PUBLIC NUISANCES: Old What's His Name/Litigious American Bishops
Tyrrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES ] R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Old What's His Name WASHINGTON CANNOT 1UD FROM MY MIND t h e nameAlioto, Judge Samuel Alioto. That is the name of Judge Samuel Alito as pronounced...
...That is the name of Judge Samuel Alito as pronounced by the delightful Senator Edward Kennedy, or is it Eduardo Kennedino...
...Two years after it started, the bishops through their lawyers ordered MRC to cease and desist from using CNS in its name because the bishops' Catholic News Service had earlier used the letters...
...The bishops' lawyers commenced a legal battle...
...MRC proceeded to acquire its own trademark, "Cybercast News Service-CNSNews.com" along with a distinctive logo to distinguish itself from all the others...
...At MRC they suffer from monitoring the liberal bilge...
...It uses the name CNSNEWS.com and has been since 1998...
...That case was subsequently dismissed...
...Also Bozell discovered that the Catholic News Service never had the letters trademarked and believes they probably could not because of all the other organizations using these three letters...
...The bishops then sued in federal court...
...The Court has already adjudged it constitutional and it will take a constitutional amendment to change that decision, then most likely state action...
...The fires in the California foothills today threatened...
...Bozell, lifting a figure of speech from H.L...
...Mencken, believes that the epitome of smugness is the smugness ofan"archbishop'--Mencken's term...
...This stupid legal battle with MRC is another example, a pettier example...
...for instance, the hysteria over the NSA, eavesdropping on "~merican citizens" who incidentally might be plotting terror with Islamofascists to blow up another choice piece of American real estate...
...They tried to get revoked the CNSNEWS.com trademark...
...Listen to them purr of their achievements...
...It is fortunate for both MRC and the bishops that the owners of the China News Service have yet to get into the act...
...MRC has a news service on the Internet, Cybercast News Service...
...The Democrats' fear of "judicial activism" from a conservative Supreme Court is also a false issue...
...Possibly Abramoffhas a future at the UN...
...I actually remember the groups from those days that were called "radical...
...What next...
...At any rate, Bozell runs the whole operation, trying all the time to keep us aware of the extent of the liberal bias, a bias that is so thick that it is ceaselessly in danger of presenting as fact utter fantasy and occasionally utter hysteria...
...Jack Abramoff stands at the end of a long line of such shabby fixers...
...That did it...
...I, being a devotee of America's art museums, believe that for smugness one can do no better than point to art curators...
...One of Abramoff's predecessors whose name was on the tongue of every Washington watcher in the early 1980s was Tongsun Park of Abscam fame...
...Listen to the august tone they assume in pronouncing on a picture, a painter, Joseph R. McCarthy, Ronald W. Reagan, the glorious breakthrough Chris Ofili has made in his use of elephant manure on canvass...
...From their battlements at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops they have been waging a pettifoggers' war with MRC over a nonsense at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to both and for nothing...
...They are at their most insufferable when they are crooning on about their need for more government subsidies from the philistines on Capitol Hill or about "censorship in the arts" For my money, they really are a perfect replacement for Mencken's snooty bishops now that religion has been adjourned from the public square, notwithstanding the apprehensions of our worry-wart atheists...
...Their point is that they are restrained by the law...
...Petty bureaucrats in the Conference of Catholic Bishops do not approve of Bozell's politics so they are going to harass him...
...senator since the days of the soused Southerners, who would tipple their way through the dreamy days on Capitol Hill, rousing themselves for histrionic oratory in the mid-afternoon and then slumping back into their seats, awaiting the late afternoon hour when they would all gather in one or another's chambers for a "restorative"-then on to dinner...
...and liberal Democrats in those days admired their "ideals" if not their methods...
...The unfortunate young monitors develop that blank look that one sees on the faces of TV anchors, especially on cable news, after a day of reading the same news stories over and over...
...And now that story about a cat in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, that has been found living happily at the bottom of a pond...
...Park has just been indicted for one of the many UN scandals...
...The eyes become bloodshot, the ears ring...
...At CNN they suffer from iterating the bilge.., and apparently believing it...
...As yet hardly a ripple of interest has troubled the serene waters of this great city...
...MRC refused, noting that several other news organizations used the same letters, for instance, a Protestant group, Charisma News Service, the Cox News Service, the China News Service...
...Anyone who watched him during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Alioto or Alito or whatever the hell his name is must have gleaned that Teddy had hardly a clue as to what he was doing...
...Yet Bozell has found some snotty bishops who probably outdo any of Mencken's bishops (circa 1920) or any contemporary art curator, the American Roman Catholic bishops...
...The poor souls have these stories running interminably through their embattled cocos...
...When they do trip up, the Kultursmog simply ignores their indiscretions...
...One way out might be for the bishops to end their nuisance lawsuits and apply the savings to more pressing problems...
...Teddy, Senator Charles Schumer, and their colleagues now call this "a radical group...
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...They committed mayhem, destroyed university buildings, and at the end of their idealistic saga robbed banks...
...Changing the lawis inthe hands of legislators such as the delightful Senator Kennedino, who during his Judiciary Committee performance blubbered that "this nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency...
...Some around MRC think this is politics...
...Thundering and blubbering during the Senate Judiciary Committee's grilling of the bemused nominee, Teddy stumbled over questions that were supposed to reveal dreadful revelations about the judge...
...That suit has also been thrown out...
...His set speeches were written for him bybrainy staffmembers who will soon move on to Washington law firms or lobbying outfits, all becoming polite versions (Democratic versions, that is) of the hellish Abramoff or Abraham Hoff or whatever his name might be...
...In fact the New York Times was so oblivious that it actually reported that the Barrett Report was the"full report," ajudicialpanel having, according to the Times, "ordered a flfll disclosure...
...In the 1990s we had an entire presidential administration of fixers, with the chief fixers seated right at the top, Bill and Hillary...
...MRC has for many years reviewed the daily media for liberal b i a s - a n onerous task that...
...One actually destroyed the ROTC building at Princeton...
...This gluttonous rogue, bursting out of his overcoat as he waddles from court appearances to his waiting car, is a scandalous figure to be sure...
...I sayit is just another example of the smugness of a group of men who have demonstrated colossal smugness for years...
...Park, Abramoff, they come and go, but the Democratic fixers remain...
...He was interested in All Oto, the Islamic terrorist whom the Bush administration nominated for the Supreme Court...
...Their reluctance to respond when told for decades that there were priests in their parishes abusing young people is the most infamous example of the bishops' insularity...
...All I know for sure is that MRC's media monitors continue to ferret out the bias, and the bishops continue to complain that they are sorely pressed to pay off their sexual abuse penalties...
...Now that Judge whatever his name has won Senate confirmation, it is worth observing that all the issues the Democrats raised about him are false issues...
...Damn, I love this man...
...That scandal occasioned the expulsion of the first House member since 1861, the Hon...
...Some of his young staffers after aweek of taking in the blah from the networks, the major daily newspapers, and the newsmagazines are in danger of having suffered irreparable damage to their health...
...The bishops have not sued the Chinese or Cox, only MRC...
...The conservatives on the court believe in judicial restraint, not activism...
...They were on the left, not the right...
...The Democrats discovered that as a young Princetonian in the early 1970s he was a party to something called Concerned Alumni of Princeton...
...On January 19, Independent Counsel David Barrett (one of seven Independent Counsels from the 78 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 2006 Clinton years) delivered up his final report detailing the Clinton administration's bullying exertions to fix both an IRS investigation and Independent Counsel Barrett's investigation...
...Teddy, in this health-mad era, is a throwback to the Senate's post-Prohibition 1930s...
...So far, Bozell has beaten them twice...
...PUBLIC NUISANCES Litigious American Bishops WASHINGTON LL, I HAVE JUST LOST AN ARGUMENT with rent Bozell, head of that indispensable edia monitor, the Media Research Center...
...As for abortion, the Supreme Courtwill never overturn it...
...The media for the most part missed the fact that some 120 pages of the report were redacted...
...Michael Myers, Democrat from Pennsylvania...
...No, it is simply ,_Teddy, and he is as entertaining as any U.S...
...Through their brains the stories keep running on an endless audio feed: "In Baghdad today a bomb went off...
...Pick on them was Bozell's implicit challenge...
...Certainly the silver-haired Teddy displayed no interest in the Barrett Report...
Vol. 39 • March 2006 • No. 2
