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Article: BILLIONAIRES STARTING TO GET MESSAGE.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 3, 1996
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Nobody ever does what I tell them to.
Bob Dole didn't listen to me when I told him to stop biting the heads off whippets during campaign speeches.
Newt Gingrich didn't listen to me when I suggested, in the gentlest possible way, that only French politicians could get away with writing novels about Teutonic sex kittens.
Bill Clinton didn't listen to me - oh, never mind, we don't have enough space for that.
But, at long last, somebody's doing what they're told.
When I interviewed Ted Turner last summer, he trashed his fellow billionaires as ``ol' skinflints'' afraid to ``loosen up their wads'' because it would reduce their net ...