Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 2000 , during a Labor Day event , then candidate George W. Bush made an off-hand remark to his running mate , Dick Cheney , that New York Times reporter Adam Clymer was a `` major league asshole . ''
Simplified: In 2000 , during a Labor Day event , George W. Bush made an off-hand remark to his running mate , Dick Cheney , that New York Times reporter Adam Clymer was a `` major league asshole . ''