Countering? I thought it was qualifying.

The whole time that I read the article by Harris on what countering is, I had this little voice in the back of my head going "This sounds a lot like qualifying." I'm not going to lie but it really does seem like that. When you counter you don't argue against or for and opinion but yet you regain credibility for the opinion as you improve upon it or qualify with the opinion. Countering isn't necessarily arguing either nor is it total agreement. Qualifying and countering are the same thing and I'm used to calling it qualifying so I'm going to continue to. I'm not qualifying with Harris here though, I'm giving it a new name. As for the blogs that I read, I'm not so sure either of them really give examples of countering. Profootballtalk.com is really a blog that allows the collection of all information that is pertaining to the national football league. As for instapundit.com, the guy never has his own opinion to anything but as I discussed in the previous blog does more of a forwarding of ideas and opinions. He adds a couple of ideas to a piece that he puts on his blog via a hyperlink to the article. Now this is more the continuation of an Idea. He is not qualifying because he never agrees with an opinion or tries to match it but puts up his own idea of a subject. If he were to qualify with a piece at all he would have to take a position in relation to another opinion in an article rather than give his own opinion to a subject. The difference between the forwarding and countering is that the new opinion refers to the subject of a piece in one and to the opinion in the piece on the subject in the other.