The media is too big a word. I think there are some reporters who have adopted a gotcha mentality, but not in the really good newspapers.
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
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