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Article: The new New Republic: meet Michael Kelly, some kind of liberal.(editor of 'The New Republic')
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Michael Kelly became editor of The New Republic on November 11 and his first issue of the magazine, dated December 2, featured a drawing of President Clinton looking partied out, nose glowing like Rudolph's, under a headline -- "The Hangover" -- meant to suggest postelection malaise. In the same issue Kelly wrote his inaugural TRB column (nobody is sure what the letters ever meant, but it's the first piece in the magazine, syndicated to some fifty newspapers). In its third and fourth sentences he said of Clinton: "He is of course a shocking liar. He will say absolutely anything at all."
His sixth, tenth, twelfth, and thirteenth sentences continued the theme: ...