Editorials: Feeling His Heat/Corruption's Flip Side
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Feeling His Heat Whew! The heat has gone up in the kitchen, as President Harry Truman was wont to say. The Clintons had been planning to cook...
...Remember that after his trysts with a prostitute forced him out of the 1996 campaign he admitted to a sexual disorder...
...He has become a menace to the civil liberties of private citizens from his unwarranted prosecution of the White House Travel Office chief, Billy Dale, to his present employment of frivolous lawsuits to harass journalists...
...Then there is the lawsuit against the journalist Michael Isikoff and Newsweek...
...The Clintons had been planning to cook Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's goose, but it now appears that their goose is being cooked...
...That was apparently about all the echo chamber could bear...
...A visionary...
...Watergate: The Cartoon Revisited" OCTOBER 1973 16 October 1998 • The American Spectator Dick Morris...
...skills...
...That will present problems because to have a lying disorder one needs to have some sense of the truth, and the very concept of truth seems beyond your grasp...
...in the Clintons' path have --- been the victims of IRS audits, for instance the blameless head of the White House Travel Office Billy Dale, and that Tennessee travel agency UltrAir which somehow figured into the Trayelgate scandal...
...President Bill Clinton is a shameless liar, an abuser of power, and an ignoble blot on the dignity of the presidency...
...Their vituperation against Judge Starr is without sting...
...He has demonstrated the wisdom of the libertarian insight that a country can prosper with a government that does almost nothing, for there is almost nothing in terms of policy initiatives that this president has done...
...Congratulations, Mr...
...Now we hear that Linda Tripp has received threats of an IRS audit...
...He and his allies are out to punish his critics and intimidate potential critics...
...In doing so he has saved America from its sordid fundraising PACs...
...A matter of even greater moment is that this president and his allies are throwing the police power of the state down on his critics in a more extensive assault on civil liberties than was ever attempted by any of his predecessors...
...You had things under control down in Little Rock but up here in Washington the New York Times's lingerie ads ruined your recovery...
...The President's reckless stonewalling has already limited a president's prerogatives...
...Since the Clintons' arrival in office, an inordinate number of conservative organizations have been harassed by the IRS while liberal organizations remain in the clear...
...Yet there were many other useful thoughts we might have entertained during this national embarrassment, for instance, this administration's cost to American civil liberties and to the office of the presidency...
...Perhaps his therapist was Doctor Scholl...
...Snow also reports that White House enforcer Bruce Lindsey threatened Tripp...
...Promise to get a shrink...
...Boy Clinton's petulant and deceitful outburst on the night of August 17 was one effrontery too many...
...Read RE F's editorials even- week...
...Claim a lying disorder...
...Finally claim paranoia...
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...As did earlier presidents such as FDR, JFK, LBJ, and Richard Nixon, this president has freely set the IRS on private citizens, and not only private citizens critical of C him...
...Even White House staffers and outside apologists feel betrayed by his egregious lies...
...We have that extravagant libel suit by White House aide Sidney Blumenthal (a.k.a...
...Tripp's trash and perform a back audit on all her tax returns...
...Soon, too, the political classes will discover that he has corrupted vast reaches of our government...
...The electorate will understand...
...There is a constructive alternative...
...He has introduced a sex-education program for White House interns...
...This president is a true internationalist...
...I complimented him for his superb fundraising Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...With the same recklessness and cynicism as his boss, Blumenthal is using his suit to haul into court at least one Wall Street Journal writer, the political activist Barbara Ledeen, and her husband, the writer and scholar Michael Ledeen...
...Yet Blumenthal, a former journalist who once thrived under the First Amendment, is still pursuing his suit despite the danger it might do to free speech and to his former profession...
...The media's reverberating thoughts were: He will testify truthfully...
...At least one Clinton ally has publicly charged the New York Times's Jeff Gerth with paying off a witness...
...The president's angry performance the other night suggests that reality is somewhat beyond his grasp...
...Christian compassion prodded me to make an effort on his behalf...
...The political classes have done caught on...
...the Watergate cover-up—the pious shrieks, the moral declarations, the newspaper revelations, the newspaper retractions, the presidential denials, the presidential clarifications, the eerie silence from certain famous Democrats who not long ago were so very windy, the occult analyses from the mountebanks of the New Age, whom history has jerked from the acute embarrassment of an unanticipated obscurity and sent squalling toward the embattled White House, a White House now silent, mysterious, and pathetic...
...That is troubling enough...
...Yahoo...
...The thoughts that rang throughout the country in early August had to do with the Boy President's forthcoming testimony on dealings with his young understudy, Monica...
...Maybe they will forego it...
...So, of course, is the truth...
...Presidential attempts to harass the press are not new, but usually they have been made on the pretext of preserving national security...
...Nor have private citizens been free of IRS harassment during the Clinton administration...
...So far as I can tell, much of prime-time television is about sexual disorders...
...Columnist Tony Snow reports in his column and on his splendid Fox News show that Tripp's lawyer received credible evidence that, says Snow, "the White House legal team had asked [an investigator] to root through Mrs...
...They seem hesitant about that scorched-earth policy they have threatened against your critics...
...Be candid, look right into thecamera: a nip out of the lower lip, a blink of a tearful eye...
...Earlier targets have included the Western Journalism Center, the National Center for Public Policy, Americans for Tax Reform, the National Rifle Association, Citizens Against Government Waste, and National Review...
...He has raised the status of the empty gesture to the level of high statecraft, transforming platitudes and sweet nothings into policies in no need of being implemented...
...The Clintons' growing campaign against the press is provoked merely by the press's attempt to report the news, news that is utterly remote from matters of national security...
...Throughout the media the journalists' credulity has been too heavily imposed upon...
...It was a foot fetish and he actually announced that he was undergoing therapy in one of those multi-step programs...
...This is political pageantry unsurpassed by mortal man since the dawn of democracy...
...It seems unlikely that his actions will be sufficient to rid us of this distress...and corruption...
...Even now the Heritage Foundation is being audited...
...Paula Corbin Jones has received her letter from that politicized agency, as has Jean Lewis, the RTC investigator whose transgression against the Clintons was to take seriously her duty to investigate Whitewater...
...President, I am for you...
...Europeans, forever worried that America is about to retire from international concerns owing to its isolationist impulse, should take heart...
...Your old campaign adviser, Dick Morris, should be helpful...
...he will not...
...Following his self-besotted apology manqué both politicians and commentators have been hollering for Bill Clinton's neck...
...If, as I have outlined here, it is also one of unparalleled repression of American political liberties, civil libertarians better sound the alarm and get to work to protect the endangered workings of our democratic process...
...When the American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote his authoritative essay "The Paranoid Style," he had the likes of you and Hillary in mind...
...It is his actions alone that have brought the present agitation to Washington...
...The other night, during a BBC panel discussion broadcast to London, I noticed that not one of my fellow panelists had a good word for the president in an hour-long conversation...
...Notify the American people that you are the victim of some serious disorders: namely a sexual disorder, a lying disorder, and paranoia...
...Which is not to say that this news is trivial, involving as it does charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power...
...Again contact 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator There is something of the gorgeous, something almost of the voluptuous about the Watergate hearings, the Watergate conspiracy...
...Maybe Clinton will make him IRS commissioner...
...And he has done other good things...
...Indeed, it is the most colossal orgy ever thrown...
...04Corruption's Flip Side A merican media often compose one vast echo chamber, reverberating with but one or two thoughts...
...Let the critics hurl their alarums, I hereby quit the vast right-wing conspiracy to join your dwindling army of saps...
...Mere innocents caught (..1 -7...
...He is the first presidential campaigner to go to such faraway places as China, Indonesia, and Thailand for financial support...
...That is a matter that ought to be discussed in the nation's echo chamber...
...He has internationalized American domestic politics...
...Frankly, as the blows rain down upon the wretch, I am beginning to feel sorry for him...
...Your political advisers seem to have lost their brag and bounce...
...The Clintons' legacy will be one of unparalleled corruption...
...Crazy Sidney) against Matt Drudge...
...Drudge has already admitted to error and apologized—so much for the attempts of Blumenthal, a public figure, to prove malice aforethought...
...Hofstadter noted how Americans on the fringe are given to seeing political conspiracies against the Republic, for instance by immigrants, eastern bankers, and religious minorities...
...It would be very clever to confess to a sexual disorder during a televised interview at the White House, probably during prime-time...
...The list will probably lengthen...
...Tell your audience that you suffer dreadful inner turmoil in the presence of women...
...There is the well-publicized attempt to smear and silence the Washington Post's Sue Schmidt...
...He should be able to advise...
...Nuisance lawsuits are not the only blunt instruments that the Clintons are bringing down on the heads of their critics and potential critics...
...Undraped store mannequins drive you wild...
...Your insistence on the existence of a right-wing conspiracy linking the Office of Independent Counsel with various conservative groups (some of whom publicly disparage the Independent Counsel) is a classic example of the paranoid style...
Vol. 31 • October 1998 • No. 10
