Tancredo, Iran, Quiet Riot, and more.
Tancredo's Tall Tale During the Republican presidential debate on CNN last week, Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado repeated a tale he's been telling for years. "Some time ago," he said, "2003 I...
...And a White House official says Tancredo had written Rove, asking him to speak at a Tancredo fundraiser...
...Incite Iran's Crackdown...
...There was some speculation that the arrest and interrogation of Esfandiari and other Iranian-Americans might be an attempt to set up a 'hostage exchange'—the U.S...
...Congratulations, Max...
...And sources tell us Obama plans to advance this line of criticism next with a speech questioning the president's Metal Health and describing the White House as a Motley Criie with an Appetite for Destruction, issuing policies of Poison...
...Then the blood of the people killed will be on the hands of this administration and this Congress...
...government lodged the day after the May 28 talks in Baghdad between U.S...
...It used to be that dictators had to rely on the likes of Ramsey Clark or Lord Haw-Haw to provide this quality of one-sided advocacy...
...For the offense of having publicly disagreed with the president, the congressman was persona non grata at the White House, banned for the life of the Bush presidency...
...The pieces that earned him the award included "Bush Didn't Start the Mideast Fire" (Los Angeles Times), "The Power of the Pentagon" (Wall Street Journal), "Darfur Solutions: Send in the Mercenaries" (Los Angeles Times), and "The Second Lebanon War: It Probably Won't Be the Last," which appeared in this magazine's September 4, 2006, issue...
...Tancredo said President Bush favors an "open door" policy on immigration...
...intelligence and would have recoiled from any advocacy of 'regime change.'" Comes now Time magazine to defend the Iranian government...
...Did the U.S...
...And, lo and behold, he accepted and showed up on most, if not all, of those occasions...
...Apart from the ongoing nuclear controversy, Iran is angry over the continuing detention of five of its diplomats, arrested during a U.S...
...The ninth annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism has been awarded to Max Boot, a Weekly Standard contributing editor, for his exceptional foreign policy analysis and reporting...
...Excusing Iran As Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote in last week's issue, Iran's clerical regime "has aided and abetted virulently anti-American, radical Iraqi groups, exported to Iraq sophisticated automatic explosive devices designed to kill American and British soldiers, pushed forward defiantly its construction of uranium-enriching centrifuges, and kidnapped at least five American citizens in Iran...
...Unless we do something significant to control our borders, we're going to have another event with someone waltzing across the border...
...But wait, there's more: "The pro-democracy program is not Tehran's only sore point with the U.S...
...In a letter to international human rights organizations after Esfandiari's imprisonment, Baghi denounced the program as morally unjustifiable for effectively putting Iranian activists in harm's way...
...True, these weren't policy meetings but social occasions like barbecues for members of Congress or Christmas parties or gatherings for all House Republicans...
...The accused Americans have "absolutely nothing to do with U.S...
...What prompted the dispute between Tancredo and Rove were comments by the congressman to the Washington Times in April 2002...
...We're Not Gonna Take It Last week at a conference of black clergy, Illinois senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama recalled the 1992 Los Angeles riots and argued that race riots have been erupting in this country ever since—we just don't notice them: "Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths...
...As Gerecht noted, the espionage charges were a calculated outrage—a thumb in the eye of the U.S...
...Esfandiari has been an advocate of reconciliation between the United States and her homeland...
...Duties will include answering phones and emails, updating our website, research, and record-keeping...
...and Iranian officials...
...citizens in return for the Iranian diplomats...
...Earlier, he had invited Tancredo to the White House for an hour-long chat...
...raid in Iraq in January...
...Candidates should address a cover letter and resume to hr@weeklystandard.com...
...Help Wanted The Weekly Standard has a fulltime position available for a staff assistant...
...Time fails to report the contention of the U.S...
...Often seen as the Cinderella candidate, Obama preaches inclusive-ness regardless of race, gender, creed, and sexual orientation—including those who are AC/DC—while the president, in his opinion, "ain't talkin' 'bout love...
...Like her boss, former congressman Lee Hamilton, a chairman of the Iraq Study Group, Ms...
...They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates...
...But Rove never said Tancredo wouldn't be invited to the White House, according to the official, and never used the phrase "darken the doorstep...
...government that the "diplomats" are in fact members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which is providing assistance to our enemies in Iraq...
...There goes Karl Rove's reputation as the Dr...
...When Rove read the story, he called Tancredo to complain...
...Tancredo was invited to the White House twice each year in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and once in 2007, with a second invitation about to be sent his way...
...Tehran's jailing of Haleh Esfandiari, a 67-year-old grandmother," Time's correspondent finds, is the fault of the Bush administration for having "trumpeted its $61.1 million democracy program" aimed at undermining the Iranian dictatorship...
...We don't know about you, but when we heard the phrase "quiet riot" our thoughts turned ineluctably to the defunct '80s 'hair band' of that name...
...Evil of the Bush White House...
...Utterly bogus espionage charges have been hurled at three, including Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center in Washington...
...This is a clerical position working with the editors...
...Some time ago," he said, "2003 I think it was, I got a call from Karl Rove who told me that because of my criticism of the president, I should never darken the doorstep of the White House...
...But Tancredo has darkened the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue multiple times...
...This time, the conversation was less chummy...
...Congratulations...
...Turns out you'd have been wrong if you thought that...
...democracy program...
...According to the newspaper's paraphrase of what Tancredo said, he called this an open invitation to terrorist attacks...
...Esfandiari's jailers, you see, were provoked...
...Akbar Ganji and Emad-deddin Baghi, two of Iran's most prominent pro-democracy activists, who have served long prison sentences for their activities, are among those who protested the U.S...
...Now they can just depend on the Bush-bashing predilections of the American press...
...asks Time in its headline, and as usual with such phony rhetorical questions, you know the answer is yes even before reading the story...
...Sponsored by the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, and generously supported by News Corporation, Brein-del's longtime employer and this magazine's corporate parent, the award carries a prize of $20,000 and is presented each year to the columnist or editorialist whose work best reflects the spirit that animated Breindel's own writing: love of country, commitment to democratic institutions, and determination to bear witness to the evils of totalitarianism...
...What everyone drew from this, of course, was that Tancredo had neither been invited to the Bush White House nor gone there in the aftermath of his unpleasant chat with Rove...
Vol. 12 • June 2007 • No. 38
