Editorials: Feeling the Pressure / My Kind of Capitalist
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Feeling the Pressure Could anyone explain to me why I have been receiving so many reports of pressure being placed on persons who have been...
...To be sure he never resorted to the exploitive self-pity of an American politician...
...Once he had his billions, he lived a life of high-grade intellect, abounding with serious ideas...
...The problem with American journalism is not that it is American (as some journalists would have us believe), but that it is an "ism" possessed of no theory, doctrine, or system that makes any sense...
...True, syndicated columnist William Safire speaks disconcertingly of an impending indictment of Hillary and of the Clintons' felonious friend and erstwhile Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell...
...Why all the approaches to the troopers who long ago in 1993 testified that Governor Clinton asked them to pimp for him...
...thus by comparison in this century the scoundrel and the revolutionary are left looking attractive, though most are frauds, cowards, and dreadful philistines...
...Louis Post-Dispatch reported that "an Arkansas state trooper who guarded then-Gov...
...He bought companies and vast tracts of natural resources, usually at the right price and usually knowing when to sell...
...At the DNC it appears that Huang funneled Chinese funds through Lippo to Washington...
...When he died all the higher forms of media in Europe and America echoed with his obituaries...
...So what...
...Boy Clinton's knee has healed...
...Of course he could afford to lose...
...He was an ambitious businessman but never skittish or frenzied as, say, a Ted Turner is skittish and frenzied...
...Imagine the response if General Motors proclaimed that it built cars according to the same criterion...
...For that matter so are most members of the bourgeoisie...
...Yet what else is daily journalism other than an endless series of stories abounding with error, usually merely commonplace error, on a good day fascinating error, only occasionally, fascinating facts...
...Yet all that aside, things are going swimmingly for the Clintons...
...He was an exemplar, now sadly missed...
...He was a romantic without being either mawkish or self-destructive...
...To the end Sir James was a gentleman...
...Most think money is an end in itself...
...Ai My Kind of Capitalist The American Spectator • September 1997 17...
...He seemed healthy...
...Bill Clinton says heconfirmed falsehoods about Clinton's reported marital infidelities...
...Imagine if the chairman of the board of General Motors announced solemnly that "an automobile maker is not doing his duty unless he is building cars that make people uncomfortable...
...As I say, I have reports that the Clintons are pressuring witnesses...
...The campaign almost certainly shortened his life, but he proceeded gallantly, probably in pain, but never betraying his secret...
...He was a self-made man but serenely civilized...
...They had been friends for years...
...his obit would have been improved by the facts...
...The blood of half of Europe flowed in his veins, the Economist observed at his death...
...He opposed nuclear power, favored national sovereignty, and was moving against free trade...
...Equally true, testimony from Senator Thompson's muzzled committee is becoming, well, difficult...
...Jimmy was in possession of a disciplined mind hungry for ideas...
...At Commerce it appears Huang passed along high level American intelligence to Lippo, which may have then been passed on to Peking...
...Jimmy, reports Epstein, was "cogent, lucid, and brilliant, thinking about problems...
...No more of their friends have been indicted or convicted, except for the three corporations, five cronies, and one law firm that Independent Counsel Donald Smalts has convicted for forty-four offenses in his investigations of the Chicken Connection extending between the Clintons' Department of Agriculture and their cronies back at Tyson's Foods...
...His father was a German Jew who moved to England to become a Tory member of Parliament...
...It was by day in the boardroom that he practiced his gambler's art rigorously and to great effect...
...He was asked about his relationship with Clinton and The death of Anglo-French billionaire Sir James Goldsmith at his Spanish villa this past July brings to mind one of the capitalist's most grievous public problems, to wit: he is usually stupendously boring...
...He was at the end of a battle with cancer...
...No trace of cheapness touched Jimmy Goldsmith.offered a $100,000 consultancy for a very dubious foreign endeavor...
...He relished freedom and ideas — usually his own...
...The committee's first witness, a DNC Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Note Turner's latest campaign to cashier our national anthem for the supposedly more humane "America the Beautiful...
...The trooper is Ronald Anderson...
...The weather remains sunny, and the television networks continue their patriotic blackout of Senator Fred Thompson's Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings into the Chop Suey Connection...
...He was one of the troopers in the Los Angeles Times and American Spectator Troopergate stories reporting that Clinton misused his security detail to facilitate adulterous affairs...
...Eric Hotung, did get to suggest "several policy options" to the administration...
...They have an eye for a good buy just as the poet Yeats had an ear for poetizing...
...In fact I have documented evidence that in June one was approached while abroad...
...Only in the journalistic underworlds is it taken as a sound axiom that the journalist is sedulous in his duty when he is stirring up the populace and making the dignitaries shriek...
...Is it the Paula Corbin Jones case, or those aforementioned indictments...
...and the Hong Kong businessman, a Mr...
...Some said that this was merely a Perot-like venture into self-promotion...
...He was a great gentleman, amused, amusing, and properly disciplined...
...Even then his body bore the cancers that were to kill him, yet he betrayed no foreboding...
...Gossip Slingers" JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1972 16 September 1997 • The American Spectator pieces he has, under oath, purported to have knowledge of these events...
...His secret four-year battle with cancer had not bowed him...
...Anderson, however, never went on the record, was not key to the story and does not seem to have, contrary to the Post-Dispatch, "confirmed falsehoods...
...In the last campaign of his life he spent more than $30 million, establishing Britain's Referendum Party and campaigning to get the Tories and Labour to accept a referendum before proceeding with European unity...
...Are the Clintons trying to sow confusion amongst the citizenry...
...The last time I talked with him was over lunch in the Paris restaurant that he had purchased years before when the service failed his standards...
...Jimmy realized it was a means to an end...
...Are the Clintons revving up yet another conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...I can think of no other profession or craft in which the practitioners or craftsmen stake their success and probity on the claim that the consumers of their product are howling in misery...
...In Jimmy Goldsmith's life the facts were fascinating...
...So how did Jimmy resist the capitalist's tendency either to be earnest and boring or, a la the businessman on the make, cheap and flaky...
...Our President...
...Thus no less a figure than Our President seems to have set in motion the Chop Suey Connection from Peking to Jakarta to Washington and back...
...Most probably he was on his way to a remunerative night...
...Unknown to them or to the vast majority of his friends, Jimmy had little reason to promote himself...
...If he does he may spend a couple of years in jail, for since the Troopergate 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator That the average American journalist is a scoundrel and a self-appointed mooncef is recognized by every decent individual in society save perhaps the journalist's mother and his lawyer...
...His mother was a French Catholic...
...A week before he died the author Edward Jay Epstein was with him in his French chateau...
...The President's esteem in the polls is lofty...
...His capacity for making money is explained by the fact that he was a gifted gambler...
...Despite this cosmopolitan background, Jimmy came to doubt the wisdom of European unity...
...Late last June the venerable St...
...He could not abide the fact that in modem politics sham is the heart of greatness, viz...
...Jimmy Goldsmith was never boring, and what made him interesting was something more than his sumptuous homes around the world, his knack for making money, or his several wives and lady friends...
...What kind of pressure was brought on him to imperil himself now before the courts...
...He was self-educated, having left Eton at 16 for commerce and what is called "the real world...
...Their phoniness rankled him...
...He looked suave, robust, and ready for the fight...
...The trooper in question has testified before grand juries and none of his testimony has ever been disproved...
...He leaned toward environmentalism...
...How would that settle with Ralph Nader...
...Has Turner read its later verses...
...He has suffered no more embarrassments from his staff: no reports of drug use, of bankruptcy, of suicide...
...So why do I get these reports that witnesses are being hassled...
...And why all the confusion over their testimony...
...It was well before the British elections, but he could not contain his eagerness to give the British politicians a good drubbing...
...Great entrepreneurs and investors like Jimmy have a knack...
...He spent half their luncheon questioning Epstein about a book he has underway...
...In fact, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, after suffering such cruel abuse from Hatchetman Carville, has delivered up his report that deputy counsel Vincent Foster did actually commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park...
...What do they suddenly fear...
...Their stories about him were fascinating though usually erroneous...
...He can golf again...
...Feeling the Pressure Could anyone explain to me why I have been receiving so many reports of pressure being placed on persons who have been witnesses against Our President and his lovely wife, Hillary Milhous Clinton...
...No one has yet really much changed his story...
...The private briefing was effected...
...Remember Al Gore in 1992 and 1996 leaving no personal sadness unexploited...
...He can vacation with the rich and famous on Martha's Vineyard...
...Through his life he had fought Communism and socialism...
...Though the typical self-effacing journalist sees himself answering a calling more sacred than that of the Peace Corps Volunteer or the conservationist, the fact is that journalists are generally a pretty raw and shady bunch, answering to no authority or set of standards that is not arrantly self-serving and hypocritical...
...I mean here at the height of a pleasant summer everything is peaches for the First Family...
...The economy throbs with vitality...
...A night in a casino was recreation...
...He was accosted at two a.m...
...It has now established that the Chinese did illegally plot to influence our elections...
...fundraiser, has testified that Bill Clinton himself very persuasively recommended that his old Arkansas friend John Huang be hired away from the Commerce Department to do fundraising at the DNC...
...What is more, the committee has established that at least one illegal donation was passed to the DNC by the Indonesian-based Lippo group...
...Many good businessmen have this gambler's instinct, but only the rarest of these gamblers knows what to do with his money once he has acquired it...
...Take away Mao's armies, and he is merely a fat little Chinese bully with a hankering for bonbons...
...In fact the committee has now established that a Hong Kong couple donated $loo,000 to the Democratic National Committee while angling for a private briefing with then-deputy national security adviser Sandy Berger...
...I first met Jimmy sometime in the 1970's, attired in black tie and en route from a fashionable London night club to an even more fashionable London casino...
...Does this constitute witness tampering...
...Though most of his many ideas had to do with politics, Jimmy had a low opinion of most pols...
Vol. 30 • September 1997 • No. 9
