Washington is rarely known for its profiles in courage. Instead, it’s a place, as the old saw goes, where a political gaffe is that rare example of a politician telling the truth. Anyway, you know where this is going… The last week has been filled with pearl-clutching in the wake of the Hur report, Biden’s uncomfortable response to Peter Doocy in the Brady Room, and the flotilla of surrogates, as my Puck partner Dylan Byers recently noted, who subsequently flooded the cable airwaves to defend their boss or mentor or old friend with familiar tropes. The White House spent the weekend in overdrive, pushing stories about Biden chewing out his staff over immigration, cursing about Hur to lawmakers, and calling Benjamin Netanyahu an asshole.
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