Editorials: Never Mind / Seduced by Bill
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS' by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Never Mind October 30 And so the 1996 presidential blubbering contest is about to shut down. Our celebrity president is far ahead of the Gruff Gentleman Bob...
...Up in the family quarters one sees Goody-Two-Shoes Hillary simpering across the dinner table at poor Bill: "There, truth will win out...
...There never was an FDIC report charging Hillary Rodham Clinton with drafting a document that deceived bank examiners...
...Surely they are moral equals, and no first family has ever divorced while awaiting indictment...
...Only Bob Dole and his garrulous Sancho Panza, Jack Kemp, had the political acuity and the iron-clad integrity to recognize that there is not a grain of truth to all the scandals and controversies that have been heaved like mud balls at the Great Man whom the Democrats and our Indonesian friends have presented as their candidate...
...the press just ran with it...
...Inexcusably he raised the matter of Filegate "or whatever," whatchamacallit and so forth and so on (Dole calls this being plainspoken...
...And all the questions surrounding Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Henry Cisneros, Federico Pena, Hazel O'Leary, and Mike Espy are the fictive creations of people like me...
...Hence, this justifies so drastic a method of popular reduction as abortion...
...Dissuade Hillary from rubbing it in...
...It is time for liberals to rescue this marriage...
...Other allegations I have spread knowingly, though as the White House has carefully noted, the Clintons are as clean as a hound's tooth...
...After all, did not our Boy President blame Janet Reno for Waco and George Bush for Somalia (or was it Barbara Bush...
...Gennifer Flowers, Sally Perdue, Paula Corbin Jones, and the Excelsior Hotel...
...Allegations of money-laundering, real-estate flipping, sweetheart loans, election fraud...
...These best-selling books quote him implicating a financial supporter in the odious trafficking, and they note that the supporter was eventually and most unfortunately convicted on drug charges...
...He devotes essays, investigative reports, whole books, to flaying at them madly...
...Bill's people, however, are alarmed, and Bill himself is in another of his snits...
...Dole and Kemp know this, and I do too...
...At the San Diego debate last October I half expected him to point the finger at Hillary when Bob Dole suggested White House ethical lapses...
...Ever since Brock's diabolical publication of The Real Anita Hill, feminists and liberal columnists have with an amazing regularity given themselves over to diatribes against him...
...There are some Washington, C ) hands who have suspected that 4...
...All were figments of my imagination, ably abetted by a vast conspiracy of dirty tricksters...
...Truth be known, Brock has not set out to destroy Hillary but to destroy the Clintons' marriage...
...His new book, The Seduction ofHillary Rodham, makes that stupendously clear...
...Well, neither press nor pols were buying it...
...As incentives to produce were weakened, and production failed to keep pace with population growth and rising expectations, those who once told us America had a "distribution problem" (rather than a "production problem") now are telling us that we have a "population problem...
...And now let me formally apologize for any of the false charges that I was a party to...
...I made them all up...
...Webb Hubbell is a wronged man...
...Brock marks him down as a fickle, pleasure-loving low-life...
...Brock's clever attempt to embroil the country in vexed debate over Hillary seduced vs...
...In truth, they do not exist...
...Clinton will not remain a stoic...
...She wore those two-inch-thick glasses that drove me wild...
...Kemp have recognized that Vice President Al Gore was right on the money on October 13's "Meet the Press" when he said, "The ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House...
...One hears him over in the Oval Office: "Hey, wait a minute...
...She knew it made me nuts...
...My White House sources tell me that Hillary's people are perfectly content with Brock's depiction of her in The Seduction...
...Call us Slick Willies...
...Two biographies have come out chronicling the Great Man's knowledge of drug trafficking at Mena, Arkansas, while he was governor...
...Bank examiners never called Castle Grande a series of "sham transactions...
...The Dole-Kemp winning team was brilliant in directing the debate away from every indicted Clinton pal, from every charge of illegality, unethical behavior, and scandal...
...Ai 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator Ironic, isn't it, that many of the same people who defend seal pups and salmon eggs from harm see nothing wrong with the killing of embryonic human beings...
...Brock's book, I am told by my spies, is a Hillary favorite...
...Douglas Cooper, "The Morality of Abortion" DECEMBER 1971 The American Spectator • December 1996 17...
...He and his sidekick Mr...
...But Bill is furious...
...His first putative victim was Anita Hill...
...Who will vouch for Bill's...
...Arkansas State Troopers and nannies have never uttered a peep of scandal or irregularity against the Clintons...
...No doubt many will want to cast their vote for Bob Dole, and for good reason...
...Now she might strike the liberals as a "strong woman," but is she really...
...Thereupon they surrounded her with lawyers, publicists, and God knows how many therapists...
...She knew how Dick Morris and I went nuts over those boots...
...Because many traditional constraints on human sexuality seemed illogical, all came to be questioned...
...All of us in our capacity as private citizens must now make our choice as to who will wear the boots of George Washington on Inauguration Day 1997...
...Good show...
...Possessed of a pedestrian mind, no career achievement to speak of, no husband, no children, no coruscating social accomplishments, Hill was actually a mousy, social isolate, terrified by the common courtesies a gentleman once paid her...
...She was busy helping children...
...Brock's ferocious misogyny has put liberal commentators on guard against any further attempt of his to destroy another liberal superwoman...
...Dole...
...Flowerwood Farm is not even a farm, and Billy Dale is still happily at work at the White House Travel Office...
...neither of them particularly impressed her...
...Was this the long-anticipated October Surprise...
...Now she has retreated to some backwater to sweat out the syllables of the book she vowed never to write and almost certainly will not unless someone assists her to the point of writing it for her...
...Every allegation against the Clintons published in The American Spectator was a fabrication, usually made up by me...
...Through nearly ten excruciating years she transmogrified these courtesies into near rape, but even then it took congressional staffers and Washington hacks to make the thing public...
...For that matter, when was the last time Clinton accepted blame for anything other than ending the Cold War, balancing the budget, and inventing ice cream...
...In fact New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth contrived the whole story of Whitewater...
...Writes Brock: "Hillary's story is that of an intelligent, talented, ambitious, and very determined woman who nevertheless succumbed to powerfully seductive forces...to the seductive attraction of Bill Clinton himself...
...They recognized this unholy hoax...
...seducer Bill is the greatest threat to their bond since Gennifer Flowers learned to use a tape recorder...
...She had no defense against such vile perfidies...
...Our celebrity president is far ahead of the Gruff Gentleman Bob Dole...
...the president's men have been setting Hillary up to take the rap, for instance, on Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, and lying to the independent counsel...
...Three powerful currents of contemporary thought have swept aside the concern for life: the sexual revolution, women's liberation, and the population crisis...
...The most inveterate of the diatribists has been the theater critic Frank Rich, now thrashing about on the political commentary pages of the New York Times...
...Now she can call upon Brock to vouch for her spotless integrity...
...Dole and Kemp knew the books were nonsense...
...Now comes Brock's book-length treatment of Hillary...
...I tip myhat to them...
...Supposedly Brock's next victim was Hillary Clinton or Rodham, or Rodham Clinton, or whatever she is calling herself during this election year...
...There was, alas, a dark moment in the second presidential debate when meanness overcame Mr...
...She has a habit of depositing discrepancies on the record, especially in election years...
...Does that sound like the judgment of a woman-hater to you...
...Let me now publicly admit that throughout the past four years I have done many shameful things...
...And the baggy clothes and no make-up, not even deodorant...
...I apologize...
...And worse still: "It was Bill Clinton who brought her into contact with the gritty money-politics system of Arkansas, entangling her in a web of unsavory associations from which she attempted to distance herself...
...And poor Chelsea willnot know what to think...
...Naturally the Great Man only sneered...
...Such scandal-mongering was beneath him...
...Even back at Yale Law School it was her, not me...
...Dole got hold of himself and dropped the unwholesome subject...
...And White House press secretary Michael McCurry was right, too, when he dismissed all the Great Man's critics as scoundrels and fantasists...
...Hardly anything negative that one might say against the Clintons could possibly be true...
...Never Mind October 3o And so the 1996 presidential blubbering contest is about to shut down...
...Their testimony—and the curious responses of two nurses queried about the Great Man's medical Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...They know Hillary from church work...
...Clinton and her staff on Trayelgate, Filegate, and the hiring of Messrs...
...Rich has quieted down of late, perhaps reminded of the unseemliness of his passion for Brock...
...Once again seasoned students of the American political scene are right to ask, do the liberals ever get anything right...
...Ah never seduced anyone...
...Early in October several Arkansans came forward claiming that they either witnessed or did cocaine with this Great Man while he was governor...
...41 16 December 1996 • The American Spectator Seduced by Bill Boy, did the liberals get David Brock wrong...
...Because many burdens are unfairly borne by women, some think that any burdens unique to women are unfair...
...Hear, hear...
...Actually all Brock ever did to Rodham was quote the recollections of her former bodyguards back in Arkansas...
...Hitherto the liberal tag on Brock has been that "strong women" provoke him to emotional excess...
...There never were RTC criminal referrals, so how could the Clintons be implicated in Whitewater...
...Calm Bill down...
...Mena...
...Actually the liberals' whole thesis that Brock opposes "strong women" seemed flawed on the paucity of their evidence alone...
...Now Brock's biography of her is out, and he finds her rather sweet though highly ideological...
...Livingstone and Marceca, who are actually members of the Methodist clergy...
...And Dole and Kemp immediately dropped their request that the Great Man make public these records...
...After introducing drugs as an issue into the campaign, they dropped it after a week and never raised the embarrassment again...
...The McDougals and Jim Guy Tucker should be set free, and pardons extended to the half-dozen small fry who have been convicted of what I must now admit was a Times hoax...
...Troopergate...
...And at the protest demonstrations she wore pole-climber boots...
...Now when was the last time Clinton duly accepted the blame for a series of charges like that...
...The Clintons are the victims of the most elaborate and vindictive smear campaign in the history of the world...
...I personally wrote the conflicting testimony of Mrs...
...Bravo...
...There is nothing to them...
...The Clinton marriage has weathered many storms...
...history—seemed to fortify rumors that the Great Man's medical records were being kept from the press and the electorate because of a drug overdose...
...Fortunately Mr...
Vol. 29 • December 1996 • No. 12
