"Editorial writers were quick to seize on the notion that President Bush's "amazement" demonstrated he had never seen a supermarket scanner before and criticized him for being out of touch with the daily concerns of ordinary Americans."
"Then the details of the story started to dribble out. Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn't even been present at the grocers' convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a "look of wonder" on his face and didn't find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.
> "Editorial writers were quick to seize on the notion that >President Bush's "amazement" demonstrated he had never seen a >supermarket scanner before and criticized him for being out >of touch with the daily concerns of ordinary Americans."
It was this and Clinton's "bout a dollar" deal on MTV that got me to vote for Clinton in 1992. Struggling to pay the bills, Roseanne was on TV and I thought it couldn't just be me... I just hope there aren't as many ignorant 20 year olds out there this year.