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- From: mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: thEwIndBag bashes Rev. Jackson, again
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:29:00 GMT
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- In article <LARRY.92Nov22214808@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>,
- larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes...
-
- >I'd like to draw YOUR attention that alt.fan.rush-limbaugh has had
- >postings both praising and complaining about Mr. Limbaugh since its
- >inception. Flame baiting and chain pulling are going to continue here AND
- >in alt.rush-limbaugh too.
- >
- In light of that, I'd like to submit the following...
-
- p0679-----
- AM-BookBust
- AM-Book Bust,0397<
- ^GAO reveals White House book-buying scheme<
- ^AP Photos TAM1,3<
- ^By Akbar Mytie=
- Associated Press Writer=
-
- WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Officials of the General Accounting
- Office (GAO) today revealed that the Committee to Re-Elect
- President Bush has, over the past four months, been spending
- large amounts of tax-derived campaign funds solely to
- purchase thousands of copies of the book "The Way Things
- Ought To Be" by nationally-syndicated radio talk show host
- Rush Limbaugh.
-
- Speaking on condition of anonymity pending official
- announcement of the findings, a GAO spokesperson revealed
- that their investigation found leads - quote- "all the way to
- the top of the campaign." "Apparently," the spokesperson
- said, "someone in the White House was afraid that Limbaugh's
- book would become a hotter item than the outgoing White-House
- Dog Millie's recently published memoirs." "The plan
- backfired," he or she continued, "when White House officials
- saw the book climb to the top of the New York Times' best-
- seller list. They assumed that since nobody was reading the
- book that its release would be a disaster. What they
- discovered is that the book has become a best-seller even
- when nobody actually reads it."
-
- At a Rose Garden ceremony honoring past Rose Garden
- ceremonies this morning, outgoing-President George Bush was
- asked about the allegations. Speaking on condition of
- anonymity, President Bush admitted that, maybe some of his
- staff "might have picked up a few copies just to see what
- that 'Bozo on the radio' was up to." But Bush insisted that,
- since there were no pages to color, outgoing Vice-President
- and often mentioned candidate for President in 1996 Dan
- Quayle had no knowledge of the purchases. "Hell," said the
- President, "my dog Millie knows more about being an author
- than that overbearing Bozo. Do you know I invited him to the
- White House and he ate side by side with my dog Millie, left
- stains on the sheets in the Lincoln bedroom and then had the
- audacity to talk about it for days on his radio program?"
- The President continued his tirade as reporters slowly
- wandered away, seeming to be distracted by their shoelaces or
- by clouds in the sky.
-
- On A-B-C TV's "This Week with Talking Heads," Kansas Senator
- and self-appointed nation's babysitter Robert Dole,
- speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed outrage at the incident,
- demanding that a special inquisitor be appointed to find out -quote-
- "who all these anonymous spokespersons may or may not be."
-
- Speaking on condition of anonymity, Larry Harmon, the
- original Bozo the Clown for Capitol Records, announced he
- will be charging the outgoing president 50 cents each time
- the word "Bozo" is used officially, and a residual of 10
- cents each time the story is picked up by the media.
-
- Speaking on condition of anonymity, a White House anonymous
- spokesperson (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IS A DIFFERENT ANONYMOUS
- SPOKESPERSON AND SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE ANONYMOUS
- SPOKESPERSON WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN QUOTED IN EVERY
- OTHER PARAGRAPH OF THIS STORY) admitted that-quote-
- "thousands and thousands" of the books had been delivered,
- under cover of darkness, to a secret warehouse outside New
- York City. When pressed as to the disposition of the books
- the spokesperson said "Oh, we just burned them. We're very
- good at that, you know."
-
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