Editorials: Seth Lipsky's Power Forward/Not Nice Lice
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Seth Lipsky's Power Forward New York Walking the now pacified and clean streets that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has vouchsafed this city, I stop at...
...So here is a toast to the Forward...
...New York's newsstands often provide bountiful buffets of newspapers and periodicals for the ardent reader...
...We have all melted into one American culture, bringing the different spices of our backgrounds...
...Few people at today'snewspapers realize that there are millions of Americans out there who really like to read, and who enjoy combative, informed commentary as well as news...
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...Morgan in the late 1890's, it was always a very suave read...
...Its birthday is cause for all Americans who are interested in freedom of thought and lively writing to celebrate...
...Lipsky continued the tradition when he took over in the 1990's...
...He has had a window into Israeli politics that provides the clearest view of any American publication I know of...
...The Forward's growth manifests another aspect of America, namely, the vigor and intelligence of the American Jewish community...
...And it has been Jewish, which is to say, it has been responding to news from the perspective of that particular religious and ethnic group of Americans...
...It has been patriotic and engaged in defining and defending American values...
...Though it was founded by socialists for the working class engaged in grim struggles with the forces of J.P...
...Here I find newspapers from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia...
...Perhaps I should pick up a few Indonesian newspapers and send them down to Our President...
...Lipsky's reporters may be writing from the moderate left, but they see the world with a clear eye and have the boldness to report precisely what they see...
...Thus, they are sitting this one out in the expectation that a defeated George McGovern will disappear into the Senate o'er the hills of South Dakota...
...Bascom C. Slemp "November and Beyond" OCTOBER 1972 16 October 1997 • The American Spectator tions of immigration...
...Their party has been seized by ideological hardliners who are not about to surrender it without a fight...
...The Clinton scandals are better reported in the Forward than in the New York Times...
...For one thing he is only for a few cultures, perceived by him to have been victimized...
...He is a seasoned newspaperman, having served around the world for the Wall Street Journal...
...There is, however, one constant in most of these fanciful cultures that the multiculturalist would impose on us?contempt for America...
...Today's daily newspapers are bland by comparison, and they are useful solely for their advertisements...
...Lipsky began it in 1990...
...The multiculturalist of the present is different...
...The Forward's new editor, Seth Lipsky, follows in this great tradition...
...blessed with one of the most remarkable editors in America, Abraham Cahan...
...There is a Yiddish-language Forward that survived with a circulation of 1o,000, but the real excitement is over at the English-language edition...
...Its achievement proves that Americans do not need professors of "multiculturalism" pontificating to us about what we once forthrightly called the American Melting Pot...
...Always the paper has been energetic and cultured...
...The Forward has survived for a century and now is undergoing a renaissance...
...They may be right about McGovern, but if they really think they're going to be back in the saddle themselves by 1976 they are only deluding themselves...
...As I say, we Americans do not need professors of multiculturalism...
...Seth Lipsky's Power Forward New York Walking the now pacified and clean streets that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has vouchsafed this city, I stop at a newsstand...
...By the 1930's and on to 1951 when he died, Cahan transformed the Forward into a staunchly anti-Communist New Deal Democratic paper with wide-ranging commentary...
...It was Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Our Melting Pot has served us through genera25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator George Meany and his friends appear to believe that when it's all over the Democratic Party will be returned to them intact, that the nightmare will be over and they will be able to pick up where they left off...
...To publish the news would be too controversial for the business executives who increasingly dominate these tired institutions...
...It has personality and vigor...
...Alas, the papers from Peking are not here, but, then, there are not really that many papers published in Peking even now in its post-Maoist Capitalist rapture...
...The existence of these literate Americans explains why small publications such as the Forward exist and are growing...
...The McGovernites—with or without George McGovern—are likely to be with us for some time...
...It is celebrating its moth birthday...
...In fact, we do not need multiculture...
...They are creations of the multiculturalist's fevered imagination...
...Moreover, though the paper is focused mainly on New York, its coverage of Washington politics is among the best in the country...
...The history of the Forward provides a clear history of American Judaism from immigrant working-class roots to prosperity...
...They might provide helpful information for his peculiar fundraising crusades...
...Cahan relished America, and his paper reported and commented on all things American, from beer to baseball to politics and the arts...
...One of the papers that catches my eye is the Jewish Forward...
...The old Yiddish-language Forward had a daily circulation of 250,000 at its height in the 192o's...
...He eschewed the solemn Germanic euphuisms that characterized the Yiddish of the time and published a vibrant prose, enlivened by the dynamism of the American scene...
...The multiculturalist does not like America...
...Originally a Yiddish daily published in the lower east side by the Socialist Party, the Forward now appears weekly in English...
...The Jewish writers and readers of the Forward have all relished America, which is another reason to toast the Forward in its moth year...
...It is glad to be in America, and it has added immeasurably to the attractions of this place...
...For another, those approved cultures are generally bogus...
Vol. 30 • October 1997 • No. 10
