THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . April is in the can, as they say in the broadcast lingua. This year April distinguished itself by featuring not one April Fool’s Day but many,...
...She is suing all 200 inhabitants of the building...
...In this, they may have a point...
...In France, Mr...
...Imus and closed down his locker room as he sniveled and whined, and doubtless was in need of a nappy for himself...
...Responding to a question about how Capitol Hill Democrats would respond to the President’s veto of their war spending bill, Senator Biden roared “We’re going to shove it down his throat...
...Upon his retirement, this column famously predicted that he would open a string of health spas and endorse a line of high fashion jogging attire inspired Back to the foolishness—early in the month Mr...
...Then the Washington Post editorialized that the Speaker’s asseverations were “ludicrous...
...Mr...
...Maybe Senator Robert Byrd will retire...
...Tucker Carlson has been chosen by CBS to host a common TV game show...
...Nicolas Sarkozy outdistanced his Socialist opponent to win the first round of that country’s presidential elections, though without a clear majority the proAmerican, somewhat Reaganesque figure would have to face his Socialist rival in a run-off...
...Within Speaker Pelosi’s delegation, the sober-minded murmured that Mr...
...Nancy Pelosi, and Mr...
...Apparently, he has noted that Senator Hillary Clinton’s negative ratings have shot up to 50 percent...
...Only this time the Democrats are not in cahoots with R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...Assad had never said he was ready to “resume the peace process...
...For the rest of the month, he linked the $124 billion war spending bill to a timed withdrawal that President George W. Bush vowed to veto...
...One can imagine the ecologically sensitive candidate adding Energique to his “Green” desiderata and winning over his party’s urban vote...
...She has dropped her maiden name, again...
...But the Democrats sing on, and they compare the hostilities in Iraq to Vietnam...
...Jesse Jackson, both of whom swooped down on Mr...
...It is a dog food that eliminates 90 percent of a dog ’s waste...
...Communists but with Islamofascists...
...Happily the solons skip down the corridors of the Capitol: “This War Is Lost, This War Is Lost...
...Pelosi,” the Post continued, “Mr...
...As any diplomat with knowledge of the region would have 10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2007 told Ms...
...Obviously, Mr...
...This year April distinguished itself by featuring not one April Fool’s Day but many, most of which were dominated by the Hon...
...Perhaps he will find a place for it in the Kyoto Protocols...
...The saga of the he-man Washington liberal continued later in the month...
...But surely by month’s end, he has tired of the large crowds of Warwickmen crowding in front of Pippa’s cage and larfing and larfing...
...She went straight over, climbed on the crème eggs and that was it,” commented Pippa’s owner, Mr...
...And Senator Reid doddered on that “this war is lost...
...JUNE 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 11...
...It continues to arrest or kill the enemy’s leaders...
...The cat could not be revived...
...Don Imus intoned a witticism about “nappy headed ho’s” on his Washington insiders’ radio program at 6: 15 A.M...
...Called Energique, the product is mostly absorbed within a dog ’s body, allowing it to evacuate compact, odorless pellets that can be picked up with a tissue and minimum embarrassment...
...A cat fell from a window in a building in Chongqing City, China, and knocked Mrs...
...Geoff Grewcock, whose last name’s last syllable is sheer coincidence...
...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kept the foolishness going by joining with his colleagues in “al-Qaeda in the Democratic Party” to call for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq on an orderly timetable...
...Death unceremoniously claimed the life of Mr...
...But hold...
...Jesse Jackson...
...Imus was a babe, but now refers to ethnic coiffure favored by the clientele of the Rev...
...Apparently a “nappy” is not a baby’s diaper, as was true when Mr...
...She proclaimed she was conveying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s message that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Mr...
...And at Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary outside of London, the locals are still larfing over that imbecilic cockatoo, Pippa, who alighted on a bowl of chocolate eggs and has spent weeks trying to hatch them...
...Assad...
...Thus the rumor is that al-Gore is contemplating a run for the presidency, and entrepreneurs in the Netherlands have announced a product that may give candidate al-Gore something new to run on...
...The paper called her trip “foolish”—April foolish...
...In Moscow, the late Adolf Hitler’s birthday prompted a lockdown of educational facilities attended by foreign students with Germanic features, especially those facilities where the students sport tiny mustachios on their upper lips...
...Frank Rich made one of their joyous appearances, and all hell broke loose...
...by his famed eccentricities, for instance, a seat cushion, a barf bag, or jogging suits with rubber pockets and a tube from which the jogger could constantly imbibe his favorite restorative—alas ’twas not to be...
...By month’s end the Democratic leadership had become almost gleeful in singing Senator Reid’s song: “This War Is Lost, This War Is Lost...
...In fact, after listening to the former veep solemnize on about global warming, one can imagine his exhorting that Energique become mandatory for the entire citizenry of the United States...
...Al Sharpton and the Rev...
...And she assured her listeners that Mr...
...Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected president of Russia, famed for his ready wit and the vodka fumes Apparently a “nappy” is not a baby’s diaper, as was true when Mr...
...Harry Reid, the Hon...
...Don Imus, erstwhile host of that ultimate liberal insiders’ media spectacle, Anus in the Morning...
...Imus was a babe, but now refers to ethnic coiffure favored by the clientele of the Rev...
...House Speaker Pelosi got the idiot proceedings off to an auspicious start by visiting Syria’s hereditary dictator, President Bashar Assad, wearing a babushka in public in deference to local misogynist customs, and shopping in a Damascus bazaar...
...Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri...
...Imus’s he-man insiders have some fight in them still...
...Yet, according to the Harris Poll, 50 percent of the American electorate still are refusing to vote for her...
...Will we ever see that neat bow tie again...
...Assad was ready to “resume the peace process...
...On the al-Gore front, the news is that the former vice president and leading proponent of the Chicken Little School of Ontology is losing weight...
...Tang Meirong unconscious...
...al-Gore must also have noted that Senator Barack Obama is a little short on experience...
...Olmert scrambled to his feet and paid her a pish and a posh...
...And so the descent continues, from being the 1990s’ leading mini-con egghead, to being the gossip columnists’ delight, to being a game show host...
...We came in friendship, hope, and determined,” she trilled, “that the road to Damascus is a road to peace...
...Our military continues to beat the enemy anywhere it gathers...
...That would be the third time in her life that she has made this political adjustment...
...She’s ever so comical,” he added, “always has been...
...that followed him wherever he went, engendering good cheer and an occasional pratfall or bump on the head...
...They are playing the same role their Democratic predecessors played in Vietnam...
...on April 4 before such regulars as Senator Joe Biden or the New York Times’s Mr...
...Al Sharpton and the Rev...
...The Crisis moves on...
...Mr...
Vol. 40 • June 2007 • No. 5
