Clarification
Someone claimed that an editor here was making a "libelous insinuation".  "Libelous" is not a term to be thrown around loosely.  First, I didn't see anything that was factually untrue.  That is the first requirement for libel.  If something is true, it is not libelous.  Second, opinion is never libelous.  I just hope that people become more judicious about this...
Oh, and finally, libel against a public figure requires "reckless indifference to the truth" or "knowledge that the statement was false."  I don't see anything here that suggests there was any libel.