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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
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- The Free Press -- "Stenographers to Power"
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- Following Dan Rather's getting-out-of-line by breaking the mainstream
- Free Press tradition of nodding "ok" (moving on to the next question)
- when presented with clearly untrue or extremely suspicious statements
- by Power [chiefly, Washington], and instead pressing with questions on
- the apparent contradictions and mistruths, George Herbert Walker Bush
- was most displeased...
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- From Holly Sklar's _Who's Who_ column:
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- " K i c k i n g a l i t t l e a s s "
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- In her review of some off-the-record remarks made by Bush during the
- 1984 election season -- including:
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- George Bush, Octobert 12, 1984, remarking on his debate
- with Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro:
- "We tried to kick a little ass last night."
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- Bush was telling that to a New Jersey longshoreman when he
- realized a WNEW-TV microphone was picking up his words:
- "Whoops! Oh God, he heard me!" exclaimed brave Bush. "Turn that
- thing off!"
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- What about "Stenographers to Power"?
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- " M r . I n s i d e S t u f f "
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- George Bush, January 26, 1987, following the Rather interview
- on CBS News: "The bastard didn't lay a glove on me...That guy
- makes Lesley Stahl look like a pussy." Stahl is the host of
- "Face the Nation," and by the servile standards of broadcast
- news, is known as a tough interviewer.
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- Once again, a microphone had picked up Bush's off-air words
- as he fumed at CBS News Officials: "I'm very upset about it.
- Tell your goddamned network that if they want to talk to me to
- raise their hands at a press conference. No more Mr. Inside
- Stuff after that."
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- --Holly Sklar's _Who's Who ... and What's What_ column in Z magazine,
- March 1988, page 32.
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