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    Philly Daily News | BillLucey.com | Post-Gazette | Daily Beast "Nothing else that William Safire wrote would have the power or the impact of those four memorable words that he pounded out on a typewriter, 39 years ago" writes Will Bunch. "Today, the vast majority of Americans of all political stripes -- conservative, liberal, centrist -- don't believe the "nattering nabobs of negativism, a.k.a. the mainstream media, in record numbers." Full Article at Romenesko
    Nothing else that William Safire wrote would have the power or the impact of those four memorable words that he pounded out on a typewriter, 39 years ago
    SOURCE: Romenesko 1 month ago

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