Pulled Entry

I'm pulling my entry on Chait's op-ed as I learned that my quick wikipedia search based assumptions about a lack of relationship were mistaken. Obviously. politics isn't a game.  There's always real people involved and I try to remember that in posts.  However, I'm not comfortable talking about anyone I have any level of professional ties with without talking to them first.  So I'm relaying my apology and pending a response will either keep this post down or restore it with the relationship properly noted.

[Update: I think I'll be leaving this one down, but for those who read the op-ed let me point to Ezra Klein's response to Chait.  I think Klein effectively shows that Chait did not come close to making his case.]

Comments

[Charles Freeman]

Actually, Greg, as the "Freeman Chair" at CSIS, I'm not related to the endowing Freeman, but The NIC Chair appointee Chas Freeman is my Dad.Why not drop me an e-mail to ask? Is everything over the internet so anonymous, really? By the way, my Dad is one of the most intellectually curious people on the planet. He'll make an awesome NIC Chair, and we'll all be beneficiaries as Americans, including those Americans that would prefer their intelligence skewed based on litmus tests that provide political correctness, but not good analysis. But whaddya want?!

[Greg Sanders]

I apologize for not sending that email or stopping by to ask. I rather stupidly forgot to consider that you might be the third Freeman of that name in your immediate family.