Word: alabamans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." After reviewing Buchanan's quotations over the years, even one who loathes political correctness and hate-speech codes is likely to start seeing their usefulness. In any case, if it quacks like a bigot, then it probably should...
...People always tell me to do 'Run, Forrest! Run!'" Hale says, in a reference to celluloid football hero and Alabaman Forrest Gump...
...Heflin's first order of business upon his return to Washington was chairing the Senate Ethics Committee investigation of the infamous Keating Five, which included the same John Glenn. A Heflin spokesman says the ad "just didn't fit in" with campaign plans, but wiser heads had advised the Alabaman's office about the impropriety of using Glenn -- who eventually received a mere slap on the wrist -- as a character witness...