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The same goes for conservative pundits (Brit Hume, Fox News, John Podhoretz- I'm looking in your direction).
You know, Safire takes a lot of criticism (to use a nice word) for being too "wishy-washy". Yet he has been FAR more willing to dish out authentic, conservative criticism of the Administration's (Powell in particular) middle-East policy than most other conservative columnists. I especially like when Safire says, "At the same time, columnists of my ilk are sent word that — Powell's ostensible tilt toward Arafat to the contrary — the president's hawkish heart is still in the right place." In other words, "You guys are a bunch of suck-ups." I wonder which columnists he was referring to specifically.