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All Umbrage All The Time.(Jonathan Alter; BETWEEN THE LINES)(New Yorker cover)
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Newsweek
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July 28, 2008
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Byline: Jonathan Alter
A day rarely passes in this campaign without someone's taking grave offense to something.
A reader logging on as Kellyb last week posted a comment on a Politico.com story covering the funeral of former White House spokesman Tony Snow: "Rest in peace, Tony. You were a kind, decent soul on this earth for too short a time. May God always watch over your family." But KellyB couldn't resist amending the gracious condolence with this: "Politico.com--The Official Water Carrier of Barack H. Obama's Campaign."
How cordial. After a decade of waiting for the first "Internet election," it's finally here, and we're adrift from all the old-media ...
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