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Paul Krugman | Media Unwittingly Plays Republicans' Deficit Game ... Again
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Who could have seen this coming? The Washington Post editorial board was shocked (shocked!) to discover in early January that incoming congressional Republicans aren't serious about deficit reduction.... I was going to be snarky, but this requires seriousness: the gullibility of much of the media establishment in the United States regarding this issue is ridiculous. Their inability to spot the hollowness of Republican claims to fiscal responsibility amounts to journalistic malpractice."
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | JFK's Eloquence, 50 Years Later
E.J. Dionne Jr.: "It's remembered as a day chilled by 'a Siberian wind knifing down Pennsylvania Avenue' and illuminated by 'the dazzling combination of bright sunshine and deep snow.' On Jan. 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy began his presidency with a speech at once soaring and solemn. Fifty years on, we have not heard an inaugural address like it. Tethered to its time and place, it still challenges with its ambition to harness realism to idealism, patriotism to service, national interest to universal aspiration."
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Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Who could have seen this coming? The Washington Post editorial board was shocked (shocked!) to discover in early January that incoming congressional Republicans aren't serious about deficit reduction.... I was going to be snarky, but this requires seriousness: the gullibility of much of the media establishment in the United States regarding this issue is ridiculous. Their inability to spot the hollowness of Republican claims to fiscal responsibility amounts to journalistic malpractice."
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | JFK's Eloquence, 50 Years Later
E.J. Dionne Jr.: "It's remembered as a day chilled by 'a Siberian wind knifing down Pennsylvania Avenue' and illuminated by 'the dazzling combination of bright sunshine and deep snow.' On Jan. 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy began his presidency with a speech at once soaring and solemn. Fifty years on, we have not heard an inaugural address like it. Tethered to its time and place, it still challenges with its ambition to harness realism to idealism, patriotism to service, national interest to universal aspiration."
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