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

To: E. T. who wrote (217841)	1/13/2002 3:07:02 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

hmmm, it looks like another invention of the leftist (I love to work for Democrats and against Republicans) N.Y. Times. What else is new... mrc.org The New York Times claimed on Tuesday that President Bush "raised some eyebrows by using the term ‘Pakis.’ It is considered an ethnic slur in Britain, which has a large Pakistani immigrant population." But as James Taranto noted in his "Best of the Web" column, a Reuters dispatch inadvertently divulged it was a controversy self-generated by the Washington press corps. An excerpt from Taranto’s January 8 column: Yesterday at the White House, President Bush discussed the Indian-Pakistani conflict: "I don't believe the situation is defused yet," he said, "but I do believe there is a way to do so, and we are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war." The New York Times reports that "Mr. Bush raised some eyebrows by using the term ‘Pakis.’ It is considered an ethnic slur in Britain, which has a large Pakistani immigrant population." Well, whose eyebrows exactly did Bush raise? The Times doesn't say. A clue, however, can be found in this Reuters dispatch: "Asad Hayauddin, spokesman at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, said he did not consider what Bush said to be an insult. ‘I would give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was said in passing. In all fairness, I would say it's not a racial slur,’ he said. "He did, however, receive a number of phone calls from reporters seeking the embassy's reaction." The whole "controversy," in other words, seems to have been an invention of the White House press corps. END of Excerpt To read the New York Times story by Todd Purdum, also known as "Mr. Dee Dee Myers," go to: nytimes.com