Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STORY HURTS, CUT IT OFF FAST. Dole's tobacco debacle recalls another hapless Republican 20 years ago--President Gerald Ford, who during a 1976 debate with challenger Jimmy Carter denied that Eastern Europe was dominated by the Soviet Union. Ford's campaign manager, James Baker, wanted to immediately correct the mistake, but Ford stubbornly refused--and was hammered for it endlessly. So too Dole, who first remarked in mid-June that cigarettes were not necessarily addictive for all smokers. Instead of correcting himself, as top staff members urged, he dug in deeper, setting himself up as an expert in comparative...
Even a cursory reading of the Russian press quickly convinced the Americans that virtually the entire nation was furious about the salaries government workers had been owed for months on end. When Yeltsin's aides explained that the President had already promised to correct the back-pay problem, the droopy-eyed Dresner shook his head in disbelief. "You can't just promise these things," he told Dyachenko. "You have to do them. And then you have to make sure the people know what you've done...
Other shows refused to put Aldrich on after they read the book, finding its Liz-Marries-Space-Alien tenor beneath credibility. For example, Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man, lords doing a lot more than leaping and other "sex toys and self-mutilation devices" approved by Hillary Clinton. This is ludicrous. First, the entire press corps sees the tree and would notice three hens fornicating. Second, all the decorations sent in from artists are screened for appropriateness (two were...
...Verhoeven, who has directed some stunning sci-fi (RoboCop, Total Recall) and the equally otherworldly Showgirls. "The communists were the enemy, and the Nazis before them, but now that wonderful enemy everyone can fight has been lost. Alien sci-fi films give us a terrifying enemy that's politically correct. They're bad. They're evil. And they're not even human...
According to Friedberg, the man continued to make offensive comments and said, "I am non-politically correct and I fucking love...