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brooklynite

(94,461 posts)
1. I have a friend who's one...
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:37 PM
Aug 2017

Last time we had dinner, I heard stories about reporting on the Persian Gulf War from Tel Aviv during the Skud attacks and tryng to get smuggled into Baghdad.

oasis

(49,365 posts)
2. Rachel almost fell into a swoon after the journalist complimented
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:41 PM
Aug 2017

her on the good questions she was asked during the interview. Wow. She's real people.

JI7

(89,244 posts)
4. I think we will have future journalists who are still kids now that will look at her the same way
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:44 PM
Aug 2017

When they get older and start working.

Ninsianna

(1,349 posts)
10. Why do you say that? It's not like there are 14 threads extolling her virtues
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 03:28 AM
Aug 2017

and proclaiming her a leader and dreamboat, like certain fanboys and girls were doing over a RT personality.

No one posted eleventy links to her website to prove how perfect and wonderful she is. Just a few people who were charmed by the respect she paid award winning journalists.

Fawning is certainly amazing (with all the original snark infused), but this ain't it.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
9. Okay, so . . .
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:45 AM
Aug 2017

Make myself 25 or 30 years younger, change Rachel's sexual orientation, and win a Pulitzer, and you're saying I have a shot?

Plot, plot, plot.

monmouth4

(9,691 posts)
12. One of the many things I like about Rachel is her no frills approach. It's like sitting down
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 06:54 AM
Aug 2017

with an old friend who just says wait till you hear this one..LOL. I love her.

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