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Adam Clymer

2004

• November 4 -- No Marines for Bush?
Robert Worth talks with Marines near Falluja: "Some of the marines clearly had strong views about the presidential race and the way it would affect the military, though they have been instructed not to share those with reporters. Others seemed not to care much, saying the election seemed too far from their everyday lives to make much of an impression." Worth doesn't mention polls showing most troops support Bush.

• September 27 -- Earth to Clymer
An op-ed page by former Times man Adam Clymer compares the Swift Boat veterans to flat-Earthers.

• April 13 -- The Adams' Family Bias
Adam Nagourney paints a Bush press conference as a defensive move and cements his point with quotes from former Times reporter Adam Clymer--who's not exactly a "major-league" Bush supporter.

 

May 29 -- More Mean Republicans And Helpless Democrats
Adam Clymer’s audio follow-up to his series on the Democrats and Republicans tills whether it’s Willie Horton or ads that charge that a triple amputee, Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia…was not concerned about national security.”

• May 27 -- “Willie Horton” Republicans Rough Up “Softball” Democrats
In Adam Clymer’s view, Republicans win by using “everything from Willie Horton's image to the suggestion that Senator Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, was unconcerned about national security.” Meanwhile, Democrats “lack the killer instinct that it takes to sell blunt, demagogic messages.”

• May 6 -- “Some People” (Like Me) Think Court Elected Bush
Adam Clymer’s story on the vagaries of campaign finance law opens: “Some people think that the Supreme Court elected George W. Bush, and that he is the only president it ever chose.”

• April 25 -- Adam Clymer: No “Major-League” Economists?
Bush’s favorite reporter says the president can’t find respected economists who think “tax cuts and bigger deficits are the elixir the economy needs.”

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