PUBLIC NUISANCES
Tyrrell., R. Emmett Jr.
The Woman in Kerry's Future WASHINGTON O MY EYES DECEIVE ME? The morning after Super Tuesday expired with a burst of fireworks enhaloing the hunk of granite that is John Kerry's head,...
...Some would say she sits atop it...
...In that event, Hillary, the loyalest of the loyal, would be there to lift the party from chaos and against the Forces of Darkness...
...Owing to her feminism and to her cachet with the other building blocks of the Democratic coalition she could, as Morris puts it, turn the presidential campaign into a "national crusade...
...Right now extreme measures are being taken against Limbaugh, and what impresses me more than a government's repressive measures against him is the meekness of his colleagues...
...He is conservative...
...Still, it is repulsive to see the rest of the press sitting quietly by...
...Kerry is a regional candidate...
...In addressing trade and manufacturing at the Mayflower she confronted two staples of Ralph Nader's song and dance, a song and dance that will be heard many times as his third party candidacy gets underway...
...Hillary has national reach...
...Many years ago when the great dissenter, H.L...
...She has been the top Democratic fundraising draw since 2000...
...He was then considered a champion of their great cause, freedom of speech...
...I suppose that was to be expected...
...In the last election cycle she did four to five fundraisers a week...
...John Pierre Kerry before convention time...
...Limbaugh is in good company...
...Robert R. McCormick, to labor leader John L. Lewis...
...Whatever transpires, the Clintons are active again...
...It is worse than that, which is presumably why the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a legal brief on behalf of Limbaugh...
...Ask Dr...
...Her political action committees are prodigious fundraising mechanisms...
...Running as veep on a Kerry ticket might not doom her to second fiddle for eight years...
...The press is liberal...
...If he were, I am told that there are superior drugs pursuant to kicks...
...Another of her servitors, Harold Ickes, controls financial honey pots with reserves of over $100 million...
...Yet the American press is today highly politicized and its politics are antithetical to Limbaugh's...
...FDR used the IRS and FBI against such an array of opponents from former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, to publishers Moses Annenberg and Col...
...Governments have attempted to suppress criticism for centuries...
...We got Limbaugh on an OxyContin charge...
...Nader's candidacy could become a political "giant sucking sound" of votes away from Kerry...
...She is the most popular Democratic candidate in the land...
...Why not Limbaugh...
...Rather, he is the candidate the consensus has settled on...
...Now she is down to one or two...
...Anyway, the misuse of medications and reliance on OxyContin all end in the same hell on earth...
...Will that please his opponents...
...As recently as December his candidacy was dead in the water...
...First there is the quietude of the press in general...
...Things like that have happened before in this Democratic race...
...No one I have encountered claims he was taking the prescription medication OxyContin for kicks...
...The morning after Super Tuesday expired with a burst of fireworks enhaloing the hunk of granite that is John Kerry's head, Sen...
...But would Thomas Jefferson, for instance, have anticipated that a journalist's fellow communicators would remain silent while one of their own was being threatened with jail...
...It makes perfect sense for Hillary to get into the Democratic presidential action now...
...Limbaugh's lawyer, the respected civil libertarian, Roy Black, considers this "preposterous...
...The Hollywood coke snorters get this sort of judgment...
...The trial might last only eight months, and if the valiant ticket goes down to the hellish Bush she would be seen as the loyalest of loyal Democrats, a Joan of Arc to her party Her rights on the presidential nomination in 2008 would be secure...
...Silent About Rush WASHINGTON EALLY, IT IS NOT VERY AMAZING that a govern- EALLY ent vendetta has been launched against ush Limbaugh, the very successful and gifted talk show host...
...No one disputes he suffered this pain...
...Conceivably his harassment will end in court appearances and even a jail term...
...But Palm Beach County prosecutors, having apparently leaked information about the case as well as some of the negotiating documents between them and Limbaugh's lawyers, now want Limbaugh to plead guilty to a felony punishable by up to five years in prison...
...With her early morning speech just after Super Tuesday she may have approached that "something big" that her old supporters have been promised...
...What is more, sources have told me that Clinton loyalists have been calling Democrats around the country telling them to prevail on Kerry at least to invite Hillary to be on his ticket...
...Thus Hillary is the most likely source of prestige and funding for the impecunious Kerry...
...Limbaugh has involuntarily been there, and he has now sought treatment...
...Still it is dismaying...
...More recently, sources tell me that long-time Clinton supporters including those in the now defunct Clark campaign have been told to sit tight and await unfolding events as though "something big" is about to happen...
...It might be a first...
...Limbaugh is a dissident in the best sense of the word...
...Come to think of it, ask Kerry...
...She has enormous power, and as with all political power if you do not use it you run the risk that you might lose it...
...The Clintons' servitor, Terry McAuliffe, heads the Democratic National Committee...
...And Hillary's fundraising operations have curiously slowed...
...Should he have been snorting coke...
...Limbaugh has admitted to becoming hooked on prescription drugs while trying to mollify the pain he has suffered from back and ear maladies...
...He wants out...
...Every authority I have consulted tells me that given his admission and given his voluntary rehab he would normally be let off...
...That Limbaugh, a first offender and recovering addict to pain killers rather than street drugs, is being unfairly harassed is clear to anyone but a political zealot...
...Some weeks back as Senator Kerry emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, that veteran Clinton-watcher with the keen eye for political machinations, Dick Morris, announced that Hillary had become a likely prospect as Kerry's running mate...
...At the time Mencken was no small fish...
...Kerry has not been the consensus Democraticcandidate...
...From the days of FDR they have used the law to persecute political opponents...
...Then too, some shocking revelations might surface about Sen...
...Why is it not hollering from its syndicated columns, its intellectual reviews, its handful of newspapers and the Fox News...
...What can this mean...
...Hillary is at the center of the party...
...But three months ago her fundraising appearances seemingly fell off...
...Hillary Clinton—still the most popular Democrat in the country—pops up at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to give a major speech on trade and manufacturing, two burning issues during the Democrats' primary season...
...Moreover, with the vast financial resources she commands, she could be for Kerry's campaign what his wife has been for Kerry's lifestyle, a bonanza...
...What is surprising is the quietude of the conservative press...
...Mencken, was being harassed on a petty and very much trumped-up obscenity charge, the national press averted its gaze...
...Kerry needs help...
...Mencken attributed the press's cowardliness to "smugness...
...The Founding Fathers were acutely aware of that and provided strong protections in our system of government for dissent and for free speech...
...Morris's observation makes sense...
...Howard Dean...
...At the Mayflower Hillary demonstrated her political value to Kerry as a neutralizer of Nader...
...Another brief on his behalf has been filed by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which wants to scotch the prosecutors' release of his medical records...
...The harassment of Limbaugh provides another unlovely glimpse into the workings of the liberal elites...
...That the press in general ignores the attempts to suppress him is another example of its stupendous hypocrisy, but this is not surprising...
...All were innocent...
...I assume this is another example of what Mencken diagnosed as "smugness...
...For most of his senatorial career he has been a loner, and the source of too many bizarre utterances...
Vol. 37 • April 2004 • No. 3
