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But many others who named names did so under ostensible protest, or later castigated themselves publicly for crawling before the committee.
Last Thursday, a Bauer press release castigated other candidates for refusing to litmus-test judicial nominees on "the pro-life issue."
Only a year ago, politicians were being castigated for "herding the elderly into HMOs."
(In contrast, consider the false concept of the week , which James Fallows in Breaking the News castigated for having become "the basic unit of political time," a status ruthlessly enforced by the weekly schedule of political talk shows.)
Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!