Among the Intellectualoids / Seasick
Norman, Geoffrey
and George Ball is a visibly flickering rage at "those uppity bastards," the Israelis and their American cohorts. They, like me, are guilty of ingratitude and the Percy-Ball types will not...
...Well, if you have a radio, you can call for help which beats swimming every time...
...Wallace and virtually everyone else On television, feels competent to judge everything except his own performance, someone will have to do that for him...
...You tie a line to one end (don't forget that) and throw it over the side and that will keep your boat from drifting to sea if b y Geoffrey Norman you have lost power for some reason such as running over a shark...
...But while seamanship has declined, the demographics are better...
...Bazell might want'to enroll in a small boat safety and seamanship course with the Coast Guard...
...Friend of mine, for instance, ran over a ~ shark and tore up his prop...
...A happy ending to a minor drama, I thought when I first read the one paragraph item in the morning paper...
...Or perhaps that is the responsibility of the Highway Patrol...
...Bazell...
...Now I don't know a lot about reporting what is loosely called the "news" on television, but I know something about small boats and the Coast Guard...
...He carried a spare, however, and had the problem corrected in a few minutes...
...But he won't learn them watching television...
...He could dress up like Mike Wallace in a suit of indignation and interview a recruit from Detroit on how to tie a sheepshank...
...The boat began to drift out to sea...
...You see, I might think I'd done a damnfool thing...
...I know for sure that I wouldn't go to sea in a fourteen-foot boat and run out of gas...
...So Mr...
...Seems that Mr...
...There are other rules of safe seamanship that might be helpful tO Mr...
...TV newsmen have lost all sense of proportion somewhere in their breeding...
...As for the Coast Guard, they have a problem with finding able recruits since they have been loaded down with all the equal opportunity baggage of the last decade's social progress...
...N'ow since Mr...
...All by himself...
...Most of them have detached retinas...
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...I'~d be too ashamed to find fault with anyone, especially the people who'd saved my family at some inconvenience to themselves and for pay that TV newsmen would no doubt consider indecent...
...Israelis and U.S...
...They, like me, are guilty of ingratitude and the Percy-Ball types will not forgive them/us...
...benevolence and that the minimum expected in return is for both to be pliable to U.S...
...It helps if you have an anchor aboard...
...But let' s say you've spent too much time in front of the television to know how to repair a motor, even though you are smart enough to know they burn gas...
...And if I did and then had to swim for help--not Geoffrey Norman is a contributing editor of Esquire magazine...
...There might be a story there for Mr...
...Bazell...
...It took him about three hours to reach shore...
...When you line breed intensively, something is inevitably lost...
...If the NBC limo doesn't take him to class and he has to drive his own car, he might want to remember to put some gas in the tank...
...Nobody runs out of gas...
...Reprisals were swift--lightfooted and high-principled fellows like Jesse Jackson zipped right over to the Middle East to declare solidarity with the PLO and suddenly we learned about that Jewish Lobby in control of Congress...
...If you do, you ought to have a radio and some distress signals because even if you . are smart enough to leave with enough gas, you may lose power for any number of other reasons...
...I will take on that heavy burden...
...His wife and two daughters were with him in the boat...
...Plainly, if foreign~or domestic Jews reconsider their assigned roles or show signs of snapping at the leash--they should expect consequences...
...And I like to think I know a little about humility and a sense of proportion...
...For example, collie dogs have been bred for long-pointed heads and it has gone so far that there i s n ' t enough room in the animal's head for everything it needs...
...You exist by our pleasure and (continued on page 36) SEASICK NBC reporter Robert Bazell went to sea in a fourteen-foot aluminum boat...
...Bazell, upon being reunited with the family, charged that the Coast Guard had been lax in launching a search for his boat and dependents...
...First, you don't as a rule go out in big water in a little boat...
...But I forgot that we were dealing here with a television newsman, a species that has been bred for both ignorance and arrogance...
...Jews are constantly reminded these days that Israel owes its e x i s t e n c e to U.S...
...Bazell jumped overboard and swam for help...
...Most of the people who enlist have spent too much time watching television and don't know how to do technical things such as read a book...
...interests--as,defined by Percy-BaU and a lot of others, including editorialists...
...Bazell, like Mr...
...Bazell's family was safe, if mightily inconvenienced, and that was that...
...He ran out of gas...
...such a good idea, by the w a y - - I would be a little shy about having my picture in the paper and being quoted a b o u t what a poor job the Coast Guard did in coming to my rescue...
...Nor, obviously, by committing television...
...policy and U.S...
...Those thoughts came to me as'I read one of those rare follow-up stories in my morning paper...
...And if you don't have any navigational aids so that you can give your rescuer your exact position, then you fire a flare, which can be seen from great distances, to aid him...
...Domestic Jews got out of hand not long ago when they began questioning the truth and beauty of Affirmative Action quotas and the wisdom of Andrew Young's mapmaking...
...A search was launched but it was three days before the boat was found...
Vol. 15 • November 1982 • No. 11
