When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
GENE WEINGARTENWhen 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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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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 think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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You 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.
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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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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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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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