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Slap Happy
Hillary vs. Mr. Rolph. Plus Ben and the atom. SCHIP socialist humor. Illegal bastardy. Plus much more.
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MAKING HEADLINES
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Re: Philip Klein’s
Hillary
Slaps Iowa Voter
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p>Bad headline. Very bad headline. I read it as a literal
slap.
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Yaakov “Jim” Watkins
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The headline of Philip Klein’s recent article, “Hillary Slaps Iowa Voter,” accomplished the purpose for which it must surely have been intended — it provoked me to click the link to see what had happened at Senator Clinton’s campaign event. But reading the article, I discovered something interesting: Hillary did NOT slap an Iowa voter. She argued with him. You could even say that she “lost her cool” with him. She did not slap anybody. I don’t think that even putting the word slap in quotation marks would have provided a fair representation of what actually happened.
p>Occasionally, people who don’t already hate Hillary Clinton read the Spectator . If the content they discovered in it seemed fair, or at least subtle, the magazine might persuade some outside its traditional following to genuinely consider the views expressed within. That’s not going to happen when a piece is written and headlined in such a dishonest way. br> —
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