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Through hours of hectoring, cheap shots, and generally ill-mannered behavior from the committee's Democrats, Starr kept his composure and courtesy.
But the WP disagrees: "Aides said the president's aim was to avoid a lecture about human rights--which he felt the Chinese would dismiss as hectoring by an outsider."
But Steve Roberts ( Late Edition ) says Gore was "undignified" and his hectoring of Bradley was "beneath him," while Bill Kristol said Gore looked "like an elementary school teacher" in front of the podium.
-- Rudy Giuliani, on the radio, hectoring Margarita Rosario, the mother of an 18-year-old, who was one of two men lying face down when the cops shot them 22 times
If Bradley remained on the high road, emphasizing his positive message and ignoring the vice president's hectoring, the unanswered criticism would damage him.