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Judging by my hate mail, the new issue of @vanityfair is now out with my article in it, so I'll just repost this. vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/t…
@VanityFair Speaking of hate mail, a common theme is the assumption that I am -- as an angry email from Kansas City just said -- "an East Coast elitist" who "hates the heartland."

Believe it or not, professors aren't actually hatched at their universities. And I was born in Kansas City.
Also, if you’re going to try to drop the “East Coast elitists don’t get the heartland” line, maybe — maybe — don’t set it up with a preamble about how you were reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair with RuPaul on the cover and were shocked at what you found inside?
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He's furious because Nadler let them get some sleep and, in doing so, robbed Republicans of a chance to complain that there had been a sneaky "midnight vote" to impeach Trump.
Yes, yes, the people complaining about the "rush to impeach" sincerely wanted to keep a marathon session going into the wee hours of the morning, yes, sure.

"Midnight vote" was queued up as the successor to "hearings in a basement" and they're just upset they have to scrap it.
Has a Republican complained that Democrats are holding the vote on Friday the 13th, and it's all a secret plot to make the poor president seem like a bad guy?
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All right, I finally watched The Irishman.

A few small quibbles, but on the whole I really liked it.
It's definitely way too long and, honestly, I think Scorsese could've cut most of the first hour.

The efforts to de-age DeNiro and the others don't work (that scene where he assaults the grocer, yikes) and that's the part of the story we've seen a thousand times.
But the back end -- focusing on the decay and disillusionment of mafia figures -- was outstanding. It's like the coda from "GoodFellas" was stretched out to the logical end.
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When you write an essay for a print publication, a lot of material winds up on the cutting room floor.

So I thought I'd do a thread with some of the odds and ends that didn't make it into this @vanityfair piece. vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/t…
There were countless events held by Nixon loyalists in the summer of 1974 that I wish I'd been able to get into more.

This one was just two weeks before he resigned.
Those two columns I quoted by liberal Marquis Childs and conservative James J. Kilpatrick, in which they reprinted letters from diehard Nixon supporters, are really worth reading in full.

Some things never change.
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