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Inside, the Times reports that a former American ambassador to Britain has, in a new book excerpted in the Sunday Telegraph , charged that the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, is such an "ardent IRA apologist" that the British began withholding sensitive security information from the Clinton White House.
But the question the Swedish Academy forces us to address is not whether Grass is a Soviet apologist.
On Sunday (the day the Times endorsed Clinton), Dole called the paper "the apologist for President Clinton for the last four years and an arm of the Democratic National Committee."
Or as Joshua Quittner writes in Time , "sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist."
Co-host Sam Donaldson comes up with the ball and concludes, "I'm not an apologist for Newsweek , but if their editors decided they didn't have it cold enough to go with, I don't think that we can here ...