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When a federal judge acts against you, you can't just profess shock and outrage, as Jones' attorneys did after Wright's decision.
Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.
Conservatives profess shock that something so "remarkably balanced" was produced by "offensively biased" PBS (Jay Nordlinger, the Weekly Standard ). An exultant Wall Street Journal editorial says the show signals that "honest liberals" have found a "new appreciation" for Reagan.
Speaking, if I may, for the pro-choice side of the debate: Pro-lifers may profess any principles they care to, as long as they agree not to act on them.
One measure of Dowd's importance is that even people who profess to despise her seem to read her religiously--and to recycle her jokes at parties.