If you can't say something nice...
From today's Inside Scoop column:
The U.S. Senate race got a little rough last week, with Republican incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole implying that Democratic state Sen. Kay Hagan might sympathize with the agenda of Godless Americans and Hagan responding that Dole should be ashamed of demeaning someone's faith.So we at Scoop decided to take our mom's advice: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything. We asked the two candidates what they liked about one another.
"It is very clear that Kay is a loving mother and has a wonderful family. They have brought a lot of support and energy to her campaign and that has been neat to see," Dole said through a spokesman.
From Kay Hagan's spokeswoman: "Kay admires the fact that Sen. Dole went to law school when it wasn't common for women to attend."
See, was that so horrible? Now, let's all join hands and sing Kumbaya ... or not.
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Come on, Binker. I heard that advice from my own mom when I was a kid - and I took her advice.
She told me - if you can't say something nice about someone, be a newspaperman...
Posted on November 3, 2008 9:58 PM
Or, say, someone who posts blog comments under a pseudonym.
Posted on November 3, 2008 10:15 PM