powerlineblog.com - 23 days ago
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If ever a cliche needed to be retired, it's the one about "speaking truth to power." And if the recent use of this self-congratulatory phase, by top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, doesn't put us out of its misery, nothing will.
Jarrett was being interviewed by CNN's Campbell Brown ...
pajamasmedia.com - 23 days ago
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Dissing Free Speech
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... Back here in the U.S…in defending the strident White House verbal assault on Fox News, Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett asserted that the administration was “speaking truth to power.” As PowerLine points out: ...
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