Presswatch: Reverse White Mischief

...My congratulations to Mr...

...Wallace, of course, lives in the same world as the Times...

...Certainly reasonable people may raise questions about Foster's death...

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...He can see all those "black folks," and know what they are thinking...

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...When the NAACP was criticized for giving boxing promoter Don King a prestigious award, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume asserted that King "continues to be vilified by those who don't want him to succeed...

...By objective measurement—of income or education levels, of mixed neighborhoods or even mixed marriages—racism is waning, and has been for years...

...As the national conversation on race slogs on, and our consciousness is raised, questions like that matter...

...But the race card is also a weapon, and the grievance industry has found a new donor...

...On the very next page, James Bovard tells how a corrupt, politicized, and abusive FBI does business in the final years of the twentieth century...

...How do you interrupt prejudice...

...A thug is a thug is a thug, and it is contemptible to play the race card and describe him as a victim...

...Consequently the Warriors terminated his four-year, $32, million contract, and the NBA suspended him for a season...

...Clinton had been a victim of discrimination, although as she later explained to reporters, it had not been a black-white encounter...

...Then the usual frauds were heard from...

...It's a start that they have a person-of-color Barbie," she said, "but still, they should make it look like the person's eaten in the last millennium...

...The racial grievance industry found a new venue...

...He seldom had to resort to anonymity and a book of this type will always have some...

...Just for the record, though, I think that Foster did hold the gun in a way that would have left powder marks on his hands...

...TAS has refused ads for another book on this same subject...

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...Wallace also said to Connerly: "I get the feeling that you're looking at things through rose-colored glasses...

...Therefore the New York Stock Exchange will now close on Martin Luther King's birthday...

...But the grievance industry will have none of that, and indeed if it did it would have to go out of business...

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...The day before the Barbie piece, the Times ran a story about Moslem children who felt left out at Christmas...

...Their beliefs are frozen in place...

...ABC said a "comment like this is unacceptable," and that the producer had "expressed deep, sincere regret" for making it...

...It also quoted one Aurora Levins Morales, who teaches at UCBerkeley, and her precocious nine-year-old daughter...

...Limbaugh won't even take calls on it...

...In relative terms, he will be punished more severely than Sprewell, the black all-star guard for the Golden State Warriors who tried to choke his white coach, P. J. Carlesimo...

...Washington also wrote that he got "the top scores on both the midterm and final," but that the professor had failed him in the course because she "couldn't hide her racism...

...But, as John Hope Franklin, the cranky historian who heads Clinton's advisory commission on race, said, "The white side has been in control of everything, so they're the ones who need educating on what justice and equality mean...

...Consider, though, that Jesse Jackson, who among other absurdities, is Clinton's special envoy to Africa on democracy, has just opened a Rainbow/PUSH office on Wall Street...

...Mind you, this was a page-one story...

...When Henry Lyons, the president of the National Baptist Convention USA, the largest black denomination in America, was questioned by reporters about financial improprieties he answered, "What are you trying to imply...

...Fear of antidiscrimination suits and embarrassing scenes at stockholder meetings has nothing to do with that, of course...

...Other reviews I have read at least give the author credit for his hard work and for the many questions that are raised...

...The day after Christmas the New York Times reported that even though the Puerto Rican Barbie doll "has been received enthusiastically in Puerto Rico," it has "caused a heated debate among Puerto Ricans on the United States mainland...

...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...

...Much of the evidence in the Foster investigation is technical, and some of the testimony is contradictory...

...Mrs...

...It seems they now have none in the journalism department, either...

...John Corry wonders whether Christopher Ruddy has ever been around cops before...

...That blacks in this country cannot be successful...

...Benign neglect is called for, and not an exploitation of old resentments...

...He could never be accused of extortion...

...It seems that Barbie's skin is too light, and she wears a white cotton dress with lace ruffles...

...Unless it is found, this will never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, but even if the bullet were to be found, conspiracy theorists, I suspect, would say it had been planted...

...David Steele firmly believes the FBI covered up Foster's murder...

...sumably an assault on a loud-mouth coach was to be expected...

...As a budding feminist she thought Barbie too skinny...

...During that lineup Oswald continually berated the police, said he was being railroaded, and constantly demanded a lawyer...

...Other players pulled Sprewell away, but 15 minutes later he assaulted Carlesimo again...

...Legions of social workers, salaried race healers, and liberal Democrats would lose their reason for being...

...In the Times's egalitarian, non-discriminatory world, Santa would pack it in, along with an "Anglocized" Barbie, and the chairman of the joint chiefs would be a gay woman...

...56 February 1998 • The American Spectator Or was it possible that the goalie was only trying to psyche out an opponent in the soccer game...

...Surely they worry about more important things than Barbie's pigmentation, and the story was only a reflection of the liberal sensibilities of Times editors...

...Presumably, then, Mrs...

...Yvonne Scruggs, the head of the Black Leadership Forum, a civil rights umbrella group, was more specific...

...Connerly led the Califomia campaign to abolish racial preferences, even though he is black, and ablack man was not supposed to do that...

...San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said Sprewell's actions "may have been justified," and called on Jesse Jackson and the NAACP to conduct an investigation...

...Now to state the obvious first: It is unlikely there is a heated debate among mainland Puerto Ricans over Barbieone school art director, one UC-Berkeley academic, and one nine-year-old notwithstanding—and it patronizes them to say there is...

...I found it spellbinding and in spite of the necessity for detail, never dry...

...Phillip Leighton, for example, is "fully aware" that Foster was somehow involved with Oliver North, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan...

...Athena was black, and the slave traders were Jews, and Cleopatra was really a Nubian...

...T. ARMENTANO Vero Beach, Florida From the viewpoint of a subscriber of several years, and one who reads TAS from cover-to-cover, the sneering review of The Strange Death of Vincent Foster was appalling...

...He wrote that the offending professor would be very old, the Kenyan department head's name he did not remember, and both the Midwestern university and his grade were "moot...

...he [the FBI agent] told me the other one was Oswald...

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...It is clear that a bidding war is going on there over who can deplore discrimination the most, and empathize the most with its victims...

...The question answers itself...

...The New York Daily News reported that a producer at "Good Morning America" was suspended for a month without pay for using the slang word "spade...

...Horton raises one such question himself: What happened to the bullet...

...Facts have no meaning in the (Continued on page 88) The American Spectator • February 1998 57 Presswatch (Continued frompage 50 black studies department...

...The Post also reported that the teenagers at the Boston meeting had recited an oath that began: "I pledge from this day onward to do my best to interrupt prejudice and to stop those, who, because of hate, would hurt, harass or violate the civil rights of anyone...

...Horton may hope that a serious book about Foster's death will one day answer all the questions, but I think it unlikely that even the most serious book would persuade the theorists...

...Clinton said the goalie, who was of East European descent, apparently had thought of her as "some sort of uppity, wealthy, white-bread" girl...

...On the other hand, Sprewell a few years ago attacked another player with a two-by-four and threatened to kill him, too...

...I can see black folks across the country...

...Well, yes, but that may have been more or less what the teenage Hillary Rodham was, so why shouldn't the goalie have disliked her...

...Morris, IL 61054-8084 1-800-524-3469 ATTACH ADDRESS LABEL HERE IMPORTANT: Allow six weeks for address change...

...Could the agency that perpetrated the Waco and Ruby Ridge massacres and then lied about it cover up the murder of Vince Foster for a corrupt president...

...Actually the war has been going on for some time, although after Bill Clinton called for a national dialogue on race it escalated...

...And on, and on, down to and including O. J. Simpson, as well as some people you probably have never heard of One of them, Linn Washington, Jr., a journalism professor at Temple University, wrote a column for the Progressive Media Project in Madison, Wisconsin, that was distributed by Knight-Ridder/Tribune...

...He said he had protested this to the "head of the anthropology department, a Kenyan," but that the Kenyan declined to intervene: He wanted to avoid the appearance of "siding with me because we both were black...

...John Corry, who has always pleased me in his past writings, has lost my respect...

...Clinton was empathizing with other victims, and it would have been impolite to raise questions...

...Ruddy for a job well done...

...No matter...

...I t is unlikely, however, that the practice will end...

...Pre-'4 Careers rise and fall, depending on how the race card is played...

...This incident has smelled like a bucket of bad fish from the very start...

...I don't have to know you," the goalie told her, "to know I hate you...

...The teenagers no doubt were good kids, although you may wonder who thought up their oath...

...Or, as Officer Fornshill also says, suddenly he is a "conspirator in the murder of a high ranking official...

...are members of an oppressed minority, and they must be protected against the Anglo culture...

...Moreover he had gotten the preposterous story past the Progressive Media Project and Knight-Ridder/Tribune, and while the former probably did not care, the latter should have known better...

...Tough stuff that, but Franklin once wrote a good book, and at least he has credentials...

...A national dialogue sustains them...

...He also threatened to kill him...

...More or less, they have all been charged, along with the FBI, Fairfax County police, various lab technicians, and, of course, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, with suppressing the truth about the death of Vincent Foster...

...Clinton said she had been stunned, and that she had asked the goalie how she could feel that way when she did not even know her...

...DAVID STEELE Colorado Springs, Colorado John Cony replies: I am pleased to hear from Kevin Fomshill, and I sympathize with him, his family, and his colleagues, who, as he says, have had to endure "outrageous accusations...

...Clinton's audience thought of that, but the Washington Post was moved, and began its story this way: "The chill in the air prompted her to say something to a stranger, but the chill in the response would stay with her for a lifetime...

...The Stock Exchange says it is happy to do this, and, as the Wall Street Journal has reported, it will also help Jackson raise money...

...A network television producer who gets caught saying "spade" has made a rotten career move...

...As David Horton points out in his letter, an exhaustive list would take pages, and in fact answering the questions would take many pages more...

...The race card is too important to black leaders...

...In response to my column, TAS received a number of letters similar to 88 February 1998 • The American Spectator...

...Meanwhile Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint explained to Newsweek that many young black players could not cope with verbal abuse because they lacked problem-solving skills...

...When Connerly was profiled by "6o Minutes," Mike Wallace asked him if he ever felt he was "being used by white conservatives...

...Anyone could have picked out the suspected cop killer...

...Mainland Puerto Ricans JOHN CORRY is The American Spectator's senior correspondent...

...Washington wrote that when he was a freshman at a "Midwestern university, an anthropology professor in her first lecture declared that black people have the remnants of monkey-like tails," and that she "matter-of-factly told the class that she would have ordered me to drop my pants to display my anthropoid anatomy," but she thought it might make the female students uncomfortable...

...King, who once stomped a man to death over a gambling debt, was facing federal fraud charges on an insurance claim...

...The great thing is to empathize with victims, and show you feel their pain...

...JEAN M. WATSON Springfield, Missouri Why has the publication that explored the details of Bill Clinton's sex life and the penny-ante thievery of Whitewater suddenly become so squeamish about the far more serious matter of the murder of a high government official...

...Ruddy, who began his investigation just after the death, named his sources over and over...

...That's all there is to it...

...When a black person becomes independently wealthy," she said, "it seems like you look up and they are being investigated...

...Hillary Clinton told a recent gathering of u,000 teenagers in Boston about a bad experience she had in a soccer game in junior high school...

...The reasonable thing is to decide on the preponderance of evidence, while recognizing that some of the questions are unanswerable...

...Johnnie Cochran appeared with Sprewell at a press conference and denounced the NBA's "rush to judgment...

...Clinton's race monologue sends all the wrong signals...

...More telling, perhaps, was Scoggins's inability later on to pick out Oswald's picture from a group prepared by the FBI...

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...Morales criticized the doll's "Anglocized image," while the daughter, the Times said, "offered a different critique...

...Nonetheless the paper is a reliable guide to the dominant culture...

...The daughter, the Times reported approvingly, "refuses to own any Barbies...

...I think I picked the wrong picture," he sheepishly told the Warren Commission...

...Boy, it's really cold," she had remarked to the goalie on the opposing team, and the goalie had replied, "I wish people like you would freeze...

...I have suspected for some time that the conservative establishment is afraid of this issue...

...In other words, the Temple University journalism professor had made it all up: the anthropology professor and her anatomical nonsense, the failing grade, and the extraordinarily timid, self-conscious Kenyan...

...There was no telling what Mrs...

...After the column was published, Balint Vazsonyi, a senior fellow at the Potomac Foundation, wrote to its author and asked him for the names of the Midwestern university, and of the professor who said black people had vestigial tails, and of the department head from Kenya...

...Afterwards he said he would explain himself only to black reporters...

...Meanwhile, it should be noted that Temple University virtually invented black studies, and is famous for its fake scholarship...

...Professor Washington did not reply at first, but Vazsonyi persisted, and finally got an answer...

...1. Please write your new address on a separate sheet...

...Careers rise and fall, depending on how it gets played...

...The ABC show had decided to interview prominent black Americans about basketball's Latrell Sprewell, and the producer told two talent bookers that "the bosses want spades for the Sprewell segment...

...Meanwhile, to prove there was a heated debate, the Times quoted a "school art director" in Arlington, Virginia, who said "Barbie looks very, very Anglo...

...L VCAFRMJ Correspondence (Continued from page r2) demure teenagers...

...Jesse Jackson would be unemployed, and the Black Caucus would fold...

...He wrote about it in a column in the Washington Times: Professor Washington did not provide any details...

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...As George Will pointed out not long ago, the Times has become "unsatirizable...

...Almost certainly that was true...

...saying, What world does this Connerly guy think we're living in...

...Almost anyone except Ward Connerly can now play the race card, and present himself as a victim...