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The unbecoming of O'Brien leaves many questions by Howie Carr Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Ding Dong, the witch is dead. Now that she's finished, maybe Shannon O'Brien can finally answer a few questions truthfully: Was it wise to endorse cutting the age of parental consent for abortions to 16? Would you crack wise again with Tim Russert about having a tattoo? Shannon, how many votes do you think you won by coming out for gay marriages? Is it safe to say that last week's Herald debate was as fatal to your chances as John Silber's interview with Natalie Jacobsen in...

Desperate Democrats have long played the race card. In Taxachusetts, they're now playing the gender card. During a debate Tuesday night, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney chided his Democrat opponent, Shannon O'Brien, for her "unbecoming" attacks on him. Now she and her underlings are raising a big stink by charging sexism. "I certainly think that he wouldn't have used the term 'unbecoming' if he were speaking about a male opponent," she claimed. But the word is gender-neutral, Romney noted. He pointed out uses such as the military phrase "conduct unbecoming of an officer." "When somebody does something which is not...

Camps spar over Romney word choice Gender issue raised on 'unbecoming' It means unsuitable, indecorous, and it's viewed by many as an archaic, ill-fitting corset of a word. When Mitt Romney described Shannon O'Brien's attacks on him in Tuesday night's debate as ''unbecoming,'' he raised the ire of her female supporters, who used the description to rally their cause yesterday. Teresa Heinz, a philanthropist and wife of US Senator John F. Kerry, told a crowd of some 750 women at an O'Brien fund-raiser yesterday that Romney would be surprised at how many ''unbecoming women'' were gathered for the event at...

Here's a thread for the debate.Input from Massachusetts folk who watched would be appreciated.