If only other commentators had shown as good a sense of moment and of balance.
In retrospect, though, I should have underlined that fact on air when the commentators had their say.
Alas, as with the economy, the commentators had mistaken swagger for authentic talent.
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Most commentators had expected him to be acquitted in three false-accounting cases after his government introduced new legislation this year.
The conclusions are every bit as bad as the most alarmed commentators had feared (including The Economist's cover article last week).
The commentators had attacked the MPs for concentrating on flags rather than "bread and butter" issues, but Mr Dodds pointed out it had been the BBC that set the agenda.
Szypulska said that while Polish media reaction to the campaign had been 80% positive, some "extreme right-wing" commentators had argued that detesting homosexuals did not make someone a Hitler and that its message was an exaggeration.
Everyone had an opinion about what needed to be done, but most commentators had forgotten that the original controversy had only been about whether the commercial redevelopment of a wealthy arts organisation should be funded by public money.
He said there had been a "media frenzy" surrounding the child abuse allegations in Wales and "ill- or uninformed commentators" had used the internet to accuse him of something he had not done.
Let me repeat that: not one of the dozens of writers who contribute to National Review, many of whom are professionally employed as full-time political commentators, had anything to say about the shootings in Connecticut for almost an entire day.
Go back six months and many commentators were convinced Apple had a lot of upside left and indeed would prove the value of this new model.
In Bulgaria, the country's foreign minister defended the Hezbollah allegation on Wednesday as commentators questioned whether Sofia had enough evidence to be certain of its claim.
To the surprise of many, and against the expectation of a lot of commentators, the Supreme Court had ruled that the Affordable Care Act - "Obamacare" to its detractors - was constitutional.
Commentators, blog writers and politicians had widely denounced the cartoon and demonstrators picketed the newspaper's New York City headquarters.
The opposition was already calling for the government to resign, and some commentators in the two coalition parties had said it should step down if the court ruled against major items.
Commentators at the time wondered why Zog had not accepted Italian suzerainty and kept his throne.
The Australian spin doctor told the MPs they had to decide whether they were "commentators or participants".
Some commentators muse that he might have been distracted because he had just been handed some horrible top secret news.
More than 80% of the population in the Philippines is Catholic, and the Church has had the support of many politicians, media commentators, and businessmen.
Neat ideological labels have become harder to pin on parties since they have had to contend with the emergence of what some commentators call post-material issues (such as the environment, personal morality and consumer rights) which do not slot elegantly into the old left-right framework.
Large numbers of intellectuals and commentators, uneasy at the consequences of a victory whose causes they had never properly understood, sought to submerge America and the West in a new, muddled multilateralism.
As for his own conduct, he admitted that he had wanted the support of as many newspapers and media commentators as possible, but he didn't govern or change his policies to suit media proprietors.
One of the toughest hard-line commentators, Hossein Shariatmadari, conceded that the harshness of the death sentence had played into the hands of the reformists.
Media commentators hammered Gore who later admitted he mistakenly gave the impression that he had played a part in the invention of the Internet rather than in legislation that made it easier for the inventors to come up with the technological breakthroughs.
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That although the party now had many more black and brown candidates, too few (most commentators would say only Mr Vara) were in winnable seats.
In real terms, adjusted for consumer-price inflation, interest rates are already negative: for the first time since the mid-1970s. (Though using a different measure of inflation, they are still positive, just.) Although the context is very different, some commentators are already noting that the Bank of Japan has, for a prolonged period, had virtually no room for manoeuvre on monetary policy because Japanese interest rates have been negative for so long.
Novy Kapadia, one of India's leading sports commentators, told BBC World Service's Sports International programme that Mirza's "phenomenal achievement" had made her a role model in the country.
Returning to Inside Politics, I tweeted on Friday night that Nigel Dodds had taken me to task over criticism aimed at both him and Naomi Long by the programme commentators.
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