Word: brill
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Then there's the Carter letter found by Steven Brill, author of "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies," to a Mrs. Dempsey in Alabama, saying "I think you will find that... George Wallace and I are in agreement on most issues." In his response to the Brill piece, Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, wrote that the letter "was written by a staffer, never seen by Governor Carter, and did not accurately express his views...
...Brill...
Your piece attacking Steve Brill as a liberal "hit man" [Feb. 16] was a barbaric attack upon a precise young writer. Americans for Democratic Action particularly protests your distortion of Brill's statement at A.D.A.'s press conference launching his careful study of Senator Jackson's domestic record. Brill said with candor that his study was not objective in that he had long believed Jackson's claim of domestic liberalism was a myth. He set out to prove, and did prove, that Jackson is a domestic conservative as much as he is a foreign policy reactionary...
...nominate Author Brill for the Donald Segretti Award...
...work laws, which is not. Cockburn's penchant for hyperbole is particularly regrettable since his more general case, that Carter is slick and exhibits rightist tendencies, is a convincing one. The real hatchet job, though, appeared in Harper's last week. One of the feistier dirtdaubers in Atlanta, Steven Brill, weighed in with a piece, "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies," that produced the biggest stir in the campaign to date. Carter Press Secretary Jody Powell issued a full-blown rebuttal (Globe, Feb. 6) that, while leaving certain allegations of Carter's duplicity unresolved, left little doubt that Brill played fast...