Editorials: You've Gotta Have Gephardt / Twelve-Stepping Over the Line
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. You've Gotta Have Gephardt I have suffered an insight! It may dictate a momentous change of heart. Heretofore when I watched such moral colossi as...
...Richard Gephardt and the Hon...
...On April 7, nine fourth-graders, ages nine through twelve, left class to practice "sexual relations," though it was neither part of a homework assignment nor for class credit...
...His calm and cool observation has provoked the conservative Republican, Trent Lott, Majority Leader of the Senate, to mockery...
...Read RET's editorials every week...
...This is about principle, and the principle is, how many times are African-Americans going to be written out of American history," complains Rep...
...In fact it was in my column on September 13—three weeks after the Star's expose—that I described Morris's foot fetish as "a sickness" and predicted: "Doubtless he will soon be announcing his admittance into therapy, though it better not be one of those 12-step programs—we journalists will endure only so much malarkey...
...Now cast your gaze over to the Capitol...
...Though the three suffragists have been stonily staring forth from their hunk of marble for decades while displayedamongst the hurly-burly of the Capitol's crypt, the propagandists from the NPCBW are, of a sudden,C , angered that the monument - -- does not include Sojourner Truth, a black women's rights advocate...
...Deal with it...
...Roger Rosenblatt, "Grooving the Symbol" JUNE 1972 16 June 1997 • The American Spectator olds...
...According to D.C...
...Sex education is a success...
...Let the people's vision be realized...
...With the buffoons pre-old Winston, the sex is always safe...
...These fourth-graders, five boys and four girls, are to be commended for their excellent use of valuable class time...
...Cynthia A. McKinney, presumably an African-American...
...I hopeit bears no relationship to the Winstons of cigarette fame...
...According to the aforementioned news stories, Washington's Martha Winston Elementary School has become a veritable showcase of effective sex education...
...Think back to when you were a fourth-grader...
...Cynthia McKinney...
...My only criticism is with the school's name...
...A clever showman usually knows what it is we care about, but he rarely knows why or how we care...
...What evoked this insight in me is a recent series of stories about a very happy event here in the District of Columbia...
...So the president's campaign consultant who advised that the 1996 Democratic Convention revolve around a return to family values was exposed as a prostitute's frequent client, even as the convention was echoing his family values refrain...
...Tom Daschle caught in the throes of emotion as they pled for Civility in politics and an end to Gridlock, I thought: hogwash...
...That would be a bad example for impressionable students...
...His achievement remains unsullied...
...The principal," Lott says, "is saying, 'Well, we can't do anything because it's consensual.' For nine-year25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator As Melville and others have demonstrated, there is something scary about anything or anyone who is out to con you...
...The achievement of Roger Williams, however, endures...
...You know you are not a fool, yet there are those who would like to prove that you are, who will wave flags or burn them if they think that is what you want, or hold a parade, or cry "alienation," or display a pretty girl or mourn a dead one...
...But did he linger in a hallway or heave paper airplanes at classmates as might have been done in a prior generation...
...Not at all, he went directly to a nearby "preparation room...
...Moreover, it has taken years of expert sex-education classes to bring fourth-graders to this level of sexual sophistication...
...There he coaxed other classmates to join him and, according to the Washington Times, all "disrobed and practiced sexual acts on each other...
...advanced stages of sex than their parents, who often find such esoterica as inscrutable—according to highly scientific findings of our sexologists—as molecular physics, if there is such a thing as molecular physics...
...Perhaps the Hon...
...Mere city blocks from the White House he would regale the lady with the day's presidential anecdotes while she ministered to his foot fetish...
...Daschle could take him aside and explain that, at H ere is the latest from Dick Morris, Our President's erstwhile political consultant and a recovering foot fetishist...
...Of him the historian George Bancroft writes: "He was the first person in modern Christianity to assert, in its plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law...
...Some of the reactionary politicos of the area cannot, as we say, "deal with it...
...They blame, thought I, conservatives for wrongs they themselves initiate...
...So perhaps the wags of the Republic should be grateful that serious fellows like Williams are being replaced by the likes of Dick Morris and the Hon...
...John Quincy Adams writes of Williams's peculiar mixture of zealousness and kindliness, and the historian Richard Armour reminds us that because of his qualities, "Pilgrims branded him...
...The triumph of the Martha Winston sex-education program is not unique...
...Already these propagandists of grievance have had a statue of Roger Williams, the seventeenth-century dissenting cleric and symbol of our country's religious tolerance, banished from the Rotunda to make way for this glum rock—you should see the suffragists' grim visages...
...There is not much to laugh about there...
...It is the Democrats who now thwart progress and engender Gridlock...
...Yet, mirabile dictu, now the mountebanks are at each other's throats...
...Children as young as nine years of age have mastered sex, even safe sex...
...Teenagers have a firmer grasp on the Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...It is at this point, however, that the story of the Martha Winston sex curriculum gets confused...
...After all, the Republicans have been elected by a clear majority, and twice...
...Heretofore when I watched such moral colossi as the Hon...
...Now if only the students' math instructors were to become as expert at teaching math as Winston Elementary's sex-education instructors have become in teaching the scortatory science...
...Obviously there is no gender phobia at old Winston...
...Morris, but to those with a taste for irony it is immensely amusing...
...Conservatives are wrong and often inhumane...
...He was attempting to head off complaints from the reactionaries...
...True, the Republicans have temporarily finagled a majority in Congress, and they are in possession of growing majorities throughout the states...
...None of the suffragists has replaced Roger Williams in American history...
...Admittedly in this glorious era it is difficult to distinguish a joke from an actual event...
...and in its defense he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor...
...None, of course, has any respect for the country's history or for the tradition of tolerance that they are exploiting...
...More laughable still, he fell in love with the woman—with her whole person, not just her feet...
...Actually the only principle at play here is self-promotion...
...Is it possible that he has been reading jokes about his "sickness" and available "1z-step therapies" and taken them seriously...
...Now something called the National Political Congress of Black Women (NPCBW) wants the process stopped...
...He talks about it publicly...
...But now I see that I am wrong, and it took a little-noted development in our nation's capital to enlighten me...
...All the conservatives' pessimism about educating our young in the mysteries arid discipline of sex has been mistaken and probably inhumane...
...One of them had been barred from a classroom after he "challenged the authority" of a teacher...
...In fact, it is their disregard for American history that allows them to tear down monuments and heave up new ones to their passing enthusiasms...
...Yet that does not invalidate a fabulous fact that the likes of Gephardt and Daschle know well, to wit, liberals are right and have been right on every enthusiasm they have advocated for decades...
...Why cannot the nation's teachers of foreign languages and the sciences learn to confer on their subjects the same excitement and seriousness that our sex instructors confer on their discipline...
...But how many of Washington's giants do...
...This 12-step program may be agonizing to you, Mr...
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...Agonizing...
...04 dominating in the White House and on Capitol Hill, all burlesque, parody, satire, and farce, in fact every flight of fancy, is sorely pressed to keep up with reality...
...Like all 12-step programs to cope with the problems facing one," he intoned to a patient reporter for the Washington Post, "it is both agonizing and successful...
...And one last hoot, at some point while the wags were joking about his fetish he entered a 12-step program...
...It is that secret alone which keeps us safe from him, who, if we were to lower our defenses, would never give us an even break...
...Board of Education President Don Reeves, "If the media wanted to go around and look at other schools, they'd see incidents like that going on all the time...
...It was all voluntary...
...Ever since this tireless gasbag was caught in Washington's Jefferson Hotel with the lady of delight who duly reported his attraction to feet, the wags of the Republic have been facetiously speculating on the possibility of Morris seeking therapy in one of the Yuppies' popular multistep programs, and will his therapist wear shoes or work in his/her stocking feet...
...I mean, something is not right here...
...He does not seem to have a very finely developed sense of humor...
...After four years of bullying a craven Congress, the mountebanks who compose something called the Suffragist Portrait Monument Committee (SPMC) are about to have their 13-ton marble depiction of three suffragists placed in the Rotunda beneath the Capitol dome...
...Gephardt and the Hon...
...In your free time did you ever slip off to a quiet room and practice with your schoolmates your lessons in, say, geography or phonics...
...They want school officials reprimanded, even fired...
...Apparently the school's progressive principal boasted that the sexual exercises of the fourth graders were "consensual...
...Once again the conservative is being wrongheaded and inhumane...
...They branded him as a heretic, and drove him from town to town" until he founded the state of Rhode Island...
...And the fourth-graders at Winston practiced together, boys and girls...
...According to the Washington Post's reporter, Morris has been engaged in this program for several months...
...But to promote oneself into the leadership of one of America's constantly proliferating aggrieved lobbies such as the SPMC and the NPCBW one has to stir up a fuss...
Vol. 30 • June 1997 • No. 6
