> I don't get it. Marv goes out of his way to say how much he admires Hass,
> that he's been reading her for years, and then he points to her bio. This is
> the response he gets?
Whatever. You've never witnessed the rhetorical device where someone praises as a way of discrediting them?* There's probably even a name for it.
"Brutus says [Caesar] was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man"
(*I'm not saying Marv did this; I took him as being sincere. Just pointing to the silliness of Dennis' "question.")