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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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Lesson In Tolerance?

Fox News

Fans who paid an average of $250/ticket to see Barbra Streisand at Madison Square Garden in New York got a little more than they bargained for when the singer traded barbs with a President Bush impersonator during a skit last night.

One report said the actor portrayed the president as a "bumbling idiot." Some in the crowd objected to the scene by jeering — and Streisand told one heckler to "shut the 'f' up" — and she didn't say "f." Streisand later apologized and then lectured the crowd on tolerance. She said of the Bush impersonator —"the artist's role is to disturb."

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