Update: Mr. Hindraker has acknowledged writing the e-mail and apologized for it. I think his apology is genuine and I consider the matter closed. I am also going to send him an e-mail complimenting him on his swift and direct response, and I've updated the title to this post. Everyone has clicked the "send" button a little too fast at one time or another. One of the things I have always liked about AOL is that it has an "unsend" button where you can unsend your mail if it was directed to another AOL user. I've used it many times.

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Too funny...Powerline Blog is an uber-right blog by three lawyers. Time Magazine named it Blog of the Year, primarily for its coverage of the Dan Rather story. One of the authors is lawyer John Hindraker who blogs under the name Hindrocket. He went to Harvard Law School. You can sometimes see him punditing on cable news talk shows. Here's how he writes on Powerline. Want to know how he really talks when he thinks no one is listening except a liberal?

Check out this e-mail response Hindraker sent a blogger for Minnesota Politics, in response to an email which expressed a difference of opinion on the Jeff Gannon story, but had no profanity or name-calling.

Nice. I have no doubt that Mr. Hindraker is an intelligent man with a high IQ. All the more reason for him to use it. Time Magazine should be cringing right now along with the rest of us. [link via TBogg who has more.]

Update: MN Politics responds in the comments here that the e-mail he received was from "John H." at Powerline. Here is the copy of the heading from the email, which he just e-mailed me (I've substituted xxx for the IP addresses since I don't think they should be public):