Word: crass
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...quoted the Fox News host as saying about political satirist Al Franken, "He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes." O'Reilly, a petulant man, revealed his crass philosophy, which evidently involves fantasies of killing anyone who points out his lies. JAMIE WAGONER San Francisco...
...malignant misdeeds cost him the White House next November, his administration has already stained American faith in the presidency. Crooks, liars and cheats are nothing new to the White House, but Bush has exceeded all presidential precedents of subterfuge. Never before has a White House been so crass about doling out the spoils of war to its corporate cronies—Halliburton, Bechtel et al—while using the afterglow of victory to cow those who might object. The same administration that used patriotism as a gag on dissent is responsible for a treasonous leak that...
...crass and racist Hasty Pudding Club would not accept him, then they couldn’t have my talents either,” she said...
...upset by the crass comments about Madonna in your item on her kissing Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards [PEOPLE, Sept. 8]. You said, "You can make two uninteresting women a lot more interesting by having them give each other an open-mouthed kiss." Not only is Madonna today's most interesting American woman, but she is also the only relevant U.S. artist in years. Her last album, American Life, was great. When you have the chance to write about such a world-class artist, you should praise her because the U.S. is increasingly hated everywhere. DIDIER NICLAES...
There has always been something desperately seductive about the U.S., something that European elites have regarded as a menace and a threat. To them, the U.S. was shallow, vulgar, uncultured, crass, inauthentic, materialistic, naive, venal and degenerate. At the same time, however, they could not deny that it was somehow irresistible and dangerously attractive—particularly to millions of Europe’s masses, who voted with their feet in hopes of attaining something in America that eluded them at home...