I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
From Robert Scheer
When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
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