NP; Good as Gold: rhetorical questions

[Mike Jing]

Just to make sure I got this right. In the following passage, Lieberman
first says "No more rhetorical questions", then immediately proves himself
wrong by using a rhetorical question in his own article. Is that correct?

Producing from somewhere inside his soiled and rumpled clothing a copy of
the next issue of his magazine, he swept open the pages until he at last
found the one he wanted, his regular feature boldly headlined “An Outspoken
Editor Speaks His Mind, by M. G. Lieberman, Editor.” “Listen to what I’ve
got coming up,” he cried with excitement and prepared to read. “No more
rhetorical questions,” he exclaimed and began, “‘What, then, shall we say
to those who argue this may lead us into war? I say, unflinchingly, then
let us have war.’ How’s that? I express nothing but opprobrium and scorn
for the failure of nerve of all the members of the cowardly Eastern liberal
establishment. That’s a phrase,” he could not hold himself back from
footnoting, “I got from Henry Kissinger.”