DougR:

I am perplexed as to what you are referring to. I simply pointed out that the columnist in question was contradicting himself.

He said he was giving someone the benefit of the doubt when he was moist energetically trying to discredit them, even at the sacrifice of evenhanded reportage. It is one thing to argue on behalf of a point of view but another altogether to assert that you are being objective while being extremely partisan.

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