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Article: New Republic's new regime scourges Clinton's cynicism: Editor Kelly's forceful style long on pith and vinegar.(Culture, Et Cetera)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1997
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There is a bastion of he-man journalism, and it's in Michael Kelly's office at the New Republic.
His missives are deft and daring, compared with the anemic ramblings of other observers around town. It's been a bash, in fact, since Mr. Kelly took over as editor in November.
A Clinton bash.
In his very first dispatch for the magazine's signature TRB column, Mr. Kelly described the president as "a shocking liar" and "breathtakingly cynical."
Things have gone downhill - or uphill, depending on your party affiliation - since then. In the chasm between the election and the inauguration, Mr. Kelly called President Clinton the Alfred ...