THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 14, 1994 TAG: 9410140532
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A16 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
Marc Cooper from, of all things, Spin Magazine (November) has uncovered a new example of North stretching the truth. He followed the candidate to an Outdoor Sports show, to an upscale fundraiser in the Washington suburbs and to Smith Mountain Lake. There North went fishing with Buck McNeely, the host of a TV hunting and fishing show who calls himself the King of the Rednecks.
For over an hour the two sat in a boat and chatted on videotape about the right to keep and bear arms while trying to hook a fish big enough to keep. They had no luck.
McNeely, wanting to portray North in a heroic outdoorsy mode, has the camera turned off, then he ``leans down, pops open a tank under his seat, and pulls out a still wriggling striped bass, maybe four to five pounds. A whopper. North grabs the gasping creature under its gills.
``And as the camera light blinks red again, North lifts the fish high, raising that same right hand he did before Congress, flashing his gap teeth and staring right into the lens with his powder-blue peepers.'' MEMO: Staff writer Keith Monroe compiled this column with help from staff
researcher Peggy Earle.
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