Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New Yorker Tumescent musings about the tumid creep who is now leaving the White House with the toilets unflushed: Reading [Joe] Klein's article, I could not help...
...Prager heard me say, "But the critical states that we still have to win...
...These girls are definitely looking back in something other than anger, and winking too...
...Then I began describing states won by Vice President Gore, including, erroneously at that point, Florida...
...My balls are Xtremely sensitive...
...His killing of spiders is in no way funny...
...To some degree I am amused because I have close professional relationships with most of the major candidates, strate-gists and operatives across the political spectrum based on what I am confident is mutual respect...
...You see the state where James Byrd was lynched - dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart-it's red...
...but there is no utterance by me in the tran-script in word or in tone that would sup-port Mr...
...he told them, "Four centuries ago, Shakespeare loved a woman and wrote a poem about her ("Hamlet Meets Mao," November 13th...
...I admired you for mak-ing such a bold and brave move -it took chutzpah, I thought...
...Turns out he took one bungled sen-tence out of 10 hours of live, ad libbed election night play by play to construct his thesis...
...Prager's claim...
...I remember too, how this article and the fact that you published it became the talk of a good portion of the Jewish community...
...I sleep extremely quiet...
...I hate the IRS extremely...
...You are a model for other newspapers...
...It brought repercus-sions in the form of angry letters from your readers and probably some cancellations of subscriptions...
...NOVEMBER 13, 2000] New Yorker The new Dr...
...NOVEMBER 15, 2000] San Diego Jewish Times Kudos to the SDJT from Ted and Bobbi Harwood, who were obviously very moved by the paper's announcement of their daughter's commitment, possibly to an insane asylum: We were so pleased to see the announce-ment of our daughter's commitment cer-emony in the latest edition of the San Diego Jewish Times (Vol...
...They wake up in men's beds...
...Lieberman was apparently quite moved by stories that Holocaust victims in Florida may have voted for the wrong man, Pat Buchanan, and tonight nei-ther Gore nor Lieberman has given up on the idea of a longer court fight on that issue...
...On several occasions I said, "We're getting ahead of ourselves here," referring to NBC News, or, "We're show-ing [either Gore or Bush] ahead...
...We feel lucky that we shared our time with him, and a little sad knowing that someone like him probably won't pass our way again...
...On behalf of all gays and lesbians and their families, thank you for your accep-tance and support and for honoring our celebrations as well...
...From time to time they all have a complaint about real or perceived slights and misrepresentations...
...Clin-ton's enemies never grasped this...
...Ruth makes a heroic effort to prevent a rift in American-Chinese understanding: Peter Hessler reports that when teaching Chinese students Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...
...Open heart surgery is extreme...
...Prager to convert me into a spokesman for liberal causes based on such an obviously dishonest interpreta-tion on his part qualifies him for the Oliver Stone Hall of Fame...
...That was his mistake...
...I would use the most extreme source of water possible to extinguish a fire...
...I have gone to some lengths to refute these careless, indeed, reckless charges because I know your pages are read care-fully and I do not intend to become part of some self-perpetuating myth...
...I want to be extremely happy...
...Everything about such people is big--their loves, their eagerness to do spec-tacular things, their deep understanding of how the world works, and also their moral failings and their need to win...
...I extremely believe in my independence and individuality...
...They play to an audience that gets it, that understands that straight women appreciate other women's bod-ies (I was riveted by the sight of Diaz unzipping her wet suit to her navel), that sex workers and sluts deserve some respect and that there is nothing wrong with being a sex object if your objective is to have sex...
...It is weird, extremely weird, to be given such a compliment by such an obviously uncomplimentary source...
...So I was startled to read Dennis Prager's assertion that I am indistin-guishable from liberal spokespeople, a claim he bases on what he said was a quote from me on election night as I remarked on Democratic Party electoral gains...
...Some peo-ple with small minds call me an extrem-ist...
...Instead, he meant to cite a phrase I uttered at a time when returns were coming in a rush from the industrial Midwest...
...It's not every parent who is fortunate enough to be able to see the announce-ment of their daughter's commitment ceremony in print...
...Now that bowdlerizing Shakespeare is no longer deemed acceptable in the West, we should avoid exporting the practice to Asia...
...9, 2000...
...I climb trees extremely high...
...I recall that a number of years ago you also published a commitment ceremony announcement...
...NOVEMBER 6, 2000] Solon In reviewing the hit flick, Charlie's Angels, another of Salon's fat little writ-ers daydreams of salacity and sexual hygiene before the consequent nose-bleed: But they also get to be more femme...
...At least, not in the next four years...
...NOVEMBER 27, 2000] 72 February 2001 . The American Spectator Wall Street Journal Tom Brokaw at home with his word processor after a few drinks: After almost 20 years in this job-and 20 more covering politics from Omaha to Atlanta, from Ronald Reagan in California to Richard Nixon in the White House- I have grown accustomed to the dark sus-picions from the left and the right that I am the handmaiden of one or the other...
...CURRENT WISDOM New Yorker Tumescent musings about the tumid creep who is now leaving the White House with the toilets unflushed: Reading [Joe] Klein's article, I could not help thinking how like a classic hero Clin-ton is...
...I use extreme measures to deal with extreme conditions...
...TED AND BOBBI HARWOOD [NOVEMBER 10-23, 2000] Subscribe to TAS today...
...You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal employees -it's red...
...Michael Jordan is an extreme athlete...
...The intricate plumbing of a gutpile is extremely fascinating...
...DAN STOFLE Palo Alto [NOVEMBER 25, 2000] MSNBC.com At the end of Campaign 2000, with all the vituperation still clanging in our ears, the President's moral megaphone, Professor Paul Begala, describes the map depicting the Republican presidential votes and attempts to cool passions and encourage thoughtfulness: But if you look closely at that map you see a more complex picture...
...It came as I was using the pronoun "we" to refer to NBC News, as in "we're going to color in the map...those states that are in red are Texas Governor George Bush's states...
...I am extremely dissatisfied with any status quo...
...We did an exhaustive search of the transcript for that long night and early morning...
...BATYA DAGAN Los Angeles, Calif...
...I plant an extreme number of trees every year...
...28, No...
...This campaign and the long-running post-election melodrama are no excep-tions...
...Who knows what might come next: Tonight, Tom, friends say that Gore is still in a fighting mood...
...I talk daily to representatives of both candidates to gather information and to hear their points of view...
...For Mr...
...When we called him to get his source, a courtesy he failed to extend to me, he said it was not "We are ahead...
...And one of them told me something interesting-that one of the people most encouraging Gore to keep fighting, someone best known for his conciliatory nature, Joe Lieber-man...
...Xtreme & damn proud...
...Prager quoted me as saying, "We are ahead" ("An Open Letter to Democrats," editorial page, Nov...
...They wear wigs and makeup, serve up cleavage like a meal and display their a-es like plumage...
...I take the call and we almost always arrive at a satisfactory resolution...
...You continue to raise the consciousness of your readers and send a very important message - one which causes people to think about cherished Jewish values such as justice and acceptance and understanding and human dignity...
...I know because we looked it up and listened to the tape again...
...22, through Nov...
...The rest of us, meanwhile, are already beginning to suffer withdrawal pangs...
...You defended your publishing decision and never backed down from what you believed to be right...
...NOVEMBER 16, 2000] The American Spectator Admittedly a historic first for this depart-ment, but we would be remiss to ignore this adolescent outburst that quite pos-sibly transcends anything published in a college student newspaper during the fall semester: I Ted...
...Sure, the original Angels came frosted with pounds of hairspray and lip gloss...
...TOM BROKAW NBC News New York [DECEMBER 7, 2000] NBC Nightly News Televisionland's logical progression-Claire Shipman reports to Tom Brokaw on how "fighting moods" link to a "con-ciliatory nature" then "Holocaust vic-tims in Florida" and "Pat Buchanan" then to mad cow disease...
...DECEMBER 2000/JANUARY 2001] San Francisco Chronicle The Hitler mentality springs up in north-ern California: Editor -I want "Garfield" out of the comics...
...The state where an Army private who was thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, and the state where neo-Nazi skinheads murdered two African-Americans because of their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews its anti-Catholic big-otry: they're all red too...
...Although scholars argue about the identity of Shakespeare's beloved, many are convinced that this person was a beautiful young man, not a woman...
...EXTREM-ISTS FOUNDED AMERICA...
...And this in no way diminishes their credibility as crime fighters or their likability as char-acters...
...RUTH VANITA Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Women's Studies, University of Montana Missoula, Mont...
...I drive an extreme truck...
...Call 1-800-524-3469 The American Spectator . February 2001 73...
...Not once has any low-, middle- or high-level representative of either cam-paign even suggested I was tilting cov-erage or personal remarks one way or the other...
...Thanks to you, the publisher and others at the Jewish Times, we've experienced that joy...
...So this is how it came out: "But the critical states that we still have to win .. .we have just made a projection in the state of Michigan...
...they mea-sured him according to their own small-ness...
...I love my family extremely...
...I was keeping my eye on the critical states of the industrial Midwest when I was inter-rupted in my earpiece with the news that we were projecting Gore the winner in Michigan...
...However, along with those letters came the ones of support, both of which you printed...
...I would shoot a dog in the head that is chewing on a child...
...But they have nothing on these new girls, who demonstrate their pussy power by vamping, mocking and altering their femininity at will...
Vol. 34 • February 2001 • No. 1
