Why Mince Words?
Hey, Jesse Helms died.
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
Why can’t the New York Times just say, “Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged, racist conservatism, etc, etc”?
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