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Which of the following are actual Tina Brown rationalizations for her magazine's slide into darkness (quoted by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski), and which are amusing digs at a debased editorial philosophy built around fawning over celebrity?
Stripped of their rationalizations, Bradley's jocks fall back on the argument that their opinions are important simply because they're celebrities.
The only answer to such rationalizations is to catch somebody with his hand in the cookie jar.
The author doesn't simply idolize his subject, he feels he needs to cover for Eastwood's failures and rationalizations the way one might for an absent or inadequate father.
Beyond KSM's rationalizations about targeting the U.S. economy, this vision gives a better glimpse of his true ambitions.