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It used to be said of the former Soviet Union that while it excelled in such complicated endeavours as space exploration, the smallest things would fox it--the tap would leak and the flush would not work.
Avoiding the truth is more like it--the Post didn't turn on the TV or tell the girl to suck her thumb.
A fine goal, but the group has its work cut out for it--the most prominent Jewish woman this year pretty much fits those pejoratives to a T and the media didn't make her up: Monica Lewinsky.
Who would have thought it--the queen of spin is losing a spin war.
Burying the story as a way of sort of half-publishing it--the Washington Post approach--also seems silly.