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To: Ilaine who wrote (100291)	6/4/2003 11:59:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

9) This spot is available for hire. Okay...Because Saddam is the mother of all blustering idiots? On another topic, great quote from a recent Mark Steyn interview: Measured in sentences On Bush and his lack of articulacy - you say it's not a problem because actions speak louder than words? Until they start doing stuff, politicians and their words are all we have to go on. Expand.., One of the problems with the media is that because their currency is language that's what they value. It's regarded as perfectly normal to ask Margaret Drabble or Harold Pinter what they think of American foreign policy. No TV talk show would ever ask, say, a sprockets manufacturer in the East Midlands how he thinks things are going in Iraq. Why not? There's no reason why he should know any less than a clapped-out poet or obscure novelist. It's only because we value 'articulacy' over everything else. In my experience, a big chunk of the people who make their living from words do so for want of anything better: if I could have designed a fighter jet or invented a microchip or created a chain of specialty boutiques, I would have. Bush doesn't see the job of President as being measured in sentences. He's right.