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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 12:56 PM
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Michael Kinsley is such a milquetoast
Anyone listening to him on Franken? What a whiny little wuss.
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ohtransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:05 PM
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1. Milquetoast?
So I guess he can't be UN Ambassador! :evilgrin:
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:08 PM
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2. I have to agree
He was intellectually correct in his analysis of the fillabuster but it was only academically correct. Politically the argument was useless. The net effect was milquetoast.
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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:11 PM
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3. You can't advance as far in the MSM as he has....
Edited on Mon May-16-05 01:12 PM by iconoclastNYC
Without drinking the cool-aid.

He seems like a useful idiot for the right. Call it Alan Colmes syndrome.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:14 PM
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4. He was worse than milquetoast
I'd either have to assume he was naive or dishonest, and I don't think he's naive.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:17 PM
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5. You should check out the hatchet job he did to the...
LA Times editorial page. What can you say about someone that would include Margaret Carlson's column... :puke:
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:18 PM
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6. He has principles he holds above the truth.
And this causes him enable conservative liars.
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