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Some Stories Are Too Good To Be True: Mierle Ukeles & Hillary Clinton
I'm so pleased to report that yesterday's story about Mierle Ukeles is, as I suspected, a bit too pat to be true. (It contains "wisps of truths," she says—and they're good wisps!) I'm pleased because I loved the story but I disliked the moral. Also? Hillary Clinton was just coughing in the situation room in that already-famous photograph. This is the deal with narrative, am I right?
Let a thousand op-eds about Hilary's primary season tears be cancelled.
Are we too busy to Photoshop the germ cloud around Hillary?
Biden's just told Hillary she has to do the dishes after the meeting wraps up.
The narrative problem is kind of exciting, I love the possibilities in the folds.
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Isn't the better story Clinton's coughing it up on her own initiative?
Huh. I thought Clinton was just expressing shock that the SEALS found her Rose Law Firm records in bin Laden's compound.
Secretary Clinton is coughing as part of a performance art piece. Her audience is that interloper lady peeking over that other guy's shoulder.
Never confuse narrative and truth.
she just saw the "no smoking" sign placed just to the right of the monitor