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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.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bill Clinton Rails on San Francisco Reporter Over Question About Nevada Caucuses Lawsuit

(Fox News) - Bill Clinton dressed down a San Francisco reporter Wednesday who asked him about a lawsuit filed by a teachers union aiming to stop polling at Las Vegas hotels during this Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.Using a familiar motion of making a fist and facing his thumb upward to tick off points of his argument, Clinton heatedly claimed that San Francisco’s ABC7 political reporter Mark Matthews was supportive of a rule change approved last year that Clinton said would favor votes by Nevada’s Strip workers over other Democrats’ living elsewhere in the state.‘You have asked the question in an accusatory way, so I will ask you back, do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give people who worked in the casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct?” the former president said.

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