Correspondence
Correspondence DON'T CALL ME, AL WILLIAM KRISTOL makes a misleading statement in his editorial "Nothing to Offer But Fear Itself" (Nov. 6). Kristol states that prerecorded calls from the Gore...
...It will be necessary to have a judge tell them their behavior is unacceptable...
...I stopped in all sorts of establishments and saw essentially the same menu—complete with pictures—in every one of the previously mentioned states...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...Oct...
...According to my copy of The Chambers Dictionary, a bloomer is "an absurd and embarrassing blunder," exactly the word that Professor Shattuck intended...
...AMANDA BERNSEN Deerfield, IL PICTURE THIS...
...I suspect the same is true of restaurants in most other states and the District...
...I AM A WEST VIRGINIAN, a Republican, and an annoyed reader...
...All the songs George wrote are authentic, catchy, intelligent, and rousing— indeed, some of the Beatles' best—and seem among the freshest of all today...
...Taxman," "Love to You," and "I Want to Tell You" from Revolver are all Harrison's, as are "Think For Yourself" and "If I Needed Someone" from Rubber Soul, and "I Me Mine" from Let It Be...
...LAWRENCE J. TUCKER Whitmore Lake, MI SHE VOTES FOR GEORGE I WAS HOPING Daniel Wattenberg's article assessing the Beatles' individual and collective strengths would mention George Harrison's undeniable contribution to their music, not only as the one "usually considered the best instrumentalist," but as a songwriter ("Remember the Beatles...
...Howler," he howls too much (Nov...
...An opinion from the chief of the enforcement division of the FCC's common carrier bureau indicates that even non-commercial political calls must provide identification of the organization sponsoring the call...
...Harrison also made some good music after the Beatles, it might be noted...
...The prerecorded calls from the Democrats lacked both of these required identifications, hence they were in violation of federal law (see 47 CFR 64.1200 (d)(1)-(2...
...PAUL DALE ROBERTS Elk Grove, CA EPSTEIN'S BLOOMER JOSEPH EPSTEIN'S WRITING is among my favorite in The Weekly Standard...
...The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (a legislative act supported by then senator Al Gore) requires that all prerecorded calls give both the name of the organization sponsoring the call and a telephone number or address where the sponsors can be reached...
...HOMER H. LOHR JR...
...Anmoore, WV GLOBAL HATE I WAS SHOCKED AND DISMAYED after reading Michel Gurfinkiel's "Black October" and discovering that Jewish people in France are being harassed and attacked (Oct...
...Matthew Rees's "Will West Virginia Go Republican...
...In the past few months I have traveled through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Maryland...
...23) was excellent and accurate until he took a cheap shot by "reporting" that fast food restaurants in the state advertise "picture menus for the illiterate...
...George is and always has been underrated, and Wattenberg missed the opportunity to point this out...
...The Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, who eventually admitted responsibility for the calls, believe they are exempt from the federal TCPA requirements...
...How horrifying to know that in three weeks six Jewish synagogues were burned to the ground and innocent Jewish children were molested and hounded...
...I used to think that racial hatred was something America invented, but by traveling around the world I have seen hatred in so many different degrees that it is unfathomable...
...whereas Paul McCartney has rarely turned out anything that could be called beautiful in the post-Beatles era, and I find most of his music throughout the past few decades to be strained and jarring montages that are neither powerful nor moving...
...But in "H.W...
...The world needs to wake up and learn to understand other people's differences and start getting along...
...COLE KENDALL Washington, DC JOSEPH EPSTEIN REPLIES: I thank Mr...
...Too bad Epstein's spell-check program is not linked to a good dictionary...
...This incorrectly implies that disclosure is not required on these prerecorded calls...
...In each of those states, out of habit, I had to eat...
...The whole thing has my knickers, if not my bloomers, in a terrible twist...
...Kendall for his kindly letter...
...Paul really did lose something irreplaceable when he lost the influence and presence of John Lennon...
...To have made this mistake in a Casual about mistakes is doubly mortifying...
...Hence, I filed a lawsuit against the MDSCC in the Michigan 53rd district court for their illegal calls...
...I owe an apology to Roger Shattuck, his publisher and proofreader, and to the readers of The Weekly Standard...
...I have received four of these illegal calls on my cell phone (calls that I am billed for...
...Kristol states that prerecorded calls from the Gore campaign have deniability as to their origin since there is no disclosure of who is paying for such calls, "while disclosure is required of TV and radio commercials...
Vol. 6 • November 2000 • No. 10
