Editorials: Fish Are Jumpin' / Mike Goes Soft
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Fish Are Jumpin' Kitty Hawk, N.C. Who says the oceans are dying? Right here along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, anglers are pulling voluptuous striped...
...That such an obvious humbug as Clinton remained politically viable in Arkansas and remains so in the country today is not the only mystery revolving around Clinton...
...Then the people of Arkansas would re-elect him...
...It is candidate Clinton who promised to balance the budget...
...All was well in the Soviet Union...
...Michael Kinsley, liberalism's enfant terrible, is retiring from his role as provocateur from the left on "Crossfire...
...Take the story last November that ran apace of the political stories that the Democratic Party's electoral destruction has slowed (to which the response might be "aaah" or "whew...
...There actually are kids in the building who believe in American democracy...
...For instance, after Dan Rather reports a new hole in the ozone layer, the canned audience response might be "00000h, oh, no...
...It remains inert as incompetence is ceaselessly displayed by the administration and scandals pop up all around...
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...Given its dominance of media and academe, and its tendency to bully those who disagree, it rarely has engaged its opponents...
...Now he is throwing in the towel...
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...How does one explain the pliant American press...
...His cave-in is reported a triumph...
...Perhaps he is not as intelligent as Stalin...
...Now after insisting that he would not agree to balancing the budget in seven years, President Clinton has caved in and agreed...
...But now he is making his conge from the political debates and absconding to faraway Redmond...
...At the outset of his presidency newspaper editors could have written a dozen or so headlines for the years ahead and retired...
...Whether in Little Rock or in Washington, this big smiling galoot always caves in...
...In a discussion at the Reagan Library a few months back I tried to direct our discussion away from Republicans vs...
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...Shortly thereafter another English writer broke the bad news...
...Why really...
...Finding sagacity and virtue in his candidate Clinton's reversals and lies was unpleasant business...
...True, Clinton does not have as much power as Stalin had, but he is a much nicer person...
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...It has no principles that it does not regularly and flagrantly compromise...
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...He would fold...
...Kinsley is a gifted manipulator of the public discourse, known while he edited the New Republic for cutting his writers' references to those writers and journalshe opposed, for back-biting his way to the top, and for pouting when an unfriendly review of him came in...
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...Kinsley is going to edit an on-line magazine, as yet unnamed, for Microsoft...
...In fact, they could have been written while Boy Clinton was governor of Arkansas...
...And then there would be these headlines, all of which have been seen before in this presidency and will be seen again: "President Denies Charges," "President Addapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...My innovation could extend to other emotional responses...
...The pressure would build against it...
...How did he continue to be elected...
...A professional laugher might not be an expert 00000her, just as members of the Royal Shakespeare Company might appear stilted on, say, the Roseanne Barr show...
...No wonder the press goes along with his flumdiddle...
...From Moscow Muggeridge broke the silence in reporting the massive starvation...
...Remember his embarrassing challenge to David Brock when he decided Clinton's satyriasis was "unbelievable...
...His fatigue in the liberal cause has been apparent for a couple of years...
...Yet the "stripers" have suddenly reappeared...
...I suppose we can thank our big lovable lug of a president for that...
...The innovation would not be costly...
...Well, a pliant press is not unheard of...
...You would need to buy over a dozen metro newspapers to enjoy all the wit and commentary you could find in one Conservative Chronicle...
...it is for law and order but in favor of radar detectors in automobiles...
...Yes, Clinton has proven a dreadful burden...
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...And after caving in to the Republicans and accepting their goal of a balanced budget in seven years, he has—it seems—caved in on his cave-in...
...now there is one convenient source—the Conservative Chronicle...
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...The struggle within his soul pitting the ideological crusader against the nerd has been won by the nerd...
...What is more, one can take leave of the daily news for a week, returning to find that things are pretty much the same...
...His decision is but another instance of liberalism's retreat from active intellectual engagement with its political opponents...
...President Announces Middle-Class Tax Cut...
...His shtick was conservative hypocrisy: the right is for capital punishment but not for extending it to "white collar crime...
...The canned response to that troubling story might be"aargh," at least from liberals...
...Back to politics...
...Clinton has the power and our press will continue to report the news as Clinton's press secretaries counsel them...
...The English writer Richard Ingrams has just published in London a very interesting biography of Malcolm Muggeridge, the English journalist who had many readers here in the postwar period...
...Kinsley will doubtless produce his usual fare: 30 percent sense (good sense), 70 percent nonsense (perverse nonsense...
...That was to be expected...
...He would unveil a proposal...
...Its only goal for some years now has been to maintain its position of power and perks and to disparage conservatism...
...President Plans the Reform...
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...The other one is that the press doesnot report what a humbug he is...
...He will perform not on the pages of one or another of America's intellectual reviews but on the computer screen for all those lonely souls who, mouse under the index finger, pore over whatever sense or nonsense downloads onto the Internet...
...President Announces Plan for Balanced Budget...
...Accuses Republicans of Playing Politics," "Mrs...
...The White House line is swallowed whole by the press...
...At+ 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator Despite reports that we are alienating our youth to the point of no return, the average American student is no revolutionary, as any SDSer can tell you...
...Yet there is much more...
...Always appraised as an improbable television personality even during his rare appearances on PBS, Kinsley is now coming out of the closet not as a dramatic polemicist but as the bespectacled nerd...
...it is against Communism but not willing to point Pershing missiles at Chile...
...I am reminded of a comment that an acquaintance of mine made after the first day of a sit-in at the University of Chicago...
...he fumed...
...Allow me to suggest an innovation that I assure you will go over in a big way with anchorpersons and TV audiences alike...
...He was horrified when he discovered that many of the so-called demonstrators had really joined the occupation as an experiment in communal living...
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...Once in office, "President Delays Plan for _," and "President Criticizes Republicans for ." You can fill in the blanks as easily as I can...
...In his biography, Ingrams reminds us that, in the early 1930s while eight million of Stalin's people were purposefully being starved in the Ukrainian famine, the Western press blissfully reported Stalin's line...
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...And he promised that "middle-class tax cut...
...It could be left for future writers to fill in the blanks...
...Or, our editor could simply do it like this...
...Democrats into purely speculative reflections on how the world has changed from FDR's time...
...Then the press went back to reporting life in the Soviet Union according to Stalin's press agents...
...The range for my innovation is vast, and I hope TV's news producers will find it inspiring...
...White House aides suggested that President Clinton might not adhere to the seven-year deadline for balancing the budget, as he had agreed to a day before," reports the Washington Times...
...He is leaving Washington, D.C...
...Whether one is Michael Kinsley or Anthony Lewis, liberalism offers no program to advance or defend...
...How can we improve the "news content" without trespassing upon ad revenues, they ask...
...At this Kinsley was quite good...
...As for these recent follies, think back on his 1992 campaign...
...Surely the headlines for the recent follies over the budget could have been written years ago...
...He is an unwavering partisan, always assisted by a genius for the specious argument...
...For a moment there was controversy...
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...Clinton Angry," and finally, "White House on Roller Coaster...
...Stalin's great progressive experiment was going without a hitch...
...Right here along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, anglers are pulling voluptuous striped bass in off the surf, and in bountiful numbers...
...City State Zip FINFIG Mike Goes Soft In the restless minds of the producers of television news there is always the impulse to improve their product...
...Hence, the news relating to him pretty much stays the same...
...Sitcoms are livened up with canned laughter...
...In fact I am sure that the networks could get the same idiots whose laughter they tape for sitcoms to do the "00000hing" and "yeaing," unless these responses demand specific talents...
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...At one point he promised to balance it in five years...
...President Opposes Reform...
...Conservation efforts were sensible and they worked...
...That would have been unheard of in years past...
...Just as it appears that the left is holding its own, Kinsley, who has long been billed as the comic genius of the liberal intelligentsia, completes his retreat from media...
...Nature is resilient, especially with a little assistance from man...
...But he is a lot easier to like...
...President Delays Plan for Balanced Budget...
...Every story uttered by an anchorperson has its natural emotional responses...
...Kinsley's response was some pedantic and misleading reference to the New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act...
...President Delays Plan for Middle-Class Tax Cut...
...Instead it misrepresents them, ignores them, or vilifies them as members of an "extreme right" that scarcely exists...
...for Redmond, Washington...
...He also chastised Washington and the Republicans for failing to balance the budget...
...Now the "stripers" are back, and hundreds of pleasant feasts will follow featuring these exquisite fish...
...How about these...
...For certain he is not nearly as competent as Stalin...
...Year in and year out he does not change...
...And it's all in an easy-to-handle format...
...In fact, next to- Stalin, our president is a regular guy...
...Stalin had the power and the press, then as now, is easily enraptured by power...
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...The dozen or so scandals—dare we call them crimes?—being investigated by independent counsels, congressional committees, and a handful of independent reporters are accepted as "old news" being peddled by "Clinton haters...
...How about canned laughter accompanying appropriate news stories...
...That is the mystery of Clinton...
...For instance, after Peter Jennings reports that President Clinton has announced his plan to balance the budget in ten years, there would follow a risible burst of "ha, ha, ha...
...Of course these are the quibbles of a petty mind, but then what else has liberalism become...
...And when Tom Brokaw reports yet another medical breakthrough in America's war against aging, the response to follow could be "yea" or "oh goody...
...For Kinsley the retreat began when he quit his syndicated newspaper column months back...
...Back in the governor's mansion he was forever setting up run-ins with the legislature and backing down...
Vol. 29 • January 1996 • No. 1
