A Valentine of Investigative Journalism By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham

[TomSea]

A Valentine of Investigative Journalism
By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham

When the Washington Post puts its top investigative reporters on the beat of the distant youth of presidential candidates, there's no telling what student scandal they might uncover. In 2012, the Post devoted a 5,400-word, front-page article to breaking the news that at age 17, then-Republican nominee Mitt Romney's "pranks could go too far." He was accused of giving a classmate at Cranbrook School an involuntary haircut, and this was invested with deep meaning across his life.

Sometimes, however, the investigation produces a different result. On Aug. 15, 2016, the Post once again displayed on the front page the labor of its hard-boiled, first-draft historians, who were again dwelling on a school scene. This time, the subject was a Democrat, and the headline reflected it: "At Wellesley, fiery speech was a breakout moment."

In 1969, Hillary Clinton gave a speech at her Wellesley College commencement ceremony insulting liberal Republican Sen. Edward Brooke as too conservative, too out of touch. It was a "moment of glory," the Post proclaimed, the culmination of what "her campaign now describes as 'social-justice activism.'"

In summation, young Republican Mitt Romney was the worst kind of pampered prep-school bully. Young Democrat Hillary Clinton was a "provocative voice speaking for her angry generation." If partisan profiling were illegal, these journalists would be arrested.

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[geronl]

We need some more investigative reporting into Trumps past too