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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, November 28, 2007

Tar Heel Madness

Winston-Salem Journal

Somewhere in the euphoria of a 4-win-8-loss football season, UNC Chapel Hill athletics director Dick Baddour lost his judgment. He just gave the coach who led that Tar Heel team a raise that, by itself, is the equivalent of the salaries of five assistant professors.

Baddour was surely elated that first-year head coach Butch Davis led the team to one more win this year than did John Bunting, whom Baddour fired at the end of last year. But, could he have expressed it in a less obscene way?

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