Sun Devil 92
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From the article talking about the 2000 election:
Yet throughout the campaign most media coverage gave the impression that Mr. Bush was a bluff, straightforward guy, while portraying Al Gore — whose policy proposals added up, and whose critiques of the Bush plan were completely accurate — as slippery and dishonest. Mr. Gore’s mendacity was supposedly demonstrated by trivial anecdotes, none significant, some of them simply false. No, he never claimed to have invented the internet. But the image stuck.
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Bush was portrayed for what he was.... a moron. His issues with drinking and not going to Vietnam were all over the TV.
Gore helped make his image.
Paul Krugman: In addition to being a liar and a slimewad....is also a revisionist.
Yet throughout the campaign most media coverage gave the impression that Mr. Bush was a bluff, straightforward guy, while portraying Al Gore — whose policy proposals added up, and whose critiques of the Bush plan were completely accurate — as slippery and dishonest. Mr. Gore’s mendacity was supposedly demonstrated by trivial anecdotes, none significant, some of them simply false. No, he never claimed to have invented the internet. But the image stuck.
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Bush was portrayed for what he was.... a moron. His issues with drinking and not going to Vietnam were all over the TV.
Gore helped make his image.
Paul Krugman: In addition to being a liar and a slimewad....is also a revisionist.