The Continuing Crisis
• June is exhausted and so am I. For six weeks I have been on a book tour for my new tome, The Conservative Crack-Up, daily popping in and out of dozens of TV and radio studios, covering hundreds of...
...When an atrocity such as the lynching of Clarence Thomas or the beatification of the ghastly Anita Hill takes place the right goes into a frenzy, but by then it is too late...
...One, the automatons of the New Age Liberal intelligentsia have the oppressive mentality of ancient American Know-Nothings, and for that matter even many of the Know-Nothings' archaic public policies...
...At any rate, many literary critics, including Alfred Kazin and Malcolm Cowley, have been very impressed by the artistic sensibility of the writer who becomes a Communist...
...and now the Rev...
...Simon & Schuster has treated me handsomely, setting up many guest appearances of a non-life-threatening nature, providing me with comely escorts, and even putting me up at Manhattan's only Motel Six and, in San Francisco, at a very nice shelter for the homeless...
...Twelve years of Republican ascendancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have only allowed the smog to worsen...
...Larry Stephen, the left-handed, right-footed assistant district attorney, the metropolis will be drained of up to $2 million annually, that being the advertising revenue that the ladies' employers spend in the Village Voice, New York magazine, and Screw...
...A week was simply too much for Governor Clinton...
...On the other hand, if they are killed gratuitously during an important mugging or looting it is an excessive use of force, and they should be given a Christian burial...
...June is exhausted and so am I. For six weeks I have been on a book tour for my new tome, The Conservative Crack-Up, daily popping in and out of dozens of TV and radio studios, covering hundreds of miles between dawn and dusk, and frequently going without my matutinal Jane Fonda aerobics drill, during which I perspire copiously on a picture of Jane seated in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft weapon pointed at the foul Yanks above...
...Moreover, he crassly criticized one of the most thoughtful participants at the Rainbow Coalition's solemnities, rap diva Sister Souljah, who had notified the Washington Post that "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people...
...Consequently, whether being interviewed by Mr...
...there is no sense that I am a subverter of world socialism with a vested interest in World War III...
...Richard Dickinson, who was jailed five years ago for stomping his mother to death at four o'clock in the morning after she objected to his repeatedly playing the Bob Dylan hit, "One More Cup of Coffee for the Road," was given a weekend furlough to attend a Bob Dylan concert...
...Yeltsin was surprised, and Mr...
...But Governor Clinton was not so even-handed...
...So many American literary types in this century have had a fling with Communism...
...The Cold War may be over, but the American intellectual remains lost in his morbid preoccupations over such idiotic quiddities as the gender of this last possessive pronoun that I have so insouciantly employed...
...the level of hysteria is down...
...In Australia, Mr...
...Yet on a book tour one thing is very much as it was in 1984...
...It is the best of times to be a Communist, there being no enemies of the people to oppress, no midnight calls from the Soviet embassy, in fact no Soviet embassy...
...By doing so they convinced the critics of their profound sensitivity to human needs, such as, I suppose, the need to be stopped on the street, the need to be beaten up, and the need to be thrust into a concentration camp...
...World socialism is hard to find, and World War III is not high on anyone's national agenda...
...No one was hurt...
...There are two reasons...
...Two hundred ladies of the night are now unemployed, and according to Mr...
...This controversial position gave immediate offense to the Rev, who saw it as a play for white votes and a sign of a "character flaw...
...Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition of civil rights paragons...
...About the only happy American intellectuals left are the radio talk-show hosts, who have given me great pleasure at every interview...
...Franklin Roosevelt managed to invest New Deal ideas and New Dealers into the culture of his era, and John F. Kennedy had a similar influence, but our Republicans have had almost no influence on the culture of their time...
...The only agents available to help are a handful of bewildered Republican politicians and the likes of Rush Limbaugh, a paladin from the wholesome world of radio talk shows but a paladin who has to stand up alone against the entire Kultur of writers, academics, publicists, and the evening news...
...Finally, on the day that Russian President Boris Yeltsin dined in the White House solemnizing the end of the Cold War, special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's grand jury indicted one of those responsible for ending it without a shot, the former secretary of defense, Mr...
...This is perhaps because the talk-show hosts can speak their minds in defiance of all the bugaboos and oleaginous pieties of the bovine intelligentsia...
...Samori Marksman of the far-left Pacifica radio network, I am not a sudorific...
...On June 13, Boy Clinton expressed misgivings about the killing of white people whilst addressing the Rev...
...On tour these days I wear a genuine Red Army pin, which I purchased several weeks ago in free Prague...
...Hence on my book tour I am claiming to be a Communist, and with an arty flourish I flash my Red Army pin...
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...How can the conservatives repristinate the Kultursmog, or at least render it less noxious...
...After all, most radio hosts appeal to normal Americans, who are all free of the stultifying airs of the Kultursmog...
...The coalition of Roosevelt has been superseded by a coalition of arrant charlatans, all of whom maintain power over their chumps by taking offense at the first glimmers of good sense from a Democratic presidential candidate...
...Since my 1984 tour for The Liberal Crack-Up, the world has changed stupendously...
...Why is this...
...Kultursmog is on my mind, because it is a major thesis in The Conservative Crack-Up that American highbrows no longer live in a culture but rather in a Kull tursmog polluted by the politics of fanatics, all as dangerous to free thought as Gary, Indiana, is to fresh air...
...The "Today Show" spoiled breakfast for millions of Americans by reporting on the pregnancy of a 32-yearold homosexual hermaphrodite who also appeared to suffer from dreadful acne and body odor...
...Apparently the scheduling of the Democratic National Convention in New York City will not be affected by this month's crackdown on five renowned Big Apple bordellos, though the convention is going to be pretty dreary for the handful of heterosexual men who still attend the Democratic assemblage...
...Last spring Senator Bob Kerrey was victimized by the party's mountebank homosexualists for an off-the-record joke, 8 The American Spectator August 1992 and soon this Congressional Medal of Honor–winner was groveling as the average voter winced...
...So goes The Liberal Crack-Up...
...The Rev...
...Now I am viewed as a Reaganite with no Communists to oppose and no war to mong...
...Upon entering a studio I notify my interviewers that I, being a literary guy, have become a Communist...
...Jackson's position on killing white people is an on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand sort of thing...
...and as for solutions, well, we must become the environmentalists of intellect...
...Secondly, Republicans—even many conservative Republicans—do not thirst for public life, for new ideas, or for any of the other elements of culture...
...On the one hand, if the whites are killed for the advancement of civil rights and in a non-violent manner it is understandable, particularly if they are landlords...
...In The Conservative Crack-Up I have essayed the problem to the best of my capacities...
...In Sandusky, Ohio, ten police were suspended or reprimanded for their role in stealing $600 in Girl Scout cookies...
...Tom Snyder or Mr...
...P. J. O'Rourke signed to cover the political conventions for the Fox network...
...Let us get out there and make pests of ourselves...
...and Lillian Hellman is not only ugly but dead...
...Then I was viewed as a Reaganite, anti-Communist warmonger...
...They are also about the only intelligent intellectuals left...
...Kultursmog is what passes for culture in America's circles of influence: government, public education, Congress, the arts, health food shoppes, Volvo dealerships, massage parlors...
...The American intelligentsia remains anti-intellectual and dour...
...Raps the Rev: "The attempt to align me with her is an attempt to malign me with her...
...Now the fey fellow's doctor reports that the pregnancy was faked and there was no reason for thousands of us to take our corn flakes to the other room...
...Caspar Weinberger...
...The expiry of June also is attended by the expiry of Boy Clinton's presidential prospects—demonstrating anew that no Democrat seeking his party's nomination must ever say anything that is thoughtful, true, or in the public interest...
...Jackson is making another attempt to enter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
Vol. 25 • August 1992 • No. 8
