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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

Gene Weingarten

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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Blow Stupid Thinking
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Matter Thinking
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

Believe Dope Lying
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Beliefs Ethnicity Race
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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Kitten Murder Preparation
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
GENE WEINGARTEN

America Country Thinking
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
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
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
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Atheist Hate Sorry

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