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Uhm, wasn't it none other than Michael Kinsley, in his years at the New Republic , who originated this line of reasoning when castigating the top Reagan (and later Bush) administration officials who had a nasty tendency to do sleazy things but avoid technical illegality--and thus proclaim themselves "innocent"?
I was practically weeping--weeping, I tell you--when I read the excerpt from the letter the former, great publisher of the Los Angeles Times wrote, castigating Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., and company for the sheer, unmitigated crap (my paraphrasing here) the ex-cereal magnate has been pulling since he took over the now hapless paper.
Whether castigating them on the silver screen, between the lines of pulpy, true-crime narratives, or in the jokes told around the proverbial water cooler, attorneys have been on the receiving end of many a hackneyed punch line.