Word: wackos
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...when Republican state Sen. Al Bishop said gay sex is "even worse than a violent sexual act." Sandra Hale, head of the gay rights group Pride, said that was an "insult" to rape and molestation victims, as well as lesbians, gays and bisexuals. "Al Bishop is kind of a wacko," says TIME Montana reporter Patrick Dawson. "As he gets older, he just gets nuttier...
...Speed." Payne thinks the world owes him a living, for various reasons, and is out to get it. He's in it for the money. It's enough to make even the most bleeding-heart liberal turn against the welfare program to hear this wacko go on. Near the end, the audience just wants Payne dead, dead--preferably blown up with one of his own bombs...
...smart? "Hardly," says Joe Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman no one has ever accused of being soft on crime. "Three strikes is the wacko" product of other Senators eager to outdo their colleagues on the toughness scale...
...respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that...
...castigate the Administration for granting China most-favored-nation status were voted down, the Buchanan camp did win a provision favoring tougher measures against illegal immigration from Mexico. The new plank supported placing "structures" along the border, a variation of Buchanan's idea of building frontier fences. "That's wacko," remarked Congressman Vin Weber of Minnesota, a conservative whose main concern is fiscal policy...