An e-mail :

Subject: meir ad nauseum
Yes, please, do stop.
Also, if 10 years from now you are nominated for some “intellectual”
post, what might critics think when your NRO comments are revealed.
Things of the intellectual strength of “………Mendoooooooooooza!!” I assume you would ask them to evaluate that in its entire context. Can you be as fair?

ME: Fortunately, this will never be a problem for me.

And mercifully Ponnuru has never uttered “Meennnddooozza.” So his paper trail to the White House should be fine. His defense of Big Trouble in Little China may be a problem in the public-intellectual judging though. (My advice: Throw in some favorable posts about foreign films they only show in NY and LA now and again.)