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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.

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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War

Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.

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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.

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