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To: Ilaine who wrote (10681)10/3/2003 11:44:57 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793707
 
CALIFORNIA INSIDER BLOG

Shriver speech
Maria Shriver just completed a long speech to a women's group in Newport Beach, in which she extolled her husband's qualities but not directly address the charges leveled against him in the LA Times story on Thursday. "I didn’t want this campaign to end without being able to put my own two cents out there in the public about the man I know," she said. The speech was carried live on MSNBC, the sister cable network of Shriver's employer, NBC, but not on the other cable networks.

UPDATE: Sara Lee, a spokeswoman for Shriver, tells me that Maria referred to the recent spate of stories about her husband as "gutter journalism" in a press conference after her speech.

UPDATE 2: Full quote: "I think the voters are tired of gutter politics and gutter journalism."



To: Ilaine who wrote (10681)10/4/2003 12:30:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793707
 
Saying "Hitler did this, that, and the other thing, and it was in part good, in part bad, and in part mixed" isn't the same thing as saying "I want to kill all the Jews."


Rationally speaking, it's not. But it's not PC. You can say it about Mao, Stalin, Pablo Escobar, whomever - but not Hitler. Because Hitler is no longer thought of as a human dictator in any historical or political context, but as the sole exemplar of evil.