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Then there is the boner buried in commentary. A classic example of that appeared in a Washington Monthly review of a book of mine back in 1983. The critic mentioned that I ate breakfast with Ronald Reagan at the White House and "spent weekends with the President at Camp David." Neither assertion was true (not one cornflake with Reagan, not one hoofbeat at Camp David). These and similar inaccuracies supported the punch line that excess access might have warped my perspective. The reviewer later explained that he'd lacked the time to check the information...
Members can also easily talk their way around the $100 cap on gifts from a - lobbyist. Former Tennessee Congressman Bill Boner argued successfully that a camper given to him by the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association was not a gift because he used it on a fact-finding trip. Senator Orrin Hatch received a $7,500 gem-encrusted gold ring inscribed WITH LOVE FROM ALI after the Utah Republican introduced a bill to allow Muhammad Ali and others similarly situated to sue the Government over wrongful draft-evasion convictions. Hatch laughed off any notion that the ring was tied...
...Crimson is a deserved privilege; but couldn't we have some more editing, or perhaps a more open editing process, so that someone might have said, "Why are we printing this?" I know, also, that there is a school of student journalism which loves to see words like "boner" in print, because this is "brash," "bucking the establishment," and all the things that, done for their own sake, render an op-ed page rather pointless. There is a type of piece, moreover, presented under the theory that "if the reader isn't scandalized by this, we haven't done...
...every possible combination of the Words "First," "National," "American," "Federal," "Savings" and "Bank" are used in their titles. Since stingy old people have their life's savings at their disposal and spend money only on restaurant meals, there is enough cash lying around to give Mr. Drysdale quite a boner...
Hart insists that the Democratic Convention will not pick Mondale if he loses every primary this week, no matter what the delegate total. But Hart seems bent on self-destruction himself. In a classic campaign boner, he exposed his sarcastic side at a fund raiser in Los Angeles. The "bad news," he told a well-heeled audience standing on the lawn of a Bel Air mansion, is that he has to campaign apart from his wife Lee. "The good news for her is that she campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected...