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// 13 Apr 04 // 12:04
PM // file under: fallen world
#109 Spinsanity:
"On April 22, an anoymous Bush adviser told the New York Times that Kerry "looks French," a silly insult designed to capitalize on anti-French sentiment in the wake of the Iraq war. Since then, three right-wing pundits have repeated it frequently, calling Kerry "French-looking" in nonsensical terms. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz, lashed back in the press, prompting James Taranto, the author of the Best of the Web Today column on Opinion Journal, the website of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, to first pick up on the phrase. In his April 24 column, he first discusses the controversy, then further down calls Kerry "French-looking," beginning a spree of 22 uses of the term that culminated in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday in which he repeated it..."
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In an unrelated story, Jai Rodriguez has been appointed Secretary of FABULOUS.
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UPDATE, 7:44 PM:
I take it back. Someone let him into the East Room for the press conference wearing a very striped tie. The moire pattern is out of control-- it looks like Jefferson Airplane is about to leap out of his chest.
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UPDATE, 7:46 PM:
"Indeminate"?
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