I meant to say this too. From a reader:

I, too, was flabbergasted at how ridiculous Kevin Phillips was this morning on NPR. You forgot to mention the other subject of his rant. He went on and on about Silberman’s connection to the “October Surprise Scandal” as if this scandal actually existed anywhere but in the fevered imaginations of Bill Moyers and his aging, Carter-Administration friends. I can’t believe NPR let him use their airwaves to push such a thoroughly discredited “scandal.”