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David Weigel @daveweigel

The dirty secret of anonymous quoting is that the anonymity is often handed out to people who'll restate the story's premise. See that story last week, in which the premise was "Dems worried about Biden spending" and all the anon quotes matched up. https://t.co/2vfGUWZlOy — PolitiTweet.org

Dave Weigel @daveweigel

Here's how the quotes line up in this story. Biden is spending too much: "One Democratic strategist," "another Dem… https://t.co/Xd5H0mqnfB

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To be fair, Psaki also ignores questions that quote Trump by name, but those questions are never very interesting. (News flash: The guy who defeated the other guy thinks the other guy is wrong.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, I probably didn't tweet about it much under Trump - they stopped doing trad press conferences for months at a time - but "respond to this anonymous quote" was a dumb line of questioning then, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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