Shoot the Wounded
O'Rourke, P. J.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1990 P. J. O'Rourke SHOOT THE WOUNDED The first annual update of the Joe McCarthy Memorial New Enemies List! W ell, fellow witch hunters, a lot...
...foreign policy...
...On the eve of our ninth anniversary, I feel compelled to denounce her, in the hope it may shock her into reality...
...So while I would like to add a few specifics, I would also like to round up the rest of those commie lefties out there": Judge Sand of New York, for having the nerve to write an opinion that says begging is a form of constitutionally protected free speech...
...Arlene Armstrong, Seaford, DE...
...Chartock enough...
...He would not have a prayer of survival in any time slot where thoughtful viewers had other alternatives...
...Creative writing teachers Stanford University, because they hired and retain an idiot professor who loudly professes that the Holocaust was a Zionist-Hollywood lie...
...Susan G. Gamble of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thumbs her nose at: U2 and all other rock groups who claim to speak for anyone other than themselves: U2 sings "Angel of Harlem...
...Big Brother and the Welfare State are both the inevitable result of his incessant whining about the innate rottenness and helplessness of man...
...This "real-life" drama is based on Daniel Sheehan's legal defense of a black Southern mayor reportedly framed for a crime he didn't commit...
...Clean up your desk and briefcase...
...Tom Gordon, address unknown, hands a page of the Bible with a large black spot in the middle to: John Cougar Mellencamp: his fulminations on the family farm, racism, the working man, unions, and Vietnam vets—did Mr...
...Francis Fukuyama, for digging up Hegel...
...J. O'Rourke's birthday, too...
...Call now...
...President], for nurturing the idea that the NEA shouldn't be de-funded, as it might curtail free speech...
...Eclipse Comics, which preaches the Christic gospel through the medium of "graphic novels...
...Karen Howard, Seattle, WA...
...and Tyson's Prophets for Useful Idiots...
...Pierre Salinger: Why do we have to have his insight on news in Europe...
...We consider you a valuable source of intellectual roughage...
...Young Koreans United [Wrong continent, you guys.] Penn Central America Solidarity Alliance [We pledge to ride the train.] Plus these oddly yclept Marching and Chowder Societies: Consider the Alternatives Going Home And P. J.'s personal favorite: Interfaith Office of Accompaniment Chris Phelps of Glendale, California, sends us a letter beginning, "I know what you're thinking...
...This is a very elite society...
...arry A. Wilke of St...
...Brownfeld and Walker's The Revolution Lobby...
...Hodding Carter, for thinking he's smarter than George Will...
...Shell...
...voted against raising property taxes, His Officiousness ordered us to increase our property taxes by 91 percent to fund school busing...
...112228, 'The List.' I would like to tell you more about the Secret Team but everything is a secret...
...Give them what they want...
...Jim Dornan of Orange County, California, takes special exception to: Ron Kovic: Kovic...
...Kathleen J. Green, Aurora, CO...
...Squarenote is the easiest-tolearn, easiest-to-use software ever created for the PC...
...That little misfit who played McCorney in "Roe v. Wade" on TV William Norman Grigg of Provo, Utah, has found scum on an unlikely pond—two professors at Brigham Young University: Eugene England, who, apparently inresponse to the opening of a McDonald's in Moscow, lamented the fact that the Soviets have "succumbed to American materialism and preference for speed over taste...
...Their time grows short...
...Educated people who use "impact" as a verb Makers of sugar-saturated, additive-laced children's cereals Makers of whole-grained, oat-branned, vitamin-encrusted adult cereals Any church whose name begins with "United" Anyone who believes in deconstructionism, semiotics, and critical thinking without being able to define each term in fewer than fifty words Drug education programs that equate coffee, aspirin, and cough drops with pot, heroin, and crack Whoever named last October "Head Injury Awareness Month" Kent Gordis of Geneva, Switzerland, sends a rueful missive saying, "There is no corner of the earth so remote or bucolic that it does not contain candidates for the New Enemies List...
...Has the left found a new idol to adore...
...And, therefore, everybody should be against nuclear bombs—the ones under the control of free nations, that is...
...What I'll gladly publish is the coffin measurements for the filthy little jackals who almost killed her...
...Hedley, if you think you're going to get us to admit we don't know what "brimborion" means, you are sadly mistaken...
...Ted also says the world is going to end by 2000...
...Those who drive by grazed-out Indian lands and bitch about private cattlemen and their subsidies Nouveau fly-fishermen who scorn catfish Fishermen who claim fishing is not hunting The Albuquerque Journal, a supposedly Republican daily with a New York Times editorial policy Fake pickup trucks for yuppies "Please," writes Billy Long of St...
...Among the various frisbee-witted individuals and organizations "who wholeheartedly endorse this proposal" are: International Philosophers for Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide: I am not kidding...
...Jack Vestal, El Paso, TX...
...Worst of all, you lose some of your best ideas, just when they would do the most good for your career...
...After I went to all the trouble of submitting such a splendid enemies list for the October 1989 issue of TAS, you quoted me as naming 'Marvin Miller, the former head of the basketball players union...
...Paul, MN...
...We will see it to it, sir...
...Paper clutter makes you inefficient, frustrated, and can really hurt your career...
...But let me quote, with one obvious omission, from the TWC/CALC press release: Our national group has voted to make known its concerns regarding the increase [sic] racist collaboration between the newspapers and the so-called justice system .. . Concerted efforts on the part of newspapers to treat people of color in an insensitive and completely different manner than which European suspects and victims are written about is criminal .. . There are a number of cases we can refer to, but the current cases of Tawana Brawley and X, known to the world as the Central Park Jogger, are two cases in point...
...Ann Powell, Cory Powell, and Steven Nossell, Chevy Chase, MD...
...John H. Philips, Sweetgrass, Timothy Allport, Lakewood, CO...
...Mark G. Martin of San Diego, California, showing an officer's proper concern for his men, damns: Government officials who give Nicaragua millions but won't pay enlisted U.S...
...Mark Saucier of Gulfport, Mississippi, who claims that he likes Frank Zappa and dislikes George Bush too much to ever be a conservative, writes to us anyway, to condemn: Andrea Dworkin, whose all-sex-is-rape theorem transcends all common sense in an effort to make the male of the species look like the cretinous, barbaric ape-devils that we truly are, aren't we...
...Next on my personal Enemies List are: Conservative Democrats: Because they're always getting caught in bed with Ted Kennedy and telling us, "it's okay—we're not in love...
...But giving liberal bed-wetterswhat they claim to desire is too callous even for us...
...To avoid the trouble, I gave the guy a couple of bucks...
...Phelps, you are being quite unfair...
...He condemns: Businessmen who wear jogging shoes with their suits on their way to and from the train station A mysterious stranger called "Vulca" delivered this message: "I use here the name Vulca...
...Przybylski points out that the "cloddish Miller" is the former head of the baseball players union and blames this error, quite rightly, on an excess of Hoosier hoop-heads on the TAS staff...
...Richard A. Showstead of Boston, Massachusetts, moots: Sigmund Freud, cokehead Anna Freud, daddy dearest B. F Skinner, redneck Philip Averbuck of Watertown, Massachusetts, drops a dime on: Randolph Ryan, a writer for the Commie Boston Globe...
...Saul David, Van Nuys, CA...
...Or return it and you owe us nothing...
...Arthur Schlesinger, who convinced JFK to stand idly by while the Berlin Wall was being built and then had the audacity to appear on the "Today Show" to discuss the Wall's fall...
...Daniel Rodriguez, who sojourns in this mortal vale of woe (that is, Washington, D.C...
...Although he likes to pose as the high priest of militant feminism, in his heart he must realize that his brand of loony-left nihilism, America-bashing and True Confessions exploitation of unfortunately disturbed human beings is a real put-down of intelligent feminists...
...I propose going to the heart of the matter: the breeders...
...No doubt a happy medium will emerge...
...To wit: Women with two last names Male teachers of American History under 58 years of age All teachers of "Health" All school boards whose school hours are determined by a bus drivers' contract Tim Ferguson of the Wall Street Journal sends a memo saying simply: Presidential spouses and offspring Which seems a bit rough on Barbara and Millie...
...Gary Osen and Tom Propson, cochairmen of the Robert Bork Legal Defense Fund at the George Washington University Law School, bring their guns to deck level and load with grape to fire on: Louis Farrakhan, for making us want to tolerate bigots just a bit...
...Romond then lists them...
...Jeff Hansen, Ann Arbor, MI...
...Tailgunner Joe's Honor Guard Thanks also go out to these wide-awake patriots, who contributed additional targets of ridicule to our rapidly growing data bank: C. W. Young, Metairie, LA...
...Wouldn't it be easier to make a special case of Hollywood and list everyone who isn't a commie...
...Mellencamp serve?—are wearing very thin...
...Sorry, Doc...
...Squarenote gathered all the research, organized it, and even printed out my lecture notes...
...The two plan more films about Danny and his kooky Christic cases and causes...
...A basic, essential tool for anyone doing research...
...David Price, Wichita, KS...
...I can only conclude that the majority of your readers suffer from irregularity...
...Paul Castellano of Alexandria, Virginia, is worried about making the punishment fit the crime...
...Ellen Blacksmith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, fulminates against: That demonic voice who did the Dukakis TV ads [She notes he's not properly out of work, as the Duke is: "He's been doing AT&T and other commercials...
...Petersburg, Florida, who signs herself "Editor, Independent Woman" beneath which, in parentheses, she puts "Feminist Newsletter," as though, with that title, we might suppose Independent Woman to be a trade journal of the offshore oil-drilling industry or something...
...112228, but it's secret, too...
...Bob -Tyrrell and Nurse P. J. Scott Rains of Indianapolis, Indiana, wishes to include: Terre Haute Mayor Pete Chalos, for being the dumbest liberal in the world...
...Why seine for minnows...
...Adam Kaplan, Havertown, PA...
...Biacchi, and allow us to refer you to the "International Philosophers for Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide" cited in our introduction...
...Please, please, Mr...
...Tailgunner Joe must have a mile-wide smile up there in heaven's AA meeting...
...Any and all who go around "feeling good about themselves" Carol Ann Calamia of Rochester, New York, does not feel anything like that way about: The New York Times Sunday Magazine "An enemies list could be constructed with all the people featured in the magazine alone," says Ms...
...You're next, you south-ends-of-an-NEA-grant-headednorth, you...
...The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, whose agenda is to help the "disadvantaged...
...P. J., this is the pared down version...
...We chose November for an E-List update because Joe McCarthy would have been eighty-two on the 14th, which also happens to be—let's hear some "w0000-w0000...
...Alfred M. Beyer, MD, Garden City, NY...
...Try it...
...Mortarboards off to you, Rog...
...Back with the minnow net is John C. McPherson of Mt...
...Speaking of unusual communications, there is this from W. J. Provance of Murrieta, California: "I prevailed upon the Governing Board of the Secret Team . . . to allow me to provide you with a copy of their Standing Operating Plan No...
...Center on War and the Child International Peace Academy Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control...
...P.S...
...An icon, or what...
...Kiril Kundurazieff, Pomona, CA...
...John D. Kelley of Portland, Maine, gives the bum's rush to: Anyone who actually believes there is a law, either written or implied, stating that society must support the struggling artist Ben Vowels and Randy Brandt of Davis and Ramona, California, respectively, send us a "New Enemies Primer...
...Martha Plimpton, vegetarian actress who, when asked if she'd kill a cockroach, replied that it's "a question of whether that roach has a real, constructive place on this earth...
...Thought crimes can't be far off...
...Stephen R. Marsh, Arlington, VA...
...Whew, Mr...
...We'd all been wondering who that was...
...Neal D. Bernard president of Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine...
...Reader suggestions range from the bloodthirsty ("Throw them into a pit of live lawyers") to the excessively humane ("Put them out of their misery with a brick...
...Among the organizations listed as sponsoring this traipse of twits: American Indian Movement DC SCAR (Student Coalition Against Racism) [Winner of the 1990 Infelicitous Acronym Award.] United Church of Christ [Again, Donna Marmorstein warned us about churches whose names begin with "United...
...Americans who fled up here with their tails between their legs in the 1960s Americans who fled up here with their tails between their legs in the 1980s Americans I've met while traveling who: Wear Canadian flags on their luggage so they can hitch-hike and not get blown up Say what a great country we have, having never been here Don't know Canada is not another state "P.S.," says Mr...
...of Mantoloking, New Jersey, says, with great indignation, "I live in Ocean County, one of the most Republican counties in New Jersey...
...An anonymous source at UCLA nominates: Physicians for Social Responsibility: May they all get a large dose of socialized medicine right where they deserve it...
...Call us now at 617 277 9222, or write us at the address below...
...Mary's Court, Brookline, MA 02146 Telephone 617-277-9222 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 15 Powell's Covert Cadre...
...Six billion people subsisting on beans, rice, and corn—the potential methane gas from such a situation is truly frightening...
...Albert Einstein International Academy Foundations: After the guy who gave us the mushroom cloud...
...It's pretty simple: if Congress passes it, you veto it...
...And he sends us two from Switzerland: Jean Zeigler, a socialist member of the Swiss parliament who accused Nestle of having conspired with the CIA in the overthrow of Salvadore Allende...
...Paul Hagstrom of San Francisco, California, would gladly sic Jack on: Mr...
...It runs on any PC...
...Program Traders on the New York Stock Exchange: sworn enemies of the capitalist system, borers from within...
...Send No Money...
...An anonymous contributor sends us a flyer advertising the "Archbishop Romero March to End the U.S...
...and finally, Joe Skilton of Portland, Oregon, whose list it'll take me a year to read...
...Watt,there's such a thing as the Eighth Amendment...
...The freshly unemployed NevilleChamberlains at Nuclear Free America, who proposed replacing the Iron Curtain with a "Curtain of Peace and Freedom...
...Anybody for Native American pudding...
...Certain bona fide lefties can be absolved if they're hard-line supporters of Israel...
...Roy Marokus, who's an M.D...
...While we've got the animals in our cross hairs let's listen up to David A. Stephens of Pecos, Texas, who says: Peckerheads here who claim one shouldn't shoot coyotes...
...The New Enemies List' is very funny," says Ms...
...Charlotte Smith, from P. J.'s hometown of Toledo (How are the Mud Hens doing...
...Now that I think about it . . . : Phil Donahue used to do morning egg market quotations on Channel 7 .. . and that drip Martin Sheen went to Chaminade High School...
...Go for a really big fish like Augustine of Hippo who screwed up Western civilization by laying the foundation for all leftist `isms' that plague it today...
...Although the last may be back on other grounds...
...Collier and Horowitz's Destructive Generation...
...George Bush (reluctantly): Hey, George, do you remember the oath of office...
...B. V. Sheard, Stamford, CT...
...military and Marxist critique of U.S...
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...Can't we arrange something...
...Can you imagine if the whole world took his advice...
...All except God-fearing, church-going Christians...
...Yes, Mr...
...naturally, I will go wherever The Committee finds it necessary to send her, and will continue to read the Spectatorto her until her soul is revived...
...Marc Neufeld and Bob Rehme, producers of the upcoming film Dancin' Cross the River...
...What the hell do they know...
...All rabble multiply exponentially," he says...
...Richard A. Shourtur, Boston, MA...
...and F. R., East Lansing, MI...
...Karen L. Baldwin and Michelle A. Bleistein, Springfield, VA...
...Daniel Buksa of Munster, Indiana, a Second Amendment fancier, berates: Sarah Brady: Yeah, I'm sorry her husband got shot and is now a cripple, but Terry Przybylski of Des Plaines, Illinois, would like to put the Enemies List on the Enemies List...
...Kevin Dunphy, Bloomington, IN...
...Ed Ahlsen-Girard, Pearl Harbor, HI...
...Tawana, 16, should not have had her body exposed to the world in public...
...Canada's $100 million loan to China after Tiananmen Anyone Canadians call a "national treasure," usually because they're hauling down the big bucks in the States and are lauded by American pinkos...
...Sean Connery Clint Eastwood, though he showed squishy tendencies over there in Cannes...
...Phil Donahue (Molly Yard in drag): he mouths the pacifist and militant feminist drivel that Marlo Thomas has spoon-fed him...
...noises from West Coast conservatives who collect unicorn figurines—P...
...The Peace Dividend Before I go, kudos to Polish painter Franciszek Starowieyski, who founded his own McCarthy Society in Warsaw...
...Coretta Scott King Professionals for National Security: Which begs the question, "How do I go about joining Amateurs for International Insecurity...
...Before I go, kudos to Polish painter Franciszek Starowieyski, who founded his own McCarthy Society in Warsaw and told the Polish weekly Przekroj: The McCarthy Society is my private society, created to honor this fine man who halted the frenzied advance of Communism turning brains into jelly...
...We won't be able to print all the additions to the Scroll of Fools this year, partly because of sheer volume, partly because we've already shot so many of the fish in the barrel, and partly because we've exhausted the P J. O'Rourke holds the Gen...
...Can we put Jack in for an award or medal or something...
...Then, I waited...
...professor of communications at SUNY Albany, and political commentator for the local CBS-TV affiliate...
...Petersburg, Florida, "delouse": The 94 Senators who voted in favor ofthe "Hate Crimes" Bill 5419 C. T. Hellmuth, president of C. T. Hellmuth & Associates Insurance Brokers of Chevy Chase, Maryland, takes a moment from his business day to rebuke the policies of: Adlai Stevenson, who convinced JFK to deny promised air cover at the Bay of Pigs...
...We award you your degree...
...Writers, Researchers...
...Nelson Mandela, make that St...
...But perhaps I should not say this, lest someone call me Eurocentric...
...smirk the liberals, who are no smarter running with the hares in the nineties than they were hunting with the hounds in the seventies...
...Quebec separatists Philippe Ruston, a lunatic head-measurer who claims that Orientals are genetically superior to whites, and that whites are in turn superior to blacks...
...Nevada Desert Experience I am still not kidding...
...Albert Zeller...
...Lawrence Cranberg of Austin, Texas, has a branding iron warming in the fire for: Cara La Marche, a member of the National Board of the ACLU who thumbed his nose at Chief Justice Burger for suggesting that copies of the Constitution be put in cereal boxes...
...Zilch...
...Davis, lbcson, AZ...
...Cranberg, "helped create three new classes of the disadvantaged: federal judges who must deal with innumerable frivolous habeas corpus petitions from jailhouse lawyers...
...Ted Danson, who's supposed to play Daniel Sheehan in Dancin' Cross the River...
...Stay as sweet as you are, Mark...
...But it's a mixed marriage (she has liberal tendencies...
...Our televisions should be designed to recognize these incoming signals and to explode, rather than permit these assaults on the human soul to enter our homes...
...16 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 Senior executives of U.N...
...Kirchner, "but he's my hero for saying 'America doesn't have the guts to admit that Whoopi Goldberg isn't funny.' " Now, back to condemning people to perdition...
...Robert J. Cihak of Aberdeen, IX Washington, has a "beef" with some sawbone quacks, the same bunch who irked our anonymous informant at UCLA: Physicians for Social Responsibility, the docs who advertised all the diseases and injuries that would result if a nuclear bomb somehow exploded over Seattle...
...But who ya gonna pick on now...
...We're cold-hearted conservatives here at TAS...
...Terry Przybylski of Des Plaines, Illinois, would like to put the Enemies List on the Enemies List...
...No...
...The Rev...
...Vulca has it in for: California quacks who say that good foods which have benefited us for several millennia, things like meat and milk, are harmful and full of "toxins" even as they promote their vegetarian diet and vitamin cults Anyone who calls swamp grass a health food Vulca has spoken...
...Kenneth M. Mason, also of Rochester, would like to turn in to the authorities: Gregory Peck, that great American who did so much to assassinate Robert Bork's character, narrating the "commercial" that so many TV stations saw fit to play as a news item...
...like the card files you have used for years...
...His choices: The (dis)Honorable Ron De Lugo (D-Virgin Islands) The (dis)Honorable Jaime Fuster (D-Puerto Rico) "These two scoundrels," says Mendoza-Tio, "are in cahoots to torpedo the proposed plebiscite for Puerto Rico, effectively disenfranchising millions of American citizens...
...The National Education Association's bureaucrats, the pernicious destroyers of American students' ability to compete in the world economy by their emphasis on "feel good" subjects, de-emphasis of Mathematics, English, and American History and their denigration of competitive scholarship...
...X continues: "After six days and a few twelve packs spent in deep reflection, I believe I have a non-cruel, unusual punishment for the condemned...
...Ted Lyon, who urges students to learn about the "positive aspects" of Marxism, especially liberation theology, which he describes as linking Marx and Christ in a "very holy union...
...Kirchner goes on to say that "trying to list the left-wingers in showbiz is like trying to conduct a cockroach census in my old Lower East Side apartment...
...You'll never lose an idea again...
...Actually, Mr...
...But in just 8 minutes a day, with SquarenoteTM on your IBM PC or compatible, you can gain complete control over your scattered notes, clippings, letters and documents...
...Averbuck encloses a column by Comrade Ryan in which the FMLN terrorists in El Salvador are quoted using surfer slang...
...Semper FL And don't forget, the Commie you clobber may be —whoops—your own dim-bulb, teenage, Grateful Dead-fan kid...
...Joseph Murphy, outgoing leftist chancellor of the City University of New York...
...the political future of my six-year-old daughter weighs heavily on my mind...
...Gary Stark, La Palma, CA...
...And, speaking of the Harps, John F. Curran of River Edge, New Jersey, would list: Everyone responsible in any way for the Calvin Klein "Obsession" commercials on TV "We should talk to the Japanese," says himself...
...Carl F. Engelhardt of the U.S...
...professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz...
...C amilo O'Kuinghttons, Jr...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 /9 No-growth economists People who drive slow in the fast lane Those ungrateful Greeks, who cursed our military presence and now curse us for wanting to leave...
...T, and Jerry Mathers as the "Beaver...
...Tom Strother, Fort Worth, TX...
...Herb Caen, San Francisco columnist for whom clans, cults, and perverts come under the category of sacred special interest groups...
...Marokus...
...Just leave everything to Dr...
...He cancels his subscription to TAS and says, "I can think of few things that disgust me more than the thought of a return to the time when the prejudiced opinions of a few immoral power seekers gripped the nation with fear...
...first off, P. J. will exercise droit du seigneur and set a couple of burning faggots (no sniggering, please) at the feet of Satan's familiars: •The twig-toothing leaf-brains who spray-painted my local McDonald's with the message "Meat is Murder"—If meat is murder, does that mean eggs are rape...
...Stallone and George Hamilton: they liked the Marcoses, but does that make them right-wingers...
...All because of paper clutter...
...How," he asks, "could you do this to me...
...War in Central America...
...This clown says, "If you're a meat-eater, you are contributing to the destruction of the environment...
...Ah, Jonathan me lad, imagine a whole family of them the way yours truly has got...
...Besides, everybody hates liberal Democrats these days...
...military personnel a living wage Theodore A. Bundesen of San Jose, California, says, "The following flap-doodlers, featherbrains, and freeloaders are alarmingly absent from your list": The San Mateo Lincoln Club, known locally as the "Kennedy Klub," which promotes Republican candidates so liberal they would run as Democrats if the Democratic party didn't insist they wear sandals...
...Judge Stewart Hancock, of the New York State Court of Appeals, who reversed the harassment conviction of some woman in upstate New York who called a retarded woman a "bitch" and her son a "dog...
...Gary Melford...
...Calamia...
...Erwin...
...Baumgardner, we're upset by the Mayor Barry verdict, too, but shouldn't you be taking this up with the Nation...
...A few of us neo-types at TAS sincerely hope we aren't in there...
...Hang Ten, maybe...
...Bryan R. Johnson of Blacksburg, Virginia, complains about the response to his previous contributions to the Enemies List: "Imagine my pride and extreme nervousness when I found my name and current location published in TAS...
...I don't even remember if anyone else besides me belongs to it...
...The reading shall be from the Book of Deuteronomy 32:15: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness...
...All sportscasters who persist in explaining to us what great human beings those arrogant, coke-tooting, coed-slugging 7-Eleven-robbing, stereo-stealing college athletes really are Col David Hackworth, a media darling you would never have heard of if not for his rambling, paranoid criticisms of the U.S...
...you couldn't do better than la has in twenty-five short years...
...Not at all, Ms...
...Unneland goes on to say that the above-named persons and MSAC were "the main elements of the Putsch which deposed Joel Segall from the presidency of Baruch College (a part of the City University of New York) for his efforts to resist the establishment of a Black and Hispanic Alumni Association separate from the official group, and for his attempts to establish a test of tenure other than the feather test...
...All those who had a hand in the Alar scare President Bush [that's your second warning, Mr...
...students in our schools, whose funding has been diminished to help support prisoners at the level deemed suitable by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation...
...You'll actually see the tops of your filing cabinets and desks, slim down your briefcase, and clean out your pockets...
...Lou Reed, who finds the time to pose for American Express ads when he's not bemoaning American greed and selfishness...
...Imagine Pamela Harriman trapped in a world where everyone had to do her own laundry...
...Animal rights activists, for irritating an already unstable and well-armed segment of the population...
...Anyone who appears in a Bob Hope special "I haven't investigated Sam Kinison," says Mr...
...Donna Marmorstein of Aberdeen, South Dakota, unloads on: Whoever invented illiteracy billboards The left half of Joan Beck Burger King's marketing company: the one that came up with the "Sometimes ya just gotta break the rules" ad...
...I loaded Mr...
...Mandela, and his not-yet-canonized wife Edmund Unneland of Jackson Heights, New York, says that he would like "the academic section of our shock troops of the coming Kulturkampf to deal with the following": Arthur Lewin, professor of black studies, who tried to pass off articles in the Journal of Revolutionary Socialism as publication deserving of tenure...
...And so say all of us...
...Don Lynch of Arlington, Virginia, condemns: Demagogic Southern senators and congressmen who are mislabeled `conservative" Conservatives who call discrimination "affirmative action" and pro-death people "pro-choice" People who call things like alcoholism, drug abuse, and poverty a `disease" Sorry we didn't print your letter sooner, Don, but we were "sick...
...Based on this prediction, wouldn't you guess that Walter Mondale, or perhaps Gus Hall, had won the 1988 presidential election...
...But he's still an NRA supporter...
...Al Sharpton, for forcing us to defend Mario Cuomo...
...Ida, Arizona, lowering the boom on: Anyone who compares the United States to `other industrial nations" for any purpose whatsoever Police Chief Joseph McNamara of San Jose The Police Foundation Any cop who uses his title and uniform to front for liberal causes Anyone attending a "silent vigil" at an execution Anyone using the term "the new homeless" with a straight face Anyone suggesting that we just don't pay enough taxes in this country V. Maida of New York, New York, sends us the names of "a few more who need to be rooted out": Animal rights activists who think hassling women on the street constitutes a tremendous contribution to the planet Why don't they pick a fight with a Hell's Angel in a leather jacket...
...I think that Chartock is bucking for press secretary in a Cuomo administration...
...Army...
...Larry Eubank, Jeffersonville, IN...
...In Just 8 Minutes A Day...
...Charles Perry of Sylmar, California, singles out: Gloria Allred, the Church Lady of the Left, fuming defender of gay foster parents and triumphant integrator of boring men's clubs J. Edgar Williams of Carrboro, North Carolina, sends no candidates of his own but has some valuable suggestions about where to go to look for auto-da-fe fodder: "There are several sources I find valuable...
...We suppose it's all a matter of how one feels about Seattle...
...Okay, we'll give it a try: Hollywood Anti-Blacklist Roster Of Conservative Heroes and Pals Arnold Schwarzenegger Robert Stack Chuck Norris Tom Selleck Charlton Heston Ricardo Montalban Jan Michael Vincent John Milius Marilyn Chambers: she cruises the annual Soldier of Fortune convention, so I guess she's okay...
...Just mention this ad, and we'll send you a copy of Squarenote to try, at our risk, for 30 days...
...urt D. Baumgardner of Smyrna, Georgia, is not at all amused by recrudescent McCarthyism...
...Virgil E Massman, St...
...An anonymous correspondent from "The People's Republic of Oregon" proposes: Any journalist, commentator or other fool who refers to the old guard in Moscow or Peking as `conservatives" Whoever invented the brassiere and put the hooks in the back Every state with state-run liquor stores Ms...
...Ohio, says, "There's something wonderful about sweeping indictments," and sweepingly indicts: People who say "awhnt" instead of "aunt" who weren't born in England Anybody fool enough to have been, or wish to have been, at Woodstock Liberals who breathlessly follow the doings of the Royal Family Jay Hass of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, submits: Primert Avantor Synovus Crestar Imtrex Cenit Centura Sovran "Incredibly," says Mr...
...That's a thesis and a half...
...Hass, "these are not chemical compounds, computer passwords, government agencies, or figures of classical mythology, but names with which fitted-shirt and tapered-slack members of boards have rechristened eight American banks...
...Jeffrey T. McGowan, Farmington, MI...
...Enjoyed reading your enemies list . . . until I noticed that you use those awful two-capital-letter state abbreviations that the Post Office thought up so addresses can be read by robots," writes Dale E. Elliott, who lives in IL...
...Anderson would now like us to bow our heads and say a small prayer for these people and institutions as they walk that long, lonely mile to the ducking stool: Self-righteous nonsmokers All seminaries which mean to conventionalize "inclusive language," sodomists' rights, and a "Theology of Compensation" for any self-proclaiming oppressed group John Irving, for his vacuous and inapposite political whimperings in A Prayer for Owen Meany Any office with more plants than people Sensitive people who dress like gypsies or peasants Helen H. Bergman of New York City indicts the Big Apple's entire Democratic party establishment and lists most of them...
...Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 63,339 to 47,059...
...All of the rest of the confused legislators and supposed do-gooders who have forgotten that the Second Amendment to the Constitution was designed to prevent an oppressive government abusing the rights of the people—so said Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 29...
...Wait," says Dr...
...S teve Bodio, an old acquaintance from New Hampshire, has moved to Magdalena, New Mexico, and reports that that otherwise lovely state is afflicted with: Santa Fe and all its residents and its "style" People who moved to Bernalillo County and immediately banned the cockfighting that their neighbors had indulged in since 1500 Everybody who says 'Native American": every non-bureaucratically employed Indian I know says "Indian...
...I mean, I'll stand behind my list against all corners (particularly since I'm more heavily armed than any of the people on my list) but The American Library Association has some pretty tough characters...
...Geraldine K. Smith of Chichester, New York, writes to remind us of one more hangover from the sixties, the first decade in history to last thirty years: Men with long, long hair and earrings The E. I Beyer family and their friends—who tell us that they are all over sixty—bring wisdom and experience to bear upon the selection of fools: Mrs Betty Ford, for pandering to Planned Parenthood...
...Whatever happened to names which told you something about the business or its clientele, such as Citizens and Southern, The Detroit Bank and Trust Company, and First and Merchants National Bank...
...Huyler E. Romond, Jr...
...He is executive director/producer/fund raiser of our local NPR affiliate WAMC...
...Nothing...
...Anyone who thinks D.C...
...If after 30 days of use you want to keep it, send us just $99, (a savings of $100 from our list price of $199...
...District Judge Russell Clark: When the folks of K.C...
...And we'd like to tell your readers about Plan No...
...Paramount Pictures, the company that plans to distribute Dancin' Cross the River...
...Here are some highlights from her nomenklatura of worms in the winesap: David Dinkins All the West Side Reform Democratic Clubs of Manhattan Local 1199, Hospital Workers Union Barry Feinstein of the Teamsters Union Sandra Feldman of the United Federation of Teachers Stanley Hill of ASFCME Jay Mazur of the ILGWU Elizabeth Holtzman Ruth Messinger Howard W. Whetzel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, warns us that our current strategy against Boob Nation is misguided...
...Hang Randolph, definitely...
...Ronald Gage, Washington, D.C...
...Herewith some samples therefrom: D is for Dukakis, the political joke Kitty's in rehab and Massachusetts is broke N is for Nunn, though not as liberal as Ted When his interest's at heart, he'll jump right into bed O is for Ortega, cheered on by Winger So let's send Debra there, attached to a Stinger T is for Tutu, spouting ANC baloney Falwell was right when he called him a phony X is for Malcolm, a bad dude of old Now joined by Abbie where it never gets cold Donald Whidder, who leaves us to speculate about his address, would give the gate to: All the Palestinian punks who throw rocks in the infantilah (sic) Oscar Arias, appeaser The City of Miami, except for the Latin Quarter All codgers who want free medical care but want younger people to pay for it Comic strip characters "Cathy" and "Pogo" Ed Green of Charleston, New York, says, "It would be too bad if Dr...
...Chad J. Davis, MD, Indianapolis, IN...
...Paul A. Pangallo of Indianapolis, Indiana, returns us to more familiar territory, throwing cold water upon: The people who held hands and stood on a hillside and sang the Coca-Cola song Our penultimate correspondent, R. S. Bearse of Arlington, Virginia, where many of our best informants—and we ourselves—seem to come from, calls down the lightning upon: Those who didn't get goosebumps every time President Reagan said, "God bless you and God bless America" And, last of all, we have an Enemies List entry I'll bet none of you included: Nathan A. Forney of Rockwood, Illinois, explains that the "For Women Only" column in the Fall 1988 issue of Spinal Cord Injury Life announced to the world the founding of a newsletter called—and he's not pulling our prosthetic device, he sent the clipping to prove it Dykes, Disability and Stuff With that we bid you adieu until next November 14...
...Tom Lantos and Steve Solarz, Charles Krauthammer (and most of the New Republic gang)—and—yes—Barney Frank...
...Robert H. Vasoli, Notre Dame, IN...
...Alan Chartock couldn't be included on your list...
...Justice Department: Now that RICO laws have voided the Constitution, this leftist lawyer-employment agency is targeting people for "ecocrimes...
...but who is careful to point out he's "formerly of Texas," looks askance at: Nuclear-free Takoma Park, Maryland White singers with fake Jamaican accents City slickers who speak like country folk (like Ann Richards and Molly Ivins) Daniel Young of Ottawa, Canada, would make a burnt offering of: HUD The California Raisins Teenage homosexual encounter groups Tupperware parties Publicly funded health care Canadian artists who move to the US...
...Julius Blumenthal, Los Olivos, CA...
...We shudder...
...now his group has moved to Florida to stop the launch of shuttles carrying nuclear-powered space probes...
...This program saved my neck when faced with teaching two new courses and only two months to prepare...
...Nerts to you, Kenneth Cole Fritz Sands of Woodinville, Washington, is cheesed at George Bush "Imagine," says Mr...
...As a result of our noble crusade, Communists are now just another small, half-baked cult who put out an occasional newsletter (the Washington Post, for instance) and pester people in airports (particularly Peking's...
...Ezra Pound, because his insanity is still contagious...
...The Kenneth Cole clothing store ran an ad in the San Francisco Examiner headlined: "Some of the people not invited to the opening of our new store," followed by a list...
...Shotgun with #4 buck (more effective than 00—more pellets per load and a better pattern) and kept it within reach at all times...
...Preserve those precious ideas...
...The U.S...
...The Isaacs' Coercive Utopians...
...M ike Northrup, whose handwriting renders his hometown in Maryland illegible, names: The Maryland State Employees UnitedCharity Campaign, for allowing the Maryland Nuclear Weapons Freeze Education Fund to be listed in its contributors' guide as a charity...
...but no Bolshie croaker, writes in to protest the inclusion, in a previous Enemies List, of his home town of Dayton, Ohio...
...Gain Complete Control Over Your Scattered Notes, Memos, Clippings, Research Papers, And Letters...
...Send all your lefties to Alabama—they'll know what to do with them...
...Paul, MN...
...Kurt Loder and MTV News: Kurt and the rest of his "news" team are always giving plugs to Eclipse's comics and its other leftist merchandise, like Iran-contra trading cards...
...I guess if you're caught trying to escape through the "Peace Curtain" you get petitioned to death...
...We note here the third George Bush excommunication in this Enemies List and suggest that, if this keeps up, the President may want to do his 1992 fund-raising over at People for the American Way...
...Mike Perry, Seattle, WA...
...Charles Perry, Sylmar, CA...
...Gill...
...And waited...
...Eddie Murphy, for proving that the free market doesn't always result in the best product...
...Black Mountain, North Carolina: Once a beautiful hamlet in the Smoky Mountains, it's now an enclave of peaceniks, crystal-rubbing New Agers, and other primitive life forms...
...Elie Wiesel's hairstylist A lady with the delightful—Howard W. Whetzel's opinion to the contrary—name Angeli DiLucca-Paterson, from Pasadena, California, scolds: The inventor of the leaf blower Any pro football player who gyrates, dances, highsteps, grabs another player's rear en4 or otherwise acts like an imbecile after a touchdown or play Lawrence P. Biacchi of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, provides us with "The Philosopher's Enemies List": Allan Bloom, for claiming Nietzsche runs the world...
...That is what his greatness is based on...
...Nada...
...The northern spotted owl: hardly worth the barbecue sauce...
...asks George M. Hollenback of Houston, Texas, an unrepentant Pelagian who believes in free will and personal responsibility...
...However, due to gerrymandering, all my elected representatives above the county level are Democrats...
...Hasek, "Don't just open your floodgates to the Great White North either...
...Thomas D. Watt of Omaha, Nebraska, drops a line just to let us know that "a fitting punishment for the loony left is to make them commit to memory the newspaper columns of Mary McGrory...
...Please give this request top priority...
...Bob Foster of Purcellville, Virginia, would put paid to: Anybody whose car sports one or more of the following bumperstickers: Think Globally/Act Locally Test Peace/Not Nuclear Weapons If You Want Peace/Work for Justice Love Animals/Don't Eat Them Demonstrators who go limp when arrested "May someone from the Caribbean backwoods propose some members for the 'Hall of Shame...
...Steve Oldstad of Broomfield, CO...
...There was & is a concerted effort not to publish the name of the older European, XXXXXXXXX . Third World Caucus/Clergy and Laity Concerned's address is 198 Broadway, New York, New York 10038, and I am sure they would appreciate suggestions on where to place their future press releases...
...Francis X. Gannon, Milton, MA...
...Celebrity ex-drug addicts who are given free air-time and publicity to deliver ostensibly anti-drug commercials which wind up conveying that big-time stars use drugs and get away with it Anybody associated with any movie that has been described as the "best movie ever made about Vietnam" All congresspersons named Barbara "The only problem with the New Enemies List," says Urs B. Furrer of Elmsford, New York, "is that . . . we should remember more than 40 percent of the people voted for 'Little Duke' in 1988...
...UnionSquareware 27 St...
...Ray Gelcke, Baltimore, MD...
...It seems to us that between the giggle felts and the press secretary ambition, life has already punished Dr...
...Williams also mentions a Biographical Dictionary of the Left but notes that the work was published in 1969 and is somewhat out of date...
...We are making a special offer to readers of the American Spectator who have been among our most loyal users and buyers for years...
...Cohen amends: Pat Buchanan: because of his infamous anti-Semitic remarks inspired by the Auschwitz convent flap...
...That's four McD references in the E-List, readers...
...They're from Ireland...
...And now, The TAS New Enemies List Update: T et us begin on a spiritual note, with five additions from Noel K. Anderson, pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma...
...H ere is a heart-rending letter from one James R. Erwin who, understandably, does not give his address: "I love my wife, don't get me wrong...
...Alan N. Cowan of Australia turns the dingos loose upon: )'accuse everyone mentioned in the book Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball, except Roger Kimball...
...W ell, fellow witch hunters, a lot has happened since we began our New Enemies List in July 1989...
...Donald Smith, professor of education who attempted to justify a student's assault on a lecturer in physical education by referring to a "white control system...
...and the hundreds of prisoners who have been killed and wounded in outbreaks of prison violence that accompanied ACLU/Clark-sponsored prison 'reform.' " Doug Rivers of Warner Robins, Georgia, takes aim at: Jeff Smith, Public Television's prattling peacenik Frugal Gourmet...
...Any guy who at this moment, is planning to dig up Kant Thank you, Mr...
...of San Francisco, California, provides us "Go for a really big fish like Augustine of Hippo, who screwed up Western civilization by laying the foundation for all leftist 'isms' that plague it today...
...The AFL-CIO, for trying to tear off a hunk of Lech Walesa for themselves...
...That's what the veto is for...
...Franz Weber, who devised and animated the gigantic campaign to "save the baby seals," enlisting Brigitte Bardot and other celebrities, thereby amassing his fortune...
...Any group that uses "Defense Fund," "Council" or "League" in its name [With, we presume, the exception of the National Security Council, the American League, and Messrs...
...Kyle Jorgenson from Kansas City, Missouri, gives the evil eye to: US...
...Dean Smith, Pewaukee, WI...
...asks Carlos F. Mendoza-Tio of Santurce, Puerto Rico...
...To further that agenda, it helped finance the "Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual"—a 600-page tome by jailhouse lawyer: Daniel E. Manville, distributed free by the: ACLU National Prison Project, directed by: Alvin Bronstein "The McConnell Foundation has, in fact," says Mr...
...ECS, Ilion, NY...
...All the weepy-drippy folks who talk about `networking,' `spiritual wellness,' etc., should be forced to get a degree—no, make that two degrees—in accounting...
...R. T. Osborne, Athens, GA...
...The answer to their question of who we're going to pick on now is—them...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 17 she doesn't have to take it out on the rest of us...
...T. F. Kittredge, Panama City, Panama...
...You waste precious time searching for needed documents or information...
...or Mr...
...Last, but most of all, j'accuse: Everyone mentioned in the book Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball, except Roger KimballWhen it comes to throwing the book at the stinking, treasonous redniks in our universities, this is the book to throw...
...You're next, you south-ends-of-an-NEA-grantheaded-north, you...
...Jonathan J. Cohen of Brookline, Massachusetts, writes on behalf of the TAS Zionist wing, saying, quite reasonably, "We Jewish righties have to be careful when making such a list...
...P. J. says, Watch your back, Eddie Page Another wanna-be self-nominee is Molly Gill of St...
...then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation...
...Eddie Page of Crawfordville, Florida, thinks P. J. O'Rourke should go to the head of the Enemies List for his admitted friendship with arbitrarily non-listed liberals Pat Schroeder and Michael Kinsley...
...Is it possible that the left actually got the joke...
...Robert McWilliams of Phoenix, Arizona, expressing an apposite sentiment in these Husseinish times, shakes bell, book, and candle at: Anyone who talks about the "Three Great Faiths of the World, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism": Those who talk like this about Islam sound strangely like those who once gushed about Communism...
...Thus, we spared Alan Dershowitz, Reps...
...Hugh A. MacKenzie, Tennent, NJ...
...Vulca was the Etruscan architect who built the first public buildings in Rome, thus providing at least the material foundations of a great and noble civilization...
...Lawrence M. Heavey, Jr., doesn't say where he's from, but we surmise it's one of the nicer suburbs...
...Steve and Zoe-Gabrielle Miroy...
...Of course, being good 14 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 liberals, they hate themselves, too...
...Middle States Association of Colleges, which deferred accreditation of Baruch College by reason of lower rates of minority student retention...
...Ourselves, we like the Boeing Plant...
...Mike Avery of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is strongly opposed to: MADD acid cut with strychnine urine tests the "War on Drugs" Hand Gun Control, Inc...
...Osen and Propson's Robert Bork Legal Defense Fund.] Anyone who thinks Bernhard Goetz should be in jail Anyone who thinks Michael Milken should be in jail Anyone who thinks Oliver North should be in jail Anyone who thinks he has ended an argument by blaming a problem on Ronald Reagan Paul Kirchner of Hampden, Con- necticut, tells us "Gorbachev needs commies and we could do without ours...
...Locate any document, clipping, phone number, name, or idea in seconds...
...And all the television talk-show hosts should be forced to adopt lesbian, cross-dressing, obsessive-compulsive children with severe eating disorders...
...Charles H. S. Burlington, New Bloomfield, PA...
...He's not just spreading wild-eyed Iran-contra theories in Washington anymore...
...Robert Lindsay, St...
...Gill...
...statehood is a good idea Phil Sokolof, the guy who bought those full-page newspaper ads accusing McDonald's of "poisoning" America with its food...
...George A. Borgman, Westwood, MA...
...He encloses the entire Campus Telephone Directory for the University of California at Berkeley...
...Timothy L. Shell, a graduate student at the University of Florida, lists several Tom Fools: Daniel Sheehan, head of the Christic Institute...
...earth's supply of "Fonda Commies" puns...
...Ed Rice, who's keeping his address to himself, sends us a note of clarification: "In the November, 1989, installment of your Enemies List you include the Greenpeace mailing list I'm on it but I'm innocent...
...Ditto for 'liberation theology' and pinko clerics who currently infest the Body of Christ...
...So much for the goofs, now let's turn to the goons: Third World Caucus/Clergy and Laity Concerned This bunch sent me a press release, trying to convince me to publish the name of the "Central Park Jogger...
...Mobutu Sese Seko: Okay, he's supposed to be one of our friends, but he has stolen enough from his country to make Marcos look like a petty thief...
...It charges you with protecting the Constitution...
...Quick, which is worse, lawyers or nuclear winter...
...James P. Beckwith, Jr., Durham, NC...
...I tried to like Paddy-boy, but he's a regular Father Coughlin...
...You now have somebody else to hate...
...Bad enough that Kenneth Cole should crib from us, but his list turned out to contain many of our most favorite people in the world—Exxon executives, Dan Quayle, Junk Bond salesmen, Millie "The First Dog," Zamfir, master of the pan flute, nuclear power supporters, anyone named Biff, Mr...
...Will Morrissey, Rumson, NJ...
...A. G. Layton and "friends of the same ilk" from Canada aim their scorn both high and low: Erasmus of Rotterdam: sanctimonious hypocrite, the spiritual father of all cardiac hemophiliacs...
...And besides, if anybody should have a gripe, it should be the Gipper...
...Heck, we have to call a Frigidaire service representative to get an EKG...
...and—no offense, Mike, but this comes as frankly no surprise the Eau Claire Police Department Mark S. Chmura of Michigan State University wants us to know that Michigan State "is filled with misguided liberal fanatics whose so-called 'minds' are so open that you could fly the Space Shuttle through them...
...David C. Howell, Oregon City, OR...
...Albert Ashforth, Brooklyn, NY...
...agencies (usually Scandinavians) who jet around the world in first-class luxury and sanctimoniously lecture the Western democracies on the need to do more for the poor Professors Pam Brown and Gary Anderson, from the Economics Department at California State University in Northridge, plant the sharp ends of their analytical skills in the hides of: People concerned with empowerment All Nobel peace prize laureates Most economics Nobel prizewinners Anyone who knows what tofu is Wendy Connors, address unknown, suggests: People who cheat the welfare system The welfare system Anthony Hasek, of the Toronto Office of the commendable Canadian organization Conservative Insight, sends us a list of frozen northerners who should be further chilled: The entire Progressive Conservative party, an oxymoron full of morons...
...Although we hounded Mitch Snyder to his death—he's got a home now, and a warm one at that—we have yet to settle on fit punishment for our blacklist victims...
...Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh And each of the attorneys who is now working, or has ever worked, with Walsh And his or her law firms Ralph Neas, the scabrous architect of the senatorial lynching of Judge Bork...
...On Chartock's weekly half-hour show on WAMC he usually interviews Governor Cuomo and fawns like a court jester...
...He has probably killed more people than Idi Amin or Bokassa, even if he didn't eat them...
...In the faculty and staff section, in the midst of the Ps, is one "Perkins, Karen K."—a post-doctoral fellow in microbiology who is the former girlfriend of P. J. O'Rourke, a brilliant woman (the "former" proves it), and a staunch conservative...
...A little hasty, too broad a stroke, maybe it should be pared down...
...Much of the time the show is a giggle-fest between the two...
...Curtis LeMay Memorial Chair at The American Spectator Center for Anti-Communist Studies...
...It's for writers and researchers, not computer experts...
...What Squarenote does for you is to collect all your information into one accessible, printable, sortable index card file...
...Rest easy, Mr...
...I've tried reading the Spectator to her . . . but with a mocking laugh she says things like: 'Reagan on the rock . . . HA!' For the list: Sharon D. Erwin "I pray I'm not too late to help her...
...myself I'm still a YAF member in good standing...
...Robert G. Kleber, Pittsburgh, PA...
...Mark Nahmias, Flushing, NY...
...Sands, "a prediction in the summer of 1988 that the President of the United States would, in two years, offer no aid to a Baltic republic attempting to leave the Soviet Union and that he would base that inaction not on risks to the United States but on risks to the political career of Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Leslie Woolf Hedley, editor and publisher of the Exile Press in Sonoma, California, contributes "the following list of those . . . whose mental spasms infected American culture": John Cage, because he is a brimborion...
...Lawrence R Hughes, Marshall, MI...
...You can't find things when you need them...
...The University of Florida Democrats, who showed their unswerving devotion to freedom of speech by trying to shout down Oliver North when he spoke here...
...Hungarian Reform Federation: No wonder it took them so long to reform Hungary . . . they were in the wrong country...
...Back in the spring my twelve-year-old Brittany Spaniel, Jack, treed a Greenpeace canvasser...
...Both were found near death after being assaulted...
...Freedom has come to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union has shriveled as a world power, the people of Nicaragua have given Danny Ortega the Order of the Boot, and all because of us and our brave revival of the Red Scare...
...is considering a run for Congress against one of the foremost defenders of freedom in the House of Representatives, Bob Dornan . . . Uh, Jim, not that we give a damn about conflicts of interest, but you wouldn't happen to be any relation...
...Guns 'n' Roses, just when we thought Tipper was completely off-base...
...A. C. Junior, El Paso, TX...
...Louis, Missouri, gives a back of the hand from the heartland to: Anyone who uses the "misery index" Anyone who thought it important to put girls in the Boy Scouts Believers in the "invisible poor" Believers in the "feminization of poverty" Believers in "Iranian moderates" Animal psychologists The Twenty-Second Amendment Charles E. Krakoff, who's been living in Africa for the past couple of years, sends us a sub-Saharan edition of the E-List: Julius Nyerere, Africa's Stalinist, at least until Mengistu came along...
...Elimination by in-dividual identity will necessarily result in defeat...
...He suggests that "all the actors and actresses on the list should be sentenced to five years locked in a screen writers' seminar...
...18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1990 with our first evidence of Enemies List plagiarism...
...to make dollars and return to Canada once a year to share their anti-American views Mark Katzenbaum of Arlington, Virginia, takes a swing at: Anyone who uses only one name He points out that rock stars who use one name were on a previous Enemies List but says, "We can't forget Cher and Lucifer...
...Let's whoop on the useful idiots, the moral equivalentizers, the peace scum, the social justice hairballs, and see who sang the Marxist tune and expected us not to mind because they had the lyrics wrong...
...Kenneth Kaunda: Just imagine that you were put in charge of the richest country in Africa at the time, and instructed to ruin it as completely and quickly as possible...
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