Word: hammerism
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...Easley Hammer, principal of the architectural firm working with the bank, illustrated his proposals with an elaborate styrofoam model of the area...
...Daniel Schorr is a considerable figure, Hammer," I said. "Daniel Schorr is not Epstein...
...Hammer could never get it out of his head that a person who was unlisted and without a file was a person who was not being taken seriously. Years later, he was greatly distressed at not being on the list that the Reagan Administration turned out to have been keeping of people considered too left-wing to be sent abroad by the usia on cultural-exchange visits...
What I didn't go into was that he was no longer too left-wing for anything. Although Hammer insisted that what had changed was the left, not him, his articles reflected steadily increasing hostility to, say, affirmative-action programs and identity politics and, eventually, the progressive income tax. Since then, he has moved resolutely toward the right. In recent months, someone reading only Hammer's commentary would have assumed that the major question facing Americans at this point in their history is whether Hillary Clinton is or is not the Antichrist...
Which is why he expected his FBI file to be among those collected by Bozo the Clown and the other security specialists hired by the Clinton White House. "You'll notice they only had files through the letter G," Hammer told me at lunch one day, shortly after the story hit the papers. "Otherwise my FBI file would have been there. I've been hitting them pretty hard." I nodded. I didn't have the heart to remind him what we've known for 25 years: Hammer doesn't have an FBI file...