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     Knotes clip: Mona Charen in The Boston Globe (October 22,
     1992): The anti-Bush media are failing to question the
     Clinton campaign's blatant misstatements about the economy
     and are giving Clinton a free ride on every other subject.

<doctype>newspaper op-ed article
<author>Charen, Mona
<title>Pitching the Dirt
<newspaper>The Boston Globe
<date>October 22, 1992
<pages>15

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     Another pillar of the Clinton campaign is the claim that we
     are now suffering through "the worst economy in 50 years."
     The press repeats this uncritically. But the late '70s and
     early '80s, the period for which Jimmy Carter and his fellow
     Democrats in Congress get full credit, was much worse.
     Inflation soared to 13.5 percent, interest rates reached
     15.27 percent, and unemployment was 7.8 percent. Having
     successfully revised and distorted the history of the 1980s,
     the Democrats are now trying to rewrite the 1970s as well.

     Clinton has claimed that as governor of Arkansas he moved
     "17,000 people off welfare to work." What he neglects to say
     is that 35,000 new cases were added.

     The press is firmly anti-Bush this year and disinclined to
     challenge Clinton. They seem to think that because they
     grilled him about Gennifer Flowers he deserves a free ride
     on every other subject.

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