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- <title>
- Apr. 09, 1990: The Great Political Bozo Face-Off
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
- The Great Political Bozo Face-Off
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> Clayton Williams, the Republican nominee for Texas
- Governor accused of sexism, and Gus Savage, the Chicago
- Democratic Congressman accused of anti-Semitism are battling for
- the title of most outrageous politician. How do they stack up?
- </p>
- <p>-- SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- </p>
- <p> WILLIAMS: Comparing bad weather to rape: "If it's
- inevitable, just relax and enjoy it."
- </p>
- <p> SAVAGE: Accosting a Peace Corps worker in Zaire, according
- to her: "You are my date. There are rewards to people who give
- their all to the movement."
- </p>
- <p>-- RESPONSE TO CRITICISM
- </p>
- <p> WILLIAMS: "There's barnyard language, and you came to the
- barn. It's just a joke."
- </p>
- <p> SAVAGE: "Are you still messing with little boys?" "I'm no
- Barney Frank."
- </p>
- <p>-- WISDOM
- </p>
- <p> WILLIAMS: He told a group of G.O.P. women three times that
- it was time for Texans to get off the "public teat."
- </p>
- <p> SAVAGE: He said of the Great Wall of China, "Just a pile
- of bricks...We have brick walls in Chicago."
- </p>
- <p>-- EXCUSES
- </p>
- <p> WILLIAMS: "I am Bubba."
- </p>
- <p> SAVAGE: "It's not easy to grow up on the streets and be
- nice."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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