“I’m pretty sure that WF “pinged” Jim Robinson to bring to his attention the fact that the author of this article gave FreeRepublic and Jim himself a nice plug in an online newspaper that is nationally syndicated, and which will be reprinted nationally dozens of times in the next few day.”
It’s great if Jim/FR gets broader publicity but there’s absolutely nothing to indicate that that was why WF pinged Jim, as evidenced by WF’s subsequent replies to me when discussing his initial comment - during which he mentioned nothing of the sort, and he’s certainly articulate enough to have done so if that was his motivation.
“Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”
That it does, and it makes us ascribe motives to others that we wish they had.
I suppose it might... if I actually "loved" him. Which I don't. Sorry.