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CURRENT WISDOM Salon In the nonpartisan pages of Salon, more evidence of Republican foul play. On the surface, Littleton was a prosperous, happily homogeneous community. There was a Main Street...
...Tyrrell: Well, I don't take the professor very seriously...
...Tyrrell misleads your leaders, however, when he said I refused to appear on a show with him because in previous joint appearances he had made ad hominem attacks...
...Milosevic could end it now by withdrawing his military police and paramilitary forces, by accepting the deployment of an international security force to protect not only the Kosovar Albanians, most but not all of whom are Muslims, but also the Serbian minority in Kosovo...
...It may be that the three of us are more sensitive to this because we grew up in the segregated South, but it is very easy to get into a social system where you always get to think a little better of yourself because you've always got someone that you can dehumanize...
...The "euthanasia" of hundreds of thousands of people with mental or physical disabilities...
...Widespread sterilization of "the unfit...
...Alan Dershowitz: Emmett, do you take seriously Sensenbrenner's lie...
...Tyrrell's ad hominem reporting cannot be relied on for accuracy...
...As I said, it may be—I was standing here looking at Secretary Riley, and Bishop Dixon...
...Hopefully, the men of the United States and around the world will listen and become better partners in the ecstatic union of sex...
...Robert Proctor recently made the explosive discovery, however, that Nazi Germany was also decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive and socially responsible...
...APRIL 5-12, 1999] Washington Post The painful contortions a dutiful first lady need assume in standing by her ithyphallic man just weeks after one Juanita Broaddrick told her grisly story: One finds Hillary Clinton at the United Nations on a recent trip to New York, basking in a loud standing ovation and inveighing against worldwide disrespect of women and girls...
...If anyone believes Mr...
...Not once, but three times the report states he withheld orgasm voluntarily, despite being stimulated by an eager and willing partner...
...The issue was whether Rep...
...Tyrrell under control and not allow him to turn the show into a series of ad hominem attacks...
...The show's producers apologized to me during the next intermission and said Mr...
...And the country seems to want to take the sacrificial Iambs off the skewer before they're cooked to death...
...Can good science cone from an evil regime...
...Perhaps that is why the tantric aspects of this affair have not yet made the news...
...Tyrrell's description of my book, I urge him to read it and discover for himself what I have long known: that Mr...
...We're not talking about everybody agreeing with everybody else on every political issue...
...They failed...
...APRIL 25, 1999] The White House (Office of the Press Secretary, Remarks by the President) Another crisp, concise statement of military goals in the Balkan campaign, from Our Wartime President fresh from a White House bull session on "How I spent my 1968 summer vacation": I want to say again, the United States would never choose force as anything other than a last option...
...And we have worked hard in Africa to work with other African forces to build an Africa Crisis Response Initiative so that something like the Rwanda genocide cannot happen again...
...It should be called what it is, criminal...
...And the media pundits rage about how the president cannot control himself...
...Shakespeare made me a better president...
...But of course it did...
...Their criticism of U.S...
...SPRING 1999] New Yorker How William Shakespeare caused Troopergate, Travelgate, Filegate, the Chop Suey Connection, the Serb World War, and the deflowering of Monica, as explained by Our Wartime Leader: Last April, tollbooth operators passed along five hundred free copies of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" to motorists crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge in Camden, NJ...
...The president of the United States, bulwark of the Western world, exposed in full— engaging in tantric sex practices with a young woman...
...I stood there shocked, reading the full Starr Report printed in our local paper...
...He may have been betrayed by the naiveté of his young lover and the treachery of her "friend," but the president has gone on record to the nation showing that male sex drive is merely a thought pattern that is under control of the mind...
...We're not for anybody's hate crimes...
...MARCH 25, 1999] The Great Books Series From the dust jacket of Professor Robert N. Proctor's tobaccophobic The Nazi War on Cancer, insights into the Hitler nobody knew: Collaboration in the Holocaust...
...I was thinking about all the years that Secretary Riley and I worked together...
...from The Nazi War on Cancer, by Robert N. Proctor...
...The independent town newspaper listed all the local marriages and deaths, along with pie recipes and high school basketball scores...
...FEBRUARY 23, 1999] The Nation The sonorous imbecility into which actor Warren Beatty falls when writing his own lines: There's a very large issue, which emerged around the time of Gary Hart, that's come to a boil at the end of the century, and that is whether the sexual puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay Colony can long survive with our technology's effect on privacy, our speed of information, our advertising and our rising excitement about sexual matters...
...Everybody...
...Tyrrell regards my book "Sexual McCarthyism" as his worst nightmare...
...What might this reveal about health activism in our own society...
...APRIL 6, 1999] Sacramento Bee Clinton loyalist M. Comeau reviews the grotesqueries that compose American history, duly noting the benefits of "totalitarian Communist autocracy" where church attendance is not so easily enforceable as in these here United States: Not content with having shoved sexual McCarthyism at the American people to their dismay for months in the form of an unending Monicathon, Republicans are set to deliver another dose of the real thing...
...I was reluctant to appear with him because his entire approach to life and politics is ad hominem...
...The producers assured me they would keep Mr...
...It's no longer acceptable," she lectures the assembled, "to say that the abuse and mistreatment of women is cultural...
...And Mr...
...Now, as I said, we can't continue to organize ourselves to try to stand against these things around the world—which I firmly hope we will...
...I applaud the women in America who have done so much to bring to the world's attention the terrible treatment of women in Afghanistan, for example...
...Yet for all its perfect lawns and happy high school marching hands, even then Littleton had its dark side...
...I wish he would turn his microphone —his earphone — down...
...Even if the Chinese said they wanted to set up a totalitarian Communist autocracy here, would that be any worse than the theocratic autocracy that the Rev...
...Said Clinton, "Mr...
...But first of all, we must always be working on ourselves...
...Obviously, I have succeeded...
...Princeton University Press, 38o pages, $29.95] Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Buddhistical mazeltovs to America's first Buddhist president from Doctor James Stewart Campbell, presumably a urologist: I couldn't believe my eyes...
...Here is a quote from my first encounter with him on the show...
...Pat Robertson and the Pecksniffian hypocrites of the Republican Party want to bring us...
...And that's really what this whole issue with gays is today in America...
...Tyrrell: Well, I mean I haven't polled them, but I suspect that a senator who took the oath of office and cares about lying takes lying seriously...
...I consider the Nixonian McCarthyist shysters of the Republican Party to be a far greater danger to my liberty than I do the Chinese people...
...Hillary Clinton initiated the proceedings by quoting from Howard Nemerov's poem "The Makers...
...If the unintended consequence of this sexual McCarthyism is that the baby boom generation insists on a more realistic evaluation of sex—let's not call it sex, let's call it ethics, truthfulness, human frailties—then the religious right may have made a mistake bringing this subject to the table...
...And by making it possible for all the refugees to return and to move toward a political framework based on the accords reached in France...
...Proctor argues that we must view Hitler's Germany more subtly than we have in the past...
...Tyrrell had promised to refrain from this kind of ad hominem and that it wouldn't happen again...
...Littleton was the home of the famous Little Britches Rodeo, and we all went once a year to see how long the cowboys could last on the bucking broncos...
...He credited this experience with teaching 80 June 1999 The American Spectator him "about the dangers of blind ambitions, the fleeting nature of fame, the ultimate emptiness of power disconnected from higher purpose...
...APRIL 19, 1999] Washington Times Professor Dershowitz again goes to desperate lengths to sell his wares: Emmett Tyrrell is absolutely right about one thing in his article March 26 ("Topping the year's worst list...
...If anyone doubts my description I urge them towatch the tape of MSNBC's special "White House In Crisis" of Jan...
...foreign policy toward China (which they in fact instituted themselves), apart from being another example of such blatant and rank hypocrisy that hardly anyone even notices anymore, smacks of warmed-over Red Scare, Yellow Peril, Hearstian race-baiting that would make "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy proud of his successors in the "Grand" Old Party...
...James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Republican, had lied when he said President Clinton's own lawyer had acknowledged that his client's grand jury testimony was false...
...Clinton hosted a celebration of American poets and poetry...
...Murderous and torturous medical experiments...
...At least we wouldn't be forced to go to church all the time, and would have some input into government policy...
...We have to keep working on these things...
...Most startling, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking...
...Because we know this is more the work of the Bishop than the President, but we know that inside each of us there are vulnerabilities to dehumanizing other people simply by putting them in a category that permits us to dismiss them, or that permits us to put them in a category so that on a bad day, when we're feeling especially bad about something we've done, we can say,well, thank God I'm not them...
...Tyrrell whether he thought Republican senators took lying seriously: Mr...
...Poet Rita Dove recited Whitman's immortal work at the White House when President and Mrs...
...Proctor explores the controversial and troubling questions that such findings raise: Were the Nazis more complex morally than we thought...
...His article about my book simply uses the good pages of your newspaper to try to take personal revenge against me for his embarrassing performance on television...
...The host asked Mr...
...That's really what this is about...
...What males among them have such control...
...ALAN M. DERSH OWITZ Cambridge, Mass...
...14, 1999...
...The President revealed that he had had to memorize a hundred lines of "Macbeth" in high school...
...I will include on my résumé the fact Mr...
...Nazi doctors committed these and countless other atrocities as part of Hitler's warped quest to create a German master race...
...MARCH 26, 1999] The American Spectator • June 1999 81...
...And it is a short step from that—a short, short step from that—to licensing or even participating in acts of violence...
...This is a conservative, Republican town, with an underbelly of suspicion...
...There was a Main Street with breakfast restaurants, a library, a stationer's store and a place where you could get your shoes fixed...
...Littleton was a town to itself—still mainly agricultural, not yet a sprawling suburb—that regarded Denver as a distant big-city cousin...
Vol. 32 • June 1999 • No. 6
