The MagazineOf course, we wouldn’t expect anything less than this free pass for Obama from the Washington Post’s fact checker. When it comes to abortion, some facts are just too politically inconvenient. ‘It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper. Whatever you say must be considered from at least three angles, and it’s an awkward triangulation. In one corner you have your hard-core hip-hop heads; the type for whom . . . ” (Zadie Smith, New York Times, September 9). The Weekly Standard ArchivesBrowse 15 Years of the Weekly Standard
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