Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Closing the Book on Quayle As a parody of the liberal press, your publication, I, for one, am going to As one who went to college in Indiana RE: "Deconstructing the Danny Quayle...
...your August issue, have the monstrous In your August reply to the many hos- —Jack Nudelman effrontery, 0 pompous ass, to call FAIR Cries Foul tile letters received in response to "A Buffala New York yourself his friend...
...As an avid reader of TAS, I say it's a puerile lampooning of the Vice Presi- —John L. Ryder New York, New York worth the price of the subscription to dent of the United States, you now, in Memphis, Tennessee have read R. Emmett 1'rrell's rebuttal...
...Egads...
...Andrew L. Carlson DePauw...
...Quayle's a lightweight...
...gust issue, of so many of your readers...
...His point is that where man...
...persevere with his on-the-job training...
...Please read one at the thought of Quayle's succeeding Americans do not want that as their reverence, continually puncture the more...
...Tom Bethell's article in the July 1989 Danny Quayle Reader" you sounded —William T St...
...And, if the from one who loves to dish it out...
...But most Spectator because you guys, by your ir- piece in the June issue...
...T I. Parkinson, Jr...
...Your June cover A few of your wet-behind-the-ears ap- world in one-acre plots in Texas and and page 13 article were on target...
...Those conservatives need to be re- All this reminds me of someone's one who walked precincts for Gold- withstanding...
...I ap- (and the country) has are those conser- still be a free market capitalist and Logansport, Indiana plaud your courage and biting satire in vatives who, by acknowledging his acknowledge certain community values bringing our wayward Hoosier back to shortcomings, may motivate him to in maintaining open space, livable Your response to the letters was thin- reality...
...population density, and responsible skinned and especially unattractive Despite what one of those thin- Keep after him...
...competing values, many of which who've written in to fuss and moan...
...could fit the entire population of the few comments...
...trying to explain his innocence after be- Read," as most of your readers ap- Bethell cites the fact that Hong Kong ing found in an otherwise empty room, parently were, but refrained from vent- Wow...
...Northport, New York Having the poor judgment and execra- am sure he would enjoy the contents of Please continue to do so...
...And since that the United States could be (or —Tim Fennell very arrogant fellow: Your reply reads when has that sacred office become a frankly would want to be) one huge Los Altos, California like one of his recent speeches...
...Right...
...Maybe Bob, I knew the New Republic, the ence, as in Hong Kong or in certain —Adrian L. DiLuzio one more letter will help...
...My unsolicited (and free) advice abuse...
...Our basic point is that immedia's Blimp stereotype of the right I thought it was great...
...shield for an incumbent...
...way and thereby failed to exercise the palling party-line response, in your Au- creature of location...
...him to the presidency, and Quayle's future...
...prentices must have got the idea that Your June issue lampooning of the Vice still have plenty of room to spare...
...Clair issue, "The Mexican Kleptocracy," canremarkably like one of my guilty clients I was outraged at "Why Danny Can't Irvington, Virginia not be permitted to go unchallenged...
...I buy the writing to you about the Dan Quayle race was damned close...
...CORRESPONDENCE Closing the Book on Quayle As a parody of the liberal press, your publication, I, for one, am going to As one who went to college in Indiana RE: "Deconstructing the Danny Quayle flail missed the mark...
...Had he attended Wabash, I You have alarmed the majority...
...the name of conservatism by exalting The best friends the Vice President Bethell may not recognize...
...Come on...
...Thank God...
...There is simply no pro- minded that a mind is a terrible thing comment several years back, that you water in 1964 at age 15, permit me a portion between the one and the other...
...With your spread on the subject TAS of sliding into liberalism simply economies are able to run without the to you is to plead guilty and throw in the August issue, however, I have because it poked a little fun at Danny...
...communities are able to absorb huge Mineola, New York simply can't believe that Quayle's re- —Chuck Fowler numbers of workers in very small marks had anything directly to do with Bellemont, Arizona spaces...
...Lititz, Pennsylvania with your publication...
...Accept —John N Snader source of the Vice President's difficulty Ours is a quantitative society in which the criticism...
...One can —Robert Leirer Justice the New Republic...
...to waste...
...Our con- contemptible performance when inter- migration policy must be fashioned wing...
...decided to forget my silly fears...
...It as many kneejerk conservatives as blame reminds me of Mike Dukakis, an every malapropism and goofy corn- is not self-sufficient and there is no way kneejerk liberals...
...encumbrance of government interferyourself on the mercy of the court...
...And to accuse create problems...
...George D. Waldman porter of candidate Bush, I was so If a society's only objective is to Congrats on not flinching to call a Reading, Massachusetts shocked by his choice of Quayle for a try to increase its numbers to the Quayle a quail, brickbats for knuckling running mate that I feared he might point where everyone lives stacked under to knee-jerk "conservatives" (so- I am sure you are quite sick of people have blown the election (at the time, the atop one another, then Bethell's point called) in your last issue...
...resource consumption...
...minating his subscription to your New York, New York (continued on page 50) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1989 9...
...expert at evading responsibility and a ment of the Vice President...
...ble taste to publish, in your June issue, your magazine as much as I do...
...I still shudder would be perfectly sound...
...I'm renewing my subscription for servative torchbearer not only made viewed by Tom Bethell did nothing to with reference to a whole series of three years to counter those geeks a stupid comment but blasphemed calm my fears...
...He went to quality, especially in people, is suspect...
...It is strategically The outraged letters in the August issue required editorial judgment...
...placed where international traders and only illustrate the sad fact that there are At any rate, your reluctance to admit Like many conservatives, I cringe at shippers would want to be located...
...Only skinned respondents said about ter- —Robert D. Hughes entire globe looked like Manhattan your last paragraph was worthy...
...Now a conser- they could have a good time at Quayle's President was right on target, and I was Hong Kong, like Manhattan and vative lightweight in the Senate may be expense, and you let them have their delighted to see you stand up to the ap- perhaps now Miami, is a unique okay, but as Vice President...
...As a 16-year TAS subscriber and some- the original broadside, your claims not- P.S...
...in the sixties, surely you know the Quayle Reader" (TAS, August 1989): other purpose was unworthy...
...What's wrong with these people has a labor shortage for the proposismoking gun in hand, standing next to ing my spleen at the time out of fear that they'd get so bent out of shape tion that population growth doesn't the bullet-riddled body of an unarmed that I might subject you to undue over the Quayle article...
...Any renew it for another year...
...New Republic was my friend, TAS is no northern border regions in Mexico, Attorney-at-Law The first thing I must say is that I New Republic...
...As a sup- Manhattan or Hong Kong...
Vol. 22 • October 1989 • No. 10
