Word: kinnock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reputation as Parliament's most outrageous figure. Dubbed "Red Ken" by the London tabloids, Livingstone, 42, is famous for his unabashed support of leftist causes and for launching indecorous assaults on government officials. He is also, not coincidentally, a major pain in the aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year term last year, Livingstone and others on Labor's "loony left" got much of the blame for the Conservatives' success...
...Northern Ireland, one of his favorite issues. In November, after a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army killed eleven people in the town of Enniskillen, Livingstone caused another furor by saying Ulster was Britain's Viet Nam and predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review of Labor's nonnuclear defense policy...
...anti-Biden tapes to The New York Times, The DesMoines Register, and the NBC Nightly News by John Sasso, present one of two views of the former Dukakis campaign manager's actions. Either Sasso was right to have made an issue out of Biden's appropriation of a Neil Kinnock speech or he was wrong...
...requires discussion between candidates. The public then decides who has been more convincing. The candidate who is challenged has the opportunity to respond at a level of seriousness to the issues put forth by his rival. If Dukakis charges Biden with being disingenuos, Biden can counter by explaining why Kinnock and the Kennedys hold such a sway over him. But the press justifies revelations, such as those pertaining to Biden, by invoking the right of scrutiny which is by design not a dialogue, but rather an examination...
...Biden and his aides make statements of fact in refutation, such as the claim that attribution to Kinnock was originally intended. The press then applies scrutiny to these claims of fact. Each fact which the press refutes thus damages the candidate's credibility...