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FLASH: Juanita Broaddrick’s story is “credible.” That’s the official buzzword and it has caught on like wildfire, allowing the media to believe Broaddrick, doubt Clinton, and stay neutral, all at the same time.

After years of claiming to be “balanced” they finally are, but it’s the kind of balance that has less to do with journalism than with the Flying Wallendas. Like the acrobat who knows his life depends upon emptying his mind of all distracting thoughts, the media will not risk their balance with an in-depth investigation of Broaddrick. They would rather risk the wrath of the gods and be condemned to spend eternity perched motionless in the middle of the high wire knowing that to think is to die. (See Bulfinch: “The Myth of Punditeion.”)

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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FLASH: Juanita Broaddrick’s story is “credible.” That’s the official buzzword and it has caught on like wildfire, allowing the media to believe Broaddrick, doubt Clinton, and stay neutral, all at the same time.

After years of claiming to be “balanced” they finally are, but it’s the kind of balance that has less to do with journalism than with the Flying Wallendas. Like the acrobat who knows his life depends upon emptying his mind of all distracting thoughts, the media will not risk their balance with an in-depth investigation of Broaddrick. They would rather risk the wrath of the gods and be condemned to spend eternity perched motionless in the middle of the high wire knowing that to think is to die. (See Bulfinch: “The Myth of Punditeion.”)