I’m bored to tears, but I need this job. At least these officials’ respect my integrity. They don’t always like what I report, but they admit it is accurate. And they never complain when I paraphrase their irrational, ill-worded, ungrammatical remarks; it gets their names in the paper.
Oh God, now that bigoted blowhard is at it again. How can he think, much less say, such things?
I am tired of being Ms Nice Gal. This time I as going to do the most evil thing possible, I’ll quote him directly and accurately.