Word: epithets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...worst fears about the candidate: that he was old, had old policies and was running a faltering campaign. The same might be said here too for Bush. The ad makes him look underhanded and excessively juvenile in a frat-boy kind of way. Coming after last week's barnyard epithet, it makes the "change the tone, bring honor and dignity" crusade look a little thin...
...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...
Many of the country's biggest papers did Bush a favor, toning down his comments with a few well-placed dashes. A few, however, relayed the epithet in all its original glory. Here's a quick guide...
...rough-around-the-edges tabloid went a bit schizophrenic in its coverage: In a box dissecting the candidates' Labor Day activities, the Post printed "asshole" in its early editions, although not in the larger article describing the flub. In a reprint of the box, editors substituted "a------" for the epithet...
...Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal 44. Bush got heckled by death-penalty opponents at its convention 48. Dow Jones fig. 50. City that's offering White Bikes 53. Dickensian epithet 54. The National Geographic Society will tailor these to individual needs 55. Subject of a conference in Durban, South Africa 56. Social worker? 57. Scottish hillside 58. U.S.N.A. grad...