Bush on Rove

[Wilson Gray]

I don't mean that it's new, but that it's "typical": not the kind of
language that one expects to see in a family-oriented roto-gravure,
especially not from the mouth of *the* Republican family man, and
published in a section edited by a man who has been nothing if not
completely outspoken in expressing the disgust that he feels toward
Clinton.

BE "typical" is somewhat difficult to translate. It means something
like "living up to the worst possible stereotypes," in this case,
pseudo-Christian hypocrisy at its worst. If Clinton had said "turd," it
wouldn't have been published by this guy as though it was nothing.
Rather, it would have been censored and described as a gross obscenity
unworthy of publication in a family-oriented periodical.

-Wilson Gray



On Jan 2, 2005, at 11:25 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Heard in 1970s - not in reference to Karl Rove.
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> Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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> According to Walter Scott's Personality Parade in Parade for December
> 26, 2004, "[President] Bush has several nicknames for [Karl] Rove, 54,
> including ... 'Turd Blossom' ..."
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> -Wilson Gray
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