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PamelaDrew's avatar

"Maybe that’s because they’re just innately dumb, or maybe it’s because they expend so much of their mental reserves on the pointlessly theatrical aspects of the job, such as coordinating their ridiculous “stand-up shots” for the glistening TV cameras."

There was a popular Washington adage in the Watergate era that still fits Washington activity. "An ounce of facade is worth a pound of substance." All that's left after decades is the facade.

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"But the US journalists, it has to be said, just come across as substantially dumber."

I'll admit ... I laughed out loud when I read this. Thanks, as always, for saying the things our pompous, uninformed, elite and supremely ignorant 'media' fail to see about themselves.

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