I KNOW I shouldn't, but....

[Charles F. Albert]

>From the New York Post 9/22/97, Michele Greppi writes :
"Due to a lapse in cynicism, our Sept.14 review of Susan Molinari' 
debut as a CBS News anchor quoted her as saying Miss America 
contestants were 'young little chickies.'
 A CBS News spokeswoman tells the Post that Molinari in fact said 
'chippies'. 
The Post regrets its error.
CBS News apparently does not.
The spokeswoman said Molinari's use of 'chippies' should be overlooked 
because she didn't know it is a perjorative word.
The spokesman didn't say that until the Post had called repeatedly 
asking that the official tape or transcript of the first "CBS News 
Saturday Morning" be checked.
The spokeswoman said Molinari did not intend to cast aspersions on 
Miss America hopefuls and indeed did not know that chippy has *any*
negative connotations.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
An ambitious, mediagenic, spincycled, wisened-up pol from Staten 
Island, a fiesty borough of the grittiest city in the Northern 
Hemisphere, doesn't know that only the urban chipping sparrow can 
politley be called a 'chippy'?
Otherwise, a chippy is a 'promiscuous woman' or 'prostitute'."

Good thing she didn't call them 'harridans'.
I say, BURN THE QUISLING BITCH!

sincerely,
cfa