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What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

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Ignorance Party Political
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
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Allow Claims Democracy People
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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