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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.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Why Bill Clinton Says Vanity Fair Is Unfair

Vanity Unfair?

(Fox News) -
Bill Clinton's office has angrily responded to a Vanity Fair article accusing the former president of questionable business associations and a jet-setting lifestyle involving a seemingly endless string of women to satisfy what it termed his "cavernous narcissism."

The 2,200 word rebuttal calls the piece "a tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece" that "ignores much prior positive coverage, includes numerous errors, and ultimately breaks no new ground. It is, in short, journalism of personal destruction at its worst."

It criticizes author Todd Purdum for devoting only a single paragraph to what it calls Mr. Clinton's "enormous charitable accomplishments."

Purdum's article relies mostly on undisclosed sources and former aides who spoke anonymously to the former New York Times White House correspondent. He is married to one-time Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers who Purdum says was not a source for his article.

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