But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
GENE WEINGARTENReporters 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.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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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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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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I think politics is everything.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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