Correspondence
Rush Live Bravo, to Terry Eastland for an excellent article about Rush Limbaugh ("Rush Limbaugh: Talking Back," TAS, September 1992). Despite his critics, Limbaugh has brought talk radio from its...
...He quotes Limbaugh as saying: "I have no cause, no political agenda...
...Mexican border guard can tell you...
...Paul's, the Church of England contains, teaches authoritatively, and practices everything considered Catholic in the first six centuries and rejects only that which was innovated after that time...
...The same English synod that issued the first version of what we know now as the Thirty-Nine Articles also promulgated the following canon: The clergy shall be careful never to teach anything from the pulpit, to be religiously held and believed by the people, but what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old or New Testament, and collected out of that same doctrine by the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops...
...I fully agree that having Shirley Jones (a.k.a...
...A right-winger I know is particularly in favor of subsidized abortion...
...That from a simple "radio guy" who relentlessly makes statements such as: "I think liberalism is heinous, I think liberalism is injurious, I think liberalism is dehumanizing, I think liberalism is just plain bad, just plain rotten...
...The hungry masses are crawling through sewer pipes to get to the land of open space and honey, millions of them—does Flaherty want more...
...Thirty years ago the Mexican government encouraged its forty million people to have more babies...
...Despite his critics, Limbaugh has brought talk radio from its struggling past into the twentieth century...
...It is conservative leaders such as Tyrrell who have failed to reach out to the young...
...We do not hand fouryear-olds the keys to the car no matter how fascinated they are...
...Jack Sangster Madison, Alabama Algernon Reprimanded Your July 1992 Correspondence includes a letter from Mr...
...It is one thing to attack the Royal Family, which is not unfailingly popular, even with Brits who call themselves "Royalists...
...This projectile loses velocity quickly and becomes harmless in a relatively short space...
...No management meetings to determine the slant or approach to the final presentation in talk radio...
...Healthy, educated, and responsible women should be encouraged to have babies...
...Fromm...
...Children should be taught to respect potentially dangerous tools at all times...
...Far from being "possibly our greatest living American," I believe he is a great American sham...
...Patrick Murphy, President National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts WNIS Radio Norfolk, Virginia Terry Eastland's puff piece on that pathetically insecure braggart Rush Limbaugh covered roughly the same awestruck terrain as did Vanity Fair's recent feature on "conservatism's media superweapon...
...In particular such doctrine is to be found in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, The Book of Common Prayer and the Ordinal...
...But it is too late, as any U.S...
...I realize now what a rare sensation it is for me to read an article or newspaper and not have the immediate urge to find the writer and throttle him a bit until he starts making sense...
...Surely Tyrrell can't expect us to be "hip" when the current conservative leadership is anything but...
...Chuck Moss Birmingham, Michigan I read my first issue yesterday, and it was like water and light...
...Children, believing a gun to be harmless, would be far more likely to play with it...
...It will take a lot more resources than are available to Planned Parenthood to bring down the Third World populations to sustainable levels...
...just that, by and large, the writers seemed to be trying to tell the truth...
...Flaherty's fears of Planned Parenthood are proving needless...
...Not that I agree with everything...
...The present canon, A.5, puts it this way: The doctrine of the Church of England is grounded in the Holy Scriptures and in such teaching of the ancient Fathers and Councils of the church as are agreeable to said Scriptures...
...It is another, however, to mischaracterize the Church of England as "Protestant...
...But what is wrong with counseling unhealthy, uneducated, and irresponsible women not to have babies...
...I would love to know who the "hip" and "cutting-edge" conservative role models are that young conservatives are expected to imitate...
...Any unbiased reader of the Book of Common Prayer will find there the ancient system of the Catholic Church: its teaching, its ministry, its sacraments...
...Yes, in addition to being a "principled populist," a "rising star," and a "conservative warrior," Limbaugh is a dauntless demagogue, a relentless sophist, and a slick propagandist—in short, a liar...
...Bethell's implication that this racism/elitism is a phenomenon of the right...
...And: "I'll have another Slick Willie update for you later...
...At close range, the wad is deadly...
...I suspect that many members of Planned Parenthood, which is not an agency of the right, are motivated by the same racist or elitist impulse...
...Larry Jones Lake Oswego, Oregon So New As a new subscriber, I must note with shocked dismay your "Current Wisdom" department's improper referral to our republic as "Amerika...
...As long as you use the definition of catholicity generally accepted by the undivided church, that of St...
...If successful, this fanaticism will probably lead to a call for mandatory abortions...
...Matthew the Apostle Petaluma, California Stuart Reid replies: If the Rev...
...however, the cartridge is sealed with some substance, most frequently a cardboard wad, which is projected from the gun when the blank is fired...
...I have heard one Scots priest refer to them as "those Germans...
...If children are to be in the presence of guns they need to understand the reality of their power...
...Here's an angle on racism that journalists don't want to dig into...
...Michael Minnis Edmond, Oklahoma Genuine conservatives like myself are appalled at the views expressed by Michael K. Flaherty in "A White Lie" (TAS, August 1992...
...The Rev...
...But Eastland actually dared to hint at something that the other piece completely avoided: Limbaugh is a liar...
...Stuart Reid's "The Fall of the House of Windsor" (TAS, May 1992) was interest(continued on page 82) 14 The American Spectator November 1992 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 14) ing, but betrays an appalling lack of historical and theological knowledge for someone who is assistant features editor for the London Sunday Telegraph...
...Real people with real concerns expressing ideas that politicians and bureaucrats would rather that the people of America not be exposed to...
...People have killed themselves or others playing with "harmless blanks...
...And: "I've just put together the first issue of 'The Limbaugh Letter' . . and in it I will react to the dumbest statements made each month by the dominant liberal culture . . . " And: "You can vote for Clinton if you wish . . . but his economic plan is going to devastate the country...
...This is a setup for tragedy...
...Fromm, Jr., suggesting that a gun loaded with blanks would be safer around children than a gun loaded with standard ammunition...
...Tom Frangicetto Langhorne, Pennsylvania Right to Choose In his September column, Tom Bethell has exposed a dirty little secret about a powerful undercurrent in the so-called "pro-choice" movement, to wit: some of the enthusiasm and urgency of the movement is generated by racism/elitism...
...We do teach our children that cars can be dangerous and responsible adults teach children to respect firearms, and to handle them safely...
...2) to dutifully serve as a high-profile media toady for megabuck conservatism, and, perhaps most importantly, (3) to promote himself endlessly —his book, his newsletter, his TV show, his line of "ditto head" merchandise, his "brilliance," etc...
...Cuadra became the great anti-Communist editor of La Prensa...
...Limbaugh's "non-agenda" is threefold: (1) to discredit and verbally blast liberals and Democrats out of existence...
...Flaherty exposes Margaret Sanger's views on "Eugenic Sterilization...
...If by the year 2020 the world's population doubles to 10.6 billion, the anti-abortionists will have for all practical purposes won...
...That is about as useful as exposing Antonio Pablo Cuadra's youthful fling with fascism or Knut Hamsun's fling with Nazism in his senility...
...Indeed, the correct term for our racist-sexist-homophobic polity has for some time been "AmeriKKKa...
...That is not racism...
...Revenge of the Nerds R. Emmett Tyrrell makes me sick...
...He complains that young conServatives are not "hip" or "cutting edge"(Current Wisdom, TAS, September 1992...
...Thus, the pro-abortionists have been frantic in seeking federal subsidization and promotion of abortion...
...H. Lee Poteet Vicar Capitular Diocese of St...
...Let's deal with the issues, not Sanger's foolish mistakes...
...Talk radio and Limbaugh specifically are a threat to television and print media because they are both unedited and open to all...
...that is common sense...
...Poteet wants to believe that the Church of England is Catholic, and not Protestant, and that those who believe the opposite are ignorant of history and theology, then nothing I can say will change his mind...
...At the end of his piece, Eastland accepts Limbaugh's stated lack of interest in going into politics, but then writes: "Harder to accept is his contention that he does not seek political influence...
...G. Owen Fort Salonga, New York 82 The American Spectator November 1992...
...Conservatives want to conserve our standard of living and our way of life—not destroy it...
...He is, I believe, a human metaphor for the brand of conservatism recently displayed at the GOP convention (and eloquently skewered by George Will): insecure, hypocritical, self-absorbed, fascistic, and sociopathically willing to distort and deceive without compunction...
...Vincent of Lerins, "quod semper, quod ubique, quod ad omnibus," then, even as Bishop John Jewel challenged in his historic sermon at St...
...Abortion is seen by some as the only means of controlling the "population explosion...
...A "blank cartridge" does not have a lead bullet...
...Perhaps, however, he will listen to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith...
...However, I disagree with Mr...
...In his search for a scapegoat for "The Conservative Crack-up," he fails to recognize that he might be part of the problem...
...I've never quite had a reaction like this...
...Partridge) as the guest of honor at the College Republicans' 100th Anniversary Dinner is the quintessence of nerdiness...
...It may, indeed, be too late...
...Unfortunately, many of those concerned by this "explosion" are even more afraid that voluntary population control is resulting in a disproportionate increase in "undesirables" (blacks, poor whites, etc...
...I tell you, that pork-rindeating George Bush is one cool dude, ain't he...
...There is, no doubt, considerable right-wing support for abortion today, but its basis is carefully left unstated—at least in print...
...Who cares...
...This is an extremely dangerous idea, and I hope you will so inform your readers, many of whom may be as ignorant as Mr...
...What a sorry pass it is we've come to, that this is odd...
...And they should know...
...Indeed, the more closely the Prayer Book is followed and obeyed the more clearly it is that the Church of England is not only Catholic but in many ways more Catholic than either the churches of the Roman obedience or of canonical orthodoxy...
...Hamsun was one of the century's great novelists...
...Thus Elizabeth II and the Anglican establishment believe that the Church of England is Protestant...
...But any conservative leader having the audacity to complain about this is certainly a case of the pot painting the stove black...
...Character assassination is the tool of the Stalinists, not conservatives...
...Leon Cyens San Francisco, California More Than the Pope...
...Today, Mexico, with a population of over eighty million, is preaching birth control...
...At her coronation, the Queen swore before the Archbishop of Canterbury to maintain "the Protestant Reformed Religion established by Law...
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