“Was he misquoted, or does a Harvard grad not know what “polarizing” means?”
He’s probably too busy playing ball to follow the Tebow story. No different than when corporate execs think that OWS and the gay lobby represent mainstream America.
Maybe he doesn’t mean to imply that Tebow is the cause of the polarization. Frankly, anyone who doesn’t by into the liberal worldview is portrayed by liberals as polarizing, aren’t they? So for Tebow and Lin there isn’t going to be a way to escape being polarizing.