Editorials / Post-Liberation / Hubbelled
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Post-Liberation by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A rdent environmentalist that I am, allow me to report that the nation's grim Kultursmog remains devoid of any currents of fresh air...
...Since Liberation Day, the liberals' dream candidate of 1992 is afire to demonstrate that he has received the voters' message loud and clear...
...Yet liberals like Kael drone on...
...Yet it was all pretty words drained of meaning...
...On the Hill, relics of the Old Order such as Congressman Richard Gephardt—another of liberal fashion's eternal boys—are going to wrap themselves in the Constitution and defend "traditional American values...
...Yes, Howard uses language that would shock Grandma, but my guess is that he and Grandma vote alike...
...No whiff of November 8th's Day of Liberation has penetrated the politicized atmospheres in which America's chattering classes dwell...
...Even Howard Stern provides a clearer vision of what is happening in America than the editors and other co-conspirators who dominate the New York Times, the Washington Post, the major broadcasting networks, and the other polluters of that smokestack industry called mass communications...
...These pitiable dopefetchers continue to poison their minds with the enthusiasms and bugaboos of their fellow infantile leftists or progressivists, or whatever term of self-glorification they apply to themselves...
...What is more, when both houses of Congress went Republican and thousands of Capitol Hill jobs changed hands, the Kultursmog lost most of its contacts in government...
...Almost nowhere is the extent of the 1994 electoral rout reported...
...Soon the journalists will all be at one with Pauline Kael, who, by the way, is in retirement...
...As the eighties wore on, they even proclaimed themselves—shockingly—the guardians of the country's traditional morality...
...Bill Clinton demonstrated just how meaningless the pretty words were...
...Here is another aged pollutant from the Kultursmog, the idea that Republicans are foreign to democratic government, extremists, Nazi-like...
...In the 1980s, many did make one adjustment...
...Conceivably she knows no one who voted Republican in this last election...
...His universal health insurance was to have been government's largest takeover of private property ever...
...Her fine artistic sense remains, for which movie-goers can be grateful, but, of course, she also remains obsessed by the Vietnam war, and confirmed in the liberals' unshakable belief that America is some sort of coast-to-coast con game...
...I assume she is as narrow today as she was then...
...Hitler would have loved these people," the Hon...
...Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...They were furiously against Soviet Communism but against the military build-up...
...They were against government red ink but also against heartless budget cuts...
...Moreover they probably share the same sense that big government is offensive, inefficient, expensive, and occasionally drunk and disorderly...
...They adopted the rhetoric of the rising conservative movement...
...The liberals were positioning themselves on both sides of each issue...
...The fact is that the journalists of the Kultursmog know almost nothing about those ideas...
...Pauline Kael, the New York movie critic who gained vast admiration writing for the New Yorker, itself an exquisite exhaust pipe into the Kultursmog, exclaimed after Richard Nixon's 1972 rout of George McGovern that she did not know anyone who voted for Nixon...
...A rdent environmentalist that I am, allow me to report that the nation's grim Kultursmog remains devoid of any currents of fresh air whatsoever...
...After promising middle-class tax cuts he raised taxes...
...They were sagaciously skeptical of affirmative action but for "goals...
...Their point, implicit and explicit, is that aliens have landed upon Washington...
...There are reports of Bill's responses to this Terror, and of Gephardt's equally irrelevant responses...
...He will use the words "middle" and "class" in every speech—and with feeling...
...Its outcome was almost the exact opposite of those who claimed the Communists would bring "peace and freedom...
...Today, the Kultursmog resounds with agitated reports of NEWT and his 14 The American Spectator February 1995 plans...
...Gephardt mused while assessing the presidential campaign of George Bush in the hellish year of 1988...
...The war has been over for two decades...
...I heard her the other day pronouncing on the movies during one of National Public Radio's closed commentaries to fellow liberals, all paid for at taxpayers' expense...
...They claimed to be equally tough-minded on foreign policy, to be for balanced budgets and efficiency in government...
...After haranguing the Bush administration's listless policy towards Haiti and Bosnia, Clinton did almost nothing for well over a year in Haiti and all he has done on Bosnia is bluster and strut...
...Moreover, our soi-disant New Democrat cast a lecherous eye on 14 percent of the Gross National Product...
...The origins and history of the Republicans' ideas are not mentioned...
...To find out what is going on in American society one has to flee to the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Orange County Register, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, perhaps a score of smaller newspapers, National Review, The American Spectator, and such radio controversialists as Rush Limbaugh, Gordon Liddy, and now Michael Reagan...
Vol. 28 • February 1995 • No. 2
