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Klein adviser calls Bush 'idiot' Media firm's VP apologizes for 'editing error' in memo on Ducros Larry Johnsrude The Edmonton Journal
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
EDMONTON -- A media adviser to the Alberta government has apologized for referring to George W. Bush as "that idiot" in an internal memo commenting on the controversy over a senior federal aide who called the U.S. president "a moron."
On the heels of an ill-conceived remark that almost cost a Liberal official her job, Edmonton-based MediaWorks West was scrambling to apologize last week for using equally pejorative language about the U.S. president.
The memo, sent by e-mail to the Klein government's communications staff, referred -- in capital letters -- to "that idiot George Bush" in its assessment of last week's controversy.
In a followup memo, company vice-president Jodine Chase apologized for what she called an "editing error" in the previous e-mail.
MediaWorks West provides the provincial government's public affairs bureau, its communications branch, ongoing summaries of news coverage through its media monitoring service called SCRUM. The public affairs bureau falls under Premier Ralph Klein.
An update issued at 1 p.m. Friday read: "New! Chrtien refuses resignation of his communications director and says there is no evidence Franoise Ducros used the word 'moron' to describe THAT IDIOT (my caps) George Bush."
Ten minutes later, the company issued a correction and two hours later it circulated an apology under Ms. Chase's name.
"MediaWorks West sincerely regrets our editing error in today's 1 p.m. SCRUM. It was completely unintentional and the result reflects exactly the opposite sentiments of our staff," Ms. Chase wrote in her apology. "George Bush holds a BS from Yale and an MBA from Harvard ... and cannot be fairly characterized as uneducated or unintelligent."
Ms. Chase would not comment on the exchange.
Copyright 2002 The Ottawa Citizen
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