In today's NYTimes (and Friday's)

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Is Frank Rich insinuating what I think he's insinuating? Scary.

In the Arts section, a cappella gets some respect.

In Friday's paper, Ben Brantley wrote the kind of rave review theatre producers would kill for.

If anyone out there signed up for TimesPeople and wants to become TimesPeopleFriends, I'm signed up under my real name and hometown.

Comments

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I think it was subtle, and I agree with you that the available evidence wouldn't support such a claim if made overtly, but I think that's the idea he was trying to get us to think about without our being aware of it. (That's why I said "insinuate" and not "imply".)

The point at which my "skeptical reader alarm bells" went off was when he cited Palin's admiration for Bush pere, since we all know what was afflicting Ronald Regan, wink wink.