Word: confessionalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the confessionalist camp advises truth telling rather than continued lying (though truth telling of a manipulative kind), I think that option deserves deeper exploration. The confessionalists have not made their case with sufficient imagination, envisioning only one way for Clinton to confess--staring at a camera in the Oval Office, reading a TelePrompTer. The dramaturgy is flat. Even Richard Nixon in his 1952 Checkers speech--the prototype of aggressive self-defense through televised "confession"--used poor Pat as a studio prop and, of course, conjured up the adorable, absent...
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