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Meanwhile, the age-old rivalry is heating up on the campaign trail. Earlier this month, the Eli-ticket of Bush and Cheney were overheard referring to New York Times reporter (and former Crimson president) Adam Clymer '58 as a "major league asshole...
...doing our jobs, which seldom involves taking them at their carefully spun word. So while many in the profession have expressed outrage and disappointment that Governor George W. Bush on Monday inadvertently broadcast an aside to his running mate referring to New York Times scribe Adam Clymer by that epithet, nobody could really have been surprised. After all, it has been Clymer's job to compare the public image created by the Bush-Cheney ticket with both men's record - and the politician for whom such scrutiny is a comfortable experience is indeed an exotic species. The Gore campaign...
...more blushing-bride approach? That was the dilemma faced in newsrooms all over the country Monday when George W. Bush, while proclaiming that he wants to run a G-rated, family-friendly campaign, was overhead making making distinctly PG-13 comments to his running mate, Dick Cheney, about Adam Clymer, a New York Times reporter covering the event...
...Despite its obvious stake in the debate, the Times took the high road, running a prim article about Bush's slip: "While waiting to speak, he leaned over to his running mate, Dick Cheney, and used an obscenity to describe a New York Times correspondent, Adam Clymer, who was in the crowd...
...Lieberman, cover your eyes. Three of the nation's largest papers went for the full monty Tuesday morning, printing the governor's comments in all their off-color glory. Kudos to the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald for telling it like it is: "'There's Adam Clymer,' the Governor said, 'major-league asshole from the New York Times...