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\nsome. But it’s not likely to bring much private sympathy from the Journal’s reporting staff, which
\ntended to regard him as crazily biased.<\/P>
\n
\nwho imbued the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal with a take-no-prisoners faith in
\nsupply-side economics as well as brutal treatment of the Clinton administration.<\/P>
\n
\nhis briefcase did not mention Bartley by name, but it might as well have. It said “the WSJ editors
\nlie without consequence.” <\/P>
\n
\nintellectual nemeses,” had hounded Foster without mercy on the Journal’s editorial page for
\nsupposed Whitewater transgressions. His response to Foster’s death was to dig his heels in
\ndeeper. <\/P>
\n
\nblame for the Foster suicide powerfully focused my own attention on Whitewater.” Which turned
\nout to be a mistake. (It also spawned a cottage industry of Whitewater conspiracy theories.)<\/P>
\n
\nPaul Begala recently pointed out (
\neconomic program, wrong about the Clinton foreign policy, wrong about Whitewater, and pretty
\nmuch every issue he ever addressed. <\/P>
\n
\nreplaced Ronald Reagan’s sunny optimism with paranoia, cruelty, and bitterness. And for our
\npresident to honor this thug disgraces the Medal of Freedom. Shame on George Bush.”<\/P>
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