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James Gleick (jamesgleick@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 02:40:03 JST James Gleick

The political press is honing a new line of attack against Harris: They challenge her to break with the policies of her own administration. If she does, she is disloyal. If she doesn’t, she is Biden’s lapdog.
She must! says Peter Baker in the #NYtimes: “Neither silence nor agreeable head nods are sufficient any more,” he has decided.
He (Peter Baker) will be watching. He uses the pundit-passive voice to let her know:
In conversation about 4 months ago from zirk.us permalink
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1. “The challenge for her over the next 100 days will be to find her own voice without overtly breaking with Mr. Biden, a delicate political high-wire act without a reliable net. Every statement she makes, every sentence she utters, will be scrutinized to determine whether it is consistent with the president she serves. Yet even as she wants to demonstrate loyalty to Mr. Biden, she also hopes to show the public who she is.”
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