Word: blurbs
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...United States. Sure, The New York Times ran its requisite coverage from the foreign desk and an editorial from out of nowhere praising the slow but steady progress of Russian democracy, but the talking heads simply brushed it aside, and the story became little more than a small blurb on Headline News. Instead of hearing about tainted elections, we heard about the Paris Hilton video. And while both are important in their own way, I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that Putin is a little bit more important than porn...
...number of influential conservatives, although not the U.S. intelligence community - that Iraq had been behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was very likely behind 9/11, too. But as eccentric as her argument was to the U.S. intelligence community, it was hailed by Wolfowitz, who wrote in a blurb to her book that it "argues powerfully that the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was actually an agent of Iraqi intelligence." And invade-Iraq cheerleader Richard Perle, formerly head of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, wrote in his own blurb: "Laurie Myroie has amassed convincing evidence...
Think about it. Within the next few years, you could read the following blurb on this very page...
...admired Kerry for a long time, since he gave one of the very strongest speeches against the [Vietnam] war that was ever made,” he said. “I asked him to write a blurb for my book...
Pointing at his book’s back cover— which features a quotation from Kerry— Ellsberg said he would not have requested the blurb had he known Kerry would come out in support of a military campaign against Iraq...