Public Nuisances: Albert Inexcusable/This Is Just a Test
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Albert Inexcusable London Every spring about this time the popular British historian Paul Johnson and his wife Marigold hold a garden party at his...
...Then they excoriate those who amassed the evidence and remind the world of the incipient CD Nazism of their political oppo- C nents...
...They would go right to the source, to wit, inferior high schools, and do something about them...
...The mix of politicians, intellectuals, and businesspeople is unlike anything one would come upon in the United States...
...Another of the great and anti-democratic goals of American Liberalism is to stand on both sides of every issue...
...Finally, high schools that have failed to prepare students for college will be allowed to continue to fail as educational institutions...
...In the end their effort to confuse the public has brought them to confusion — not for the first time...
...I can see it now: Gore badgered along the campaign trail by "the character issue...
...Graduate degrees in the humanities often lead to low-paying jobs...
...On the very day Clinton was impeached for doing what any red-blooded American sexual deviant would do when brought before a grand jury—that is to say, commit perjury—Gore stood on the White House lawn and described the Boy Pedophile as "one of our greatest presidents...
...Again, confusing the public is the Liberals' desired end, all the better to control the public...
...And no educational purpose is served...
...This is no time for Gore to begin telling the truth about Clinton...
...Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Well, he should not be surprised that his sudden disparagement of the president triggered uncomfortable questions from the press...
...Gore has been as good at covering up forthem as they have...
...At best they are Clinton- --- haters or extremists—a term that has not been so effectively used since President Lyndon Johnson used it against Senator Barry Goldwater in the presidential campaign of 1964...
...The Clintons have been successful in overcoming their scandals because they are reflexive liars...
...The notion held by the department is that women, blacks, and certain groups from poor countries are incapable of doing well on SAT tests...
...All because finally he told the truth about Bill Clinton...
...Thus the Liberals are again on both sides of the issue: for standards but against them...
...Would it not be better to improve the high schools than to further degrade the colleges...
...Then too there were authoritative, if divergent, students of the Balkan fracas, such as Noel Malcolm and John Keegan, the author of a very good history of World War I. The playboy philosopher Taki was there, postulating his tricky metaphysical theories...
...But this is not always true...
...He might also suggest an air strike against Monaco...
...Like me they are now war resisters...
...They believe in the essential equality of the races, sexes, and ethnic groups...
...Better it would be for Gore and all Democrats up for election simply to stay the course...
...And there was even a London-based reporter from a mainstream American newspaper, who lived up to my expectations...
...Political Correctitude is not yet a religion here...
...Francis Bacon's New Atlantis is the first truly modern utopia—a society governed by scientists and technologists...
...That, of course, is precisely the opposite of the color-blind society that Martin Luther King, Jr...
...The consequence is that students who are not likely to graduate from college orto benefit from a college education are gently coerced to set aside years of their lives on college campuses that can do little for them...
...Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, when those standards have what the bureaucrats call "significant disparate impact" on members of a particular race, national origin, or sex, they are to be waived...
...That Gore would depart from his old tactic of defending the boss so early in his race for the presidency is curious...
...At the Johnsons' party there are apt to be people from the left such as the playwright Harold Pinter and Lord and Lady Longford...
...If Gore begins telling the truth about his boss, seasoned Washington political insiders might even begin to question his character...
...Gore has been stalwart in defending the ithyphallic adulterer, obstructer of justice, and dog-wagger in the White House...
...Remember that it has worked for years...
...Now, however, according to the U.S...
...It is a defect he can rectify the next time the 42nd president disgraces himself...
...The ancient Hebrews, the Greeks, the Christians, all felt there was a diabolical aspect to the power of technology...
...Allow me this footnote: Broder waited until the last minute to express his indignation over Clinton's transformation of the White House into animal house...
...Implicit in the Education Department's campaign against the SAT tests is bigotry, racial and otherwise...
...But modern technology, emerging in a context of millenarian aspirations and rationalist metaphysics, was not bothered—at least not until recently—by such doubts...
...Continue to insist that every American president from George Washington to the present had a small harem somewhere behind the drapes...
...Others have a more optimistic view of these groups' possibilities...
...Even when caught with an abundance of evidence they merelyavoid the topic...
...More lucid minds would look at the SAT test scores and see "disparate results...
...On the matter of improved education, the Clintonian Liberal stands four square for educational standards...
...Now he says he was just being loyal and that voters should marvel at what a good, loyal vice president he is...
...It also gives plausibility to the notion that, because the development of technology—of man's control over both nature and man—is progressive, therefore human history itself can be defined as progressive, as leading us from an imperfect human condition to a perfected one...
...Why should it get them into hot water now...
...When Broder did finally fall on Clinton he did it with the utmost restraint...
...He should repine over 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator There is nothing dreamlike about technology: It works—and because it works, it gives plausibility to the notion that modern man is uniquely in the position of being able to convert his idealized dreams into tangible reality...
...At any rate there were many diverse views expressed the other night, but most seemed to agree with the philosopher Taki that when Vice President Al Gore termed President Clinton's sex life "inexcusable" he committed a major political blunder...
...He gave them the provocation...
...Education bureaucrats tell us college degrees are essential for high-paying jobs...
...Yet now when it comes to the standards maintained by SAT college-entrance examinations, the Liberals are against those standards...
...Albert Inexcusable London Every spring about this time the popular British historian Paul Johnson and his wife Marigold hold a garden party at his London home...
...If the Liberal bureaucrats at the Department of Education have their way, the scholastically unqualified student will waste years of his life...
...they saw no reason to think men would always use this power wisely, and thought it quite probable we would use it for destructive ends...
...Another consequence is that students are to be chosen for college on the grounds of race, gender, or national origin...
...Furthermore, no one at Paul Johnson's would be so gauche as to inveigh against Our President in the shocking way that the Washington Post's Sally Quinn and David Broder had...
...Had Gore stuck to his earlier lines that the president should be allowed his privacy and that presidents will be presidents, it is unlikely the press would have pounced...
...His family and the state will waste funds and resources...
...Continue to say that fellatio in the White House with a young intern is a private matter...
...Irving Kristol "Utopianism, Ancient and Modem" AUGUST 1974 9 6 - 14 August 1999 The American Spectator the politics of personal destruction and denounce the Republican Party as a "vast right-wing conspiracy...
...The Clintons have been lying, obstructing justice, breaking campaign laws, and perhaps even swapping nuclear technology with the Chinese for campaign funds...
...Recent history suggests this really works...
...The SAT standards have for decades proved to be accurate predictors of a potential college student's likelihood to earn a college degree...
...Ill-prepared students are to be accepted by colleges on some other basis...
...Rather than call Clinton's behavior "inexcusable" Gore should be laughing it off as the price Bill Clinton pays for being the handsomest Southern president since Jimmy Carter...
...He was very nice, very superior, and very convinced that this London crowd was so much wittier than any group of sophisticates one might find in America...
...So the tests are to be eliminated...
...They blame the disparity in test scores on the deplorable condition of public schools in the inner city and conclude that many students fail to score well on SAT tests because of their schools...
...and other civil rights pioneers fought for...
...The Department of Education comes up with this abstruse notion of "significant disparate impact...
...Continue to say everyone does it...
...Yet, as I say, the purpose of many Liberals in debate is merely to confuse the public...
...Then the vice president should remind the journalists of their complicity in the Spanish American War and the Red Scare...
...They are the gateways to graduate work...
...Improving the schools is too vast an undertaking for the bureaucrats...
...Colleges are supposed to be our most rigorous educational units...
...Colleges will be even more heavily burdened with unhappy students who do not belong there...
...It did not get them into hot water in the past...
...Hence they make an education issue into a civil rights issue...
...This Is Just a Test 0 ne of the great and anti-democratic goals of American Liberalism is to make public matters so complicated that the public despairs and transfers the matter at hand over to the liberal bureaucrats...
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...It leaves them wondering if the man who would have his finger on the nuclear trigger is unstable...
...The consequence of the Department of Education's attack on the SAT tests is that colleges will actually get worse...
...The SAT tests should remain...
...If the press did take issue with Gore, he could merely rely on the Democrats' party line...
...One of the reasons that colleges are in the muddle they are in today is that forty years ago college administrators, greedy for more government funding, insisted that a college-educated population would increase the wealth of the community...
...Frankly, it makes Washingtonians edgy...
...That is not always the case, and if colleges continue to decline to the condition of 195o's high schools, the value of a college degree will be even smaller...
Vol. 32 • August 1999 • No. 8
