ace confesses?

[Brad DeLong]

>C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>>  Of course, this is much less scary than is the claim that the NYT's
>>>  coverage of Cardinal Law's pedophilia-enabling is part of a Jewish
>>>  anti-Catholic plot to erode the moral authority of the Vatican to
>>>  criticize Israel...
>>
>>--a stupid and vicious smear of Cockburn.  Here's what he wrote, from NY
>>Press (emphasis added to a passage rather accurately capturing the debate
>>on lbo-talk):

It is not a smear! Cockburn wrote:


>>The uncharitable could see [NYT coverage of priestly child 
>>molestation] as a preemptive strike against papal criticism of 
>>Israel's actions

Surely you would not wish to claim that Cockburn is among the 
"charitable"? Or that one can shed responsibility for one's words by 
putting them in the subjunctive mode?

Bad DeLong