Oh come on folks. I’m getting all of this email from people — particularly leftwingers – who are either being way too hard on my reader or, by extension, absurdly hard on me. The guy hesitated for a minute about hailing a cab for Helen Thomas. In a week when we’ve seen people celebrating Tony Snow’s cancer, this seems like an awfully high — and sudden – standard for rightwing villainy.

Also, to the folks who read too fast. I was passing the story on, it wasn’t me who hesitated to help Thomas.