November 8, 2002
ANYBODY HAVE NEXIS/LEXIS?:
Jeffords may feel a chill (JOHN TIERNEY, November 7, 2002, The New York Times)Jeffords defended his defection as a decision to be loyal to his principles, and many of his constituents applauded him at the time for courage. Now he is in roughly the same situation as the Woody Allen character in “Bananas” who bravely pushes a gang of thugs out of a subway car as the doors are closing, only to have his moment of heroism abruptly end when the doors open to let the thugs back in.
Care to do a search on the number of times the NY Times has referred to Congressional Democrats as "thugs"? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 8, 2002 11:40 AM
The search "Democrat! w/20 thug" produces only results either quoting Republicans calling various Democrts thugs, NYTimes columnists making fun of Republicans (for calling...), or Democrats implying that Republicans are thugs. The exceptiond appear to be direct quotations of folks in Haiti ("Carter is a lawyer for thugs"), Charlie Rangel calling Haitians thugs, Maxine Waters being upset about L.A. rioters being called thugs, and so on. Interestingly, that search also produces proof positive that Eric Alterman and Maureen Dowd were just as inadvertantly amusing during the 80s as they are now.
Posted by: Christopher Badeaux at November 8, 2002 12:29 PMThanks! You the man!
Posted by: oj at November 8, 2002 2:29 PMActually the NYT has "gang of tough guys", so I don't know if this is yet another sign of brojuddblog's power or an editorial difference with the Rutland Herald
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