The same name-calling screachers who insisted that I was an ass for not taking everything Jill Carroll said at face value, are now emailing me to call me an ass because it now looks like I was right to be skeptical. They insist I should apologize for “judging” her. This strikes me as absurd. If you go back and read what I’ve posted, I said that Carroll’s statements didn’t scan. It now looks like she was coerced into making those statements — though we still need to know a lot more. If that’s the whole story, that’s fine with me. I don’t think anyone can fairly begrudge someone saying what they feel they must under such trying circumstances in order to survive. But, most of the lefty emailers — and many bloggers — took her initial statements at face value. I didn’t. So far, it seems to me that I was right and they were wrong. I see no need to apologize. It seems to me the apologies should be coming from them.