Re: the language watch continues

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 6 Sep 2000,  Dave Faneuf wrote:

> I was wondering who would take the bait.  I found it interesting that the
> "gotcha" questioning was covered extensivley when GWB lost his cool during
> the answer, but the next week AH asked the very same questions of Bill
> Bradley, Bradley handled the question properly,  he said (to
> parapharase)... I don't know, next question....  Bradley didn't lose his
> cool.   

Somehow this reminds me of a news story a few years ago in which someone, 
I think Rolling Stone magazine, got in touch with various Congressmen or 
their offices and asked them a question about U.S. policy towards 
Freedonia.  They got various different sorts of fudge answers, but no one 
admitted that they didn't know where Freedonia was.  And none of them 
actually knew that Freedonia was the fictitious country headed by Groucho 
in the Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup."


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