Word: flapped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flap was instructive about the kind of traps that the Bush campaign is adept at setting for Kerry, and the personality trait that makes Kerry walk right into them. That Bush allies would unearth and quietly slip the 1971 videotape to two news outlets tells you that the Republicans are doing what the Kerry campaign had expected them to do all along--playing hardball. But that Kerry could be ensnared in the ribbons vs. medals nontroversy tells you why so many Democrats start to get nervous whenever the Massachusetts Senator opens his mouth without a script...
...transform the Middle East and the power of tax cuts to produce prosperity. This is a radical departure from the mainstream traditions of American diplomacy and fiscal responsibility and should be grounds for a serious debate. But the Administration reacts to almost every challenge--from the Niger uranium flap to Clarke's testimony--as if it were a mortal threat, demonizing its opponents, stonewalling, raising the stakes. After a perfunctory first week of positive ads, the Bush campaign has unleashed a withering negative advertising blitz against Kerry...
...Mark McKinnon describes the experience of confronting Bush with an unpleasant topic. That is what some Republicans worry has been lacking since Hughes left Bush's side. "This wouldn't be happening if Karen were here," a top G.O.P. adviser to the White House groaned during last year's flap over Bush's flight-suited landing on an aircraft carrier to declare the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq. That example illustrates how Hughes' powers are sometimes exaggerated: she actually helped plan the carrier event and write the President's speech, as she has every major address Bush...
...Gong magazine. "But I believe my cause was just ... As a famous Chinese person, she should have been aware of such an important event in Chinese history." For a time, the peccadillo reportedly cut in half her asking price for ad work. She still refuses to discuss the flag flap...
Ever since the Janet Jackson flap, the country has experienced a temporary frenzy about televised propriety. But we are talking here not about a wardrobe malfunction but about representations of the single worst attack ever perpetrated against the U.S. Yet people who reflexively loathe any kind of censorship are inclined to countenance 9/11 self-censorship because the demand comes from the families and the fire fighters who, on this issue, claim to have a higher moral standing...