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The Blue Flower

(5,439 posts) Sun Dec 8, 2013, 03:09 PM Dec 2013

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Just finished This Town

It certainly helps to illuminate why this country's in such bad shape. The final quote is David Gregory calling the whole government thing a game.

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Just finished This Town (Original Post) The Blue Flower Dec 2013 OP

Bill Moyers interviewed the author on his show dougolat Dec 2013 #1

I watched the interview twice The Blue Flower Dec 2013 #2

dougolat

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1. Bill Moyers interviewed the author on his show

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Sun Dec 8, 2013, 03:35 PM

Dec 2013

quite an eye-opener, quite a dismal maelstrom of bought influence and the rewards of misused wealth and power.

The Blue Flower

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2. I watched the interview twice

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Sun Dec 8, 2013, 08:37 PM

Dec 2013

I was struck when he said he wrote the book as an effort to "check himself" from becoming one of the DC whores.

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