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Blunt Talking
Not long before launching into a speech on the need for "plainspoken Americans in the White House," Bush was pretty blunt himself, using an expletive when talking to his running mate Dick Cheney about the New York Times' Adam Clymer, one of the reporters who has been covering his campaign.
Bush leaned over to Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, major league a------ from the New York Times." Cheney responded, "Oh yeah, he is, big time." Little did these two candidates for the highest offices in the land know that their microphones were on and their remarks were being broadcast to members of the audience and to the press corps.

Impression; This is very unfortunate event. From the point of political climate, the banter or suggestive joke is full of sarcasm.