Editorials/Mrs. Jones/Agent Orange
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Mrs. Jones by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. C ould Paula Corbin Jones be this year's Anita Hill? The other day in this famous city, Mrs. Jones and her lawyer, Daniel M. Traylor, publicly...
...Before her ordeal ended, Mrs...
...Jones (she was unmarried, though engaged), Governor Clinton allegedly implied his authority over her and mentioned that he knew her boss...
...Only here does sham liberalism operate a cultural monopoly...
...This, of course, was false...
...Late last year, when Arkansas state troopers began coming forward to testify that they had witnessed and assisted Governor (and later President-elect) Clinton's frequent sexual trysts, there was what passed for an invincible refutation issuing from the White House's bought journalists and, I suppose, from those blessed journalists who have been shielded from the squalid ways of the world...
...Jones's lawyer, Mr.Traylor, is demanding an apology from the president because of Mrs...
...He has a nightly television show whose ratings compete in some markets with such esteemed American institutions as the "Tonight" show...
...Jones's "humiliation and lasting emotional distress...
...His name, as you might have guessed, is Bill Clinton...
...Reuters and the AP carried the story, while the New York Times buried it...
...And they are...
...Once it was a political point of view favoring tolerance, free expression, equality, and a sunny view of mankind's nature...
...Jones are as offensive as those brought by Miss Hill...
...Jones's alleged harasser has an increasingly cluttered history of similar allegations...
...It is just that they disagree with all the career malcontents of illiberal liberalism...
...According to Mrs...
...Jones, on May 8, 1991, she was employed by the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and working as a hostess during the Arkansas Quality Management Governors' Conference in the Excelsior...
...And how long will the Republic's bought journalists rely on the false claim that no women have come forward to support the troopers' charges...
...Just that last hug would have been too much for me...
...She adds that Mr...
...but then today there are really very few liberals left...
...LI Agent Orange T he name Rush Limbaugh has become controversial in some august quarters of the Republic...
...The huge audience that tunes in to Limbaugh is subscribing to conservative magazines in such numbers that those magazines are now the largest ideological reviews in the country...
...Certainly Limbaugh's twenty million are not likely to take the Commission's abandonment meekly...
...Whether the fabulous Florida Citrus Commission will continue to advertise its product in the country's largest talk-show market I cannot say...
...Trooper Ferguson on several subsequent occasions told her that the governor wanted to see her...
...That there was an encounter in the room sounds true to me...
...He disagrees with them on just about everything...
...Once alone with Mrs...
...And, unlike Clarence Thomas, Mrs...
...The true zealots and voices of hate in the land are those who would ban advertisers from the Rush Limbaugh show, or from any other show...
...He has the largest radio talk-show audience in American history, and by a lot...
...Larry King gets $500,000, but his show is much smaller than Limbaugh's...
...Gennifer Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Today it has broken down into vested interests, frequently contradictory and all dominated by charlatans: career feminists, career environmentalists, career homosexuals, and so forth...
...He has published two best-sellers...
...Jones's statement that she 14 The American Spectator March 1994 was invited to Mr...
...She and her lawyer brought with them more corroborating testimony than Anita Hill ever adduced...
...Most major media have ignored her...
...Jones and her lawyer, Daniel M. Traylor, publicly asserted that on May 8, 1991, she was the object of an indecent sexual proposal in Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel...
...These are, for the most part, the members of the American middle class...
...Some years ago, when Vietnam veterans threatened to boycott Jane Fonda's movies, liberals were shocked by the intolerance...
...Liberalism has become a sham...
...Those who decide such things are of course the sham liberals...
...These are people who would be out of work if they could not con their credulous followers into joining them in some fanciful complaint: an insufficient number of ladies' rooms at 16 The American Spectator March 1994...
...Clinton harassed her...
...Jones has, and she brings with her charges of harassment...
...He escorted her to the room and waited in the hallway...
...We have Trooper Ferguson's independently published account and now Mrs...
...Otherwise the press sleeps...
...For now, Mrs...
...Traylor has available, he can begin the harassment suit at any time...
...They, are threatening a boycott...
...In Britain, the sexual misbehavior of members of parliament has made front-page headlines for weeks...
...It all jibes with his earlier report to The American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times...
...Jones has stepped out to identify herself as the "Paula" mentioned by trooper Danny Ferguson...
...ABC also mentioned the story...
...America's sham liberals are made uneasy by those who disagree with them...
...More recently, Sally Perdue has come forward with corroboration of the troopers' stories...
...Well, what is not true...
...They want the Citrus Commission to withdraw its ads...
...As I said of Miss Hill's uncorroborated charges against Justice Thomas, we shall have dealt a brutal blow to our system of justice if we allow one individual's uncorroborated charges against another person to carry the day...
...Well, Limbaugh's success suggests that a balance in our media may be on the way...
...All and all, it was a dreadful experience...
...It is part of the Commission's $17 million promotional budget...
...The refutation was that none of Mr...
...Trooper Ferguson notified her that the governor would like to see her in his hotel room...
...Jones claims Governor Clinton accosted her in a hallway and hugged her...
...She refused and left the room...
...Protest has become an American way of life, but only one kind of protest is socially acceptable by those who decide such things...
...If the apology is not forthcoming, the lawyer hints that a sexual harassment suit might be...
...Flowers had come forward with tapes of her remarkable confidential chats with then-Governor Clinton...
...Certainly the charges brought by Mrs...
...Clinton's room...
...Then will major media look into this case...
...Jones claims that the governor grabbed her, ran his hand up her leg, exposed himself, and asked her to perform oral sex...
...Perhaps this is because they recognize how easily their essential phoniness might be exposed if there were in our media and in our wider culture a balance of forces...
...As to the nature of that encounter, I shall have to take the president's side...
...They pay taxes, abide by the law, and have no particular axe to grind...
...National Review and The American Spectator each have well over one hundred thousand more subscribers than their nearest competitors on the left...
...Surely the media titans who run newspapers and broadcast media must recognize that there is a large population of Americans yearning for Limbaugh's conservatism...
...Jones's story...
...That cannot last...
...Clinton's sexual partners had come forward to corroborate the troopers' stories...
...From all I can tell they believe that their political opinions are worthy of respect...
...Today there are few liberals coming to Limbaugh's defense,the ballpark, a schoolgirl being barred from the high school sumo wrestling team, or mistreatment of a favored swamp...
...Well, where is the press...
...They had two signed affidavits, whereas Hill had none, and they could point to the published testimony of an Arkansas trooper who, it seems, was an accessory to the meeting...
...Limbaugh, despite his huge popularity, has many critics, and they go beyond criticizing his style to abominating his substance...
...Here a charge of sexual harassment more fully documented than Anita Hill's has been mentioned only in the incomparable New York Post, the illustrious Washington Times, and the stalwart Los Angeles Times...
...Certainly, with all the affidavits and independent testimony Mr...
...Immediately after the encounter, she informed two friends, Pamela Blackard and Debra Ballentine, who, have signed affidavits supporting Mrs...
...In Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom there is a two-party media...
...Now comes a new and troubling facet to the story that ought to have aroused the alarm of all true-blue feminists...
...Well, the immediate source of controversy is that something called the Florida Citrus Commission has bought a million dollars of commercial time on Limbaugh's radio show...
...Now Mrs...
...King seems to have no critics, aside from that handful of us who reproach him for the vulgarity of his language and the coarseness of his thought...
...The White House, speaking through its visibly aging spokeswoman, Dee Dee Myers, responds, "It's just not true...
...One might well wonder why...
...Now they are in a fury over Limbaugh...
Vol. 27 • March 1994 • No. 3
