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In reply to the discussion: Dual Citizenship. [View all]DFW
(60,243 posts)But my impressions of her, which come from an admittedly limited number of shows, as I am not in the States much any more, were that she was a serious journalist, not nearly as prone as some of her more sensationalist colleagues, and not susceptible to falling for something this easily debunked. I'm sure her staff was probably more responsible than she was personally, but with her experience, I would have thought that the very notion would have set off alarm bells--if for no other reason than no whisper of this assertion has popped up in the decades leading up to his candidacy.
My dad was one of the last highly respected print journalists in Washington, and I am maybe a little hyper-sensitive to the issue. If he didn't get absolutely solid verification for something, he never reported it as fact. He got cited by both extreme right and solid left in the Congressional Record for his fairness, even though the guys on the right knew perfectly well about his solid Democratic leanings.