For those of you who still haven’t subscribed to the new NY TimesSelect service, the only thing you’ve really missed was this hilarious moment in Frank Rich’s “Meet the Columnist” video feature:

I never understood, and maybe I’m just dense, but I never understood the appeal of Howard Dean as a presidential candidate. There are people who are more moderate than the left of the Democratic Party whom I like a lot and there are some, to the extent that they still exist, there are independent-minded, uh (grimace), um (gulp)… Republicans… that I, that uh, that I admire.

Nice try, Frank.

P.S. The laughter you hear in the background is NRO webmaster Nathan Goulding.

Video here.