"The planners are really to be commended," he said.
This insecure alpha male is a "professional phony" who "bangs his drum, calls together his gang at the pub every day, and there, greasily playing the host, he directs, he bosses, he commends, he disparages, he defames, he is happy".
"Any way of quickly deciding whether something is defamatory or not before it gets to court has to be commended," he said of the scheme.
With old rivalries among over 250 ethnic groups, Nigeria ought to be "commended," he said, for having avoided even worse bloodletting.
"When people do it, they really should be commended," he said.
"There are some people here that work in public service, and I commend them," he said.
He does commend what he sees going on still in small (New England) towns, and is dismayed by its over-all absence nationally.
While he commended Human Rights Watch, he suggested that Afghan researchers working for the group had distorted the story for political reasons.
"She was very nice to call, and I commend her for that," he said.
And I can do nothing but commend him because he's done it multiple times over multiple years.
