Reply #5: NachoMan knows his place...

[Voltaire99]

...whereas Moore, like any sensible person, rejects consensus thought and thinks for himself.

When opposites of this order meet, it's the duty of the well-entrenched establishment man to gnash his teeth like an attack dog at the heterodox culprit. This, for NachoMan, was the only allowable move: patrol the borders of the official line, snapping at prowlers.

After all, you don't get to be MSNBC editor by daring to have your own ideas. It takes years of hard, patient obedience before you can have your own show where you affect an air of idiosyncratic aloofness while dutifully and unerringly toeing the line. :-)