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ashling

(25,771 posts) Tue Jun 20, 2017, 11:32 PM Jun 2017

David Brooks Didn't Do the Reading. Look What Happened.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55744/david-brooks-whitewater-trump-russia/

There was nothing "substantive" about "the Whitewater scandal," at least as regards the Clintons. We know this because Ken Starr told the House Judiciary Committee that very thing. The real damage it did was to give ambitious conservative coatholders a leg up in our national discourse so that, now, they can deny the forces that created them. What a bunch of ingrates.

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David Brooks Didn't Do the Reading. Look What Happened. (Original Post) ashling Jun 2017 OP

So good. Pierce is right on as usual. sharedvalues Jun 2017 #1

sharedvalues

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1. So good. Pierce is right on as usual.

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Wed Jun 21, 2017, 12:16 AM

Jun 2017

Here's Pierce's best line. And he's exactly right. Brooks. You. Were. The. Editor. You were paid to follow the actual allegations. Has there been such a shameless recent admission by a journalist that they didn't care about the truth?!?!

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This may be the most shameless passage of political journalism I have ever read. It contains more of the elements of passive-aggression, self-absolution, historical amnesia, and outright falsehood in the same place than any other single location this side of the author's own frontal lobes.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Note the shabby, silly alibi that leads us off.

"Now I confess I couldn't follow all the actual allegations made in those essays."

You were the editor, fool. It was your job to follow the actual allegations, because a lot of them were crazy tales from Arkansas con-men who looked at the national press and saw a battalion of easy marks.

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