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Article: News From Mudville: Bush Team Slams Kerry's Red Sox Pitch
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 22, 2004
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Shortly before the start of Wednesday night's decisive game
between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, the Bush
campaign carpet-bombed reporters with an e-mail that accused John
Kerry of "sports pandering." The release ridiculed the Massachusetts
senator for being "against sports before he was for them" and went on
to catalogue "Kerry's sports flubs" -- such as when he called the
Green Bay Packers' stadium "Lambert Field" (instead of Lambeau Field)
and when he referred to nonexistent Red Sox slugger "Manny Ortiz" (a
hybrid of actual sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz).
The Bushies were attempting to spin Kerry's triumphant association
with his hometown Red Sox -- who were on ...