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Article: Editor Fired Over Gore Attacks; New Republic's Peretz Cites Opinion `Chasm'
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- The Washington Post
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- September 6, 1997
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Michael Kelly was fired as editor of the New Republic
yesterday after owner Martin Peretz decided he could no longer
tolerate Kelly's relentless attacks on President Clinton and Vice
President Gore.
"The chasm between Mike's opinions and mine, and Mike's
opinions and those of other editors, was both wide and increasingly
deep," said Peretz, a close friend of the vice president for three
decades. "There was no other voice on the Clinton administration but
his."
Kelly said the firing-by-phone came days after he refused to
publish an unsigned item by Peretz saying the latest allegations of
improper fund-raising by Gore were "overblown and old news." Kelly
added: "I didn't think that ...