Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
GENE WEINGARTENYou should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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I think politics is everything.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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