Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalistic hatchet job on Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne. You reported his views on drug legalization, but your editorial sneer has the effect of precluding any serious consideration of the idea. Have you forgotten that you once ran a cover story on this issue? Or that people like William F. Buckley, George Shultz and Milton Friedman share our support for some form of drug legalization...
...that's desperate. But so is putting the "character issue" squarely back in bounds just to spice up headlines. Last week, by some subtle communication about the new rules of engagement, the members of the press let Dole know they would not call him "mean" or a "hatchet man" if he were finally to get tough. Yet no one seems ready to re-examine private behavior, for example Dole's sudden divorce from his first wife or allegations about Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. In fact, under the current rule of confining scrutiny to "public character," only Clinton...
...stories about Dole's Aqua-Leisure contributions by way of Hong Kong are the moral equivalent of Al Gore's dubious, vegetarian fund raiser at the Buddhist temple. The word gotcha isn't glued to the word journalism for nothing. Freddy Kreuger came back enough times; so could the hatchet...
...while last week the candidate sounded like someone who had chosen Death with Dignity, who wanted, before leaving public life, to erase his public image as a growling hatchet man and put on display for the history books the kind of senatorial courtesy he has been known for in his 35 years on Capitol Hill. Asked by Koppel whether he'd rather "lose as a gentleman or win rough," Dole replied, "Well, I'd like to win, but there are certain limits. I can't see myself getting into the mud here in the last three weeks...Whatever happens...
After a rambling monologue of an infomercial by Ross Perot, a sad portrait of a man excluded from the limelight and desperately trying to claw his way back in, the debate began. The air was thick with anticipation: Would the hatchet man return? Would Bob Dole finally go for the jugular, as we suspect he has wanted to all along...