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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He's saying that the press shouldn't have taken his leaks in the first place. He's careful not to defend what Libby did once he was in the perjury trap.

Kinsley doesn't answer the questions that other pundits can answer. He thinks outside the box. Understood as a proposition for establishing a niche in the media marketplace, the man is brilliant. Maureen Dowd is just playing his game.

No, he's much too cerebral to get upset about much of anything, except perhaps stem-cell research.

I don't think he's gaming here and the suggestion the cerebral and the emotional/judgmental are mutually exclusive is a little broad brushed, wouldn't you say?

His point is a perfectly rational grey observation of a very grey event in an entirely grey arena.