[Lancey Howard]

....and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I'll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England.

"Several of us". Sounds right at NBC. And he was right to wonder about the "germaneness".
Here's hoping Williams does for NBC what he did for MSNBC.

[Reactionary]

"....and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I'll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England."

Terror as a political tool was an invention of the modern, Stalinist Left. It was not practiced in the 18th century as a means to achieve political change.

And to simply catagorize anti-monarchical, Enlightenment reolutionaries are somehow the same as modern Marxist revolutionaries is patently idiotic, also.

But, then again, we know how brainy liberals are when it comes to history and politics.