Bush's Hometown Spurns Editorial

DALLAS About a dozen advertisers in President Bush’s hometown of Crawford, Texas, have cancelled ads in The Lone Star Iconoclast after the tiny local newspaper endorsed Sen. John Kerry, according to its publisher.

With a circulation of roughly 500, the Iconoclast last week produced the editorial read ’round the world, said publisher W. Leon Smith, who counted more than 100 phone calls from news organizations such as The New York Times, Reuters and CNBC.

While the endorsement was getting play on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and the Late Show With David Letterman, local residents who support Bush were cancelling ads, Smith told the Waco Tribune-Herald.