Editorials: The Latest Rubbish/Brock Groped
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Latest Rubbish Is that the president of the United States making a six-nation tour of Africa? Or is it the president of the student body from a...
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...Since Brock's initial piece an abundance of well-documented articles and books has validated the essential points of the first Troopergate piece...
...Over at i600 Pennsylvania Avenue it is greeted as a coup of the first magnitude...
...Virtue never comes easy, at least in the real world of adults...
...Either Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin would have sounded a more respectful assessment of American history to the Africans than Boy Clinton...
...While they were going on and during their immediate aftermath, they were referred to as "the recent events...
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...In those endeavors his techniques and focus were pretty much the same for which he now apologizes to the Groper...
...Is this the grand gesture of a great man, or another reminder of the Boy President's incomparable banality...
...Real crises, in which the lives and ways of people actually do hang in the balance, are almost never described as such...
...That fund might not even have been needed if it were not for Brock's work...
...Perhaps President Museveni has read Sir Hugh Thomas's recent study, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 14.40-187o...
...Bill Clinton is a marvel...
...ogy for what he has written, it --is only logical and fair that he take the profits he earned from his "Troopergate" labors and contribute them to the president's defense fund...
...And if the politician's amours lead him to go from these abuses of power to such infelicities as perjury and obstruction of justice, the citizenry has a right to know...
...One never has to pay a price...
...It would set our Boy President straight...
...After Amin came Milton Obote and hundreds of thousands of more deaths...
...One merely utters false pieties and suavely repositions oneself when an assumed virtue falls out of favor...
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...David Brock is a marvel...
...Our last greatly controversial president was nicknamed the Gipper...
...He lamented American history for being an ongoing saga of victimization and environmental despoliation...
...Anyone familiar with the recent biographies of Bill Clinton knows that our forty-second president became a draft dodger...
...I am not so sure that they will be as appreciative as the Groper...
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...Equally pertinent, Brock first acquired his journalistic reputation for his Spectator article and subsequent book on Anita Hill...
...All have histories of violence, corruption, and despotism...
...And we were wrong in that as well...
...During much of the time referred to so disapprovingly by Clinton, Uganda was governed by the lovely Idi Amin...
...Neither was an American ally...
...Their most recent find is David Brock...
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...The present greatly controversial president is about to be nicknamed the Groper...
...While in Uganda Clinton also erupted with this idiotic yawp: "And of course going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade...
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...As a result, the president now stands accused of a wide array of malfeasance and misfeasance...
...and even now, when they are safely a part of history, people persist in speaking of them euphemistically, as "April 1969" or "May 1970" or some other vague entity...
...Perhaps Brock will turn over his profits from his best-selling Hill book to some good cause...
...Consequently it is only logical and fair that he apologize to Anita Hill...
...Because most secular journalists don't understand the power of the Pope - or the Christian Faith - in world affairs...
...Once again his imbecility is unprecedented...
...If Brock sincerely feels that c he owes the president an apol- C...
...When Clinton is gone, who will be remembered for saying "Our long national embarrassment is over...
...As his adolescent appetites and their concomitant abuses of power sink him ever deeper into infamy, his dwindling and desperate band of apologists resort to ever more gruesome expedients...
...If anyone should apologize it should be the African 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator One of the surest ways to tell a real crisis from a phony one is to observe how the people involved speak of it...
...Jimmy Carter ended that old-fashioned formality when he disparaged President Reagan while abroad in the 1980's...
...The White House has released word that the president paused from affairs of state to "accept" Brock's apology...
...This is Christianity with power, the kind that brought down the Berlin Wall...
...Well, not if the politician—pursuant to the Perfect Orgasm— is misusing state property and state employees, David...
...Actually in political Washington the virtue that many of the most successful political figures claim to experience does come easy...
...t ald Ford is remembered as declaring "Our long national nightmare is over...
...Meanwhile his dwindling band of apologists and private investigators continue to put the arm on any sap in Washington who can be imposed upon to go out there and "Win one for the Groper...
...There was a day when American statesmen would not speak ill of their country on foreign soil...
...The Washington Times reports that he termed our president's statements "rubbish...
...But Carter was only disparaging a political opponent...
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...Now something more bizarre is in fashion, and so the successful pol winks and hopes to betray traces of libidinal marvels...
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...Charges against the Groper run the gamut from his being a sexual predator to being a perjurer to being the American presidency's first security risk...
...The biggest mistake America ever made with Africa over the long run was neglect and lack of understanding that we share a common future on this planet of ours that is getting smaller and smaller and smaller...
...In recent weeks the stories of such unlucky acquaintances of the Groper as Monica Lewinsky and Kathleen Willey add to the profusion of evidence that this is a president like no other in American history...
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...And doubtless there remain pockets of slavery in the world...
...At any rate, slavery has been practiced all over the world, through many centuries...
...It is not that the Troopers' testimony was inaccurate, Brock says...
...He portrayed it as very scholarly, though as with so much else in his life it was slipshod and devious...
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...Clinton said this in Uganda...
...He has not confessed to theirjudgments about him even as he blames them for being bad sources...
...Do you hear Bob Dylan singing in the background...
...Thus I suffer no regrets about publishing "His Cheatin' Heart," though for the historic record I might point out that when David was writing the piece, the Arkansas state troopers who were his sources sharply criticized his journalistic techniques...
...The student body president back in turbulent 1968 was windy with tales of American atrocities...
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...This is pure 1960's codswollop...
...Some of these make-believe statesmen even became draft dodgers...
...The Gipper gained notoriety for favoring limited government...
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...canards of the goody-goody student politician, which he was to the utmost...
...He is the most recent Ugandan dictator, President Yoweri Museveni...
...ven mainstream journalists like Carl E Bernstein (yes, of Watergate fame) now admit Pope John Paul II played a major role in Communism's collapse...
...When people are involved in a real crisis, they feel the fact only too keenly...
...Why did they miss it for so long...
...But the day of the phony marvel may be ending in boredom...
...Once marital fidelity was a virtue, and every pol was four square for it...
...At least he is a benign despot...
...A politician's sex life is out of bounds for reporters, he believes...
...Gratefully an African leader was on hand who knew some African history and probably enough American history to recognize our president's nonsense...
...If they actually use the word "crisis," you may be certain that it is not a crisis, but only an overdramatized problem...
...It is the duty of reporters to let the public know...
...Then he spent the next two decades lying about his draft record, and, for that matter, about his academic career...
...The Groper gains notoriety for favoring limited liability...
...Though for the record I should add that many other journalists—not just at the Spectator, but at Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, among others—have reviewed Clinton's record...
...Forget the usual secular-liberal "keep-yourChristianity - to - yourself" attitude...
...Yet now an eerily transformed ghost of David Brock comes forward to apologize to him...
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...He excoriated America's conduct of the Cold War, particularly in Vietnam...
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...Imagine, he is touring six countries, not one of which has an active democratic system in any way comparable to ours...
...When he replaced Richard Nixon, President Gertook international measures to stamp it out were the "European Americans" whom our foolish president is given to maligning on foreign soil...
...Now on his African tour he is sounding all the 1960's bilge as though no historic events had intervened—for instance, the long-term African slide into tyranny and political corruption, or the vindication of the American Cold Warrior with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of world-wide Communist aggression...
...He has made some constructive efforts to bring his people to prosperity and democracy...
...Clinton is disparaging his entire country...
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...The only people who T he American saga proceeds in cycles...
...We still have those traitors here today...
...Between 1971 and 1979 he may have been responsible for as many as 500,000 killings in his country...
...Or is it the president of the student body from a major American cow college, circa 1968...
...Four and a half years after working on The American Spectator's first Troopergate story, my former employee has apologized for the piece...
...In one ignorant outburst the only president ever to qualify as a draft dodger said that during the Cold War—the struggle to pacify Communism and render its countries democratic "very often we dealt with countries in Africa and in other parts of the world based more on how they stood in the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union than how they stood in the struggle for their own people's aspirations...
...While at Oxford he not only continued to befool his draft board...
...It is, he claims, that his reportorial technique and focus were wrong...
...Clinton did leave university life with all the fashionable anti-American Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...He actively participated in the student protest culture and demonstrated against American foreign policy, for instance in a gigantic anti-American rally in front of the American embassy in London...
...At Harvard, for instance, where we went through genuine crises in 1969 and 1970, people have never called them that...
...African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other," admonished President Museveni, "and capturing their own people and selling them...
...He was one of the rare Rhodes Scholars who never bothered to finish his degree work...
...Or perhaps the Ugandan merely knows the history of his country better than our president knows our history...
...He might also consider an apology to the journalists whom he fell on for their book-length defense of Hill, Jill Abramson and Jane Meyer...
...both sided with Moscow...
...Most likely the student body president was about to pull out all the stops in an effort to avoid serving in the American military...
Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5
