Talk:David Bossie

Removal of unsourced material

I removed the material re. collaboration w/ Gingrich on film projects until sourcing can be provided. I will be happy to restore it if someone can provide me w/ a viable link or source. 138.237.128.86 (talk) 00:52, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

HEADINGS ADDED

Just a note to say I opened up headings on this article. Subject is involved in a Supreme Court decision that will be handed down soon, so there may be increased traffic and/or edits here. If anyone sees fit to rename these headings or word them better, that'd be great, but I think we will be needing them. Also needed: a section for personal bio and background. Phoebe13 (talk) 19:24, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Removed:

Bossie may have been responsible for an infamous melon-shooting incident in an attempt to re-enact the death of Vince Foster, based on suggestions there was foul play involved.

The use of weasel word "may" indicates this is just a repeated rumor, any in any event, the shooting incident occurred before the Congressional Foster investigation began. If a source is located, then of course it should go back in. Ellsworth 15:53, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Broken Ext. Link

Moved from the article:

• You can't teach an old attack dog new tricks

Whitewater investigation

The first two sentences of this section are unintelligible and probably ungrammatical. I don't know what is meant, so I cannot correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.145.114.70 (talk) 02:44, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

I doubt this:

"Here, take this gun and shoot yourself several times in the ear, and, after doing so, register as what seems logical after shooting yourself several times in the ear." --Paul (talk) 03:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Biased

I hve cleaned up some text that tended to inflate the importance of the individual. Article still seems biased towards a bloated view of his importance.198.58.159.130 (talk) 23:50, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Came to this article from a mention of his name in a New York Times piece, and since I went to HS with a David Bossie I was curious to know if he is the same guy. The first sentence referred to him as a "political hack" so I removed that adjective as inappropriate to an encylopedia article. Full disclosure: I'm a Democrat, and although I know nothing about the man (except that he is not the guy I went to high school with), I'd be disposed to think he IS a political hack based on his new job in the Trump administration. But it's still not a description fit for an article like this.Gillartsny (talk) 16:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

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Lead must summarize

Wikipedia has a policy that the lead must summarize the article as a whole. This is routinely ignored in biographical articles, but it shouldn't be.

I noticed that a paragraph originally present in the lead had gone missing. It was trimmed by User:108.18.145.36 in the account's only edit, with an inappropriate edit comment. The sourcing for the allegation is perfectly fine (nor does the allegation actually need to be true, it merely needs to be true that a credible source said so as part of the sequence of events related). Furthermore, there really was a falling out, before a falling back in, which I have now also documented, with a citation by a different author that also confirms the original falling out.

I also provided a summary of Bossie's short suspension at Fox for a racist remark. Perhaps there are other aspects of his past life that should also be summarized.

Balance problems should be addressed by adding the missing material, not subtracting what is already here.

My two paragraph addition/restoration of the lead is as follows:

Bossie had a falling out with the Trump campaign and administration in May 2019 after Axios reported that Bossie had been accused by the Internal Revenue Service of defrauding political donors by funneling their donations to himself through consultants and book sales. In January 2020 he returned to prominent association with the Trump administration as a strategic ally to help contest the impeachment of Donald Trump based on his past familiarity with impeachment battles.

In June 2018, Bossie, a regular guest on Fox News programs, made a racist statement to a fellow guest, remarks for which he later apologized. Fox News suspended him for two weeks, calling the remarks "deeply offensive and wholly inappropriate."

References

Please help to further flesh out the lead as a complete summary of the article if you can. — MaxEnt 00:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

To add to article

To add to this article: he has the coronavirus. Source 173.88.246.138 (talk) 13:32, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Done. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 13:36, 11 November 2020 (UTC)