| In 1991, Senator Tom Harkin was considering a run for the presidency and in a speech to his community in Iowa he used the word "buls..t" -- for which he was scolded and taken to task. He phoned me wanting to know how I thought he should respond. I answered him in a four-page letter. Working on my memoirs, I just came across that letter in an ancient file. As you read it, and hopefully you will, substitute the hurt and damage being inflicted on our middle class and average voters today for the events of 1991 and I think the letter reads like something I could send to Harry Reid or Charles Schumer, indeed anyone on the Congressional left -- and some few who are right of center -- today." Norman Lear writes about this word: I think it is so indigenously American, and so expressive of a mood in the country just below the conscience of most Americans. They are fed up with" lies & scandals. |
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