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Politics

Good Question

Radley Balko | 1.16.2010 7:50 PM

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Why the goddamn hell is Barack Obama writing the cover story for next week's Newsweek? He doesn't know anything about Haiti outside of what his aides may have told him. He won't even write it! If the piece is worth publishing, Newsweek should give the byline to its true author.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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