Meanwhile lots of readers are peeved over my use of the word “leaks” regarding the Manny Miranda resignation. The point’s well-taken. I simply held onto the word from my discussion of the Clinton pattern. Anyway, here’s a typical email:

Jonah,
Repeat after me…. “There are no ‘leaks’. There were no ‘leaks’….”
Language matters, and it stuns me how quickly even the brightest conservatives adopt the language framed by the opposition. There was no “leak” in the Senate Judiciary memo flap. All that happened was a republican staffer read and shared documents that were available to anyone with access to the network. By buying into the liberal’s designation of it as a “leak”, you impute not only motives but actions to Mr. Miranda that were not there.