"Wouldn't it be nice," asks Ankush, "if [Patrick] Healy could say that he annoys Clinton's people by interspersing random policy questions in scheduled interviews?" It would! Sadly, it's the other way around. And this willingness to ask the tough questions about how often Mrs. Clinton and her husband see each other's underthings makes him a tough and courageous reporter.*
Meanwhile, Ankush is also right that the Times should encourage it's op-ed writers to attack each other by name, rather than take anonymous potshots. And I'll go further than that: I'd love to see a debate between David Brooks and Paul Krugman on the Republicans and race, or health care and inequality. That would be great fun, and probably more informative than either of their columns in isolation. But for some reason, we don't get such opportunities, because putting pundits in extended conversation with one another might lead to someone getting embarrassed.
*For more on this obsession with the Clinton's marriage, see this post..
