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But his repeated warnings were brushed off ; last year, Elizabeth Moler, the then-acting Energy Secretary, told him to withhold his findings from Congress, who could use them to criticize Clinton's policy towards China.
Often in the past, when chasing some alleged miscreant, the press has brushed aside the question of what exactly is wrong with the explanation that the situation creates the perception of impropriety.
As a member of Broderick's team, the spiky, forward redhead Vicki Lewis could have walked off with the picture if she hadn't been brushed aside in favor of a dumb blond aspiring TV reporter, played by Maria Pitillo--a sitcom actress who can't utter a line without the left side of her mouth curling up in Valley Girl incredulity or down in Valley Girl petulance.
Adolescent drift and empty hedonism can't be brushed off merely as a phase, readily outgrown.
This is further evident, the editorial says, in the way Clinton has brushed aside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Wye.