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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

Gene Weingarten

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
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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Cute Daughter Senior
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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Gone Names Recognition
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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Constitution Court House Supreme
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
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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Blow Stupid Thinking
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Soul Thinking War
The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
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Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
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.
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Important People Use
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Black Local Middle School
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
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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Certain Strong Suits
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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One Thing Thinking Writing

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

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