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Re: First report on Coní

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 22:14
Andreas Johansson wrote:


> Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>: > > > Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > I hear "Mr Bush" all the time on the news right now ... > > > > "Mr. Bush" sounds vaguely insulting to me. He should be called > > "President Bush", not "Mr. Bush". "Mr." makes him sound like a > > private > > citizen instead of the leader of the country. > > When you say it, it may very well be that it's mostly used by people who > dislike him; thanks to the little disagreement over Iraq plenty of Bush- > bashers have been getting media coverage lately. >
The NY Times, and I suppose the prestige papers of every country, make every effort to always be polite (and not split infinitives).... <dons asbestos flame-suit> My _personal opinion_ is that only Republicans seem to get their shorts in a bind when _their_ presidents are referred to by surname only. They complained about "Nixon", they complained about "Reagan" (but not too much about "Bush" (#1) for some reason.....). But they've never had a problem with spitting out "Roosevelt" "Truman" "Kennedy" "LBJ" or "Johnson", "Carter", and certainly not "Clinton" (with gagging sounds.)

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