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...Stern’s archived radio programs from Election 2008. In one infamous episode, Stern chats with several supposedly random Obama supporters in Harlem; their ignorant hero-worship is meant to show that any vote for Obama must be based on race or charisma rather than a substantive platform. Abrasive??and methodologically flawed—as Stern’s approach is, there’s some grain of truth to his conclusions. Obama’s winsome personality can at times override his actual policy proposals; after all, he’s not only a president...
Fierce might also be a word to describe some of the music the DJs play on the show, which can be “really abrasive??with really really throaty vocals and sludgy instruments,” Hanlon says...
...early 2001, when members of the presidential search committee expressed concern over Summers’ “sometimes abrasive?? demeanor, the outsider Rubin was enlisted to convince them otherwise, according to two former Harvard officials familiar with the search. Summers had long ago ditched his propensity to offend, Rubin told them...
...survey of the most recent Summers stories listed on Google News reveals a remarkable consistency in the way the president has been characterized by journalists and commentators. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, referred to him as “abrasive?? in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post...
...guess I used the words ‘brilliant’ and ‘abrasive?? a lot,” he says. “Maybe I overused that. I think it became a cliché, as it was such an easy way to capture him. Everyone would agree that he’s certainly a brilliant mind, and abrasive was shorthand for perhaps not always being sensitive to others’ feelings. I think it was a reputation that continued when he was at the Treasury because he would be outspoken in dealing with reporters...