An Intriguing Observation

Read the following in Liz Smith's column in the New York Post today. See if you can figure out what's so intriguing about it:

RAN INTO "60 Minutes" star Lesley Stahl and asked her point blank whether she is responsible for the negative leaking about Katie Couric at CBS. Lesley said, "Liz, it is all grossly unfair. And I told Katie that. The stories about Katie are what happen to women in TV. We are made into caricatures. It happened to Barbara [Walters], it happened to Diane and to Connie Chung. Katie is working really hard, and you can see it in the broadcast now. People need to check out Katie again. A backlash is building against these attacks on her."

Did you guess? What's intriguing is the fact that, even though Smith asked her "point blank" whether Stahl was the source for the leaks, Stahl never once claimed that she wasn't.

And that, folks, is what they used to call back in the days of Watergate a "non-denial denial."

Tom Moran