Word: basher
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Kerrey's also a mean-spirited Japan basher, an arch-protectionist and a supporter of massive and terribly inefficient farm subsidies. There's nothing charming about any of this. Despite his touchy-feely reputation, these views are cold, calculated politics designed to get the Gephardt vote and neutralize Harkin. Too bad the U.S. cannot afford to fight a trade war with Japan--not since the American share of world trade has declined by one-third in the last 20 years...
...themes in a speech to a judicial conference. Back then he took pains to reassure his audience, "I'm an attorney; I'm also married to one -- so I don't want to bash lawyers." The Vice President abandoned these constraints last week, and an unlikely lawyer basher was born...
Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...
...friends went off to serve their country in the military, while I came to Harvard. Today, I recognize the malice and inhumanity of homophobia. My high school best friend, on the other hand, has been transformed, during three years in the Marine Corps, into a (literally) violent gay-basher...