In my last post I predicted that the Power Line philosophers, having defended their friend Ed Whelan in his dust-up with publius, would be mum about their friend's apology for a deed they defended. But not so. They probably would have been wise to remain silent, however. Mirengoff now adds an incoherent coda to the incoherent "analysis" of his original post. He says his friend Whelan is a better man than he for issuing an apology that he, Mirengoff, would for very good reasons never have issued.
What are we to conclude? That if Whelan were as good a man as Mirengoff, who coyly pretends to think he is not as good a man as his friend Whelan, then he (Whelan) would comprehend as well as Mirengoff that real men do not apologize?
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