I really really hate when people employ fake civility in an attempt to tar their critics with the charge of rudeness in order to undermine them.


I also really really hate when people try to pretend they meant something other than what any normal english speaker would have interpreted their words to mean. We all make MISTAKES along those lines sometimes, but...admit your mistake, as in "yes I did have my head up my ass when I wrote those words and despite what it says in plain english it wasn't actually what I had been thinking."

The Mickster does both!

Kaus said, and Eric Alterman took issue with, this statement:

"But the New York Times seems no more embarrassable on the subject of Bush-bashing overkill than the Wall Street Journal ed-page was on the subject of Clinton-bashing overkill."


This sentence pretty clearly equates, in any reader's mind, the "overkill" on the pages of both newspapers.

I'm glad you admit that it wasn't what you meant, but it was what you said.