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Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Election by sound bite

Obsessed by "lipstick on a pig," economic "free fall" and other "great stories," America has failed to see the real challenges it faces.
By Joan Didion

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  • Thursday, October 16, 2008 07:32 PM

    Someone alert Camille Paglia!

    This is the most smoothly eloquent piece of writing I've read since... Well, since the last time I read anything by Joan Didion. That I can be drawn so effortlessly into this analysis at a point where I am so exhausted by the nonstop mental clutter and flagellation of the last twenty months of political discourse is a wonderful reminder that truly great writing is not just communication or volume, but craft. My compliments to the chef.

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