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To: NYer

Watt had embarrassed the administration by making bigoted remarks to the media,

False. Watt was silly and imprudent. He used a politically incorrect word -- "cripple" -- but not in a bigoted way. That cost him his job.

4 posted on 09/04/2009 11:03:34 AM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)

To: Romulus

“We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.” James G. Watt, 21 September 1983

5 posted on 09/04/2009 11:23:07 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)

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