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Hillary Thaws Self, Pundits After months of political missteps, Hillary Clinton has finally pleased the commentariat.
It's especially implausible that Brock "didn't remember" the payment when he had just finished writing what was supposed to be a confessional article detailing his own journalistic missteps in the service of the Clinton-haters--an article that included criticism of "the GOPAC moneyman" (Smith) for offering to give "legal expense" checks to the anti-Clinton troopers.
Today's installment, about U.S. missteps, compares the ineffective U.S. and IMF aid to Thailand to the fatal mistakes of the "best and the brightest" in Vietnam, even going so far as summoning Robert McNamara to explicitly make the comparison.
Renfro offers up the "dead-eyed sang-froid only a 16-year-old suburbanite can pull off" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), and McKellen is called "a supremely gifted actor at the top of his form" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film is said to be uneven, though, and when you add directorial missteps to the uncomfortable subject matter, the result is pans mixed with queasily laudatory reviews.
Since Jesse Helms became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1995, many of his missteps have been harmless, even amusing.