Jeffrey Goldberg on Exposing Signalgate: ‘I Think It’s Not That Hard to Just Say to Yourself, I Will Not Be Bullied by Any of This’

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Goldberg: “Well, I mean, yes. And it’s not — it’s — the playbook is just continue to do your job, which is, you know, you could only — if you’re willing to be intimidated, you have to be willing to be intimidated in order to have an effective bully, right? So, when they — and, you know, I think this has all been in public, but on Tuesday, as they’re pushing back and saying, ‘We’re lying and we’re this,’ and I’m a sleazebag and all these other kind of things, you know, Shane and I kind of looked at each other, with our other colleagues, and said, they’re trying to goad us into putting out — we have to defend ourselves against the charge that we are lying. So, it didn’t make sense as a strategy for their part. But I suppose, and we could see this in other parts of journalism maybe, and certainly in other industries, I suppose there is a lesson here, which is — and, again, you don’t want to sound, you know, self-righteous or anything, but if you have the truth and you’re aligned with the truth, this is a thing that happened. Here’s reality. You got to keep pressing it because, you know, ultimately, the voters, the citizens will recognize reality. I mean, I think it’s not that hard to just say to yourself, I will not be bullied by any of this.”

(via RealClearPolitics)