new line is that these are his advisors, until people start figuring out what cranks and screw-loosers they are, and then they're not his advisors. All right then.

It does say a lot for Rudy's judgment and foreign policy savvy that the folks from the rubber room crowd who even Bush keeps at arm's length gravitate toward Rudy and vice versa.

Here's our earlier run-down of some of the folks Rudy has advising him ...