Word: ed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mark Salter, unloaded a fusillade on The Huffington Post, denouncing the mocking students as lacking "one small fraction" of McCain's character and calling Rohe an "idiot" herself. Then Rohe, predictably, wrote a response to Salter. Back in the olden, dead-trees days, Salter might have written an op-ed column, and after a few days Rohe might have responded. Now each side can fire off a written piece in the heat of the moment...
...Ed Muskie moment." TONY SNOW, new White House press secretary and colon-cancer survivor, after tearing up in his first televised briefing when asked about his LIVESTRONG bracelet. Senator Muskie famously became emotional in front of REPORTERS during his 1972 presidential campaign...
...Corrupt Charities,” op-ed...
There are times, however, when this criticism crosses the line. Case in point: the unfounded claim in this op-ed that large non-profit charities are “shoddy,” “nearly-fraudulent,” and “out of control.” The writer, Lucy M. Caldwell, begins by arguing that the American Cancer Society (ACS) spends “only 26 percent of its national multibillion-dollar budget on actual medical research.” The rest, she claims, is waste. Caldwell seems to be unaware that the cancer society...
Caldwell’s op-ed is an outrage because it uses misinformation and disingenuous innuendo to discourage people from donating to a worthwhile cause. We invite Caldwell to participate in Relay for Life next April so that she can cheer the dozens of cancer survivors that take the first lap of our Relay and so that she can join in the luminaria ceremony in which participants decorate glowing bags in memory of loved ones lost to cancer. Caldwell calls this “razzle dazzle” and needless “fun.” We call...