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Have they run those quotes by him yet? Link?

 

Do you follow the news at all?

Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House — almost anyone other than spokesmen who are paid to be quoted. (And sometimes it applies even to them.) It is also commonplace throughout Washington and on the campaign trail.
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It is a double-edged sword for journalists, who are getting the on-the-record quotes they have long asked for, but losing much of the spontaneity and authenticity in their interviews.

Jim Messina, the Obama campaign manager, can be foul-mouthed. But readers would not know it because he deletes the curse words before approving his quotes. Brevity is not a strong suit of David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser. So he tightens up his sentences before giving them the O.K.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html

The Times eventually had to ban the practice:

In New Policy, The Times Forbids After-the-Fact 'Quote Approval'

Edit: Mid-Life Crisis.

 

Release the transcripts. That's cool.

This is their side of the story. Big whoop. Let's see what all comes out.

 

So, you're in favor of letting the investigation proceed? PROGRESS!

 

More from Wolff's book ...

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign

 

LOL your boys don't want to.

 

He had a chance to testify in an open forum, and declined.

The transcripts will eventually come out. They are still interviewing people, and don't want to release them yet.

 

Now do the part about the Romney campaign that was replaced by an ellipse in your post.

 

Same deal. It's pathetic, and, worse, it wasn't made clear to readers.

Of course, the Obama campaign and WH instituted the policy before the Romney campaign. You'd be an idiot to allow your opponent to clean up their quotes, but not insist on the same for yourself.

 

Phew, then we should be able to let Mueller do the same thing without being slammed by your peeps at FNC.

 

That's not true.

 

Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.

“Who’s that?” asked Trump.