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Lott's comments, by contrast, were certainly not the truth. But they may have revealed a truth. The suspicion is that they bubbled up from his id and escaped through his lips when his guard was down, thereby exposing an important and deeply distressing moral flaw in Lott himself. This process is too serious to label a gaffe. So let's call it a supergaffe. A supergaffe is when a politician says what he really thinks...
...exceptionally deliberate. On Days 5 and 6 after Lott's remarks, the White House shrugged the matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other politicians aren't really as offended as they pretend to be. It is equally possible that they did take offense from the beginning but suppressed it while waiting to see how the story played out. In Gaffeland, there is no penalty for changing...
...custody at an undisclosed location.) Other members have been detained; as with the JI investigation, each arrest discloses more disturbing tidings. "They're more than they claim to be," says General I Made Mangku Pastika, the chief Bali investigator. "We're looking at them with suspicion...
...problem that most blacks don't give a hoot about just because some powerful white people care deeply about it. They include the Times's executive editor, Howell Raines, who grew up in Alabama during the era of resistance to desegregation. Raines' well-known liberal sympathies prompted great suspicion that two articles by sports columnists were spiked because they took issue with the paper's stance. The paper's No. 2 editor, Gerald Boyd, tried to quell the uproar by explaining in a staff memo that one piece amounted to "unseemly and self-absorbed" quarreling with the editorial page...
...suspicion is that they will not appoint anyone who had worked in the Boston area in the past 20 years,” said Kiely...