Word: silbering
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...that's nothing new--or nothing unique to Silber. Weld, as well as Sen. John F. Kerry and his Republican challenger James W. Rappaport, suffered the same fate at the hands of the media. Of course, Kerry and Rappaport brought it on themselves--lobbing political grenades at one another throughout their campaign--as when Rappaport accused Kerry of associating with "known" terrorist Guillermo Ungo, and when Kerry poked fun at Rappaport's deep campaign coffers...
...Silber, given mutiple opportunities to raise the level of reasoned discourse, set aside the chance for the sake of political expediency. In the second televised debate, for instance, Silber devoted three of his five turns to drill Weld on his support of the increasingly-unpopular Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) petition, instead of using the time to challenge his rival on his education plans, his environmental initiatives or his civil rights record. By harping on one issue in order to squeeze all the political juice out of it, Silber insulted voters who were waiting (as he himself claimed...
...Silber partisan who claims the press ignored the Democratic candidate's position on civil rights, health care and education forgets that the candidate did so himself...
...Silber's environmental policy, well, there just wasn't one. You read that here--in one of the many papers despised by Silber staffers and supporters--several weeks...
SOME in the media would even contend, justifiably, that the Silber people have it all backwards. The candidate prided himself on the bluntness of his message, the disingenuity with which he attacked such problems as crime (refusing to give a speech in Dorcester to "a bunch of crack addicts") and health care (disputing the need for lengthy and fruitless hospital stays for the elderly) and the feminist movement (blaming working women for leading to the disruption of family unity...