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  At Least 2 Newspapers Pull Doonesbury Installment

Posted by FoM on November 02, 2000 at 10:33:59 PT
By The Associated Press 
Source: Star Tribune 

At least two newspapers pulled an installment of Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" cartoon because a character accuses Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush of cocaine use.An editor at its distributor, Universal Press Syndicate, said readers should consider the character making the allegation: Duke, the candidate whose mind has been scrambled by years of alcohol and drug use.
In Wednesday's strip, Duke -- upset by polls that show him receiving 0 percent of the vote -- is told that voters have concerns about his lifestyle.He responds: "What about Dubya's? He's got a history of alcohol abuse and cocaine!"Bush, responding to questions during the primary season, said he had not used any illegal drug in the past 25 years, but he would not elaborate. No evidence has surfaced that he used cocaine. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said: "We certainly believe every journalist is entitled to their opinion. However we do believe this is a little over the line." The St. Paul Pioneer Press pulled Wednesday's strip and also will pull today's, managing editor Vicki Gowler said."I pulled the two that stated flat-out that George Bush abused cocaine," she said. "I don't think there has been evidence reported to date that he has."The San Antonio Express News also pulled Wednesday's strip, said Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate. Universal Press Syndicate distributes the strip to 1,400 newspapers, including to the Star Tribune, which ran the installments.The Express-News said in an editorial that it would publish today's strip, in which Duke notes that Bush has never denied using cocaine. Nader: He Rejects Pleas To Support Gore: Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader campaigned through key battleground states in the Midwest before young, enthusiastic audiences Wednesday, spending much of his time lashing out at liberal critics who claim his third party presidential bid will throw the election to Bush.Rejecting Democratic pleas to avoid campaigning in states crucial to Vice President Al Gore, Nader told a cheering crowd of 1,500 on the steps of the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison: "Al Gore thinks we are supposed to be helping him to get elected. I've got news for Al Gore. If he can't beat that bumbling Texan with that terrible record, he shouldn't be running."Growing increasingly defiant during his Midwest swing, Nader said: "I'll be very sorry if either of them is elected." Clinton: He'll Test His Clout in California: Meanwhile, Clinton addressed an enthusiastic crowd of Democratic faithful in Louisville, Ky. "Thanks for showing up to hear a guy who isn't running for anything," Clinton said.Today, he's scheduled to arrive in California in an effort to get desperately needed votes for Gore. Clinton's blitz of fund-raisers and rallies will be a test of his continuing clout in California, where recent polls showed him with 63 percent job approval. Although the Gore camp has called on Clinton only sparingly, the president's presence in the West was requested by California Democrats as Gore dipped in polls in states he was expected to win easily.-- Washington Bureau Correspondent Muriel Dobbin contributed to this reportSource: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN) Published: November 2, 2000Copyright: 2000 Star Tribune Address: 425 Portland Ave., Minneapolis MN 55488 Fax: 612-673-4359 Contact: opinion startribune.com Website: http://www.startribune.com/ Forum: http://talk.startribune.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi Feedback: http://www.startribune.com/stonline/html/userguide/letform.htmlDoonesbury Political Cartoon http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/cc.htm

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Comment #3 posted by FoM on November 02, 2000 at 21:23:57 PT:

Bush Pleaded Guilty to DUI

Published: November 2, 2000Source: Salon MagazineWashington (AP) Copyright © 2000 Salon.com Website: http://www.salon.com/Texas Gov. George W. Bush pleaded guilty nearly 25 years ago to driving while under the influence of alcohol, his presidential campaign said Thursday after news organizations received copies of the 1976 police report. "It's not something he's proud of," spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said, explaining why Bush had not come forward with the information on his own. Bush, 54, was pulled over by police for driving too slowly near his family's Kennebunkport, Maine, summer home during the Labor Day weekend. Other people were in the car, but Tucker did not know who. Tucker said Bush paid a $150 fine and had his driving privileges revoked in the state of Maine for a short period. His drivers' license in Texas, where Bush lived at the time, was not revoked or suspended, she said. The GOP presidential nominee has said he quit drinking the day after his 40th birthday -- July 6, 1986. Alcohol "was beginning to compete for my affections," he told an interviewer in September. Campaign officials said Bush was detained by police, though they did not know for how long, and said he posted a $500 bond. They said Bush decided to release details of the incident after the police report was faxed to Maine news outlets. "He has said repeatedly he is not going to itemize the mistake that he made. He has said what's important is that every American knows it's not right to drink and drive," Tucker said. A year before the incident, Bush earned his Masters of Business Administration and returned to Texas to get into the oil business at age 29. In the summer of 1977, he met his wife, Laura, and married her in November. A year later, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Congress. 
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Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on November 02, 2000 at 18:13:32 PT:

Good on you, Dan

I needed a good laugh; that foot the bill. 'Lines', indeed. I've known for certain at least two cokeheads in my life, and suspect I've met others; they remind me very much of the Man Who Would Be King, Mr. My-Daddy-Ran-The-CIA Bush. (Ran it during a period where there were lots of shady deals being made between intell agancies and heroin producers, friends; this goes WAY back.) I've long suspected that The Shrubs diction ("Is our children learning?") is the result of neuronal misfirings in the ol' gray matter resulting from a little too much nose-candy. Hemorraging, don't you know? But this part is really funny...in a gallows humor sort of way:Today, he's scheduled to arrive in California in an effort to get desperately needed votes for Gore. Clinton's blitz of fund-raisers and rallies will be a test of his continuing clout in California, where recent polls showed him with 63 percent job approval. Although the Gore camp has called on Clinton only sparingly, the president's presence in the West was requested by California Democrats as Gore dipped in polls in states he was expected to win easily.In the State where the people decided in 1996 that they were sick of arresting sick people and allowed them to use cannabis BY LAW, the President sent his goon squad of McCaffrey, Reno, and Shalala to try to destroy the democractically decided law, and strip doctors of their First Amendment rights to suggest using cannabis to ameliorate their illnesses.And Al Gore said nothing. In the State where Peter McWilliams was, for all intent and purposes, MURDERED via Federal law, without any due process involved. The death penalty is reserved for capital crimes against the People; what heinous crime did Peter McWilliams commit to receive such a punishment? And what did Al Gore say about it? Nothing.Al Gore wants the support of California? And he thinks the Chief Hypocrite, Mr. I-did-not-inhale, under whose stewardship hundredes of thousands of people a year, every year of his regime, have had their lives ruined for doing what he did and got away with, can help him get it?Swine. Nothing but hypocritical swine. And they should be treated as swine.
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Comment #1 posted by Dan Hillman on November 02, 2000 at 16:23:53 PT

Freudian slip

> Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said: "We certainly believe every journalist is entitled to their opinion. However we do believe this is a ****little over the line.****" 
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