Come again?
Noonan is soft-peddling out of misplaced loyalty to a boss who was nice to her. Rather was a crude propagandist for the left. He sold out to jump start a career and soon believed his own propaganda. Enemies of America, whether communist dictators or islamofascists could always count on kid glove treatment from him. Conservatives could always depend on a hatchet job. He spent 25 years lying to his viewers.