Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Unbelievable "Love and Hate in Arkansas," by Daniel Wattenberg, published in the April-May issue of your magazine, is an insult to President Clinton, the state of Arkansas, and the...
...Last year a female co-pilot sued one of our captains and the company for sexual harassment...
...Go figure...
...To its credit, the company hired an investigator of its own...
...Donald P. Kerwick Hamilton, Ohio It's Crying Time Again Thank you for including an excerpt from my syndicated newspaper column VoiceMale in your esteemed Current Wisdom section in February...
...Have we really come to a place and time in our nation when we are willing to trade our most fundamental sense of right and wrong—indeed, our very souls—for a new health-care plan or a bigger government check...
...I watched the POW/MIA hearings for hours and hours...
...There is no point in fighting Guanierism when its work is then done by conservatives themselves, nor in handing its adherents a fine tool with which to pose as champions of traditional American values...
...Francis retained a lifelong enthusiasm for blood sports from his youthful experience hunting...
...If you had published the passage in context, your readers would have had a chance to get my point: that males are not naturally insensitive or cold-hearted...
...It is well understood by those in the know that any POWs who smelled the light of day would immediately be executed...
...All I really need to get started is some nice clothes and a little money for bail, bribes, magazines, and the like...
...So . . . the tactic is to have a supposedly reputable journalist—in this case Thomas McArdle—submit it as his own unaided work...
...Well, sir, I've never been in a whorehouse, and wouldn't recognize one, but it sounds like a great low risk venture (and I am severely undercapitalized...
...If the British government had sent this in under its own letterhead, it would have been regarded as pure propaganda—which it is—and tossed in the nearest waste basket...
...In the meantime, I think I'll have another glass of Jamisons...
...Freedom of speech is one thing, giving aid and comfort to the people who are responsible for killing American servicemen is quite another...
...The truth is, the litany of Webster's (continued on page 72) 10 The American Spectator July 1994 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 10) Second Reply to Hayne is a checklist of contemporary radicalism: •Coolly weighing the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder...
...My political involvement stretches from George McGovern in 1972 to Jerry Brown in 1992...
...Kerry is well aware of this situation...
...The word Freon (which Bethell used in the final column of the article) was registered by DuPont for chlorofluorocarbons manufactured by them for refrigerant use...
...The author of Walden explains in his opening chapter that he "once went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field . . . and devour him, partly for experiment's sake...
...Basically, what these radicals need to realize is that the problems we are experiencing governmentally are ultimately due to the governed as much as the governing...
...Remember that we elected these people...
...He is a man who exudes grandiose yet meaningless symbolic gestures...
...it's our competition-based culture that tries to steer us that way...
...Surely, the evidence surrounding our president is becoming insurmountable...
...Thomas H. McDermott Rancho Santa Margarita, California New Age Calhounism The so-called secession talk at the end of Tom Bethell's April/May column ("Breaking Away") strikes at the very vitals of conservatism...
...I feel that this is well within his personality profile...
...or even multiple presidencies of Three Dollar Bill...
...It seems to me that The American Spectator is drifting towards the anglophile party line on the Irish issue, and may I simply suggest that knee jerk conservatism is almost as bad as knee jerk liberalism...
...Will The American Spectator publish it...
...I read John Corry's article...
...I would not know from personal experience, but I thought people went to a whorehouse for a purpose other than to read a magazine...
...However, your portrayal is beyond being believable...
...I look forward to reading The American Spectator...
...We may be a minority in our party, but there are thousands, if not millions, of liberal Democrats who are disgusted by corruption arid dishonesty—whether the practitioner be Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton...
...Michael West Professor, English Department University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Out of Town Brown Byron York's comments on drug czar Lee Brown ("Clinton's Phony Drug War," TAS, February 1994) were right on the mark...
...She was represented by a nationally known feminist lawyer...
...Over a year passed between the filing of charges and trial...
...Will Williams and Bethell be the benevolent drafters of the founding document of this fledgling state, or will it be the current members of Congress...
...Most of the time you're right on target...
...The White House could use another copy...
...But Lynn himself is guilty of misreading when he claims that Thoreau "never ate one alive (or cooked, for that matter...
...Please don't weaken your credibility with your followers...
...Lewis's column appearing over the column of Ms...
...In fact, Governor Brown, a lifelong Democrat, was the first nationally known politician to call attention to Clinton's involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan and the Whitewater real estate deal (March '92 Chicago debate...
...It is precisely the advantage and responsibility of conservatives to remember the lesson so dearly learned by Washington, Webster, and Lincoln—that there really is no Liberty, however imperfect, without Union, however imperfect—that the only true Liberty is instituted in government by common consent...
...Lewis's shortcomings as man and scholar rang true on many points ("Edith Wharton's Abuser," TAS, December 1993...
...Still, I'm surprised that The American Spectator—canny, cynical, worldlywise—should be taken in like this...
...I do not feel that he gives a good tinker...
...Nonlunar tides probably have some effect too, but that's complicated, too complicated for me...
...Corry As a Navy Vietnam-era veteran ('72-76), I wish to comment on the exchange of letters between John Kerry and John Corry ("An MIA Cover-Up...
...In view of such developments these demagogues need to be reminded of a few things...
...Inquiring minds want to know...
...In this video, the evil perpetrators of harassment are all white males and the suffering victims are women and minorities...
...Hoffman's offer still applies, would you please send the balance of his issues to my address, along with any other helpful tips he may have regarding location, pricing, trade publications, and the like...
...It was very obvious that Mr...
...Another columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times is Anna Quindlen, who, as is well known, writes her column at home...
...Accurate detail is not among the virtues of The American Adam, and Lynn rightly knocks Lewis for elevating into fact Thoreau's wild fantasy of eating a woodchuck raw...
...A man whose style can only be termed "voodoo policing...
...Second, much like the Constitutional Convention call, I am extremely uncomfortable with a "revamping" of the cornerstones of our society...
...I have written a number of times to Sen...
...During pretrial proceedings, the claimant admitted lying and the allegations were tossed out...
...You understand how it works, don't you...
...O'Rourke, a horrible fate indeed...
...Alan W. Barrett Dedham, Massachusetts It was with a great sense of displeasure that I finished reading Tom Bethell's "Breaking Away" in your April/May edition...
...all the while leaving the candy store unattended...
...There are articulate and reasonable explanations why Ireland should be reunited and why the English should not be there, and you may want to give those arguments fair time in your, otherwise, intellectual magazine...
...Bill Clinton is not a perfect man, and I'm sure their marriage leaves something to be desired...
...You are a voice exposing the liberal bias in the country...
...Corry went over the same stuff that was covered in toto at the hearing...
...I find Mr...
...Carl J. Wass Pompano Beach, Florida I am currently unemployed and therefore in need of a new occupation...
...Bruce Purcell Peoria, Illinois Kerry vs...
...It is the hearts and minds of the nation that need to change and not our Constitution...
...It was with great relief that I read the correspondence from Mr...
...In the future I would hope Bethell might use another, less reputable publication to float his off-the-wall ideas...
...And on many issues I disagreed with him then and now...
...William W. Meister Minneapolis, Minnesota I want you to know that not all liberals are hypocrites when it comes to Bill Clinton's financial improprieties, misuse of power, and exploitation of women...
...TAS, April-May 1994...
...Thomas F. Loftus Shawnee Mission, Kansas There are two obvious addresses: (1) The Governor's Mansion, Little Rock, Arkansas (2) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C...
...Actually, New York and Houston are better off now that "Out of Town Brown" is out of town permanently...
...The moon pulls air, including the ozone layer, toward itself, and the moon does not pass over the North or South Pole...
...3) Lunar tides...
...Clinton, and I never saw either of them behave in a manner other than what is considered appropriate...
...There is plenty of it there, waiting and wanting to be said...
...Kerry...
...Jeff Taylor Columbia, Missouri Quota Stings James Bovard's "Job-Breakers" (TAS, March 1994) really hit a nerve...
...It makes me question how carefully you have investigated other strong positions you espouse...
...Kerry very ably represented those many who wished that the whole episode would die and that we could get on with life...
...My column which runs in twenty-five newspapers is a rare voice urging men to get more involved in parenting so our children can grow up with compassionate respectful non-violent male role models...
...In order to satisfy the EEOC in the wake of this incident, our pilots must endure a ten-minute video entitled "Respecting Diversity" at annual current training...
...Forgetting promises tendered in effusive cordiality was certainly Lewis's practice in my only brush with the man twenty years ago...
...I hopefully look forward to the day when a mix-up at the Times results in the title of Mr...
...Furthermore, if these radicals would replace our federal system with a more confederated system they would do well to examine the problems of the original thirteen states under the Articles of Confederation as well as the systemic failings of the Confederate States of America's government...
...DuPont's efforts to increase its competitiveness over chemical companies too small to afford lobbyists deserve publicity...
...Quindlen...
...This gave the lawyer ample opportunity to torment the captain and his family by indicting, trying, and convicting him in public thanks to a willing and sympathetic national media...
...Marvin Hoffman...
...It plays utterly into the hands of the New Age Calhounism that divides Americans into sovereign sections of race, gender, class and victim du jour...
...It is precisely the agenda of the radical left that Americans have no common interest, no common decency, and no common sense...
...Joel Leggett Board of Directors Colorado Conservative Union Denver, Colorado Fighting Irish I must compliment the British Information Service (some would call it the Disinformation Service) for an excellent propaganda piece, "Gerryatrics," in the March 1994 issue...
...Although his article was fraught with knee-jerk reactions ("let's get rid of the bums by voting against incumbents, irrespective of party label"), it was his idea of secession that engendered the greatest feeling of alarm...
...Mark S. Hanneman Richland, Washington James Bovard's article on "the EEOC's assault on the workplace" was particularly poignant to me...
...The harm done by any one sincere but misguided conservative on this issue outweighs that done by any ten thousand subscribers to the Nation...
...Kerry's violent reaction to a simple letter is one of guilt...
...Patrick E. Hunt Island Falls, Maine Totally Uncool Tom Bethell's February column, "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare," contains some appealing arguments...
...airline...
...Within law enforcement circles, Brown is known as "Out of Town Brown," due tohis propensity for national and international travel at the expense of others...
...The New Age Calhounism really believes that sovereign constituencies, through quota, regulation, and lawsuit, can achieve self-rule, where ethnarchs and tetrarchs under license from princips to sultan have failed long since...
...From a practical matter, all revolutions create a certain amount of senseless violence, and while the events in the north of Ireland are no different, the establishment press tends to ignore the oppressive nature of the British violence and plays up military actions by the Irish Republican Army, and, in fact, gives credit to the Irish Republican Army when no credit is due because of those terrorists who are not associated with it...
...They are thrown in doubt by one gross error...
...Robert Smith and found that he had some very well-founded problems with the attitude of many in the government on this critical issue to me and obviously not so critical to Mr...
...No new form of government will ever do for us what we ourselves are unwilling to do...
...2) The planet revolves...
...I have now read the response and rebuttal...
...Hey, the man's got a good domestic program...
...It touched all the bases of its government's current "line...
...In the middle of the second column Bethell states: "In 1974, F. Sherwood Rowland, a political chemist from the University of California-Irvine, propounded the theory that chlorofluorocarbons (a DuPont trade name) .. ." "Chlorofluorocarbons- is simply an acceptable way of describing the chemical make up of refrigerant molecules, and does not belong to DuPont or any other company...
...The point's not quite trivial, for the man enshrined by modern environmentalists as a plaster St...
...James J. Kouri Flushing Meadows, New York The Beat Goes On Your article on possible Clinton violations of the law ("Criminal Laws Implicated by the Clinton Scandals: A Partial List," TAS, February 1994) lacked one "alleged" misconduct which should have been included at the top of the list...
...give him a chance...
...Louis, Missouri One of the benefits of being retired is the opportunity to watch C-Span...
...Michael Haider St...
...Furthermore, I recently saw Paula Corbin Jones interviewed on television, and never has there been a more believable witness to what she maintains Bill Clinton did to her...
...In fact, as a Republican, I was embarrassed to listen to Sen...
...I am a commercial pilot at a major U.S...
...On Altherr's evidence of his ambivalence it would be a toss-up whether Thoreau could be enlisted for gun control today...
...Joseph P. Wall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The March 1994 edition of The American Spectator included two articles on the Irish question...
...Kerry to be arrogant and very quick to take liberties with the truth...
...Fortunately, I believe the American people will give no more credibility to your magazine than it does to National Enquirer...
...the countries responsible for supplying the means to kill over 50,000 Americans...
...Lynn's misrecollection makes Thoreau sound like the bearded flower child beloved of the sixties—not the radical conservative whom readers of TAS may find if they crack the pages of Walden now...
...Kerry...
...But then, I suppose, it's a question of judgment of what you think you can get away with...
...As the only Republican to serve in Governor Clinton's cabinet, I was not a blind ally of the governor...
...Mark P. Petracca Irvine, California The Age of Innocents Your April/May issue contained an irate letter from Marvin B. Hoffman of Newington, Connecticut, which stated you had not abided by his wish to cancel his subscription "and suggested that you might send it your favorite whorehouse...
...The real problem is the lackadaisical attitude of the electorate in taking their rights and duties for granted...
...Tom W Dillard Little Rock, Arkansas Thanks for writing anyway...
...Throughout 1992, the Nation, a pro-Democratic publication, publicized the Clintons' cozy relationship with monied interests...
...Hanging over the precipice of disunion to fathom the depth of the abyss below...
...He is without a doubt trying to intimidate Mr...
...For example, I never heard either of them (in public or private conversation) use abusive or profane language...
...Imagine my disappointment when the department went down one-third of the list of eligible applicants to hire the far less qualified "number one female...
...Please advise...
...Three reasons "no global (as opposed to•Antarctic) depletion of the ozone has yet been demonstrated": (1) The poles get less sunlight than the rest of the world, thus less ozone is formed (by the decreased ultraviolet radiation...
...which makes criminals out of persons who organize anti-American demonstrations in foreign countries...
...Corry...
...It hurts me, then, to see you championing a dubious cause that I feel I now know something about, having invested so much time in listening to the debate...
...His pet projects, like community policing, are laced with politically-correct jargon, disguised as compassionate and intelligent law enforcement (copas-social worker...
...But then, we must remember that you are dealing with people who were doing this sort of thing long before you were born...
...Roy Wehde Greeley, Colorado (continued on page 86) The American Spectator July 1994 73 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 73) Bloody-Minded Kenneth S. Lynn's account of R.W.B...
...After an exhaustive listening of the hearings, I came to the same conclusion as Sen...
...We need well thought out material to combat today's liberalism...
...As far as the American public is concerned, however, the captain remains the guilty party...
...Thomas E. Ryan San Rafael, California Hey, why not...
...After retiring from the Air Force, I competitively tested with the local police department and placed number one on the hiring list...
...So if Mr...
...I had the opinion that there were prisoners left behind...
...J. Drotar Toledo, Ohio 86 The American Spectator July 1994...
...The White House line is that this is a Republican attempt to "get the President...
...While it is becoming increasingly difficult to be shocked by new revelations about our First Family, Daniel Wattenberg's account of L. D. Brown's life with the Clintons left me further staggered and sickened...
...Neil Chethik Lexington, Kentucky A National Inquirer When can we expect David Brock to pen "The Real Paula Jones...
...Like most Americans I'm concerned about crime and wish to make a positive impact on our society...
...I can only surmise that Mr...
...However, the man portrayed by Wattenberg was not Bill Clinton—and certainly the woman he pictured as Hillary Clinton is not the Hillary I know...
...Brown's behavior is merely a continuation of his modus operandi displayed during his service as police commissioner in New York City and police chief in Houston...
...I have been in many meetings with the Governor as well and Mrs...
...See Thomas L. Althea's article in American Literature, 1984...
...I watched a number of hearings on cable and found Mr...
...What recourse do I, or any other white male, have against this form of discrimination...
...First of all, conservatism is, in the words of Russell Kirk, "the politics of prudence...
...As a retired Air Force officer who was often on the receiving end of Russian supplied rockets on the ground, and 23mm and 37mm shells in the air, I consider Clinton's Vietnam war-time activities treasonous...
...I certainly cannot afford tobe another Bakke, and I won't hold my breath for EEOC assistance...
...Centrifugal force pulls the upper atmosphere, including the ozone layer, away from the poles, toward the equator...
...Some might consider this effort a trifle heavy-handed...
...Hoffman says your magazine will excite the little perverts I will need as customers, I believe him...
...Richard Wendlandt Overland Park, Kansas Home Work As mentioned in Tom Bethell's March column, "The Tony Awards," Anthony Lewis writes a column under the heading, "Abroad at Home...
...His story certainly rings true, given what the Spectator has already revealed about Clintillian behavior over the past decade...
...Ever since Walter Williams wrote his column and supported it on the Rush Limbaugh show, secession seems to be an idea some right-leaning individuals have embraced...
...Considering how tolerable might be the condition of the people when the Union shall be broken up and destroyed...
...Yet, most disturbing is that when I share these disclosures with certain acquaintances, they continue to either ignore all such evidence, or, far worse, assert that it simply doesn't matter allthat much...
...Surely, there must be some U.S.C...
...That way, it doesn't bear the taint of the British government and will be accepted as honest 72 The American Spectator July 1994 journalism instead of the well-crafted propaganda it is...
...Smith...
...But the story doesn't end there...
...R.N...
...CORRESPONDENCE Unbelievable "Love and Hate in Arkansas," by Daniel Wattenberg, published in the April-May issue of your magazine, is an insult to President Clinton, the state of Arkansas, and the American people...
...It also seems to me if we fought a Civil War in this nation to preserve the union and that if the political, economic, and religious rights of the minorities in the south of Ireland are protected, then it follows that British colonialism is the issue and not the Irish Republican Army...
...Maddox Stillwater, Oklahoma I loved Tom Bethell's timely article on the ozone layer's alleged depletion...
...A complete dispensing of our constitutional form of government is nothing if not imprudent reform...
...Kirk makes the observation that swift and slashing reform is as perilous as swift and slashing surgery...
...Wondering, "What is all this Union worth...
...I suppose that's something with which you disagree...
...Brown an entirely credible source...
...Otherwise you might become known as a lackey for the saxon, a description which would disappoint both your grandfather and P.J...
...God help us if it is so...
...I don't know what is appropriate reading material for a brothel, but if Mr...
...However, morality dictates that a country that would leave its brothers and sons on the battlefield risks m oral retribution...
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