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In an editorial, it added, "It is painful, pathetic, pointless, serving only to create a flood of McCarthyite smear and counter-smear; the Republicans want blood, preferably blood tested for the President's DNA.
What I do know is that the story made for a fun read: A 35-year-old Londoner named Rob with the maturity level of a high-school junior dumps his girlfriend and retreats to his pathetic job in a music shop.
He comes off as a pathetic little loser--a mutt.
No explanation of why Bradley's comment was "thoughtful," as opposed to, say, stupid, given the ultimate pathetic failure of Gorbachev's attempt to modify Communism rather than replace it.
Sorensen, whom Hersh portrays as a Kennedy toady, has been especially nasty in denouncing it as "a pathetic collection of wild stories."