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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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