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...wouldn't have if I knew I could hide it," Delaney-Smith said. "However, the woman journalist was right: you can help a lot of women...
...listening to a candidate I believed in, a candidate I had actually signed up to work for, a candidate who was uttering words I had helped write, and yet some magnetic force was keeping my palms apart. Old habits die hard, but, hey, I wasn't a journalist anymore, and I put my hands together...
...truth is, Gwyneth Paltrow still breathes rarefied air, still has stringy hair and still has absolutely nothing to say. My opinions were reconfirmed when I heard about how she recently introduced a journalist visiting her on-set to her live-in sidekick. "This is Leela," said the Grand Trollope. "Leela's my yoga teacher and she makes me organic, macrobiotic lunches that are delicious. What are we having today?" "Spelt," says Leela. "Spelt," says Gushy Gwyneth, "is more easily digestible than wheat. Wheat's very hard on your immune system. But I promise you, you practice Ashtanga every...
...press secretary was "telling the truth slowly." It's a lovely phrase, Mike, but untrue. Spinning is selling a version of events that you want others to believe rather than the version that you know to be true. In my book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security - to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?" - was exactly what we wanted to say. Which leads me to Rule...
...even if you give journalists the facts, they're often reluctant to go with them. When I was on the other side, I was constantly saying under my breath to reporters, "Make a judgment." Being committed to some he-said-she-said idea of "objectivity" often makes a journalist a neutral vessel of distortion. Correcting a candidate's mistake is not subjective; it's objective. At the same time, I noticed that people in politics tend to think journalists are biased toward one candidate or another. This is a deep misconception, which leads to Rule...