The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it. hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind... In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like clinton, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."
(Didion on clinton (bill, that is): "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.") (And Bob Woodward: His accomplishment, she says, is to have produced "books in which measurable cerebral activity is virtually absent.")
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OFF THE RECORD: AN OLD DOG NEEDS NEW TRICKS
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To paraphrase Abe Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson: hillary clinton can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any numskull I know....In America, anybody can be first spouse. That's one of the risks you take. |
And the above article-from the Boston Herald-is a gem of a gem. Every line is worth quoting. Over and over.