re: #18 Charles Johnson

Argh. This again. I’d never heard of Rick Perlstein before this tweet.

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That’s an incredibly distorted and WRONG slant on the Dan Rather issue, and I don’t think I’m going to get into it with this guy. It rarely turns out well when they’re this invested in thinking I’m an evil Machiavelli.

Too many don’t understand that you were not confirming Bush’s actual service; you were disproving the particular documents that purported to show his dereliction of duty.