Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE The Hilary Backlash Too bad Daniel Wattenberg's article on Hillary Rodham Clinton ("The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock," TAS, August 1992) was published after Faludi's Backlash: it...
...Time for one chaw of tobacky, one squirt at the cuspidor, and an agreed "String 'im up" was the defining character of the system...
...Like a lot of what passes for socially responsible activity today, these events seemed more about making memories than about making a difference...
...It is arrogant for anyone who didn't hear every minute of testimony and see all the evidence to condemn the trial's outcome, even as it is possible, viewing the tape, to believe that justice may not have been done...
...Of course, I never said she was such a great lawyer...
...To Ms...
...Kenneth Maxwell Sacramento, California Daniel Wattenberg replies: To Ms...
...Those old enough to remember the egregiously racial decisions that were common prior to national civil rights reforms also recall the brevity of such deliberations...
...Her husband doesn't seem to be reflecting her views very convincingly...
...During an unusually festive "Take Back the Night" celebration in March, many of the participants chose to remove their shirts to "demystify the female breast" and "empower" themselves...
...By contrast, the Ventura County jury absorbed seven days with their deliberations...
...Wattenberg is as flaky on the right as she is on the left...
...Patrick Tweedy Instruction Librarian University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 10 The American Spectator October 1992...
...The true radicals were shamefully happy at having their dark delusions confirmed (by the King verdict, by fee hikes, by negative reactions to bare-breasted gynoterrorism), and everybody else was happy to have something to do...
...That despite their numbers they are virtually without influence...
...Richman: You mean there are so many "flaky left-wingers" eddying around Bill Clinton that the fact that he is married to one hardly deserves notice...
...She was elected by her peers to the presidency of student government at Wellesley, was an excellent student at Yale, seems to be a fine parent, and has devoted much of her life to worthy causes...
...CORRESPONDENCE The Hilary Backlash Too bad Daniel Wattenberg's article on Hillary Rodham Clinton ("The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock," TAS, August 1992) was published after Faludi's Backlash: it constitutes a perfect example of the fear instilled in the hearts of some men confronted with an articulate, ambitious, and extremely intelligent woman...
...If I sound less than respectful, it is because this was all too obviously fun...
...In fact, she is a much better writer than Wattenberg...
...was so beneath the usual quality of The American Spectator...
...Maybe that's why I never said that she was "wily, manipulative, shrewd, and cold...
...no purpose given or needed...
...I would suggest that Mr...
...But really...
...I may be flaky, but I'm not stupid...
...That same month, student resentment over proposed UC fee hikes boiled over and a chancellor's conference room was occupied by protesters for a week...
...Methinks the lad protests too much...
...Very much ado about not quite nothing, but close to it...
...Hillary comes out as a flaky left-winger...
...The most successful party was a sit-in on the highway by the campus...
...Wattenberg's strategy is to rely on the stereotypes used to denigrate women for hundreds of years: Hillary is wily, manipulative, shrewd, and cold...
...Catherine V. Scott Doraville, Georgia The article on Hillary Clinton...
...Maxwell: Come again...
...Norden left before the campus activists got really active...
...During the week after the Rodney King verdict, excitement was so fevered and inchoate that I frequently saw signs advertising "Protest by the gym today at noon...
...It is deceptively easy to forget that the jury had to judge the defendants on specific counts, in accordance with the judge's legal charge to the jury, and, in order to find the defendants guilty, do so beyond a reasonable doubt...
...One among many who don't have much influence because they don't have a solid grip on reality...
...What's the frequency, Kenneth...
...Mark Taifer Long Beach, California UCSD Update I thoroughly enjoyed Edward Norden's recent article on life at the University of California, San Diego ("A Month in Paradise," TAS, April 1992...
...They struck further blows for feminism by defacing the chancellor's door and a fraternity sign...
...Allow me to update readers on three recent highlights...
...I really enjoyed reading the excerpts from Hillary's writings provided with snide and derisive comments by Wattenberg...
...Here Comes the Jury Terry Eastland fine article ("King' s Jury," TAS, August 1992) did something that—for reasons that baffle me—almost no one else has done up to now: argue that the Rodney King jury may have been right...
...His point is that, in light of this information, the decision of the jury was neither unreasonable nor, as commonly asserted, evidence of racial bigotry...
...Eventually the police shooed them away...
...To Mr...
...Carol Richman Seattle, Washington Wattenberg strives valiantly .to prove Hillary Clinton is no worse than Barbara Bush...
...Scott: If Hillary is, in fact, "wily, manipulative, shrewd, and cold," then I guess that would explain why she's such a great lawyer...
...She should make good use of her legal talents and sue him for slander...
...Among the occupiers' demands was $15,000 to take them to the state capital to lobby for "free" education...
...Unfortunately, Mr...
...In spite ofwhich, with no serious reflection, their critics instantly convicted the jury of bigotry...
...for two hours, the highway was blocked as students basked in the sun and in media attention...
...But even through Wattenberg's outrageous diatribe we see the real Hillary...
...Thomas Letchfield Palo Alto, California In "King's Jury," Terry Eastland catalogues evidence seen by the jury, but not by the public because it was not reported by the media...
Vol. 25 • October 1992 • No. 10
