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LET THEM EAT PUMPKIN SPICE COOKIES Maria Teresa My Kind of Woman BY JOHN CORRY C ALL ME A ROMANTIC, a dreamer, or just a schlemiel. I still can't help myself. I've got a thing on Teresa Heinz...

THE NATIONS PULSE: No Ordinary Report (September 2004)

THE NATION S PULSE JOHN CORRY No Ordinary Report 1HE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT (W.W. Norton, $10) has something for everyone, Republicans and Democrats, as well as people who just appreciate a...

Blinded by the Bias (July 2002)

"Blinded by the Bias" Skeptical readers will also recall the columnists who so often get caught passing off their infantile fantasies as real people ground down by cruel America. Remember Mike Barnicle of The Boston...

Capital Contempt (July 2001)

John Corry Capital Contempt MEG GREENFIELD'S WASHINGTON anything you did not already know, or at least suspect, but it was written by the late Meg Greenfield, and so you should pay...

Smoke Signals (April 2001)

John Corry Smoke Signals JAMES WALTON (ED.) THE FABER BOOK OF SMOKING M an and boy, I estimate, I have smoked at least 546,000 cigarettes, although I have been told to quit, and as I write this...

On the Slopes with Yasir and Oprah: In Davos, the have nots meet the know nots (March 2001)

On the Slopes with Yasir and Oprah In Davos, the have nots meet the know nots BY JOHN CORRY N DAVOS, SWITZERLAND o question but that it was high-minded and serious. The World Economic Forum met...

Hooking Up With Tom Wolfe (February 2001)

HOT I Tom Wolfe is not our best known and most accomplished man of letters, then who is? In the sixties he virtually invented a new kind of newspaper writing. In the seventies, though he still...

Presswatch: Corrections From the Edge (November 2000)

pages for accessibility. Subtitles for video, once an unwieldy thing to program into a video clip, are being automated by software available as shareware. As it gets better, speech...

Spectator's Journal: Diamonds and Death (October 2000)

i . ! ~ :lD4k dV~_ll I1[~il : ~ I I ~ l l l i i : i l l ira1 q by John Corry Diamonds and Death his administration is different. "Africa does How could Clinton even dare show his face in Africa?...

Presswatch: The Sounds of Silence (September 2000)

checkers called R. Emmett Tyrrell directly to ascertain whether he was, indeed, an anal orifice, as opposed to a rectal passage or mildly irritating colon. Anyway, I've never met Johnny Apple....

Wedding in Maseru (July 2000)

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Presswatch: Fort Happy Commune (June 2000)

"took the law into his own hands"? But in a responsible participatory democracy, the law ought to be in our hands. The problem with Britain is that the police force is now one of the most...

Last Call: Even in the Middle of Nowhere (May 2000)

by John Corry Even in the Middle of Nowhere Modika-diko, Lesotho IF YOU DRIVE VERY CAREFULLY, YOU MAY GET HERE in a 4x4 vehicle, but even so, it's chancy. The road is only two ruts in the dirt...

Presswatch: One Big Media (April 2000)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry One Big Media n retrospect, it almost seems quaint. The best minds in the media, not to mention the United States Senate, once worried that Rupert Murdoch might own...

Presswatch: Two-Bit Toobin (March 2000)

by John Corry Two-Bit Toobin Upper West Side shamelessness will get you everywhere. F irst things first: Early on in A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly...

Answers That Blow in the Wind (February 2000)

Democrat will get at least 4 o percent of the vote in the residential election; a Republican will get that much, too. Unless the Reform Party entices Colin Powell, say, or the Democrats nominate...

Presswatch: Fortunate Hoax (December 1999)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Fortunate Hoax that Hatfield had credentials. AccordThis Hatfield proved to be a real McCoy. ing to his publisher, he was a "syndicated columnist," who had written for...

Delta Blues (October 1999)

DE LTA 22 October 1999 The American Spectator Port Harcourt here may be 500,000 people in this steamy city in the Nigerian Delta, although no one is certain, and there may be a great many more....

Presswatch: Signing Off (August 1999)

P R E S S W A T C H by John Corry Signing Off I t was only a fleeting embarrassment, but there was no denying it happened. When the New York Times reported last March that George W. Bush had been...

Presswatch: Madeleine's War (July 1999)

lingers. In America, who cares? In part, that's due to the particular character of American hegemony. John Foster Dulles said that Britain had lost an empire and not yet found a role. With a surging...

NATO's Dummy War (June 1999)

DIIIllNATOly iyar 011N Conitl 32 June r999 • The American Spectator T ruth is not necessarily the first casualty of war, although often it is an early victim; and, as Orwell once wrote, "When one...

Presswatch: Slobo and Joe (May 1999)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Slobo and Joe There's looking good, and then there's looking back. T i he press was barely visible when the war began, and then it disappeared almost entirely. Some...

Presswatch: Clinton Bites (April 1999)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Clinton Bites So why didn't the media when Juanita Broaddrick spoke? W ords fail. Things fall apart. The president's apologists made the expected denials, but no one...

Presswatch: It's Not About Senex (March 1999)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry It's Not About Senex Which didn't stop another preemptive strike on Starr. N ewsweek's Conventional Wisdom Watch is always fun to read. Its little red arrows tell you...

Presswatch: The Demise of Columnists (February 1999)

to something else. As the sentence it's replacing is not one I wrote anyway, I don't care. But the Times feels it needs to keep me fully informed of these concerns, usually in the wee small hours,...

Big Apple Reaganite (January 1999)

BIG APPLE New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani has championed conservative values in the capital of liberalism. The result is a safer, cleaner, and more livable city. Can he do the same for the...

Presswatch (January 1999)

by John Corry Dr. Death Kills Mike Wallace How "60 Minutes" romanticized a serial killer. H ow do you like your serial killers? What about dedicated, idealistic, and sworn to public service, with...

Presswatch: Murder in Wyoming (December 1998)

century, so noble, so presidential. But it seems that, just like Riley, Bill's been lying about his age—trying to pass himself off as a mature, sober statesman when he's actually just a ditzy...

Presswatch: Monica Media (November 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Monica Media 0 ut of the mouth of a babe: a shrewd insight into the media. Monica Lewinsky said she wanted to be an assistant producer in TV, or an assistant account...

A Formula for Genocide (September 1998)

FormA ula for Genocide Pioneering journalist Philip Gourevitch has shown how Western race theory, arms, and money—combined with home-grown corruption—can turn a peaceful yet ethnically complex...

Presswatch: Fawning All Over Themselves (September 1998)

this month's Playboy, but even they had a stunning pictorial, "The Boys and Girls of the New Yorker Editor Shortlist." Admittedly, not everyone is happy with this trend in American journalism. But...

Presswatch: Strange Last Respects (August 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Strange Last Respects B arry, we hardly knew ye. It seemed you had changed so much. When you died, any number of folks on the other side said they admired you, even...

Presswatch: Hack Haven (July 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Hack Haven ees, along with pictures of naked women, The Stephen Glass affair shakes the New Republic. on its website. Desperate Jukt executives, Glass wrote, then...

Presswatch (June 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Salon's Spectator Project Bentonville, Ark. —David Hale, the key witness against President Clinton in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, received numerous cash...

A New Day in the State of Puerto Rico (May 1998)

A NEW DAY IN THE STATE OF While Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz toy with statehood for the island, its real business centers on its Democratic governor who is trying to put a Republican newspaper...

Presswatch: The Great Escape (May 1998)

What kind of pathetic answer is that, her critics demanded to know. If Absolute Power, directed by Clint Eastwood, is anything to go by, it's quite a sensible one. Absolute Power opens with a...

Presswatch: All Monica, All the Time (April 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry All Monica, All the Time T hey gave a war, but nobody came. The confrontation with Iraq ended not with a bang but a whimper. Kofi Annan and Tariq Aziz held a press...

Presswatch: Dropping the Big One (March 1998)

by John Corry Dropping the Big One F or once the White House was right: There had been a rush to judgment; everyone wanted to get in on the act, Dan Rather was in Havana, talking about the Pope's...

Presswatch: Reverse White Mischief (February 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Reverse White Mischief p resswatch is not making this up; it couldn't. The day after Christmas the New York Times reported that even though the Puerto Rican Barbie doll...

Presswatch (January 1998)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Same Old Sy Hersh poor Seymour Hersh; hardly any respectable journalist will now praise him. It seems he shoots from the hip, makes wild surmises, and recycles old...

Presswatch (December 1997)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Vince Foster Redux C onsider now the Scoggins factor. It takes its name from William Scoggins, the cab driver who saw Lee Harvey Oswald toss the spent shells from his...

Presswatch: No More Big Shots (October 1997)

P RESSWATCH by John Corry N m B• sh ots president of the editors' society, Sandra Ten suggestions on how to save journalism from itself. Mims Rowe of the (Portland) Oregonian, "that the issue...

Presswatch: Hillary's Africa (August 1997)

PRESSWATC H by John Corry Hillary's Africa M rs. Clinton has discovered Africa, and it has made a great impression. "It changed Hillary forever," her husband said, the "it" being her...

Presswatch: Flinn-Flam (July 1997)

P RESSWATCH by John Corry Flinn-Flam W hat happened was this: Flaxen-haired, Dutch-boy bobbed Lt. Kelly Flinn had a couple of quickies with an enlisted man, and then an affair with a creepy...

Burton in the Snake Pit (June 1997)

N BY JOHN CORRY S hady real estate deals or fraudulent loans by Madison Guaranty drown in complex detail. They are the crimes of accountants and lawyers. The selling of foreign policy or national...

Presswatch: Memento Eujimori (June 1997)

PR ESSWATCH by John Corry Memento Fujimori T he storming of the Japanese Embassy in Lima and the freeing of hostages was a big old-fashioned breaking news story. CNN had it first, at 4:27 P.M.,...

Presswatch: A Place Called Pamelot (April 1997)

PRESS WATCH by John Corry A Place Called Pamelot The memorial service for Pamela Harriman, according to the New York Times, was "the closest thing to a state funeral Washington has seen in...

Last Call: Wole Soyinka Land (March 1997)

by John Gorry Wole Soyinka Land Lagos WO SOLDIERS DIED IN A BOMB BLAST the day I arrived T here; there was an attempt to assassinate a leader of the anti-government opposition just before I...

Presswatch: Hear Her Roar (February 1997)

PRES SWATCH by John Corry Hear Her Roar W ho is Madeleine? What is she? An inspired choice as secretary of state, according to the president; a very feminine woman, but one with cojones,...

A Freedom Lover in Mesa, Arizona (January 1997)

Mesa M esa, Arizona is all beige, brown, and tan, a city of some 340,000 that keeps growing. Phoenix is west, and the desert is east, and Mesa has reflections of both: the high-rise Bank of America...

Presswatch: Hiss America (January 1997)

PRESSWATCH by John Corry Hiss America T he press reported the death of Alger Hiss at age 92 with what surely had to be a feeling of relief. He had long been a burden, especially to the prestige...

Presswatch: None Dare Call It Bias (December 1996)

"Presswatch: None Dare Call It Bias" twenty minutes of impersonal, superficial banter. Eventually, she interrupts: "Philip, why do you want to be friends with me?" A smile teases his lips: "Oh, perversion..." Does it sound familiar?...

Presswatch: Strange, Uneasy Times (November 1996)

"Presswatch: Strange, Uneasy Times" shamed Time-Warner into selling their stake in Interscope, who control Death Row. But, if you scan the fine print on the album, you'll see that 2Pac's songs were co-published by Warner-Tamerlane,...

Poupon Powell (September 1996)

"Poupon Powell" Hone knows what Colin Powell really thinks, or what he will do, and it may be he does not know himself. Not long ago, though, he was supposed to lift Amer ican politics out of the slough of...

Presswatch: Klein Without Spine (September 1996)

"Presswatch: Klein Without Spine" by John Corry Klein Without Spine Anonymity pays, as Joe Klein's irate colleagues let...

Dames at Sea (August 1996)

"Dames at Sea" In today's feminized military, the pregnant look is at Sea becoming as chic as the idea of women in combat. Human males operating in groups-talking, planning strategies, devising traps,...

Presswatch: Rotten to the Core (August 1996)

"Presswatch: Rotten to the Core" Or was Johnny Apple's outburst out of character?...

Presswatch: Going Over Boorda (July 1996)

"Presswatch: Going Over Boorda" by John Corry Going Over Boorda Admiral Jeremy Boorda's suicide left the press baffled, and even embarrassed. It could not believe Boorda had taken his life because he had worn two...

Presswatch: Riverside Drive West (June 1996)

"Presswatch: Riverside Drive West" by John Corry Riverside Drive West It was Rodney King all over again, with a reminder of O.J. Simpson. An 8o-mile chase on California freeways ended when a truck carrying twenty-one...

Presswatch: Hissteria (May 1996)

"Presswatch: Hissteria" by John Corry Hissteria The Cold War was fought on many fronts before the West finally won it. Spies and traitors, fellow travelers and dupes, and rogues and scoundrels operated in...

Why Nigeria? (May 1996)

"Why Nigeria?" Of the military regimes that have ruled Nigeria for twenty-five of its thirty-five years of independence, the current rule of Gen. Sani Abacha is indisputably the cruelest and most...

Presswatch: The Goldberg Deviation (April 1996)

"Presswatch: The Goldberg Deviation" by John Corry The Goldberg Deviation see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle, George Orwell once wrote, neatly describing the difficulty involved in clear...

Presswatch: We Are Family (March 1996)

"Presswatch: We Are Family" by John Corry We Are Family Never was it given to mortal man To lie so boldly as we women can —Alexander Pope, 174 William Safire said Hillary Clinton was a "congenital liar," and...

Presswatch: Deutch Treatment (February 1996)

"Presswatch: Deutch Treatment" by John Corry Deutch Treatment The CIA is an inviting target. It works in the dark, and does business with disreputable people. It attracts favorable comment in our best media...

Presswatch: Fancy Man Fever (January 1996)

"Presswatch: Fancy Man Fever" by John Corry Fancy Man Fever The polls now show that Bill Clinton is up, while the congressional Republicans are down. Meanwhile, the voters are supposed to be in a funk, bereft of...

Presswatch/Loony Tunes (December 1995)

T he media consensus was this: A gulf now separates black and white America, and somehow it must be bridged. Usually one must be wary when so many columnists and commentators speak with one voice,...

Presswatch / Colin Show (November 1995)

C Olin Powell is a good guy; there is no doubt about that. He is virtuous but not prim, manly but not insensitive, dignified but not stuffy, and so on. He transcends race, rises above partisan...

Why Are We in Macedonia? (November 1995)

John Cony Why Are We in Macedonia? You probably didn't know that American boys are on patrol in this powder keg—a tiny country more important to the region's balance of power than Bosnia will...

Presswatch / Sex and Smoke (October 1995)

Sex and Smoke by John Corry M aybe Newt Gingrich is not as smart as he thinks he is, or maybe he was badly advised. Whatever it was, he was foolish enough to sit still for an interview with Gail...

The Hidden Balkan War (October 1995)

The Hidden Balkan War As our correspondent discovers, a religious war between Croat, Serb, and Muslim Slays is following a medieval logic no one in the West seems willing to ponder. by John...

Presswatch / Dole and the Depraved (August 1995)

Dole and the Depraved by John Corry Perhaps it was because liberalism is now a spent force, or perhaps it was because its apologists have all turned sulky and sour. Whatever the reason, the most...

Presswatch/The Death of Kara Hultgreen (June 1995)

The Death of Kara Hultgreen by John Corry j ournalistically, the case seemed clear. An injustice had been done, but now it would be rectified. As Peter Jennings said on the ABC "Evening News,"...

Presswatch I Dim Sam (March 1995)

Dim Sam Time chose John Paul II as Man of the Year-a nice selection, although not the right one. The Pontiff may have graced Time's cover far better than some of the lemons the magazine has chosen...

Presswatch / Braggarts and Burblers (February 1995)

Braggarts and Burblers by John Corry 0 bviously, the media know something important happened in the election, and though there is no consensus on just what it was, there is a feeling it was an...

Presswatchl Playmates of the Month (January 1995)

Playmates of the Month by John Corry T he mob that set out to lynch Clarence Thomas this time was not as big as the one before, but certainly it was better organized. The mob sprang up from the...

Presswatch / The Plague (October 1994)

The Plague by John Corry T he right-wing peril is on us again, an unholy connivance, the press now warns us, that includes, but is not limited to, crazed preachers, duplicitous politicians, and the...

Presswatch/Medea and the O.J. Media (September 1994)

Medea and the O.J. Media by John Corry S ay now that the O.J. Simpson case is gripping, and that there has never been anything quite like it before: a double murder and its aftermath played out in...

PresswatchlAn Embarrassment of Riches (March 1994)

An Embarrassment of Riches by John Corry T he aftermath of David Brock's story about Bill Clinton was almost as good as the story. The press became nonplussed. How should it react to the portrayal...

My Times (February 1994)

BOOK REVIEWS A t the age of 7, John Corry pushed Billy Boswell into a pail of water. Billy Boswell was not just any classmate. He was the son of a bigshot—a lieutenant in the Fire Department. Cony...

The MIA Cover-Up (February 1994)

The MIA Cover-Up Seeking to normalize relations with Vietnam, President Clinton, along with supine politicians and a feckless press, would like the public to forget the MIA issue. But evidence...

Presswatch/ What a Character! (August 1993)

N o doubt about it; Bill Clinton was in trouble. "The Incredible Shrinking President," the Time cover shouted, while Newsweek asked, "What's Wrong?" Just about everything, apparently—bad staff work,...

The Most Considerate of Men (July 1991)

John Corry THE MOST CONSIDERATE OF MEN An old friend remembers the Polish-American novelist Jerzy Kosinski, a victim of twentieth-century thugs both East and West. W hen I heard that Jerzy...

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