Editorials: Kim Jong Clinton / Hats Off to Jerry
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Kim Jong Clinton I do not know about you, but as I listened to Our President intone the familiar inanities of his inaugural speech I thought— rather affectionately— of Mr. Kim Jong II,...
...He promises to be fair...
...And thanks to Mr...
...He says he will investigate thororeticians posit a "feeding chain" within oughly and "let the chips fall where they the media...
...He was a gasbag but also a prophet without honor in his time...
...Today's Kim can supposedly fly MIG fighters with unsurpassed daring, and he advises all his country's pilots...
...A brilliant military strategist, he also pens movies and poetry adored by the masses...
...Education cannot be neutral...
...His real achievement, however, was making preposterous and therefore believable claims to the intellectuals...
...All had great claims made for them and most, for a while at least, found a warm place in the hearts of Western eggheads...
...Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Will he have a fundnessed revelations that this White House raiser in his congressional chambers...
...During January not seven days went by without new scandalous revelations that the Clinton White House lies...
...In the first part of the century we had Lenin on the left and Mussolini on the right—though Mussolini began a socialist schoolteacher and died a socialist, strung up by his heels by a faithless proletariat...
...Honor him now...
...A century later the result of that impossible dogma manifested itself: the German university of 1937...
...nent source of news, but the Clinton White House has discovered that the mainstream news organizations are mere scavengers, bottom feeders busily consuming the clever droppings of the above-mentioned members of the White House enemies list...
...Were Clinton's constitution any less robust, by now he would be dead from exhaustion...
...Time will tell, but in the meantime the Democrats found House Speaker Newt Gingrich guilty of one of the seventy-four charges (1.3 percent) they have confected against him these last two years...
...Hubbell lied to federal authorities in sufficient abundance to be reindicted (as might be his condition by the time you read these lines...
...The lifestyle of the stereotypical progressive president is killing...
...for instance, about his athletic feats, his poetic heart, his intellectual devotions...
...Twentieth-century dictatorship's Cult of Personality is Kim's model...
...He attends a fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple and calls it an outreach program...
...Washington N ineteen ninety-seven is but a few months old, and this great city of amateur actors and charlatans rocks with scandal and bathos...
...American Spectator...
...He designs bridges and other architectural structures...
...Kim too is the last of the century's stereotypical dictators, engauded with vast and idiotic claims...
...And forget not, "Today we can declare: Government is not the problem and government is notthe solution...
...How about happy or melancholy...
...But then this humble government is going to be "strong enough to improve the lives of all Americans...
...Brown it was a rare lapse into understatement...
...Their contribution to the stereotypical progressive presidency was brains and vitality— Roosevelt's bloodthirsty assaults on fish and wildlife are conveniently deleted by the historians who created this progressive model...
...Oh no, the criminal Times, London's Sunday Telegraph and Gingrich turned his wife out into the cold that respected magazine of the arts, The to pay for his hellish misdeeds...
...We, the American people, we are the solution...
...Both the Kims and the Clintons have achieved very little that is worthwhile, but they have made me laugh...
...Both men represent the century's final editions of their respective models of political leadership...
...Maybe he (including the Journal, the Washington will sell his home...
...In the twentieth century Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were the first charismatic progressives...
...Thanks...
...There is an air of dignity about Along with the enemies list the White the senator and a touch of the ordinary House provided a theoretical construct as citizen...
...Perhaps it is time that we acknowledge the greatness of the Hon...
...Where would Buddhism be without a friend in the White House...
...Gary North, "The Degradation of the Academic Dogma" MARCH 1972 1 8 March 1997 • The American Spectator...
...After designing hydroelectric dams he reads Faulkner, Melville, Whitman, and the works of Hillary Clinton — just kidding...
...Which is to say he and his colleagues broke the law only ten percent of the time in pursuit of funds...
...Upon Gingrich's bowed head a $300,000 fine has been imposed...
...For instance, White House spokesman Michael McCurry had lied about Bruce Lindsey, even as that slippery presidential hack lied about Webb Hubbell, even as Mr...
...Moreover he added to the stereotype youthfulness, athleticism, a full head of hair, glistening and flawless teeth, and—we can now admit—the indoor amusements of the late Giovanni Casanova...
...Twentieth-century charismatic progressive is Our President's model...
...McCurry calls our scandal-a-week president's fundrais"bad information" (namely matters being ing...
...Can a government be humble...
...And even the White House's lifetime Boy Scout, Vice President Al Gore, lies...
...To the bottom-feeding journalists of the national press he whined that "way, way over 90 percent" of campaign donations were legal...
...He was minor-investigated by various independent coun- ity counsel to the Senate Watergate comsels and congressional committees...
...Both the right and the left have resorted to this stereotype...
...The Korean Kims were colossal legend grinders...
...After him the script was well known...
...And what was their percentage on telling the truth, obstructing justice, and Hats Off to Jerry 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator We cannot return to knowledge for its own sake, that old Greek ideal, unless we also return to the idea that knowledge must be built upon fundamental presuppositions, that these are ultimately religious in nature, that all men do not agree on these, and therefore, that serious scholarship will always offend someone or some group...
...Not since Richard Nixon have such atrocities been committed in Washington...
...His twenty-two minute speech was the reductio ad absurdum of Kennedy Klaptrap...
...The state-financed Prussian universities in which the modern doctrine of academic freedom was born required such a neutrality dogma...
...Kim Jong II, leader of North Korea...
...The mainstream media has may...
...Finally on January 28 he ended the month with a press conference that saw the Boy President at his adolescent best...
...16 Now we have Clinton...
...John F. Kennedy, so the progressive historians have told us, embodied all the above gifts to such a prodigious degree that he almost drove them and like-minded commentators insane...
...His bequest to the progressive stereotype was the human touch, along with gaiety, eloquence, charm, and tirelessness...
...Yet for a while Mussolini's feat of getting the trains to run on time enraptured both right-wingers and left-wingers...
...Mao swam down the Yangtze in world-record time and at an antique old age...
...Hitler was almost always a public relations disaster, even with the intelligentsia of the far right...
...He has not been in Washington to how the press might eventually and long and possibly he senses that the corunconsciously pick up some of this "bad ruption in this city is in need of serious information...
...To all of the above attributes, save Kennedy's lately admitted libido, Jimmy Carter added honesty, saintliness, and a nigh unto gruesome ardor for jogging...
...A month into 1997 it was already apparent that Boy Clinton is the scandal-a-week president...
...How has kept an enemies list of journalists about at a Buddhist temple...
...Finally the stereotype of the progressive president has forced him to say and do things that are about as silly as the public can endure...
...Yes, I listened to Our President the other day and beheld visions of his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Il...
...His father, who preceded him as exalted dictator of his impoverished country, supposedly declaimed, "If I am a man of 1,000 gifts, a genius, Jong II is a man of io,000 gifts, a super-genius...
...Then came Stalin and Hitler, and finally a whole raft of similarly talented and preposterous thugs...
...He promises a government "humble enough" not to attempt to solve "all the nation's ills...
...Ever the energetic striver, he has endeavored to personify the stereotypical president's entire basket of talents, including Carter's saintliness and Kennedy's randyness...
...Well, we are at the end of a century dominated by these two types...
...His inaugural address was as juvenile as his notion of a media feeding chain...
...Anyone who has listened to a few years of the stereotypical progressive president ranting could, upon hearing Clinton begin one of his sing-song sentences, anticipate its ending...
...Running against Boy Clinton for the Democratic nomination, he called him the "scandal-a-week" candidate...
...After that revelation In the midst of all this hijinks Senator the White House admitted to manipulating Fred Thompson is making preparations to the news, albeit only to safeguard the rest begin his committee's investigations of of the press from what Mr...
...He is a cad...
...Jerry Brown, former California governor and failed 1992 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...He is a criminal...
...The consequence has been almost life-threatening...
...Nineteen ninety-seven may yet long been admired as America's preemi- become a very good year...
...mittee...
...Now it is only a matter of time until the Democrats let out a howl over Gingrich's plan to pay the fine, which he denies is a fine...
...Let me explain...
...As a consequence of all these scandals, Our President's second inaugural was not a very happy affair...
...Next the historians spotted Franklin Roosevelt...
...Castro had monuments raised to him all over Cuba, and when the journalist Sally Quinn came to visit in 1977 she insisted that "sexuality is as pervasive in Cuba as the presence of Fidel Castro"—so were prisons...
...Micah Morrison in the Wall Street Journal, January wit-conspiring to obstruct justice...
...Both versions of leadership have just about had it...
...Throughout January came the revelations about Democratic fund-raising soirees livening up the White House and about influence peddling on a scale not envisaged since the late President Chester Arthur...
...For the Hon...
...3 He pauses in his day to advise Koreans from all walks oilife His gQvemmentiells viarch 1997 The American Spectator us he has written better operas "than all the operas mankind has created...
...White House political the- reform...
...If you observed carefully on Inauguration Day the bags under Our President's eyes, his thinning hair primped and lacquered to little effect, the tired slouch in his posture, the splotchy complexion, and the rasp in his voice, you will agree with me...
Vol. 30 • March 1997 • No. 3
