Editorials: Lady Hills /All in the Family
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Lady Hills London Here I am, thousands of miles from home, and that lady will not leave me in peace. The lady I refer to, of course, is the lady who for...
...Or is she calling herself Hillary Rodham Clinton or, perhaps, H. Rodham Clinton, Esq., or is it simply Hills...
...Already the nations of Europe "have largely given up the right to make their own laws...
...The European Community's treatment of the British over Mad Cow disease is a graphic example of how much freedom will be lost to independent nations if the move toward the European superstate goes further...
...As readers of this column might know I followed this case with utmost attention...
...Equally bad, the European superstate will take decisions out of the hands of free people and put them into the hands of insensitive bureaucrats whose vision of the future is that of yesteryear's social engineering socialists...
...He is a man of intellect who regularly repairs to a vast estate in Mexico to cogitate with thoughtful persons from different walks of life...
...Such marplots, Goldsmith says over lunch, would "force twenty-five ancient nations into a superstate controlled by twenty unelected commissioners who have both legislative and executive power...
...First, review the glad tidings from Little Rock...
...Justice is served...
...Goldsmith cites polls that indicate a majority of Europeans believe the movement towards the superstate has gone too far...
...Clinton, did you have to spoil my London trip with such ignominious snifflings...
...That would be during the Vietnam war, when she was also actively defending the Black Panthers...
...Then came all the "negativity" toward Messrs...
...Instantaneously he was chewing his lip and fighting back the tears...
...I need not mention what political couple now living out of state is most prominent in that family...
...Then there was the scandal arising when Mrs...
...Other reliable sources insisted that the judge, George Howard, Jr., was an honorable man and that the case was being handled very professionally...
...Then she makes a boast that I can remember no other adult ever making in public...
...The case is very important, though its outcome has been uncertain...
...Whatever the case, I expected the jury to arrive at its decision in a day or two...
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...He has concluded that the movement for European unity has gone too far...
...news for those of us who wanted a conviction, I became still more optimistic...
...Johnson...
...Soon our suspicions were confirmed...
...Yet when there is political advantage to be derived, no sadness is too sad for the Clintons' opportunism...
...From the age of i6, when he left school, until 1991 when he turned 58, Goldsmith made several billion dollars in business both in England and France, as well as in other parts of the world—notably, America...
...So now she is defending Admiral Boorda against the press...
...But Jimmy Goldsmith is opposing it both here and in other European countries...
...Once again the major media is stupendously and gloriously wrong about Whitewater and the Clintons...
...Leading Democrats were doing the comparing, and they were hardly more polite to Mr...
...I am speaking of the establishment of Europeanists who with amazing speed and hamfistedness have sincethe early upo's been endeavoring to merge some twenty-five ancient European nations into one European superstate., C C Goldsmith certainly thinks many of these bureaucrats are corrupt...
...More to the point, he feels that the "artificial state" they would perpetrate will lead to years of rancor, the opposite of the bureaucrats' intentions...
...It also means that President Clinton's testimony on the defendants' behalf was not believed...
...When the major American media saw the jury's sluggishness as badand joshing until he spied the cameras...
...Of its corruption I know very little...
...What this means is that, in Arkansas, that establishment of grafters and bullies known as the "machine" — or, as referred to in the trial, "the political family" — is no longer above the law...
...For weeks my agents in and around Little Rock have sent me conflicting reports...
...The jury has found the McDougals and Tucker guilty...
...But the Europeanists' meddling on a more paltry level is even more alarming...
...From Brussels, the European Community's headquarters, comes word that the famous grill on the Rolls Royce is going to have to be abandoned because some bureaucrat calculates that it is responsible for zoo deaths a year...
...Members of the press corps that Mrs...
...But when journalists tell you that the array of scandals lumped under the catch-all term White-water are too complicated for ordinary citizens to understand, remember Judge Howard and this diligent jury...
...Thousands of "directives" from the Brussels bureaucrats override them...
...Clinton would be indignant that the poor man was not being allowed the peace of the grave...
...They seem to have gotten the drift of corruption within the Arkansas establishment, and now reform might set in...
...Establishments deserve worse...
...Here in Paris the establishment under assault is a much newer phenomenon than Arkansas' political family...
...The lady I refer to, of course, is the lady who for several years now has been menacing truth and right reason as she spreads poppy and cock hither and yon—Hillary Clinton...
...Now the London newspapers report she has emerged as a defender of the American Navy...
...Why other journalists have been so neglectful mystifies me...
...Before attending a memorial service for the admiral at the National Cathedral she lashed out at what she called the "apathy and cynicism" of Washington that stem from "all the negativity that's out there...
...Whatever is Mrs...
...He would settle for a free-trade zone and has founded a political movement in France and Britain—he holds dual citizenship—to stop the move toward a superstate...
...This happens for her so frequently and with such speed that we might consider her the Houdini of personality escapes, the escapes always being from personalities that have become public relations disasters...
...Think of the television clip aired a few months back showing Bill Clinton at a service for Ron Brown, laughing Paris Revolution is in the air...
...Well, back in Little Rock the Clintons could use inmates from the state prison as waiters at the Governor's Mansion...
...That would have been at the end of the Nixon years, when she was a young lawyer on the staff of the House Watergate committee...
...Were her critics to question 16 July 1996 • The American Spectator his death, Mrs...
...France's leading newspaper, Le Monde, called the jury's decision "a serious political reversal" for the president...
...Clinton whining about...
...And, as with her husband, I am sure she can be counted on to lie about it...
...Clinton) is forever in a state of personal renovation...
...The Clintons are the first presidential couple in American history to transform a tragedy into a political coup...
...She quotes her mother as saying, "When you were growing up, you never gave your father or me a sleepless night...
...Alas, for her there is, as they say, a paper trail exposing all this...
...Having recently researched her stormy life, I can tell you she was once very anti-military...
...Clinton now wishes to intimidate actually praised his sentiment...
...But now Mrs...
...My expeditions into these wilds suggests that he is right...
...Exactly when her pro-military juices began to flow is unclear...
...Remember...
...Clinton (I shall call her Mrs...
...The Clintons' partners in the Whitewater scam, James and Susan McDougal, and President Clinton's successor as Arkansas governor, Jim Guy Tucker, have been found guilty of fraud by an Arkansas jury...
...Clinton think of all the "negativity" that was "out there" during her last extended assignment in Washington...
...A troubled naval officer takes his own life in anticipation of the bad publicity he's about to get in Newsweek, and this cynical political operator leaps to exploit his suffering...
...When it went for over a week without a decision, I took heart...
...Well, Madame First Lady, where were you when your fellow critics of the military were exploiting the Tailhook scandal, inflating its significance, and setting out on a campaign against the Navy that has, in the view of former secretary of the Navy John Lehman, impaired its effectiveness, to say nothing of its spirit...
...Then her anti-military fevers went dormant, though doubtless as with her husband she opposed our position in the Gulf War...
...One reliable source insisted that the judge was dishonest, the jury frivolous, and the case a botch, badly mishandled by lead prosecutor W. Ray Jahn...
...What is more, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr now has encouragement to proceed with whatever prospective cases he has developed against other members of the family...
...The president at that time was regularly being compared with Hitler and other unsavory historical figures...
...She is castigating the press for hounding Admiral Jeremy Boorda, the recently deceased chief of naval operations, into his grave...
...Really, Mrs...
...Mrs...
...Now that you and Bill are in the White House, we hardly ever sleep at night...
...After blaming the admiral's death on the press she brings up her own alleged suffering at the hands of the press (all of it deserved): "I feel like I should wear a flak suit and a hard hat...
...Surely one does not have to be a historian to remember the row in the Clintons' first year at i600 Pennsylvania Avenue when a White House aide—allegedly one loyal to the first lady—insulted an officer at the White House, telling him, "I don't talk to the military...
...Clinton then had the gall to wring political advantage out of Vince Foster's suicide once again, though more brazenly than before, misrepresenting her relationship with the unfortunate fellow...
...Yet, as I say, Mrs...
...From Arkansas comes the welcome news that one of America's oldest and most corrupt establishments is being threatened by a jury of ordinary people and by a rarity in them there parts, an apparently incorruptible judge...
...Here in Paris a new and until now burgeoning establishment is being threatened by an enormously wealthy self-made man wielding ideas that sound strangely American, Sir James Goldsmith...
...Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Clinton used uniformed military personnel as White House waiters...
...Why not use a Marine or two to pass the canapes up in Washington...
...Ford, Carter, and Reagan...
...Clinton has undergone another personality quick-change...
...The European establishment is in a state of alarm...
...Nixon's predecessor, Mr...
...And what did Mrs...
...Grasping, selfish establishments are under siege...
...She is forever renovating herself...
Vol. 29 • July 1996 • No. 7
