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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Equal Opportunity Offender?

Fox News

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young has resigned as the head of Working Families for Wal-Mart a day after ripping Jews, Asians and Arabs in a newspaper interview.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Sentinel, Young defended the retail giant for forcing so-called mom-and-pop stores to close saying, "I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."

Young later apologized for what he called "completely and utterly inappropriate" remarks, saying they "run contrary to everything that Wal-Mart is, and means, to communities."

I wonder where's the media outrage over these comments???

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