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NPR Ombudsman refuses interview regarding "torture"

A common affliction: a willingness to opine pedantically followed by a refusal to engage criticisms.

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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009 04:51 AM

    She's Following Her Leader

    As Clive Crook wrote in yesterday's FT: "Obama is choosing to be weak." (see the lovely Bromley cartoon linked at sig)

    So is she.

    For much the same reasons:

    1. She got righteously hammered for writing blatant nonsense

    2. She knew it was nonsense before she wrote it

    3. She knows you know

    4. She knows there is no defence

    There is no point in her repeating the performance on Salon Radio. That would just be an exercise in utter humiliation, that she naturally would rather avoid.

    What is left? Deny, obfuscate, dissemble, deny, misdirect, rinse, repeat ...

    Orders of the day, right?

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