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"The disgraced journalist also said he has a collection of anecdotes chronicling various racial improprieties at the paper. Who knows if he is telling the truth? It is clear from the interview that Blair was not so concerned with corporate race-related policies than with trying to convince people he is smart: 'I don't understand why I am the bumbling affirmative action hire when Stephen Glass is this brilliant whiz kid, when from my perspective - and I know I shouldn't be saying this - I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.' Glass is the former New Republic reporter who was fired for fabricating entire stories. '.yet somehow I'm (an) affirmative action hire. They're all so smart, but I was sitting right under their noses fooling them. If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative action hire, how come they didn't catch me?'"