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By Joel Jacobsen

Imagine a history professor who built his career on the study of presidential press releases, viewing them not as eruptions of public mendacity or even as examples of public relations technique but as the true measure of each administration's achievements.  To evaluate Richard Nixon's time in office, this scholar would diligently read every word that ever emanated from Ron Ziegler's office – and nothing else.  To understand the achievements of George W. Bush, our professor would carefully parse the words of Tony Snow and Dana Perino.  If an academic rival were to publish an article questioning President Bush's sincerity, our historian could write a letter to the editor of a highbrow magazine couched in the barbed politesse of academic infighting, crushing his rival with the unanswerable riposte: a quotation from Ari Fleischer conclusively proving the contrary...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on December 11, 2007 (boomark / email).