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- <text id=92TT1427>
- <title>
- June 29, 1992: Arsenio Strikes Back
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 29, 1992 The Other Side of Ross Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 87
- Arsenio Strikes Back
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- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN
- </p>
- <p> Forget ARSENIO HALL'S dustup with Jay Leno. It was a
- love-in compared with the late-night gabber's latest tangle.
- After White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater casually dissed The
- Arsenio Hall Show, Hall's on-air response was a scorching
- "Excuse me, George Herbert-read-my-lying-lipping, slipping-in-
- the-polls, do-nothing, deficit-raising, Quayle-loving-Bush, I
- don't need you on my show. My ratings are higher than yours."
- Only Hall could pull off such political palaver -- or want to.
- For all of Arsenio's celebrity mongering, Hall's guests have also
- included Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson, and Hall has devoted
- whole programs to issues like gang warfare and the environment.
- "The press covers such shows now," says Hall, "where previously I
- guess it was more important whether I was boinging Paula Abdul."
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- </body></article>
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