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“Nothing else that William Safire wrote would have the power or the impact of those four memorable words that he pounded out on a typewriter, 39 years ago,” writes Will Bunch. “Today, the vast majority of Americans of all political stripes — conservative, liberal, centrist — don’t believe the “nattering nabobs of negativism, a.k.a. the mainstream media, in record numbers.” || Safire tributes from Bill Lucey, Dennis Roddy and Morton Janklow.
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