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Republicans generally congratulate Starr for his fair-mindedness and resilience in the face of partisan attack, then toss him softballs about whether the rule of law should apply to everyone equally.
In a world of Crossfire , it is so obvious and boring to have interlocutors priss around their hidden agendas, weave intellectually dishonest tapestries, and lob decontextualized softballs back and forth.
Keep an eye out or an ear cocked today for the hard-soft distinction, and you probably will encounter examples within just a few minutes (not counting the ubiquitous hardwares and softwares , hardballs and softballs ). On the BBC World Service's main morning news program a few days ago, a news reader, in a story about a Kurdish influx into Europe, spoke of Italy as having a soft immigration policy, meaning that illegal aliens are given expulsion orders but not actually subjected to any further action.
He may have pitched softballs, but that's what the ground rules of the occasion required.