Politique Internationale: Fleet Street Foppery
Taki
Taki POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE: FLEET STREET FOPPERY LONDON—My first reaction on hearing there was a Bulgarian and an Andropov connection in the plot to murder the Pope was relief. Yes, dear...
...I've watched this foolish man for years...
...What some of these "journalists" would like Us to believe is that history does not repeat itself, that there are no modern-day Blunts, Burgesses, not even a Michael Straight...
...His greatest catch came three years ago when he managed to invite to dinner the chauffeur of a rather vulgar meat-packing heir, one Lord Vestey...
...he's always playing tennis at some club and then chatting up whomever he deems socially important at the bar afterwards...
...Relief from the Sunday Times, the biggest, most boring, and, as far as I'm concerned, most bogus of English newspapers...
...The Turkish Cypriot and the Cambridge grad seethe with revolutionary fervor, until, of course, the right cocktail party comes along...
...of copying with intent to distribute...
...That is why I like Hitchens...
...But I was wrong...
...Boy, was I ever wrong...
...If they went so far about someone so unimportant, think how far they will go for something that is important...
...While the dons and the undergraduates of the thirties were busy sleeping with each other, the Germans were getting their act together...
...Yes, dear readers, relief...
...Well, I thought to myself, at least now these big phonies will stop messing about and get on with the job of tracking down the people behind the plot to kill John Paul II...
...Ditto for the Observer, a newspaper people in asylums are forced to read whenever Valium proves an inadequate sleep-inducing drug...
...What I want to know now is why so many Englishmen of the radical-chic persuasion are in the United States...
...These people are clowns, tumblers, Marxist mosquitoes...
...But this time they hope to lull everybody to sleep, including any latter-day Churchill who might be grumbling about...
...Up until the Bulgarian connection was revealed, the Sunday Times had been concentrating on long investigative pieces on each and every hirsute lesbian ever to spend a night outside a Pershing II missile site...
...In London, Hitchens worked for the Daily Express after that newspaper— which, incidentally, is far to the right of The American Spectator—made him an offer he could not refuse while he was with Britain's New Statesman...
...Their only success has been to make a good living by knocking American institutions daily and very ferociously, and trying to meet the best families of Newport...
...Here you have the biggest story since World War II and the Sunday Times comes up with a hastily written whitewash so full of lies that the Soviet embassy in London went through seventeen Xerox machines in a three-day orgy Dr...
...He is, needless to say, a Cambridge man, an effete little scribbler who came over as a Senate page but switched to Mother Jones after his Senate duties tired him out (or was it the other way around...
...Sure he's an ideologue and screams a lot about human rights, but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, it's only money and the good things in life that count...
...He reminded me of a red Louella Parsons, or a Marxist Hedda Hopper...
...Remember," said the intrepid brain, "the echo of a bullet at Sarajevo set off World War I." The irony is that it's happened all before...
...Take the case of the journalist Christopher Hitchens...
...In fact before I saw him in person I always thought Hitchens was an old Communist woman, so bitchy and gossipy and trendy was his style...
...Like nuclear weapons, our lifelines around the Cape of Good Hope, a strong free world versus a weak one...
...In fact as I write the Lord Chief Justice has just revealed that not long ago the Sunday Times invented a frontpage story...
...They might have managed to help ruin the old continent, but America is not as degenerate as they think...
...The author was one Philip Knightley, who ironically looks like Lenin, or tries to anyway, but whose only talent lies in social climbing...
...Hitchens is married to a Turkish person whom for a long time I mistook for a man because he/she is very, very hairy...
...England has always sent her best and brightest to America, and she continues to do so with her disinformation artists...
...Need I say more...
...Taki is The American Spectator's distinguished European editor...
...I used to think that they had been sent over to spread disinformation...
...The Observer is torn between its love for hirsute lesbians who want to ban our bombs and its loathing for South Africa...
...The intellectuals, of course, come out even worse...
...Oh, I almost forgot...
...It happened to be about yet another social climber, Michael Fagan, the fellow who supposedly climbed the wall of Buckingham Palace for a midnight chat with the Queen...
...Then, needless to say, there is the Guardian, which can only be described as the moral equivalent of a William Kunstler...
...One of them even went so far as to warn an unsuspecting world that we should forget about the Bulgarian connection...
...Well, as one of the world's most meticulous historians, I have recently come to the conclusion that history does repeat itself, and I suspect most of our disinformation journalists know that, too...
...He also loves the kind of families that in times past would have horsewhipped him for trespassing on their land...
...His monograph on geopolitical conceptions during the reign of King Ethelred II will be delivered this spring at the Institute Feuilleton de Geneve...
...He is a walking advertisement for capitalism...
...So much for the crusading free British press...
...I expect to find them working for CBS before long, and I wish them luck in any future operations— sexual or otherwise—as well as on Wall Street...
Vol. 16 • May 1983 • No. 5
