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Article: Trial by firestorm: the case of Christina Jeffrey teaches a lesson in journalistic ethics - and political loyalty.(former Historian of House of Representatives)
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- National Review
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- May 15, 1995
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RECRUITED by Newt Gingrich last December as the new House Historian -- who is charged with documenting and informing the public on the workings of the House -- Christina Jeffrey rose swiftly from relative obscurity as a college professor from Georgia, only to fall twice as fast, branded an anti-Semite, Nazi sympathizer, and racist before the entire nation.
On January 9, Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) rose to the House floor and called Mrs. Jeffrey's appointment "an affront to my constituents who survived the Holocaust . . . and millions of Americans." Barney Frank (D., Mass.) had already called her views "wacko" and "offensive." Even after Gingrich fired her, some ...