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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (34508)	9/5/2000 12:18:36 AM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 769667

``There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times.'', was spoken in a truely crude vernacular Americana English, and definitely very much worthy for the White House of the United States of America. reuters.com Moreover, this is a brilliant choice of word and showmanship of attitude toward unacceptable views. It is exemplary of true respect of poor taste for another person, another human being, another American. It makes no difference whether it was lack of understanding and knowledge, or poor journalism. Good for a few points in popularity, as many of us are just as ignorant and very much God-like self righteous about ourselves. cnn.com << ... It was not known which of Clymer’s articles Bush was unhappy about, but in April the reporter wrote a hard-hitting piece about health care in Texas, critical of the governor for not making public health a priority. The article began, “Texas has had one of the nation’s worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its citizens have no health insurance. Its Mexican border is a hotbed of contagion. The state ranks near the top in the nation in rates of AIDS, diabetes, tuberculosis and teen-age pregnancy, and near the bottom in immunizations, mammograms and access to physicians.” The author of a biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Clymer has reported extensively on politics, elections and public opinion. He was the paper’s national political correspondent for the 1980 presidential campaign, polling editor from 1983 to 1990, and political editor for the 1988 presidential campaign. In a statement to CNN, Andrew Rosenthal, national editor of the Times, defended Clymer’s coverage as “fair and accurate.” “If they have a problem with the coverage, they should call,” said Rosenthal. >>