http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/6838/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Reporter Garry Shih in a story on bar codes writes: &quot;They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-President George H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had already become a technological staple of everyday life.&quot; Um, not exactly. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The urban legend of President George H.W. Bush staring in marvel at a grocery store scanner during his 1992 re-election campaign, which became a liberal media symbol of his inability to sympathize with the day-to-day lives of average Americans, still endures at the Times.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch GeorgeH.W.Bush GerryShih GroceryStoreScanner NewYorkTimes NYTimes TimesWatch TimesWatch.org UrbanLegend Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:23:00 +0000 admin 6918 at http://archive2.mrc.org