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- From: wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Wiggins)
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- Subject: Re: Supposed Bentsen Quote
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:14:00 GMT
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- tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
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- >Today Rush played (twice at least) what he claimed was the recorded voice
- >of an interview with Senator Lloyd Bentsen, now Secretary of the Treasury.
- >In this supposed recording, a voice said something on the order of
- >"Those middle class voters will fall for a lie about tax cuts every time."
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- >Was this really Bentsen's voice, and did he really say this to mean
- >this, or was it taken out of context? (i.e. Did Bentsen really
- >say something like "[The republicans believe that] those middle class..."?)
-
- >Prepared to be aghast, but I've been lied to with misquotes before...
-
- No, that's a ringer who happened to call in one day and Rush noticed that
- he sounded exactly like Bentsen. Rush asked him to repeat several silly
- comments on the air so he could have some sound bites to use later.
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