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"Could her commitment to nuanced realism be not just the thing that makes her seem hard-headed and experienced but also her Achilles heel? It's hard to imagine any kind of positive political calculation that could have led her to making that particular defense in that particular way."

Finally, Blake Fleetwood doesn't say how he knows this, but he quotes Bill Clinton at a Hamptons fundraiser as telling this story about the WSJ editorial page:

"Completely predictable . . . it's like Pavlov's dogs.

"The WSJ editorial board began attacking a major American corporation in the US every day in the editorial page. The representative of the corporation set up a meeting with the editorial board. And he said, 'I have brought my books here . . . I have never done this for anybody . . . I am going to show you why what you are saying is wrong.'

"He got about two minutes into his presentation and the whole editorial board said, 'wait a minute . . . we don't care . . . we attacked you because you are supporting Bill Clinton. We don't believe that a big American corporation should support Bill Clinton.' He said, 'if I stop supporting him, will you quit attacking me?'

" 'Absolutely,' they replied.

"The guy called me and . . . I said . . . send a check to Bob Dole!

"He sent a check to Bob Dole, and announced it in the newspapers, and the WSJ never said one bad word about his company again."

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