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March 30, 2025

The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

Frank Kent (1878?–1958), American journalist, quoted in The Boys on the Bus by T. Crouse (1973), in The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.113

And vice versa?

The denigration of politicians is as old as politics, but on


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