Well, mainly because I was so wildly wrong in my prediction about the use of air power. Having been a critic of the President mainly in my syndicated column, I figured, well, why not just go ahead and fess up. Every once in a while the bug bites, and you do it despite your best instincts. You started to say something. There is no journalistic review that says, hey, you know what, as Brill's Content told us recently, a chimpanzee out predicted a couple of the more prominent Sunday pundits.
Nobody loses a job because of it.
And I must say I think Tony's gesture is a very winning one. But the public loves people who apologize, who admit they are wrong. I think other journalists, however, there is no penalty to be paid if you're too tough. If you say the war is failing, the President is going to be impeached and the western world is about to collapse, that's fine. But if you say anything that is remotely positive towards an administration, and I would say any administration, then you are cast as soft.