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March 30, 2024 at 7:31 PM

The Curious Case of Stephen Breyer’s Library

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Former Justice Stephen Breyer appeared on Washington Post Live and this was a screen grab. Catherine Rampell asked an obvious question:

The comments to X post put out several ideas. But the most obvious explanation is that it was to highlight the book Breyer was flogging (the only visible title):

That is an awful lot of work to eliminate all other books from the background. If you were going to touch every book (twice!) to stage this, why not just put photos, objet d'art, and plants behind him? Does anyone believe that Stephen Breyer's library is always this way, that he loves to randomly select unknown books to peruse?

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    Rodin@Rodin·2y

    Rereading my post and Breyer's book title, maybe Breyer has some deep subconscious animus to text itself.

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    Lunchbox Gerald@Jose·2y

    I expect he has books there that he doesn't want us to see.

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    The Reticulator@TheReticulator·2y

    The problem with pragmatism is that it doesn't work.

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    kedavis@kedavis·2y

    And what about that guy on... MSNBC, was it?... who prominently displayed the book "Bringing Down Trump" for the camera?

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    Al French@AlFrench·2y
    Rodin (View Post):
    That is an awful lot of work to eliminate all other books from the background.

    I'm sure that he has a flunky publicist to do that for him.

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