Word: carlson
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...Reported by Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson/ Washington and Eric Pooley with Clinton
...COLUMN NOTING THAT A MAN won the Pillsbury Bake-Off prize for the first time [NOTEBOOK, March 11], Margaret Carlson referred in a scabrously derogatory manner to men's assumed ineptitude in things domestic, notably cooking. Had a male commentator reported with the same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...Explain to me the flat-tax theory that money given to the rich stimulates the economy, while money given to the poor does not." GORDON CARLSON Chicago...
...COLUMN ON UTAH REPRESENTAtive Enid Greene Waldholtz [PUBLIC EYE, Dec. 25-Jan. 1], Margaret Carlson accuses Waldholtz of admitting that she "lied" about the source of campaign funds and of having "larceny in her heart." These characterizations are absolutely false and meanspirited. Waldholtz appeared before the press and answered every question posed to her about her 1994 congressional campaign and related issues. She absolutely did not admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows...
THANK YOU FOR MARGARET CARLSON'S column on the conservatives' drive to send welfare mothers into the workplace, no matter how lowly the job [PUBLIC EYE, Sept. 25]. Finally a report that illustrates the Republicans' true motives for reforming welfare: punishment for women who parent alone. Women are often on welfare because they have chosen to leave bad relationships. Many Republicans see this as an assault on their "family values" system, in which a nuclear family seems to be more important than a woman's life. In the welfare debate as a whole, the concentration of politicians on "women...