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    James Downie‏Verified account @jamescdownie 5 Sep 2018

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      2. James Downie‏Verified account @jamescdownie 5 Sep 2018

        cc @KarenAttiah, who asked the question first.

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      3. James Downie‏Verified account @jamescdownie 5 Sep 2018

        Worth remembering: "'To cover my tracks, I usually pay attention to other staffers' idioms and use that in my background quotes. That throws the scent off me,' the current White House official added."https://www.axios.com/trump-white-house-leakers-leak-about-leaking-dae05b8e-e792-41a7-bb74-c2756b542cd0.html …

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      2. MarketMaker1929‏ @MarketMaker1929 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie

        Speechwriter, perhaps? I doubt mother would have let him write this.

        12 replies 2 retweets 172 likes
      3. Burt Likko‏ @burtlikko 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @MarketMaker1929 @jamescdownie

        Good guess! I'm not sure Pence is well-vocabularied enough to come up with "lodestar" unassisted. With that said, really, we should leave the anonymous quasi-Resister who wrote the op-ed anonymous. Shit's gonna get hotter in the White House than if the HVAC went on the fritz.

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      1. jules‏ @sisterhoebot 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie @cd_hooks

        Hmm who writes his speeches

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      1. FIPSmode Squad‏ @anthonypants 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie @cd_hooks

        we're through the looking glass here, peoplepic.twitter.com/RQ00DQdvoA

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      1. timothée chalabi‏ @smallhusk 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie

        function words betray authorship more than content words--ideally you would want to compare the word frequency of "the" "an" "at" etc vs. a corpus of existing text from each suspect white house official

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      1. Francine McKenna‏Verified account @retheauditors 5 Sep 2018
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        "Lodestar" is Pence's Secret Service code name!

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      1. Ramesh Ponnuru‏Verified account @RameshPonnuru 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie @radleybalko

        But no mention of broad shoulders

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      2. Informema‏ @informema 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @jamescdownie

        Hillsdale College alum Stephen Ford is a Pence speechwriter. See this article by a Hillsdale professor, the title of which is also right out of the op-ed:https://kirkcenter.org/symposia/free-minds-free-markets-and-free-people/ …

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      3.  🌜the sleepy asthmatic 🌛‏ @sleepyyeha 5 Sep 2018
        Replying to @informema @jamescdownie

        well that was fast

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