Editorials / Time Warp I Sleazeballs
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Time Warp by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. M ay I direct your attention to the February 20 issue of Time magazine? Apparently a contingent of Time writers were recently invited to fly down to...
...During the eight dark years of the Reagan tyranny the term reverberated through that great coast-to-coast echo chamber that is the American media almost on a daily basis...
...Justice is attempting to ascertain whether he lied about payments made to a former mistress...
...Valladares tells us that he recalled every prisoner's suffering to deny the Communists' their victory over them...
...sentence, because as soon as he appeared Lieutenant Raul Perez de la Rosa ordered the guards to step back and as the Brother of the Faith was speaking he fired his AK submachine gun...
...In time Americans will be made abundantly aware of the fact that the Clinton administration is the most corrupt since the Grant administration...
...Another cultural trait is simply to ignore criticism when it arises from a source the media does not fancy...
...Then we could all laugh...
...The sleaze factor is rarely mentioned now...
...hatred," he replies, "is that it does not come from us...
...Then there were her dresses...
...When this war has ended, a much bigger and greater war will start for me, a war I shall launch against them...
...Now he is singing to the independent counsel...
...One of the results is that the Cuban jailers come out looking more horrific than any I have ever read about...
...How many more are...
...For three decades Castro has been vilifying the United States...
...And then there is his old colleague at the Rose Law Firm, Webb Hubbell...
...We are living today in the calm quiet eye of the hurricane...
...She is one of those who, with Nussbaum, furtively entered Foster's office the night of his death...
...Does any of this sound like sleaze to you...
...He refused to renounce his former life for the Revolution, and so his suffering began, as did his chronicling...
...Let us leave the cabinet for the White House...
...The burst of fire climbed the Brother of the Faith's chest, up to his neck...
...What about Raymond Donovan...
...Not long from now the winds are going to pick up, and the Clintons are going to be recognized for what they and many of their cronies truly are...
...Consider the following list of Clinton cronies who have been forced from office, are under investigation, or have copped a plea...
...In late 1960, 23-year-old Valladares was arrested by Castro's revolutionaries because he "studied in a school run by priests...
...Time's interview is a ridiculous document...
...Another cultural trait is simply to ignore criticism when it arises from a source the media does not fancy...
...He compares his last-ditch adherence to Communism with the condition of the "early Christians," forgetting perhaps that the early Christians were the wave of the future and that Communism's future is behind it...
...He says "the state tries to prevent it," but "if we are harsher, we will be accused of human-rights abuses...
...He hired all these geniuses...
...Once he served as an agent for the Soviet Union, endangering world peace and fighting colonial wars for Moscow...
...She has been subpoenaed by independent counsel Kenneth Starr...
...And what about the vacant chair of the director of the White House Office of Administration, David Watkins...
...And note that most of these people are in trouble not for the kept firing until his magazine was empty...
...Hey, ho...
...Apparently a contingent of Time writers were recently invited to fly down to Havana for dinner with Fidel Castro...
...As to charges he received money from Texas developer Morris Jaffe, he denies them...
...What about Raymond Donovan...
...Actually, there is nothing "strange" about it...
...Then there were her dresses...
...At issue is whether he filed false or misleading financial reports regarding his dealings with one Nolanda Hill...
...The Brother of the Faith hardly had time to finish his 12 The American Spectator April 1995 sentence, because as soon as he appeared Lieutenant Raul Perez de la Rosa ordered the guards to step back and as the Brother of the Faith was speaking he fired his AK submachine gun...
...Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros may also be looking for an exit...
...And don't forget Nancy Reagan's White House china (bought by public donations...
...Now we discover that the Clintons put him in one of the White House's key administrative positions after they had to pay off a Clinton campaigner with $37,500 in campaign funds to avert a sexual harassment suit against Watkins...
...In a particularly laughable moment he laments the return of prostitution...
...Sleaze...
...No one mentioned that, and Castro got off his joke about "human rights abuses...
...The burst of fire climbed the Brother of the Faith's chest, up to his neck...
...we are capitalists and democrats...
...That it has expired is another indication of the inert condition of the American journalist's mind...
...Had I been asked to the interview I believe I would have brought along a copy of Against All Hope, Armando Valladares's chronicleof his twenty-two years as a Cuban prisoner of conscience...
...Sleaze, anybody...
...An American POW once told me that, hellish as his stay in the Hanoi Hilton was, it was even worse when one of Castro's henchmen took up residence to show the Vietnamese how a proper prison camp is run...
...Now it's Wedtech...
...It's Meese again...
...In one Cuban camp there was an evangelical preacher known as the Brother of the Faith...
...He writes of Julio Tan, beaten senseless by sadistic Communist guards, as they twisted bayonets into his thigh and let him bleed to death...
...Espy remains under criminal investigation by independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz...
...The strange thing about this Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Doubtless we shall hear more of her . and of Lasater...
...Now it's Wedtech...
...The Justice Department is conducting a preliminary investigation into whether during his background interviews en route to his nomination he misled federal agents...
...The thirdranking official at the Justice Department, Hubbell has copped a plea on charges that he made off with almost $400,000 in padded billings...
...CI Sleazeballs 14 The American Spectator April 1995...
...It has almost become a cultural trait of the American media to fever incessantly about some issue (usually bogus) and conveniently drop it when it might be turned against a media darling...
...And don't forget Nancy Reagan's White House china (bought by public donations...
...A figure in question is a mere $400,000...
...And what of the highest ranking official in American government ever to be accused of sexual harassment, Our President...
...He was jailed...
...Time asks him to "reflect on the strange love-hate relationship between Cuba and the U.S...
...He also remains to befool American journalists...
...I would have asked Castro to autograph it...
...Some of us are religious, all of us love freedom...
...They are still going on...
...I realize that this will be my true destiny...
...According to Amnesty International, as Time's writers visited with Castro hundreds of political prisoners were rotting in the Cuban Gulag...
...I think we shall hear more of former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was forced out for misstatements before the Senate Banking Committee regarding the RTC investigation of Madison...
...We are living today in the calm quiet eye of the hurricane...
...There we shall see the vacant chair of White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum...
...It's Meese again...
...In this astounding 1986 book, Valladares, like Solzhenitsyn in Russia, set out to remember the lives of all his fellow prisoners in their agonies and their deaths...
...His response is pure balderdash...
...same scandal, as was the case with the Watergate defendants, but for many different scandals...
...And note that most of these people are in trouble not for thekept firing until his magazine was empty...
...Well, Fidel, you lost...
...In it Castro reveals that he has not a clue as to how free economies operate...
...The Stalin of the Caribee is one of the world's most brutal killers...
...In time Americans will be made abundantly aware of the fact that the Clinton administration is the most corrupt since the Grant administration...
...The human rights abuses that Castro has been guilty of are among the grisliest ever recorded...
...It has almost become a cultural trait of the American media to fever incessantly about some issue (usually bogus) and conveniently drop it when it might be turned against a media darling...
...He is being investigated by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee and the Justice Department...
...We shall hear more from former Treasury Department chief of staff Joshua Steiner, who resigned when his veracity on similar matters evaporated...
...The interview appears in an issue featuring a proud, defiant picture of Castro on its cover...
...Enrique Diaz Correa, who was beside him, tried to hold up the bloody body but Lieutenant Perez W hatever became of the term "sleaze factor...
...Consider the following list of Clinton cronies who have been forced from office, are under investigation, or have copped a plea...
...He writes of starvation diets, isolation cells, nakedness, and being forced at bayonet point into ditches filled with human excrement...
...The sleaze factor is rarely mentioned now...
...Valladares depicts his last moments: "Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do...
...She in July filed a suit against him for $256,000, claiming he had breached an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 monthly until her daughter graduated from college in 1999...
...How about Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, who also may be leaving...
...As I say, the old boy still gets a lift out of playing American journalists for fools...
...From 1990 to 1993 Cisneros paid his former mistress $213,000...
...Tyson's munificence even extended to Espy's girlfriend, who was given a $2,000 scholarship...
...Enrique Diaz Correa, who was beside him, tried to hold up the bloody body but Lieutenant Perez W hatever became of the term "sleaze factor...
...It did him no good with his interrogators to remind them that Castro had studied in a similar school...
...I trust we shall hear from her again, and what about Associate White House Counsel William Kennedy...
...Time's witless interview gave Castro a victory over the dead and those in his prisons who suffer for freedom still...
...He is also suspected of improper contacts between the White House and those investigating Madison Savings and Loan...
...He had a martini and granted them an interview...
...A comparable exit was made by former Treasury general counsel Jean Hanson...
...They still are...
...He left the government after a Travelgate snafu, a Nannygate scandal, and various other irregularities...
...Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy was forced from the cabinet for taking airplane rides, free lodging, and sports tickets from Tyson Foods...
...Now the Soviet empire is gone, and all of its brutes are dead or in retirement, but Castro remains to tyrannize his people and to deride the United States, the main instrument in delivering most of the inhabitants of that empire to freedom...
...Those are values Castro hates and now fears...
...Well, apparently it is not sleaze to the American media...
...Not long from now the winds are going to pick up, and the Clintons are going to be recognized for what they and many of their cronies truly are...
...As I looked at his bushy gray beard a thought occurred: for every hair in Castro's lush beard one, two, perhaps three Cubans have been jailed, tortured, or murdered...
...He left for New York after Travelgate and irregularities in the handling of Vince Foster's papers and the police investigation surrounding Foster's alleged suicide...
...Time's witless interview gave Castro a victory over the dead and those in his prisons who suffer for freedom still...
...During the eight dark years of the Reagan tyranny the term reverberated through that great coast-to-coast echo chamber that is the American media almost on a daily basis...
...Perhaps Castro drinks his martinis to forget, but we Americans do not have to forget...
...Having been caught flying around to golf outings in presidential helicopters and having lied about it, he was forced to resign on May 26, 1994...
...Valladares tells us that he recalled every prisoner's suffering to deny the Communists' their victory over them...
...Castro is a Communist...
...When that time comes the American press's disregarding of the term "sleaze factor" is going to reveal many American journalists for the hacks that they are...
...Hey, ho...
...When that time comes the American press's disregarding of the term "sleaze factor" is going to reveal many American journalists for the hacks that they are...
...Enrique took nine shells in his body...
...Still at the White House is Patsy Thomasson, former aide of convicted drug dispenser Dan Lasater...
...That it has expired is another indication of the inert condition of the American journalist's mind...
...Enrique took nine shells in his body...
...His loathing for the United States was established early and expressed memorably in a note to Celia Sanchez, his closest companion during his guerrilla uprising in 1958: "I have sworn that the Americans will pay very dearly for what they are doing...
Vol. 28 • April 1995 • No. 4
