1992 New Enemies List Third Annual Readers' Update
O'Rourke, P J.
Of course, no one suffers from Ford Foundation To the extent United Way controls the flow of multitudi Syndrome like the Ford Foundation, which has in the past nous individual donations, groups...
...He or she encloses a Wallace Genetic Foundation ($15,000) Clark Foundation brochure containing such gems as: "Fear of crime, rather than crime itself, seems to be fueling the The Children's Defense Fund is another lovely charity, nation's rising incarceration rates...
...And Ford is testing Norplant dominant culture of philanthropy in America...
...Scott Forrest of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is a consumer-activist consumer of Consumer Reports...
...Rich Hardcastle of Terre Haute, Indiana, rails against: The Eugene V. Debs Foundation, for giving out awards to further the work of leftist "visionaries" such as Ed Asner, Jesse Jackson, and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...copy of the June 12, 1992, Public Employee Press, the newspaper of New York's District Council 37 of the AFLMatt Stuart of Altoona, Iowa, rebukes: CIO American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (there's nothing like the U.S...
...Planned Parenthood, for out-Hitlering Hitler, outStalining Stalin, and accepting contributions from Ross Perot...
...Eric J. Paddon of Devon, Pennsylvania, avers: My nominee for the Enemies List is Comedy Central, an irritating cable TV channel which on the average serves up two hours of decent programming (Jack Benny, Steve Allen) and twenty-two hours of pinko propaganda...
...Catholic Conference under the auspices of the National Conference of Bishops...
...The eye- (and peep notion of contest from this award...
...we're living in a society that's getting out of control...
...riots...
...I wish they would spare me the lectures and just tell me which VCR to buy...
...This organization has an operating budget of emphasis within the political left on so-called "economic con- over $300 million a year, and its policies and lobbying posiversion": taking tax dollars traditionally allocated to national tions go virtually unchallenged by anyone...
...He is better known for accusing Jewish doctors of injecting blacks with AIDS...
...Hope you never need a baboon liver, Dennis...
...The short answer, Dr...
...Its Government Accountability Project works closely with Public Citizen, filing joint amicus briefs against the government...
...Edward...
...is to enable coincontributing to knaves is strictly dog-bites-man...
...If nothing else, I see some beauty in what's happen- ITEMS ing...
...Getting slightly off the eleemosynary track, Irving L. CA State Police Assn Chicano Federation Jacobs of San Diego, California, gleefully roasts: Coalition of CA Welfare Organizations Coalition of Medical Providers The San Diego Union-Tribune, ostensibly a'conservative Committee to Protect the Political Rights of Minorities daily newspaper, for turning over its Arts & Entertainment Jewish Community Relations Committee, Jewish Federadepartments to the liberal-left...
...J. Lloyd Simms of Barnegat, New Jersey, detests: Warner Bros., for funding Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie when they could've used that money toward Batman 3. Network executives, for giving millions of dollars worth of free publicity to "Sister Souljah" by booking her on such shows as "Larry King," "Today," etc., etc...
...Shuger, I nominate the Los Angeles Times...
...Patrick Mathias of Manville, New Jersey, takes umbrage at: Linda BloodworthThomason and Harry Thomason: executive producers of the politically correct "Designing Women" CBS television show...
...This was replayed numerous times, but nary a word against this type of racial invective was heard from any commentator...
...The actual quote was Tod Davis of Kentwood, Michigan, excommunicates: "It is easier for a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle," not the other All the churches whose leaders apparently live by this way around...
...Rich Hardcastle of Terre Haute, Indiana, who has already done some fine work on our Enemies List above, returns to confer honors upon: kristina marie korobov, who, as the first female Student Government President at Indiana State University, not only forgot how to capitalize her name but also called a public forum of "understanding," which resulted in near-fistfights and similar versions of harmony in the wake of the L.A...
...Flynn of Garland, Texas, states: (Editors' Note: We are very disappointed that no one mentioned Benetton...
...A red star goes to book editor tion Council of Greater Los Angeles Arthur Salm, who damned Give War a Chance for its "fas- Legislative Black Caucus cist sentiments," bashed The...
...I hope he takes the advice of the series and decides to forgo the creation of his progeny with Miss Hanoi 1972...
...It is part of the "Radio Pacifica" (Pacifistica...
...CA State P.T.A...
...Conservative Crack-Up as, the Natl Assn for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 work of a has-been, but who just did an adoring, worshipful Older Women's League, San Francisco interview with Molly Ivins, who "gleefully roasts right- The Rainbow Coalition wingers...
...Next year's CFC list of eligible charities will probably increase again...
...I submit that there defense and using them instead to underwrite expanded federal are millions of Americans (many or most of them elderly) that involvement in such domestic areas as the environment, health are being subjected to the liberal line of propaganda through care, and welfare...
...Institute for Injury Reduction—funding: plaintiff attorneys...
...Pena would like the U.T...
...According to the New York Times, it was officials of the Alliance for Justice who first brought Anita Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee's attention...
...bor—except for the purpose of redistributing the wealth...
...Vincent Frattaruolo of Palm Beach, Florida, whose criti- ow for the second part of our mission, wherein laucal sense is a lot sharper than his handwriting, scribbles a rels are awarded to public figures who praised, reproof of: encouraged, downplayed, excused, or called for of' the L.A...
...Johnson also sends us a book, Patterns of Corporate spiking: Philanthropy, by the afore-cited Marvin Olasky with the assistance of Daniel T. Oliver and Robert V. Pambianco...
...Campaign for Accessible Health Care ($40,000...
...in a free society...
...Red Hot Chili Peppers, for trying to put ordinary pornography on their CD covers...
...Guns N' Roses, for putting vocal pornography in their CDs...
...As we NRA members like to say, "Join or initially added a welcome counterpoint of comedy to the die...
...People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for actually calling a student government vice-presidential candidate a "murderer" because he joked about his love of red meat...
...Cokely insinuated that federal officials set some of the LA...
...while opposing increases in the defense budget...
...and also opposes both the so-called "line-item veto" (at the federal level) and "a proposed constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget...
...This is from the wonderful article Forbes, describing some thirty-five interlocking and largely reply he got: tax-free Ralph Nader organizations...
...Research Center's work on Greenpeace...
...Paul Pakala of Appleton, Wisconsin, vents his spleen upon the New York State Arts Council: "I feel they deserve an evening in a burned-out theater, sitting in urine, listening to lesbian rap singers, and wearing tie-dyed T-shirts...
...Only their reforms—not...
...Greenpeace National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) She attaches a California Teachers Association/National National Audubon Society Education Association advertisement: National Organization for Women (NOW) Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On Record against 'ChoiceNouchers' The Nature Conservancy Groups Agreeing with CTA's Position Pediatric AIDS Foundation People For The American Way American Assn of University Women People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Americans United for Separation of Church and State Public Citizen Anti-Defamation League Rigpe Dorje Foundation Black American Political Assn of CA Save The Manatees CA Council of United Auto Workers Retirees Sierra Club CA Democratic Party CA Legislative Council for Older Americans Women for Organization O National CA We've spared you the phone numbers of these "organizations," which are listed alongside...
...I. You shall have no other gods before the Federal Government of the United States...
...The issue isn't old versus young," she added...
...I am emboldened to punted to the likes of: submit the following organizations: The Council on Foundations...
...year for total contributions...
...Ford is paying to cre- ur second Enemies List mega-source is Willa Ann ate "advocacy centers" for children in Nigeria—not giving Johnson, founder and chairman of the Capital them food or health care, mind you, but giving them a place Research Center (1612 K St., NW, Suite 704, to make complaints about the lack thereof...
...Tom Bohr of Redlands, California, would have us spin the dial on: KPFK, a Los Angeles area station located somewhere near Tom Hayden's haunt of Berkeley-South, Santa Monica...
...Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation—activities: class action, precedent-setting suits...
...august publication, Stanley Hill, executive director of District Council 37, is quoted addressing the annual convenLawrence D. Skutch of Westport, Connecticut, spotted tion of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists: this howler: our communities together—was Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, who "CBTU's theme—bringing made even more relevant by the damage caused by dreams gave this year's "Profiles in Courage" award to Lowell deferred," Hill said, when delegates toured L.A., seeing the Weicker because he raised taxes rather than taking the more - difficult and courageous route by cutting spending...
...News & World Report...
...Louis, Missouri, being lawyers all, bring a bill of attainder against: The Peace Corps, because its name contains the word "peace," and because it arrogantly and mistakenly implies that the Corps' "mission" could conceivably prevent war, or even an argument between pygmies over who cooks the cat tonight...
...However, if munity organizations to promote institutional change to solve we really want to de-fund the left, we must hold an emergency the injustices which helped to create the Los Angeles competency hearing on the biggest spastic, drooling, brain- upheaval: poverty, racial tensions, police brutality and urban dead Daddy Dumbbucks of them all: THE GOVERNMENT violence...
...American Express giving to the conservative...
...There's been I have learned from John Von Kannon that you have begun another Big Mac Attack, with so-called genius grants being work on your new "Enemies List...
...Sister notes to which are a whole New Enemies List in themSouljah . . . has gone beyond merely rapping to use her consid- selves...
...Another O'Neill, one N. J. of Tracy, California, tells us: "Imagine my surprise when I found this marvelous collection of enemies (with the possible exception of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation) on the back of the latest B-52s CD...
...Case in point: While talking back to a bad science fiction movie in which aliens brainwash earthlings to do their bidding, the stupefied human begins to walk about in a daze and offers up this bit of sarcasm: "Now I understand, Ronald Reagan was a great President...
...that are channeled through the agency...
...And he sends us an example from some hapless Lancaster, England, financial institution called The Co-operative Bank, which probably doesn't have anything but moldy carrots to lend anyway...
...Makes me totally minutes excusing it, are Maxine Waters and Bryant want to buy a sweater...
...The jacket text reads, in part: STOP...
...nois, puts it: To the NRA, which published an excellent article about the L.A...
...P.S...
...Olasky then details conference sessions and panels on Peruvian conservation biologists, $335,000...
...Cowell Foundation ($37,500) these patriots...
...The League opposed] "efforts to substitute private programs for social security...
...The Christie Institute has appeared in past E-lists...
...and appropriately titled, "Second Amendment Message in While her unfortunate presence on the television coverage Los Angeles...
...Utterly Helena Rubenstein Foundation (total of $55,000) wrong...
...People for the American Way...
...Until then, we'll leave And Mr Brockway bids farwell to police chief Daryl spineless a being "for " Uebie a handed is who w , Gates you with this edifying tale from the October 11, 1991, wonder and allowing the riots to simmer unchecked for Boston Herald: days...
...This fine organization, in Ms...
...Some of the most rather than exclusive...
...devastation first hand...
...I have to nominate the boneheads in our Province of Ontario for electing a socialist 100-METER-DASHgovernment just when the rest of the world is turfing the silly buggers out of their legislatures...
...In 1990 CHD raised $9.82 million...
...As James Gidwitz of Chicago, Illi- ernism...
...They want much larger campaign against the very notion of marketing...
...stores...
...He sends along a copy of the July/August 1992 AARP Bulletin, with a lead article showing how well pink and gray CRC further notes that the 1986 Peace Resource Book go together: "describes CDF as a 'Lobby Group' focused on 'Military Spending.' " Among the self-described altruists sponsoring No sooner did Loyola Burgess take over as AARP's new presithis nonsense: dent than she vigorously defended older Americans against charges they are diverting resources away from children in Ford Foundation (total of $1,000,000) need...
...Center for Auto Safety—major grants from State Farm and Furthermore, in conformance with the mandate of Congress, it Allstate foundations...
...We'll see all of you, we trust, Mr...
...The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a Naderite front group...
...you made me a consumer...
...The B-52's encourage you to check out these worthwhile organizations as well as your local direct action The American Spectator November 1992 39 groups, since we all need to participate to bring about Marguerite Snow of Stockton, California, admits: positive change...
...I don't think it's a race issue...
...preeminence for fighting communism...
...He has it in for: piddling away the greatest intellectual revolution since E=MC2...
...The article, written by Scott Shuger, states: "In the face of all that video and the Times's own extensive accounts of unprovoked assaults and widespread looting and arson, the paper did what it could do to fuzz up the issue of personal responsibility for those actions...
...the TAS New Enemies List...
...She encloses a massive package of research material...
...Wrong...
...They are soliciting donations VIII...
...Center for Tropical Conservation, biologist working in ecology, biogeography, biological conservation and training Mr...
...Nevertheless, I expect Occupational Safety and Health Law Center—specializthe past trend to continue and the CFC will have another record ing in defending workers' rights and employee suits...
...riots in the July issues of both its American Hunter My nominee for the "Peter Ueberroth Medal" removes the and American Rifleman magazines...
...Sells litigation kits to lawyers involved in is reasonable to expect that this list will contain groups that auto litigation...
...Following the Clarence Thomas hearings, the Thomasons rushed into production an episode of "Designing Women" that may rank as the crudest piece of agitprop since the last PBS documentary about ACT-UP...
...ture...
...Stand Buzz Brockway of Lawrenceville, Georgia, slings a aside, Hitler and Pol Pot...
...S U the heinous crimes, but feel free to kill human fetuses of all ages...
...English Department added to the Enemies List...
...Gumbel...
...I'll give you groups (rock, that is)": Nirvana, for putting child pornography on their CD covers...
...Fund for Constitutional Government—funded in part by General Motors heir Stuart Mott...
...This gem was quoted straight-faced in the New York Times on May 14...
...If one is afraid to stroll, start a riot...
...Time-Warner, for distributing Ice-T's CD, "Cop Killer...
...Adrian from the September 17, 1990, issue a of H. Krieg of Woodbridge, Connecticut, forwards Campaign, a United Way–type program that solicits charitable donations in government workplaces...
...Collaborates with Public Citizen to fight against tort reforms...
...intervenor Dennis A. Matteotti fees" utilities are legally obliged to pay CUB activists...
...is part of a sell him the rope they'd be hanged with...
...She was interviewed by subsidies be created to somehow reward it...
...ence of the Council on Foundations...
...Dennis also re-alerts us to the activities of the us a letter saying: damnable MacArthur Foundation (vivisected by our own Ms...
...We have tried to eliminate the use of the long box, but where that was not possible, I've lived in California all of my life and I know it's a big state we have added this useful clip and save...
...The League also "opposes any initiatives that would reduce social security benefits to achieve deficit reductions...
...to assist organizations working for racial equality, Warren Wetmore of Hazel Crest, Illinois: democratic planning and community economic development in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict and Los Angeles uprising...
...Donors may said: "I wish I could have had this conversation back in 1492...
...such topics as: Training them to duck, we hope...
...Kevin J. Hritz—what is it with the middle initial "J...
...The Liberty Hill Foundation announces the "Fund for a New And, on this year's E-List, we give the last word to L.A...
...Center senior fellow Marvin Olasky writes: Paula Marshall, 63, Richmond, Va., professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, writer whose fiction explores heal- To the Chicago Hilton on April 22 [1991] came 2,000 foundaing divided selves, divided cultures and a divided world, tion executives and staff members for the 42nd annual confer$369,000...
...and I know we have more than our share of flakes, but even I was amazed to see how many groups could crawl out from CLIP AND SAVE under the woodwork to oppose the liberation of my children Amnesty International from our loathsome teachers' union...
...From the first images of watching the police run from danger- Last month, the Massachusetts Commission Against ous criminals because they weren't allowed to use the neces- Discrimination—noting Freeman was found innocent of assault sary force to control the situation, to the subsequent scenes of by reason of temporary insanity—cited the town for "handicap police treating looters with a how-may-I-help-you-service- discrimination...
...I saw Asians...
...OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...The Alliance for Justice is headed by Nan Aron, formerly of the horrible ACLU...
...I don't want you to get hit with any shrapnel: The Facility Services Division of Bingo Licensing The African National Congress Felony Diversion Program (is this a new euphemism for The World Wildlife Fund The Children's Defense Fund prison...
...Any motion picture company that makes movies, TV shows, etc...
...As a result, many new and different types egregious Nader metastases, as described by Forbes: of voluntary agencies have been found eligible...
...National Janet Benshoof, 45, New York, president of the Center for Organization for Women...
...I know this makes me a holy...
...Any group or corporation that actually pays to sponsor a $10,000 Anita Hill speech...
...Or, about two teenagers who go joy-riding through time, screwing up history, with the help of hippie comedians from the future...
...This must have party movie par celebrating the new HBO a at magazine e Peopl been a blow to her many law-abiding constituents—especially those of Korean descent whom she unilaterally disenfran- Citizen Cohn, which is about Tailgunner Joe's old pal Roy chi sed...
...riot fires...
...Capital Research Center notes that the League: supports increased welfare spending...
...The Rev...
...Barbara Morgan of Hot Springs, Arkansas, tells us: During the CNN coverage, I was amazed to see a tall, nattily dressed black man identified only as the "Mayor of Compton" invite the local Koreans to "leave town...
...Do not take Jesse Jackson's name in vain...
...What they mean by "Hill" is to ask a simple question: "I've been in Tokyo for the past probably Beverly, possibly Anita...
...Which sounds the progressive ideology of the public interest culture, Capital not only genocidal but also counterproductive—what's the Research is helping the philanthropic community rediscover Ford Foundation going to do with itself if it doesn't have the bedrock principles of individual initiative and responsibility lots of impoverished Third Worlders to pester and bully...
...I have been following the Council on Foundations, and tracking the $3,600,000 in John Terborgh, 56, Durham, N.C., director of Duke University annual giving its 1,200 members control, since 1985...
...rid ourselves of every person and/or function that does not who have been convicted of move mail...
...And—E-Listers take note—"the League condemns the so-called `witchhune period of the early fifties...
...enforced with taxpayer money: You're heading down the same path...
...There were gays...
...riots: The International Commission on English in the Liturgy, "understanding the organization responsible for the introduction of gender-neua Helen H. Bergman of New York, New York, sends us tral language in the Catholic Mass...
...Levi-Strauss, for cutting donations to the Boy Scouts ing money to the Ms...
...This should disprove the myth that Ross Perot is a conservative...
...And goes on to prove it...
...38 The American Spectator November 1992 (3) for letting PETA, Greenpeace, and Magic Johnson on their children's network, Nickelodeon, to make sure that children don't become conservatives...
...to redline their tachometers, spinning in their graves...
...And they claim it's only a Common Cause "partial" list...
...Virginia Association Against the Death Penalty ($30,000...
...READ BEFORE OPENING The B-52's support these organizations, which are among the many working to make the quality of life better on this planet...
...I saw Hispanics...
...AARP...
...exploiting] the obstacles to settling the Palestinian-Israeli Johnson's own words, conflict"—expecting a few New York double domes to accomplish with one study grant what God Himself has not was formed to provide positive new alternatives to the hithertobeen able to do in 5,000 years...
...There was a time when the The assortment of ridiculous government agencies easily found "protection" against foreign competition was a good product, in any phone book...
...The federal government, says CSPI director of legal Research Capital the at knights white the esides affairs Bruce Silverglade, must "put a stop to this marketplace free-for-all...
...It's run by the U.S...
...And Mr...
...Department's Elevator and Amusement Device Division The Albuquerque Chapter of the NAACP (for the Bobby (whew...
...If you must have an institution, I nominate the Canadian Broadcasting Corpor- I CARRYING-A-VCR ation...
...Berkeley, [who] analyzed the social construction of science Of the Council on Foundations, Capital Research and the role of sex in how science is conducted, $335,000...
...dear to the heart of Hillary Clinton, no doubt...
...One World Ted's little outfit in Atlanta, [CNN, for the] disgusting "The People Bomb" series shown during May of 1992...
...Mirmak, angry with his Midwestern institution of higher learning: $47 of my $1,957 student bill at the University of WisconsinWhitewater goes to the Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee, which in turn goes to groups like the Gay Lesbian Student Union, the Environmental Federation, and RISE, or Resistance to Intervention, Suppression, and Exploitation, a bunch of sixties dropouts and crybabies just to the left of Pol Pot...
...The night of May 13, 1984, David Freeman, a Duxbury fireLastly, Steven Segers of Victorville, California, would fighter, crept into the room where his wife was sleeping and present our coveted prize to the whole and entire city of beat her so severely with a club that her injuries are lifelong...
...network...
...and J. P. Morgan and Company, of all people, conform to those of the Food and Drug Administration...
...Read it and weep tears of simultaneous laughter and rage in a We really can't give this medal too often to our cover non-hieretical modality of deconstructivist post-modgirl, Maxine Waters...
...Build Homes Not Bombs ($20,000...
...Betty says the movie "will teach a whole generation about one of the most evil men who ever lived...
...Says the Capital Research Center: Alliance...
...Cohn...
...next year, same time, same place...
...She is pursuing racial bias charges against the police in the King case...
...He proposes for effigy portalMs...
...relations with developing countries announced...
...If " " ' United Way says it will only support the Boy Scouts if it allows sion, creating pilot programs for LBJ's "War on Poverty," girls or homosexuals or atheists to be members, the Boy Scouts and providing post-assassination grants to Robert F. either have to comply or lose access to the masses of donations Kennedy's staff to help them overcome their grief...
...You may not give false testimony—except attempting to keep Clarence Thomas off the Supreme Court...
...Funding: through mandatory or "negative checkoff- student fees...
...Capital Research points out that CSPI is: pro-government, pro-tax, pro-regulation, and anti-business...
...People had to line up for blocks to get their checks...
...Carolina, inveighs against: These patsies dole out tens of millions in salaries and perks to Raleigh, North their executives, who then become globetrotting mendicants asking for protection against Japan...
...Timothy C. Reiner of Worchester, Massachusetts, will rent some John Wayne videos and eschew: WGBH (Channel 2) and WGBX (Channel 44)—for hectoring the good people of eastern Massachusetts with left-wing PBS propaganda, much of it at their own expense, and for scheduling Bill Buckley's "Firing Line" at eleven o'clock on Sunday nights...
...Dennis J. (there it is again) Doolin of Tokyo, Japan, Steven Carter, who lives in L. A. and was "seeing the doesn't have any nominations to the Enemies List...
...Dan Buksa of Munster, Indiana, yearns to suitably reward: Sister Souljah, who "raps" that "blacks should take a week off from work to kill whites...
...Well, so long for now...
...17 46 The American Spectator November 1992...
...chapter, for funding marches against Desert Storm...
...In this trying to make the future politically correct...
...National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy—lobbies foundations, corporations to give to "progressive" groups...
...The Capital Research Center tells us: If you have the nerve to join me I would like to nominate one of America's most sacred cows—the American Association of At least since the Vietnam War, there has been a growing Retired Persons...
...McDonald's, for its new environmental policy on fast-food containers...
...The Indiana State University Student Government, for funding Native-American pow-wows and other such guilt trips...
...We don't know how much money this cor- My nominees for the "Ubie," whose primary distinguishing poration gives to Commies, but it certainly gives a lot of features seemed to be opening every monologue with "there is bad ideas to kids in shopping malls: "Hey, Muffy, look, a no exduse for this kind of behavior" and then going on for ten picture of starving people...
...Center for Science in the Public Interest...
...TOPCDH is available in a handsome paperback edierable intelligence as a community organizer for productive tion from Villard Books, a division of Random House, causes in the black community...
...for protest and bail bonds to be utilized in the spoilage and riot —except when ruination of every Columbian Celebration within their reach...
...Campaign for Human Development...
...Way cool...
...The Presidency of the United States is, technically, an institution and Charles E, Strothman of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, is ready to condemn it: The Number One Pinko is !@#$%¢&* George Bush, for his exemplary demonstration of commie appeasement in the true fashion of Harry Truman and the selling out of the United States in a way that, until now, only Franklin Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, and Jeemy Carter knew how to do...
...The goal: "for low- to moderate-income people to take back what's rightfully ours," which, to ACORN, means "everything...
...Times's East Coast evil twin: Okay, a newspaper isn't an individual or a public figure, but don't you think the New York Times's editorial board deserves the Peter Ueberroth Gold Medal for declaring, in its lead editorial, on May 3, while the rubble in L.A...
...You may not commit adultery— steal—except from the rich or during a Fund, which appeared last fall...
...ceived simply as a Washington-based children's advocacy group, is a significant part of this movement...
...In that legis- effective organization, the elements of which are tied togethlation OPM was mandated to make the CFC more inclusive er by financial and personal relationships...
...Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, for flag-burning and Bush-bashing...
...Robert P. Fairchild of Arlington, Virginia, gives a Bronx cheer to: Michael Wood, PBS personality and putative archaeologist, described as "writer and presenter" of "Legacy," whose final installment ("The Barbarian West") concludes with One World platitudes and ravings in the genre of apocalyptic environmentalism...
...some employees may find objectionable...
...If Old Matty hadn't screwed that up we wouldn't revised version of the Ten Commandments: have Liberation Theology, Vatican II, or the Christic Institute...
...That is, of course, the sight—) witness account was written by James Jay Baker Honorable (Hello...
...THE Robert L. Hamilton of Edmonton, Alberta, can't help PETER UEBERROTH himself: I know this list is only supposed to contain institutions, associ- GOLD MEDAL FOR ations, etc., but I can't help myself...
...mayhem and looting, she quickly became a nauseating apolo- To Betty Friedan, for putting the McCarthy Era urgist for criminal behavior and demanded that new federal Enemies List into perspective...
...The New York School System, for doling out condoms to kids...
...What they mean by fifteen years...
...and is priced so as to be affordable to the oppressed...
...John Doughty of Monrovia, California, mails us the National Chicano Moratorium Committee's "wanted" poster of Christopher Columbus...
...He suggests they be recalled for "their constant sermonizing about the homeless, the 'environment,' and socialized medicine...
...Dr...
...Patrick Mathias, who also contributed to this year's EThe American Spectator November 1992 45 List, returns to present a couple of blue ribbons (tied in a MISCELLANEOUS noose) to: Luke Perry, "star of Beverly Hills, 90210," quoted in the July NEW ENEMIES LIST Vanity Fair: "It's symbolic...
...You may not steal riot...
...Doremus explains, "All of the above loudly condemned in a public forum the King verdict hours after it was announced and thus aided, furthered, and encouraged the riots that followed...
...the areas of abortion rights and contraception, awarded Children's Defense Fund...
...The National Conference of Mayors Parent to Parent (?) The Labor Department's Health and Safety The ACLU (too obvious, huh...
...Siefert continues...
...Lost" Angeles: Concern over Freeman's mental stability prompted the Board of Selectmen to remove him from his job...
...You took away the music . . . you took away self-esteem...
...Knight flap) The Barber Examiners Licensing Board The Staff at the Oregonian (a nest of pathological liars NC Center for International Understanding posing as a newspaper) Lawrence Walsh's gang of thugs The Oregon Peace Institute (what does their "I believe And she adds: you, Anita" bumpersticker have to do with World Peace...
...The Children's Defense Fund, widely per- Modern Maturity magazine and the AARP Bulletin...
...V. Honor your mother, your mother's boyfriend, your heretic in both the union and the post office by insisting that we father's boyfriend, etc...
...20006...
...The American Spectator November 1992 43 A new regulation in some states prohibiting one to return to a salad bar with a dirty plate...
...It's the We have no room here to do justice to the Capital 'haves' versus the 'have nots' in our society...
...Besides promoting the rantings of Nuclear Winter nutcake and pseudoscientist Helen Caldicott, they were proud to offer air time to Louis Farrakhan henchman Steve Cokely of Chicago...
...Esprit de Corps, for its "What would you do to change the Patterns is a detailed account of U.S...
...Perhaps devastation first-hand" big time, mails us a brochure from still reeling after President Bush's visit last winter, he writes the Liberty Hill Foundation...
...CDF cares, Frank J. O'Neill of Dunlap, California, writes: cares, cares about kids—though not enough to defend them in a war...
...labor movement The Creators of TV's "Star Trek—Next Generation," for for windy monikers, now that the Kremlin is gone...
...wonder why their contributions are being used to lobby govern- I . . . If we had sat down in 1492 and said, 'How do we begin to ment to supply the services United Way is meant to render.] find a way for all of us to talk together about who we are,' we 36 The American Spectator November 1992 would not have had today's problems...
...It wants the Department of Agriculture's labeling regulations The American Spectator November 1992 37 for meat and poultry, as well as its policy on health claims, to Alliance...
...attorney in L.A., said there was no racial element in the beating near to death delivered to Mr...
...Vasterling and his fellow post officers) derriere of the stockholders of American car companies...
...I saw HOUSEKEEPING white people down there screaming last night...
...with-a-smile mentality, Los Angeles is a typical example of lib- The MCAD restored the 52-year-old Freeman to his job and eralism run amok: soft on crime, hard on the police, and blame awarded him $200,000 for back pay and emotional distress plus it all on Ronald Reagan...
...and life-style - life my attack to fund-raising - fund for Mail U.S...
...The ethics, of course, are things like testing cosmetics on dummy rabbits...
...Education and Defense Legal because the scouts will not let homosexuals, atheists, and strangely ( ei join...
...Council for Responsible Genetics—works to restrict recombinant DNA research...
...Mayor Tom Bradley "The Today Show"/NBC As Mr...
...and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were all listed in the credits as sources of funding for "Legacy...
...Evelyn Fox Keller, professor at University of California, Herewith, some extracts...
...j Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office The Adult Health Division's Divisions of Refugee Health Joe A-something, whose last name is illegible but who iden- and Migrant Health tifies himself as "the only sagebrush Republican male nurse in The Plant Industry Division's Bee Program America," has put down the bedpan and picked up the gun: The Inmate Grievance Commission The Division of Environmental Health's Shellfish Sanitation Branch Stand back...
...John P. Doremus of Tallahassee, Florida, proposes Gold, Silver, Bronze, Cement, and Mud medals to: "Donahue"/ABC Donahue's guest Al Sharpton Maxine Waters (please...
...Eric, are you sure about Steve?—Ed.] In addition to the usual group of talentless stand-up comics who think they can get a laugh by uttering the name "Ronald Reagan" in a sarcastic manner, the worst abuser is a series known as "Mystery Science Theater 3000...
...And for doing so with money that was not its until it took it from us...
...Roy O'Grady of Goose Creek, South Carolina, gives the prize to Arsenio Hall: He was useless in stopping the riots once they had started, and he gave the gang members of L A. a forum for their beliefs without ever questioning the sincerity of these drug-dealing, murderous thugs...
...You know who you are...
...Citizen Utility Boards—funding: membership...
...League Reproductive Law and Policy and a litigator and educator in of Women Voters...
...among us incredibly talented and sensitive people?—of St...
...Mark Pena of Austin, Texas, sends us the schedule of the University of Texas's "1992 English Department Graduate Colloquium: Pedagogy and Values...
...12 percent interest...
...Is some diabolical group lacing our nation's "Liberty" we shudder to think: reservoirs with mind-altering substances...
...Finances product liability research and media events...
...General Mills Foundation ($10,000) "To think, as some people do, that programs like Social Prudential Foundation ($10,000) Security and Medicare are the cause of the growing rate of Rockefeller Foundation ($500,000) poverty among children is wrong," Burgess said...
...A walking miracle named Lourdes Baird, U.S...
...The latest lousebag lobby is the Native American Rights VII...
...The League supports "clean-air" legislation that would "institute a tough acid-rain control program...
...Ford is Washington, D.C...
...Alliance for Justice...
...Says Forbes: "Like all In December 1987, Congress passed the first permanent legis- good empire builders, Ralph Nader has created a highly lation on the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC...
...litigation clearinghouse...
...Ecology has taught us that the like to do to comsymps is nail their bleeding hearts to the whole earth is part of our 'body'"—and leave it to the door of every college building in the U.S...
...The League of Women Voters is about as nonpartisan as the House of Representatives...
...The following stupid items and regulations funded and/or Time Magazine (Watch out, U.S...
...Poor Mr...
...By challenging birth-control devices on Bangladeshi women...
...A. Philip Randolph Institute Raza Administrators and Counselors of Higher Education Ronald D. Crockett of Wollaston, Massachusetts, wrote Thai Assn of Southern CA to the United States Office of Personnel Management to Unified Vietnamese Community Council complain about the inclusion of the idiotic People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the Combined Federal The above is a partial listing of their partial listing...
...the Republican Party (for top when he's mad...
...It also opposed confirmation of Justice David Souter, spearheaded the successful fight against Judge Kenneth Ryskamp's nomination to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and was critical of the nomination of Kenneth Starr to be Solicitor General because of his allegedly "restrictive views on the role of the courts" and presumed "insensitivity to the rights of minorities...
...II...
...The Campaign for Human Development is one of the Catholic Church's largest charitable programs...
...2) for letting Bill Clinton on their other, and Children's Defense Fund and the Women's Action more popular, music network because he's not a conservative...
...Let us simply quote from a Greenpeace brochure—"Humanity is not the Mark A. Siefert of Muskego, Wisconsin, says what he'd center of life on the planet...
...And because most to lecture on matters of personal hygiene) of them are Communists...
...Among the various panels offered the lucky participants: Feminism, Marxism, and Cultural Activism in the University Rethinking Pedagogy in Light of Postmodernism Desire in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Rubric Coming Out Professionally: The Responsibility of Gay and Straight Faculty Gender and Trauma in the Classroom Teaching Writing and the Lesbian Subject Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Computer-Mediated Classroom Learning Composition and Literature From Women of Color Teaching Reading and Writing as a History of Competition Between Social Discourses The Cultural Trope of Literacy and the Rhetoric of Grammar The Shifting Subject(s) of Literary Study...
...You may not kill criminals cul adultery—without a condom...
...James H. Fladland of Richmond, Virginia, is a professional in the field of sin and knows an enemy of God and man when he sees one: Much as it pains me to do so, I must nominate the denomination of which I am an ordained clergyman for this year's Enemies List...
...Kaboom...
...The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers...
...ISU's Housing Now...
...The League of Women Voters is listed in the "peace" movement–oriented Peace Resource Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Issues, Groups, and Literature 1986, which describes the League as a women's "Activist Group" which "lobbies against the MX [missile], Star Wars, and increased military spending...
...to the Gray Panthers Project Fund, the American Friends MTV, fonough)r three reasons: sons: (1) For not letting Rush H. Service Committee, and the Minnesota Civil Liberties Limbaugh III be a VJ on their music network because he's a Union Foundation...
...CFC Operations Public Citizen, Inc.—Nader' s longtime flagship lobbying litigation group...
...The New York Times, for absolute and total unmitigated nonsense in every word they saw fit to print...
...But our body politic is riddled with those who use VI...
...Turner Broadcasting, for the disgusting and hypocritical union of monopolistic company owner Ted Turner and known Communist Jane Fonda, and for the conception and birth of their loathsome bastard offspring, Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
...stop mailman Art Vasterling once he gets going: III...
...And points out that Maryland Public Television, NHK (Enterprises...
...Doolin, is yes...
...A statement of the League's position on U.S...
...Of course, no one suffers from Ford Foundation To the extent United Way controls the flow of multitudiSyndrome like the Ford Foundation, which has in the past nous individual donations, groups are forced to meet the done the nation such favors as underwriting public televi- agency's specifications in order to maintain their funding...
...Morrison further notes that no one "will admit that `Checkday,' May 2, had most to do with stopping the riots, when the Post Office refused to deliver...
...about two teenagers with their own cable TV show...
...Mary's, Pennsylvania, proscribes: General Electric, for those saccharine multicultural ads on "This Week With David Brinkley...
...policies toward developing countries should not be based on maintaining U.S...
...Particularly selling out to the Number One Enemy—the United States Congress...
...Here's what some of that money goes for: Expanding Communications to Empower Indian People of Fort Bethold ($33,000...
...Jeffrey D. Van Schaick, of parts unknown, alerts us to a scathing criticism of the Los Angeles Times's riot coverage, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal...
...that "U.S...
...Olasky also attends the conference's film festival, where he views such artistic triumphs as: Berkeley in the Sixties Global Dumping Ground—"America's dirty secret .. . export of toxic waste" Borderline Medicine—praising Canada's national health insurance H-2 Worker—substandard living and working conditions in the sugar cane industry Streetlife: The Invisible Family Amazonia: Voices From the Rainforest and Chemical Valley—set in West Virginia and funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc., and containing such memorable lines as "They killed the Indians, now they're killing the hillbillies...
...The Thomasons are vocal supporters of Bill Clinton [N.B...
...However, their forays into political satire always end up on the pink side...
...280,000...
...Edward B. Elmer of Pleasanton, Texas, decries: The Nature Conservancy ("Fifth Amendment—what Fifth Amendment...
...Foundation for Women and the NOW giving Mills General Fund...
...Paxton Helms of Atlanta, Georgia, writes from Europe to condemn: Any company that takes out a full-page ad in the European Times to announce that it "[lends] only to companies we believe to be as sound ethically as they are financially...
...giving to the ACLU...
...A naive geek and his two robots are stranded in space and forced to watch bad movies that they talk back to...
...You've got people you would ordinarily never see together . . ." e take this opportunity to give our special Ronald Walters, chairman of the political science department thanks to the following "Friends of the Enemies of Howard University, in a bylined article that appeared in a List": number of newspapers, including the June 23 News Tribune in To Henry Beard and Chris Cerf, for their hilarious (and Woodbridge, New Jersey: "The depth and power of Sister painstakingly documented) compendium, The Official Souljah's art may make some people anxious, but her voice - represents an authentic expression of sentiment among a subfoot Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, the stantial segment of black youth and black people...
...And produced his sickening "bad stepfather" home movie for the Democratic convention—Ed.] and have his brother on their payroll as a production assistant (Spy, July-August 1992...
...or, How Do You Spell 'Hegemony...
...Center for Science in the Public Interest—petitions and Sincerely, lobbies for regulation of the food and pesticide industry...
...Robert Kord of Cutler, Maine, proposes a shared medal in a "bulsh conglomerate category": Paul Wellstone Jane Fonda and mouthmate Patricia Schroeder M. Kinsley and M. Gorbachev Patti Davis Ed Busca of Chicago, Illinois, hands the palm to L.A...
...Maxine Waters, local Congressperson...
...The article's author, chairman anesthesia . . ." of the Philanthropy Roundtable Michael S. Joyce, goes on "Marketing Our Good Work"—"proactively going after to say: media attention" "Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues" United Way of America . . . provides staff training and develop- "Culture and Community Empowerment"—led by one ment, promotes United Way nationally, and lobbies federal and Jane Sapp, director of the Center for Cultural Community state lawmakers to support public policy initiatives on literacy, Development at Springfield College in Massachusetts, who homelessness, drug abuse, and other social issues...
...Pennsylvania State University, for creating the Office of the Vice Provost of Underrepresented Groups...
...The National Commission on AIDS (for promulgating the biggest fraud since "Camelot") Sean Smith of Weehawken, New Jersey, goes right to the And, finally (Pull...
...Reginald Denny...
...Amnesty Farmworkers Organizing Project ($25,000...
...I never thought it would happen, but in the latest issue of its house publication Spectrum, the cover story, "Diversity in the Engineering Workplace," discusses sexual orientation...
...According to former cast member (and, perhaps not coincidentally, a Republican) Delta Burke, the Thomasons also sent strongly worded letters to their cast and crew asking for donations to Clinton's campaign...
...Fund ($30,000) An anonymous (and, let us hope, unincarcerated) coneGlen Eagles Foundation ($20,000) spondent sends us a note saying: "The Edna McConnell George Gund Foundation ($20,000) Clark Foundation is the most active foundation in Prison Ruth Mott Fund ($50,000) Reform...
...Fox Television, for doling out condoms to kids (on "Beverly Hills, 91202484249457969715465") The Christie Institute, for investigating President Bush and his family at the request of Ross Perot...
...CBS "News" (lovers of Leonard "I Wuz Framed Peltier) MTV when it gets into politics Any and all teachers' unions The AMA (the newest gun control lobby) The Boston Globe The Boston Globe The Boston Globe Carl L. Rowley, Jeffrey E. Asbed, and Jon M. Moyers of St...
...Task Force on Inclusiveness"—to help COF members adapt to And, finally, Ms...
...X. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighArt, by the way, did not provide us with a return address...
...Consumers Union—cofounded Center for Auto Safety with Nader...
...Eric T. Fritz of Mauston, Wisconsin, is, like Mr...
...You asked for groups...
...corporate charity, and world ads," which glorify gun control, abortion, and afrocenin its pages we find the Dayton Hudson Corporation giv- trism...
...I suppose I will now have to show that my designs contain 10 percent gay/lesbian/bisexual engineering content before I can land accounts with really big corporations...
...Funding for these nasty little fascists of Center and the Philanthropy Roundtable, countless other readers have been responding to our call to the supermarket aisles comes from: "Arms Not Alms...
...The National Education Association, because its nonmerit-based-pay, six-hour-per-day, nine-month-per-year mem42 The American Spectator November 1992 bers refuse to take competency examinations, purportedly for The World Health Organization (for inviting Liz Taylor reasons other than their own incompetence...
...Remember the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and keep it I want to see all non-profit mailing discontinued with the exception of material for the blind...
...Matthew, who misquoted Jesus in 19:23...
...Linda Bloodworth-Thomason subsequently called the "Larry King" show on CNN to denounce the revelations about Clinton's sex life as nothing more than Republican smear tactics...
...Orion Pictures, for creating Wayne's World and the Bill and Ted movies...
...The premise of the series isn't too bad...
...The League says it "will be working to ensure that the federal government has overall responsibility for financing basic income-assistance programs...
...Dennis sends us a package of information on the Ford Foundation's current activities...
...wreath at: And extra special thanks to Woody Allen—just in case there was anybody out there who still believed in psychoClark-Atlanta University, whose students felt such compas- analysis or thought East Coast intellectuals weren't living sion for Rodney King that they looted Macy's and lots of liquor piles of slime...
...Public Interest Research Groups—twenty-five state chap40 The American Spectator November 1992 ters on 90 college campuses...
...The great mis-placer of India is accused of "grand theft, genocide, racism, initiating The American Spectator November 1992 41 the destruction of a culture, rape, torture and maiming of indigenous people...
...There were straights...
...and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a product of 1960s radical activism that engages in community organizing to "win the maximum amount of political power possible to be exercised by our constituency and their organization...
...Parents United for Child Care ($40,000...
...Here's a sampling from the Raleigh listings: not congressional action...
...Van Schaick says: "On behalf of Mr...
...I therefore nominate the B-52s to serve on the Enemies List for their support of these organizations...
...The word is domination...
...Fools The goal of the "Fund for a New L.A...
...As if on cue, Matthew G. Mirmak writes from Minneapolis, Minnesota: I suggest that you nominate Augsburg College, their student senate, and the Naderite chapter of MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) for conspiring to force the student body of Augsburg to pay an additional mandatory fee of $3.75, which is tacked on to our tuition bill, to MPIRG, in order to fund their leftist and downright pinko activities...
...The foundation is dedicated to keeping socialism on the respirator long enough to revive it when capitalism is discredited...
...We need hardly say that Mr...
...is an amalgam of groups that took a leadership role in lobbying against confirmation of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court...
...Between 1978 and 1989 CHD funnelled better than $1,000,000 to ACORN projects across the United States...
...But, hey, why do it the hard way if The Disabilities Governor's Advocacy Council Uncle Sap will foot the bill...
...Through a generous donation from Comic Relief, Who subventions the Sinistrals...
...to give it away free...
...But, since we imagination what part of that body Greenpeace has its head have laws, religion, and morality, we have to make do with up...
...MFS (Mutual Fund Services...
...J. J. Rose of Boston, Massachusetts, says: Jennifer L. Durham of (and this must cause some confuThe Brother Can You Spare a Billion medal is pinned to the sion for Mr...
...Well now, what better way to make the streets safe...
...Organizing and Educating for Legislative Advocacy on Welfare Issues ($30,000...
...We can mention only a few score of . S.H...
...Lenin believed that capitalists would CSPI's promotion of tougher labeling laws...
...was still smouldering, that "America consigns great numbers of young black men to lawless lives...
...Stephanie Gutmann of New York, New York, believes another garland should go to the L.A...
...44 The American Spectator November 1992 John C. Morrison of Windsor, Connecticut, makes three awards: Boy Clinton, as quoted in the New York Times on May 2: "To them, it sort of stands for all the neglect, all the economic decline, all the insecurity in the streets, and not being able to walk safely on the streets...
...We could round up the usual the Liberty Hill Foundation has created a special fund to help suspects—the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the community organizations respond to the challenges posed by Rockefeller Foundation (whose conservative founders continue the recent riots in Los Angeles...
...and Greenpeace...
...You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of Neither rain nor snow nor Victoria's Secret catalogues anything on the earth, but worship the earth itself...
...mayor Tom Bradley for inflammatory remarks after the King trial decision and notes that "if Hizzoner Mayor Daley I or II had said anything resembling Honorable Tom's blast, he would have been burned at the stake...
...Abnormally low speed limits (which includes most of them) Physicians for Social Responsibility (a bunch of hell-bot- A new law in North Carolina (and probably other places) tomed, finger-pointers who feel guilty about their Adjusted requiring motorists to turn on their headlights if it's raining Gross Incomes) hard enough to use the windshield wipers...
...The League opposed "enactment [in 1985] of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act...
...Dennis sends us an issue of the "the new pluralism" Roundtable's quarterly publication, Philanthropy, in which "Reproductive Rights Breakfast Roundtable" [Yum, say the the United Way scandal is analyzed and the abuses of its editors] former president William Aramony are shown to be "simply "Civil Rights in the 1990s" the most visible manifestation of the organization's growing - "Civil Disobedience in the Civil Society"—with one pan elist saying, "We live in a time of terrible somnolence and immoderation and ambition...
...C.S...
...The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has proved itself to be the most PC church body in the U.S., not just for the usual stuff (e.g., Columbus bashing and New Masses–sounding "socio-economic analyses") but by ensconcing in its very constitution the hideous principle of racial, sexual, and linguistic quotas...
...I saw blacks...
...Johnson writes Joshua Muravchik in the January 1992 TAS...
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