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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

Gene Weingarten

Politics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Itself Politics Thinking
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Important People Use
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
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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Care Democracy Support
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
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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Albatross Mean Verbs
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
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
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Drug Kids Thinking
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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Giving Phones Talking
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Soul Thinking War
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Incapable Thinking Trump

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