The New Enemies List: No End in Sight
O'Rourke, P. J.
P. J. O'Rourke THE NEW ENEMIES LIST: NO END IN SIGHT A vigilant journalist's call for a New McCarthyism has struck a major chord with Americans of every patriotic stripe. Check below to see if...
...Hodding Carter Cybill Shepherd Msgr...
...Reverend Barbara Harris, Suffargan Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts...
...Seuss Most people who call themselves "Dr" but don't practice medicine The Greenpeace mailing list Ralph Moyed, pinkish columnist for the Wilmington newspaper Denver, Colorado 99 percent of college daily newspaper editors My ex-girlfriend, if her outlook hasn't changed by the time she's thirty Timothy A. Curry of Seattle, Washington, objurgates: Susan Brownmiller: for writing Against Our Will, the Women's Movement's Mein Kampf Carl Sagan and Jonathan Schell, purveyors of Nuclear Winter, the most important scientific theory since phlogiston, phrenology, and the Piltdown Man Tommy Smothers: Remember him telling brother Dick "Mom always liked you best...
...People who use locutions like "entitlement," implying that others have a right to pick my pocket People who use "Native American": What am I, a potted plant...
...I would also like to thank Joseph P. Maguire of Evanston, Illinois...
...Rose Mofford (D-AZ) Andy Rooney Diane Sawyer Paul Kirk Michael Jackson, the singer not the radio talk show host John Hinckley, Jr...
...Let God sort 'em out...
...Arlen Specter (R-PA) Ducey Ullman X-Rated Movies Tipper Gore Vidal Sassoon C. Collins of the American Enterprise Institute cries down: Norbert Nadel The Cincinnati Reds• a cheap shot, but one can't be too careful Jose Canseco and any other major league player who charges for autographs...
...Dennis P. Lyden of Bellaire, Ohio...
...Jonathan J. Cohen, living in the very belly of the beast in Brookline, Massachusetts, lashes out against: Marty Nolan Ellen Goodman Thomas Oliphant Charles Pierce, gonzo-radical sports writer for the Boston Herald Rep...
...A. Bartlett Giamatti A liberal as commissioner of baseball...
...House of Representatives Everyone in the Senate whose weight exceeds his IQ by a factor of two or more: Attn: Ted Anybody on "Saturday Night Live" in this decade Any given Supreme Court majority or minority Feminists in slacks Ugly feminists Old feminists Ecofeminists Feminist dykes Masculine feminists Anyone who uses "Ms...
...And ex-Marine Viet Vet Walter Anderson who runs Parade will probably be glad to tell you so in person.] Riverside Community Church Seattle City Council for voting Managua a "sister city," inviting the Soviets to "Friendship Games," etc...
...Despite his vow of poverty, he is going on a world's tour for peace with someone else footing the bill...
...Any organization with the words "Peoples' " or "Concerned" in its name Luddites Douglas Hurd Francois Mitterrand Helmut Kohl Leader of the German Greens Petra Kelly: If she wants to sit naked in the weeds and eat dandelions, let her...
...Al DMmato (R-NY) Sen...
...I bumped into him not long ago at a Popeye's Fried Chicken restaurant...
...Archie 18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 Bunker's old paper has gone lefty...
...Chris Perkins (D-KY) Sen...
...Marion Barry Mary Berry Ellerbee-Wannabee Andrea Mitchell Any Union of Concerned anybodies Any organization that is a "Friends of . . ." Nikolai Bukharin Fan Club President Stephen F Cohen Al Warmington of Cleveland, Ohio, upbraids: The entire 185,000 members of the IRS Adlai Stevenson III Rep...
...Howell Heflin (DAL) Art Buchwald Robert T Stafford Sen...
...He says, "You omitted: Sen...
...So many parlor pinks, bull-slingers, dweebs, wonks, bluestockings, nincompoops, hop-heads, muck spouts, hog callers, dopes, limps, chumps, wets, sob sisters, egg-suckers, and pencil-necked geeks were named that the Readers' List had to be divided into two parts...
...I told you something like this would happen, Molly...
...More quality time with the family, Ronald, please.] Anthrax Tone Loc Draft-dodgers [Hey, fellows, this cuts a bit close to the knuckle for some of us sixties-era born-again conservatives.] Jeanne Dixon "The sooner we can get out a contract on the following," says Thomas H. Black of Midland, Michigan, "the sooner we can all get to work on the plan to 'clean up the environment' ": John Catennacci Day Care Sammy Davis, Jr...
...Dennis Miller [The geek whose name Bryan R. Johnson of Blacksburg, Virginia, could not remember—see last month's list.] Environmental Media Associates Better World Society New Group of World Servers Zero Population Growth The Congressional Black Caucus Rep...
...Mrs...
...Carl Levin (D-MI) Joni Mitchell Nicki McWhirter Dean Martin Manuel Noriega G. Bromley Oxnam Abu Nidal Alan Quartermain Sen...
...Eugene La Rocque But she wants to subtract from our previous list: Paul Weyrich Not until he buys John Tower a drink...
...Dante Fascell (D-FL) Rep...
...60 Minutes" Anyone using the terms "red-baiting" "Commie-bashing" or "McCarthyism" without quotation marks Our TAS staff assistant Dan Erech weighs in with: "President" Carlos Duque of Panama Mayor W Wilson Goode of Philadelphia Edward Dos Santos, MPLA leader, Angola Rep...
...Science Educational Testing Service Modern Language Association October magazine Warren Klofkorn of Manchester, Michigan, vilifies: The Consumer Product Safety Commission Marian Faupel, my ex-wife's lawyer Pete Rose United Coalition Against Racism Ronald McDonald George Bush, for knuckling under to the anti-gun lobby Latter-day hippies The DEA And he finishes his list with this doozey—hold the calls, folks, we have a winner: Ann Arbor's People's Communist Lesbian Food Co-op Keith N. Dickey of Forest Hills, Maryland, censures: Sen...
...Barney Frank's "significant other" Anyone dumb enough to vacation in Lebanon [Hey, watch it, kid.] Craig Spence and "Professional Services" Li Peng Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica Javier Perez de Cuellar Walter And my own girlfriend, the beautiful Amy Lumet, risks the wrath of her rather liberal parents to add: England Amy Carter Spy magazine Musical Youth The guy who wrote my Psych...
...Frank Miller is afraid that the religious right intends to censor his work...
...Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH), the most vicious enemy the Bill of Rights has ever faced, with his criminally insane campaign to abolish Individual Freedom to defend one's Person, Family, Home, and Country, and restrict firearm ownership to the Police State and the thugs...
...Dennis J. Doolin, who lives in Tokyo, deplores: Warren Beatty Sister Boom-Boom The entirety of Castro Street in San Francisco Everyone who orders "Perrier with a twist" Every reviewer who disliked Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities Michael G. Smith, address unknown, looks askance at: Dr...
...Herewith his cases of utter exasperation: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Writers, producers, and cast of Fox's "21 Jump Street" and, come to think of it, the whole Fox operation Kurt Loder of MTV News MTV Writers, producers, and cast of ABC's "Head of the Class" Jerry Jones new owner of the Dallas Cowboys Richard Gere Siskel and Ebert Sir Richard Attenborough NAMBLAPittsburgh and Atlanta police departments Burt Lancaster Thomas Stoddard Producers of Folger's coffee commercials Writers, producers, and cast of CBS's "Kate and Allie" Anyone yammering on about "spirit of Vatican II" Liturgical commissions Peace and Justice offices Prince WOC (Women's Ordination Conference) Garfield German, Dutch, and Belgian theologians Expurgators of "sexist" language in divine worship The administration of Georgetown University An anonymous correspondent from Eugene, Oregon, blacklists: Dwight Eisenhower: emeritus distinction Eleanor Roosevelt: ditto Jack O'Dea Jesse Jackson's foreign policy advisor who's so Stalinist he couldn't win an election in the Soviet Union The ACLU, which declared the liberation of Grenada a violation of civil liberties National Education Association Mary Hatwood Futrell Children's Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman: While we're at it, anyone who uses three names merits further investigation...
...Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) Leon Trotsky: Dead, 1940, but we need the hatchet back, given our Defense Department's dearth of 'fruly Threatening Anti-Marxist Death Machines Jason Levine, a lonely and beleaguered conservative student at Brandeis, a branch campus of Patrice Lumumba University, gets a little of his own back at: Lynn Samuels, NYC radio talk show hostess with the voice and sophistication of that city's cab drivers Willard Scott: Don't fat, bald men who get rated in the "Ten Most Sexy" surveys bug you too...
...This would be fair recompense to the left, I thought, for their incessant use of the Mc-word to describe every conservative criticism of anybody...
...Keith J. Yoder of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, castigates the following with a quote from musician Steve Taylor, "They're so open-minded that their brains leaked out": Sinead O'Connor Edie Brickell—would enjoy pushing her into deep water Peter Gabriel White Lion Megadeath Beach Boys: Reagan can be wrong Cyril Scott The Grammy Awards ceremony Robert Schuller Ronald Sider Faye WentworthRon Reagan, Jr...
...Ortega as "poets" Anyone who uses the term "The Third World" and "The Homeless" respectfully Jon Voight Everyone who sang on "We Are the World," especially that turncoat redneck Willie Nelson Ad agency people who write jingles for giant corporations that sound like additional stanzas to "We Are the World" Rep...
...Steny Hoyer (D-MD) Any organization that has "freeze" or "nuclear" in its title SANE "Race Horse" Haynes Melvin Belli Suzy Pollok of Houston, Texas, pleads inclusion of: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force George M. Mellinger who refers to himself as a resident of "Minneapolis, People's Republic of Minnesota," rails against: Everyone named Fonda Anyone whose name is even similar to Fonda: With that family we can't take any chances...
...Al Gore (D TN Sen...
...textbook Not that her parents actually listen to Musical Youth all that much...
...I was born and reared in Texas...
...Let us pause here to note that practically every member of the Reagan household except the Gipper himself has been named to the Enemies List...
...The only problem is, no one has come up with a fit suggestion for what to do with the people on it...
...But you'd better watch what you say about my pal Hunter or the next time you visit your stamp collection you may find the back of your Eisenhower memorial block has been dosed with Ibogaine...
...Brian Hehir Sid and Nancy Jack Valenti Dr...
...J. Oberstar (D-MN) Sen...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 21...
...Woodward Garry Wills Peter Ustinov Pete Seeger Arlo Guthrie Folksingers Poets Mimes Sydney Schanberg, wherever he is Frank Zappa, former iconoclast, now boring knee-jerk liberal Hunter Thompson, ditto William Greider Paul, I don't mind your putting friend and co-worker William Greider on the list because he'd be darned upset if he were left off...
...To return to our sheep, Mary and Timothy Wheeler of Shelbyville, Indiana, fulminate at length, and somewhat peevishly, thus: Paul Erlich Ernest Sternglass Amory Lovins Barry Commoner Andrew Greeley E. E Schumaker Michael Lerner Sidney Blumenthal Richard J. Barnet Madalyn Murray O'Hair Irving Howe Robert Drinan Norman Birnbaum Claude Pepper: Why not...
...Well, in the July issue (Vol...
...William Rockwood of Canoga Park, California, reproaches: Michael J. Fox and the entire cast of "Family Ties" Rosanna Arquette Marlon Brando The makers of non-alcoholic wine "I've tried," says Doug Rivers of Warner Robbins, Georgia, "to group my candidates for the New Enemies List by certain common characteristics to facilitate future classification at re-education camps": Alice Walker: All on the final list should be forced to read one of her novels cover to cover...
...Drug therapy isn't going to work on these folks...
...M. B. Hermel, all of whose choices for incrimination had already been incriminated by others...
...Dale Bumpers (DAR) Rep...
...Send they did—postcards, letters, telegrams, and computer printouts thick as a Democrat's skull...
...Bill Alexander (DAR) William C. Rice of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reviles: Linda and Fred Wertheimer Capitol Steps Dr...
...Berkeley, Harvard Law School, close friend of Tom Hayden, co-author of the California Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative, Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Diplomacy which has set up 80 Nicaraguan/U.S...
...Peter Hart Nan Aron Norman Ornstein William Wimpisinger People whose movements are engaged in a `Struggle" Indignant Methodist Thomas Donelson of Olathe, Kansas, writes "to nominate": The Reverend George Baldwin "to your New Enemies List...
...with the thalamus when the entire brain is absent...
...Mick and Bianca Jagger Gregory Peck The 'ol Cos, Tawana Brawley patron Gene Upshaw Right Reverend Sharpton Attorneys Mason and Maddox Presbyterians Vegetarians "Cagney and Lacey" scriptwriters Presbyterians...
...How smart can she be...
...Mark Hatfield (R-OR) Sen...
...Mary Rose Oakar (D-OH) and asks, "By the way, what is `Tikkun...
...Here's some more data for you to chew on: "1...
...Bob Geldof David Byrne U2 Rock groups that take up left-wing politics under the mistaken idea that they have something to contribute to society besides a driving backbeat and three chord progressions Jack Lemmon Morgan Fairchild Actresses who take up left-wing politics under the mistaken idea that they have something to contribute to society besides a good look at their breasts Dick Gregory Philip Agee Randall Robinson Susan Stamberg Nina Totenberg Linda Wertheimer Anyone who held a candle for Ted Bundy Ben BradleeBob "He sat up in his bed...
...But, if I'm fired, can I crash at the dorm for a while...
...No liberal eats Popeye's fried chicken for lunch without an immediate fatal coronary...
...Donald Riegle (D-MI) Morley Safer Tex Schramm Frank Sinatra Jimmy Swaggart Mike Wallace Foster Wynans Katharine Hepburn David Brinkley Patti Davis 20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 Doris Day Sally Field The Federal Reserve System The Gabor Family Amy Irving Coretta King Robin Leach James Taylor Daniel Ortega Monica Quartermain Carl Rogers Sylvester Stallone Angela Sombranno Sen...
...Whatsisname...
...Richard Lamm: This man is scary...
...THE LIST CONTINUES Anyway, as I noted last month, the Readers' Enemies List has been edited only to remove duplications, and the comments appearing in small Roman type are the readers' own although there is an occasional bracketed note from me when I thought somebody was calling in an air strike on his own position...
...Larry asks, rhetorically...
...Woody Allen Rita Hansen Stanley Sheinbaum Anyone who signed those pro-Palestinian ads in the New York Times Lars Erik-Nelson and Jack Newfield of the New York Daily News: Would you believe it...
...Paul J. Beck of Morocco, Indiana, begins the back nine play, teeing off on: Studs Terkel Andrea Dworkin Joseph Campbell Forrest Church Sondra Gehr, local Chicago public radio host, a feminine Terkel John Irving Presidents of Dartmouth and Stanford Maureen Reagan, who gives freeloading off a famous father a bad name Mortimer AdlerLittle Stevie David Lange The ACLU attorneys who tried to send Walter Polovchak to the gulag That rheumy-eyed guy from Harvard who writes those weepy books about children...
...Denny O'Neil criticized mankind's treatment of the environment in a recent editorial and has written a story condemning the conservative churches' involvement in politics...
...You two don't fool around, do you...
...Obviously the Big Umpire upstairs agreed.] Rep...
...I say off with their heads": Rep...
...Judith Evans Hanhisalo of Duxbury, Massachusetts, wants to add to the list: Lawrence Walsh and his entire secret police organization Judge Gerhard Gesell Adm...
...My own name was added to the top of that list and, at the bottom, in crude, shaky letters appeared the message "KILL THEM ALL...
...Mercedes Casey of Lake Charles, Louisiana...
...Something pretty fishy there if you ask me...
...Any musician who uses a single word for a name Anyone who uses the word `compassion" when talking about foreign policy Anybody who compared the massacre of students in Peking to Kent State VH-1 Anyone who uses the phrase `social justice" Tom Ealey of Findlay, Ohio, cavils at: United Methodist Bishops: any connection to the United Methodist Church is merely coincidental...
...How can doctors sever the nerves connecting the frontal lobes P J. O'Rourke is author, most recently, of Modern Manners (Atlantic Monthly Press...
...Louis J. Tripoli of Rochester, New York...
...president of the Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation: Back in the original McCarthy days, the John Birch Society was wackily obsessed by the Ford Foundation, but since then the Foundation has grown into the job...
...At the end of my "Proscription for a Better America" I asked readers to send in the names of additional goats to scape...
...Dave Durenberger (R-MN) Bob Dylan Joe Piscopo Neil Young: Canadian cultural imperialism...
...He belongs to the British organization AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia...
...James Exxon [sic] (D-NE) Rep...
...Peter Kostmayer (D-PA) Kip Krady, director of Accuracy in Media's speakers bureau, reprehends: Cartoonist Feiffer, Jules Neo-Nazi thugs everywhere and their skinhead brethren Paul Seabury of Berkeley, California, declaims upon: Alger Hiss Rt...
...Kenneth M. Potter of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, indicts the following: Paul Warnke Sen...
...Robert Mrazek (D-Centerport) Rep...
...Okay, Mom, cut it out...
...analyzes, or dithers on about race, class, and gender And a special He-Has-Grown Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev Whew...
...Bob Packwood (R-OR) Bruce Poindexter of Ann Arbor, Michigan, berates: The editorial staff of the Michigan Daily The entire state of Minnesota The California Condor The Snail Darter The two whales freed from the ice in Alaska Daniel K. Wattsins of New Orleans, Louisiana, carps at: Lindy Boggs...
...Joe Mysak of New York, New York...
...I mean, who wants a Leonid Brezhnev lunch box...
...Joe Kennedy, Jr., and every other Kennedy except maybe Caroline...
...Anthony Esposito of Margate, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 19 Florida, keeps it brief and to the point: Sally Jesse Raphael Thomas Edwin Walker of La Porte, Texas, scolds: Bono "Bob Cat" Goldthwait REM Molly Ivans Who's another friend of mine, albeit a darned liberal one...
...District Court Judge Eugene Sand (re: alleged housing discrimination in New York) Former Senator William Proxmire CPUSA (Communist Party, USA) Communist Socialist Workers' Party The People's Daily World Hollywood, California The National Abortion Rights Action League Operation PUSH The Hemlock Society Dred Scott Tyler, of flag-treading fame at Chicago's Art Institute The Episcopal Church The Brookings Institution Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Committee for National Security The Peace Child Foundation Youth Project National Lawyers' Guild Massachusetts Fair Share Illinois Public Action Council Council on Economic Priorities Economic Policy Institute Roger Stryeski of Roselle, New Jersey, says, "I have a list for a War Crimes Tribunal when the Free Enterprise Revolution comes:" The Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hilt They may not be pinko but any organization as unknown as they are has to be dangerous "Hogan Family," especially their knee-jerk Comsymp shows on smoking and apartheid New Jersey Hospital Association, for assisting the state in converting failing community hospitals to failing socialized ones Charles Rose, newscaster "Cousin Brucie" Morrow just because he is a %$#'-wipe You're wrong about Charlie Rose, Roger...
...Check below to see if you've been denounced...
...The National Civil Liberties Emergency Committee Victor Rabinowitz of same The sanctuary movement and its organ Basta...
...Maybe we can crate up the nitwits and sell them in Eastern Europe...
...D avid A. Stephens of Pecos, Texas, is very mad at: Frank Sesno Charles Beerbarrel [sic] Richard Simmons Michael Landon Media Pains In The Ass in general Any self-proclaimed scientist who lends his name to idiotic and flawed studies which advance his agenda: As someone with a bit of training in science it offends me deeply to have "Dr...
...But have at 'em, Red...
...Tony Hall (D-OH) Anyone who wears or otherwise affiliates his person with a "peace" sign Bookstores which carry Mother Jones, Pravda, and Soviet Life but not The American Spectator Anyone whose eyes gleam when he says "bran" The Philosophy Department at every state university The American Friends Service Committee The Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) Anything "Quaker" which ain't oats Anyone who uses the word "dialogue" when talking about foreign policy Any female who uses the word "commitment": Okay, they ain't necessarily subversive, but I don't like them...
...Baldwin took a vow of poverty and moved to Managua where a vow of poverty has been easy to undertake ever since the Sandinistas took over running the economy...
...What do these people have in common...
...I don't believe you'll recognize any of the following names," he says: Alan Moore: His works include an attack on the Reagan Administration nuclear policy...
...Neither did I, but Larry Agran is welcome to go be mayor of all of them...
...Five years ago, Mr...
...And as long as Willard bugs Bryant Gumbel, he's okay by me.] Amnesty International John Bon Jovi That poor man's Berke Breathed, Doug Marlette The Whole Earth Catalog Oprah Winfrey, who could slim down even more if she would refrain from putting her foot in her mouth The Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade Gregory "I am not an American" Johnson, their stooge Rolling Stone (Sorry, P.J.I) Apology accepted, Jason...
...is a lesbian, a nuclear unilateralist, a Sandalista, a kind of theological Ron Dellums...
...He talked to me...
...Sam Gejdenson Anybody using the term "significant other" All Yugo owners Smith College School for Social Work Peter Cuikas of Leominster, Massachusetts, proscribes: Mike Dukakis Boston Globe editorial page contributor David Nyhan Rep...
...Charles Rangel (D-NY) Non-voting delegate Walter Fauntroy (D-DC) DNC Chairman Ron Brown Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions ("Golden Girls," "Soap," etc...
...Greg Paolano of Centereach, New York, chides: Anyone who runs against Jesse Helms Rep...
...George Perez wrote a story in which a woman tells her "gay" brother to be proud of what he is...
...We're here to serve: Roy Higginbotham Arthur D. Penser (Huntsville) Frank Sievelmann (Fayette) Earl Hilliard Crumm Foshee Richard Arrington Alvin Holmes Thomas Reed Ted Bryant Abraham Woods Mary Jean Haddin Mitch Mendelson Frank Bruer John Brinkley Rheta Grimsley Johnson And this cryptic addition: Sieglemann Also: Henry Kissinger Jaruzelski Richard Shelby Sen...
...Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Sen...
...George Hochbrueckner (D-Coram) "Red" Michaels of Birmingham, Alabama, is furious with any number of people, including some local Alabamians I've never heard of...
...Gary Merrill Parade magazine [You're wrong, Jan...
...I'm all for abortion, especially the retroactive kind.] AC/DC Alice Cooper Martina Navratilova Don King Lane Kirkland Muhammad Ali Toyotas [Toyotas?] Ozzy Osborne KISS Kareem Abdul-Jabbar California Lt...
...One comic used to be called `Justice League of America' until the `America' part of the title was removed in the interests of one-worldism...
...media dupes...
...Smothers was no dummy...
...I hear they're running out of commies over there...
...People who debase English by destroying words such as "prejudice" and "quality" Anyone whom W. S. Gilbert didn't like, excepting Sir Arthur Sullivan People who produce commercials which scroll text on the screen and then read it to you People who don't take free advice (in my case on computers) but bang your ear anyway and then buy what the Radio Shack salesman says to Friends, or rather onetime friends, who invite you to a party and then you discover they've become "we'reAmways" People who chant, listen to or produce any sort of rap whatsoever People who ask you the same question three times, thinking that you will interim become Enlightened and know the answer People who make commercials that show a dog eating and expect you to watch it with interest People who expect you to develop your cat's palate People who market scented and printed toilet paper James A. Damask of Akron, Ohio, takes to task: Anyone who uses the word "bonding" in reference to anything except epoxy glue Anyone who uses the word "parenting" Anyone who uses the word "wellness" The entire cast of "thirtysomething" Anyone who uses the word `ethnocentric" Anyone who drives a car with a bumper sticker that reads: "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms" Anything "New Age" Rep...
...Vladimir Posner The Humanist Robert Sherman, head of the Illinois chapter of the American Atheists' Society Deng Xiaoping FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) Harnet Pilpell (sic] Anyone who uses the phrase "chilling effect" Bob Guccione The Washington Post The Advocate U.S...
...Patrick "Leaker" Leahy "Preacher" Scotty Reston Sammy Thompson III of Washington, D.C., writes on behalf of himself and his associates to say, "As junior staff peons at two neoconservative organizations, we join together to form the Mortals & Divine Society whose mission is to take every occasion to publicly and privately denounce and harangue those listed below": Elizabeth Drew Jane Pauley Sojourners magazine Jim Wallis John Lofton Tawana Brawley The Other Side magazine Bishop Barbara Harris John Keker Bishop John Shelby Spong L E Stone, also on God's list Gus Hall Timothy Leary Jim Hightower Pat Sajak Morton Downey, Jr...
...The Rt...
...Eckankar Sonya Freedman Squeaky Fromme Bishop Gumbleton Oveta Culp Hobby IMF Albert Kinsey John McEnroe Bette Midler Liza Minnelli Muammar Qaddafi Burt Reynolds Rowan and Martin The other Smothers Brother J. D. Salinger Bo Schembechler Liv Ullman 7'ruman Capote ERA Dianne Feinstein Bianca Jagger Sen...
...Soon-to-be-former First Lady of Massachusetts Kitty Dukakis Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME) The Grateful Dead Joan Rivers Metallica Richard Daley Union Boss Richard Trumka Flag Burners Abortionists [Being the last remaining pro-choice right-winger, I must disagree here...
...Robert Torricelli Rep...
...Ellerbee Charles Kuralt Paul Simon: both of them Lillian Hellman: deceased but in need of further persecution Paul Robeson: ditto Norman Mailer Kurt Vonnegut William Styron, and anyone else who would describe Mr...
...7) I proposed a "New McCarthyism" (of the Strike-A-BlowFor-Joe, not the Clean-For-Gene type...
...John Nields Arthur Liman Gloria Allred David Duke Buz Lukens The Kennedy Kids Larry "Bud" Melman Mayor Marion Barry Leonard Nimoy The Fairfax County "Family Life Education" program People who use %love" motifs Dykes on Bikes Eugene McCarthy TransAfrica THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 17 The Hollywood Women's Political Committee The inventor of the "Visualize World Peace" bumpersticker Joseph J. Eule, also of D.C., admonishes: Colman McCarthy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...Leo McCarthy William "The Refrigerator" Perry Jane Wyman: She divorced Reagan...
...We now have a lovely file on the ideologically sinister, a fine, big matricula of scum...
...T hose of you who took President 1 Bush's "kinder, gentler" suggestion too literally and, therefore, haven't been reading TAS may wonder what's going on here...
...Joe Skilton of Portland, Oregon, reprehends: Jerry Brown Gerald `Jimmy and I Are Here to Help" Ford A Chicago informant who shall remain nameless would ostracize: Ira Glasser Lou Palmer, columnist for the Chicago Defender The Chicago Defender ACT UP The Windy City Times, a gay Chicago newspaper ANC The Ligourian Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose, a New Age organization for world unity The Club of Rome All adherents of Harmonic Convergence The Institute for Critical Legal Studies at Harvard Law School Tom Wicker Tom Brokaw Political Science and Sociology Departments at the University of Wisconsin ABC NBC and CBS for '88 Republican convention coverage, including much reportorial use of the terms "right-wing" and "hard right-wing" and during which interviews with various Democrats and Jesse Jackson were allowed to overshadow speeches by Bob Dole and Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...L. C. Carter of El Paso, Texas, inveighs against: Rose Kennedy, and the fruits of her womb A group of self-described "militant right-wingers in Kentucky" submit a rather peculiar roster which combines politics, music criticism, and an apparent attempt to get even on some ill-advised sports betting: The Rainbow Coalition Mayor Ed Koch Sen...
...This despite the fact that TAS readers have jobs, marriages, intellects, and other things which keep them busier than, say, members of the Community for Creative Nonviolence...
...John S. Davidge of Binghamton, New York, denounces: Jessica Lange Robert Heilbroner Richard Goodwin Burke Marshall Henry Commager Cornell's Department of African Studies The New Yorker Time Newsweek Rudolph Guiliani Richard Reeves Jimmy Breslin The EPA John Coffman Tim Wirth George McGovern Charles Shumer John Heinz Augustus Hawkins Susan Estrich Les Aspin Robert Byrd Edward Markey Aryeh Neier John K. Galbraith James K Galbraith Henry L. Gates Bishop Paul Moore Peter Bradford Leonard Sand Sierra Club Friends of the Earth Lee Iacocca Frances Piven Clyde Prestowitz Jeff Faux Robert Reich Kronos Quartet Ali Mazrui Kathy Boudin Bernadine Dohrn Larry Davis Susan Tipograph Clarence Ditlow Joan Claybrook Russell Means America's Watch The United Nations The World Bank Richard Bertovich of Eastlake, Ohio, is unhappy with: Ohio Governor Dick Celeste Any politician who uses the term "Economic Justice" Debra Winger Hendrik Hertzberg Sorry that Richard feels this way, Rick, but you did go to work in the Carter White House...
...You can't leverage gulag assets, and gulag merchandising rights are worth zilch...
...His smell hasn't changed...
...Baldwin spoke in front of the Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Church about Nicaragua and the workers' paradise being developed there...
...Lust on a park bench, actually...
...Maybe somebody in the White House should have a look at the effect President Have-Half is having on the WeAin't-Taking-It part of his constituency...
...She was never entrusted with a parish before becoming bishop, probably because no parish would take her...
...Ted 71trner, the only known human capable of producing a documentary on the Soviet Union so smarmy that the KGB was moved to apologize for it Luke Asbury of Mill Valley, California, is steamed...
...John Chafee (D-RI) Sen...
...And there was one final letter which contained a photocopy of the TAS subscription ad which lists many of the fine, thoughtful people who read our publication...
...And prefrontal lobotomies are out...
...They write comic books...
...22, No...
...This is an obvious commie plot to debase America's native game Jim McMahon and Brian Bosworth: just because they're horrible people Red Auerbach and John Thompson: ditto Jackson Browne Bruce Springsteen, another multimillionaire wailing about the wretchedness of capitalism Harry Belafonte Spike Lee E. L. Doctorow Bill Plante Arthur Kropp The post-containment George Kennan Joseph Rauh Andreas Papandreou Hans-Dietrich Genscher France Neil Kinnock David Lynch Robert Hawke Any student who comes here because his backwater, tinhorn, Third World wasteland of a country can't provide a decent education and then complains about what a repressive and horrible system we have Robert Mapplethorpe Would-be Armand Hammer Dwayne 0. Andreas John Paul Arnerich of Los Angeles, California, exprobates: Mark Russell Bill Press, California liberal sophist David Gergen The Detroit Pistons Michael R. Hemmerich of Cleveland, Ohio, disparages: Dick Cavett Men who wear sandals TAS House Hoosiers: OK, OK, just kidding...
...The Mondale family Minnesota's Governor Rudy Perpich Sen...
...Last month we ran the first part, and this month we're running the second...
...Remember thinking Mrs...
...The Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America Its leaders, Renny Golden and Michael McConnell Prairie Fire Franklin Thomas...
...6 T am a Catholic priest: usually 1 good-natured, and occasionally utterly exasperated," writes the Rev...
...Barney Frank (D-MA) The Clamshell Alliance Jeremy Rifkin Sally Struthers Bill Moyers And my brother-in-law, who is living testimony to the meaninglessness of a college degree these days Paul Kirchner of Hamden, Connecticut, reviles: Oliver Stone Linda "Is anyone going to eat that last eclair...
...this and "Professor" that lending their names to something purely political—for example, that infantile nuclear winter model...
...Claiborne Pell Rep...
...my congressional "representative" Larry J. King of Morrisville, Vermont, has an unusual venue of criticism...
...Jim Sasser (WIN) Gov...
...Beats my pair of jacks, Tom, Wlady Pleszczynski snuck it in the July list.] Dr...
...And, sadly," he continues, President George Bush, who broke his word and sided with the "Don't Burn the Flag—Burn the Bill of Rights...
...No, Jason, at age 42, the idea of bald, fat, and sexy does not bother me...
...Also," says Luke, The entire California Legislature, mostly a pack of bumblewits and/or poltroons...
...Thomas F. Steele of Orange County, California, has only one name for the docket but, as Tom says, "It's an eye-opener for the most populous Republican county in the country to contain such a critter": Mayor of Irvine, California, Larry Agran, Honors Grad U.C...
...Leo Eagle of Old Bethpage, New York, tells us, "Long Island has its own brand of lefties...
...and Mrs...
...without wincing Social workers Pollsters Therapists Bureaucrats Activists Slugs Anyone who believes in homophobia Anyone who disapproves of it Everyone at every prestige university except first-semester freshmen, maybe Anyone who consciously forms "relationships" Anyone belonging to any group that has "Coalition," '541liance," "Community," "Solidarity," "Citizen," "People," or "Popular" in its name Anyone who refers to "the movement" and is not talking about bodily functions Anyone who observes, studies...
...Gloria Steinem is the consultant on the 'Wonder Woman' comic written by George Perez...
...I swear it...
...Tom Sawyer (D-OH) Rep...
...Jan Beck of Seattle, Washington, dresses down: Stanley Kramer Defense Attaché Legal Services Corp...
...sister city" relationships "I didn't know Nicaragua had 80 cities," notes Tom...
...In Superman comics, one of Superman's best friends, Maggie Sawyer, is a lesbian...
...Thomas Downey (D-Amityville) Rep...
...This is George's second citation on the List (multiple mentions allowed because he's a sitting Chief Executive...
...Crosby, Stills and Nash: Spare Neil Young because he's Canadian People for the American Way The up-coming movie Old Gringo: Based on a Carlos Fuentes novel, with Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck—to die for, right...
...Madonna Maria Shriver Michael Gartner, editor of the Ames, Iowa, Daily Tribune Eddie Murphy Janet Cooke One Mary Farley, who described "My Love Affair with a Sandanista" in Cosmo...
...Ruth Kathleen Sullivan Jean Harris Guns & Roses Betty Dodson James Freedman William Cole Joyce Carol Oates Tony Mandarich Mike Tyson [Okay, Mary and Tim, howsabout you go tell Mike he's on the Enemies List.] Robin Givens Irving R. Levine Ted Sorensen Bob Rafelson Alex Cox Arthur Penn John Denver Richard Pryor Judy Collins Charles Curran Barry Manilow Jack Henry Abbott Glenn Close Safe sex Chuck Stone Kim Basinger Dustin Hoffman Sushi Willie Horton Candy Crowley Carroll O'Connor Jack Klugman Alice Rivlin Muzak Harold Stassen Mary Worth Martin Scorsese Candice Bergen #12 grade river gravel [huh?] Gallaudet College Union of Concerned Alchemists Scientific American Oregon "West 57th Street" The U.S...
...Most of the lefties already tried it on themselves in the sixties...
...Perez is a committed feminist...
...We conservatives don't have gulags because they aren't tax deductible...
Vol. 22 • November 1989 • No. 11
