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Michael Patrick Carroll's response to "The lawmaker who made Emily weep"
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| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* May 20, 2005 09:12pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 21, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The old saw runs that there’s no bad publicity, except of an obituary. In politics, that isn’t always the case. Any politician whose name is mentioned by Chris Christie probably wishes it weren’t.
And any time a politician finds himself in a public fight with a child – let alone a sick one – there’s simply no way to come out looking good.
Tom Moran’s column on my encounter with a young, diabetic girl at the statehouse is precisely the kind of publicity a politician could do without. And it points up the danger – or, alternatively, the brilliance – of using children in the political theater.
It’s a good column: heartless, grumpy, curmudgeonly, conservative old man faces off in debate against innocent, cute 14 year diabetic girl, callously reducing her to tears by contending that she will die of her disease.
One small defect: it didn't happen. But in such ways are urban legends made."
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