The Long Arm of Karl Rove
Scrapbook The Long Arm of Karl Rove THE SCRAPBOOK is relieved to learn that some assertions are so preposterous that, yes, even the New York Times has to catch its breath. Case in point: A...
...Clinton...
...But we are obliged to her for momentarily exposing the way she and her fellow airhead/conspiracy theorists think, and letting a stupefied Deborah Solomon of the Times take a peek inside...
...Whether this specimen of Democratic snobbery has any application to the current election cycle I cannot say...
...She was embarrassed by the revelation that one of her proposals for saving the planet is to restrict the use of toilet paper to one square per visit to the bathroom...
...This is a weekly feature where writer Deborah Solomon asks a dozen smart-alecky questions of some eminent personage—our own John Podhoretz was recently interrogated—whose head-to-toe, full-color photograph takes up half the page...
...Giustra at first denied that any such meeting occurred...
...Imagine that...
...He is said to have complained to associates that McCarthy enjoyed the allegiance of the A students while he was left with the B students...
...And of course, it was only after McCarthy had come close to defeating LBJ in the New Hampshire primary—prompting Johnson, shortly thereafter, to withdraw from the race— that Kennedy “reassessed” his position and announced his own candidacy...
...Until recently, Sheryl Crow was best known (apart from her singing) for keeping company with cyclist Lance Armstrong (they’ve since parted...
...of the New York Times for their comprehensive January 31 story on Bill Clinton’s dealings with a Canadian financier who pledged more than $100 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation after the former president helped him strike a uranium-mining deal with the thuggish government of Kazakhstan...
...At the time, it will be remembered, McCarthy had decided to run for president because the sentimental favorite of the antiwar Democrats, Robert Kennedy, could not stir himself to challenge Lyndon Johnson...
...But it is difficult to say how deeply such emotions run, and whether the excitement of a televised rally translates into anything like political action, conviction, or allegiance...
...Crow responded, “I cannot tie him directly to that leak, but within 24 hours of our exchange, as we were leaving D.C., it was on the CNN ticker tape: ‘Sheryl Crow has proposed that we legislate toilet paper to one square.’ ” Of course, THE SCRAPBOOK is obliged to report that Sheryl Crow’s toilet-paper activism was known before the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and that CNN is as likely to take its marching orders from Karl Rove as the New York Times is to do what THE SCRAPBOOK tells it to do...
...You think Karl Rove leaked the toilet-paper story to the press...
...Certainly, we campus McCarthyites saw it that way, and noticed that when Kennedy spoke in public he seemed to attract what we called “screamers” — the sort of girls who had greeted the Beatles at the airport—and their slightly bewildered boyfriends, whose interest in Bobby did not seem political...
...Wednesday, after the Times told them that others said a meeting, in Mr...
...Cue Violins The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women wakes up to find that it has been romanced, used, and then abandoned by a cad: “Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal...
...Giustra arranged the three-hour meeting...
...Clinton’s home, had in fact taken place, both men acknowledged it...
...That same month, Mr...
...Kennedy enjoyed the company of Roosevelt Grier, and Sonny and Cher...
...Memories of Camelot A taste of what you’re missing if you’re not a regular reader of the Campaign Standard blog on our website: Philip Terzian, provoked by the site of Edward Kennedy endorsing Barack Obama before a roomful of shrieking undergraduates, reminisces about the winter of 1967-68, when he was working as a student volunteer at Eugene McCarthy headquarters in downtown Washington...
...More profile than courage, it was said at the time...
...Read the whole thing, and much else besides, at campaignstandard.com...
...Claiming that her toilet-paper proposal was intended as a joke, she complained thus to the Times: “I think it’s a fantastic and eye-opening example of how the media is operated by political figures, of how Karl Rove was humiliated in the media and how, within 24 hours, he was able to humiliate me and take any sort of credibility away from me...
...And some months ago she and fellow celebrityactivist Laurie David made news, of a sort, at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington...
...Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few...
...And now the greatest betrayal...
...Giustra also denied ever arranging for Kazakh officials to meet with Mr...
...To be sure, Karl Rove is no favorite of the Washington press corps, but the consensus opinion the next morning was that Crow and David had been bumptious and rude, even by the standards of Hollywood political activists...
...The pair marched up to the table where ex-White House guru Karl Rove was eating, and proceeded to berate him, loudly and at some length, for the benefit of nearby cameras...
...Both Mr...
...When Kennedy finally announced he was running in the Senate Caucus Room, with his miniskirted wife onstage and their dozen children crawling among the wires and cameras, it seemed less a political act than a chapter in celebrity melodrama...
...Among those McCarthy enthusiasts who had “come clean for Gene,” and embarked on what had seemed like a suicidal venture (among whom I counted myself), Kennedy was held in considerable contempt: His cute disavowals of interest in running amused no one, and his swift appropriation of McCarthy’s capital caused indignation...
...Crow to the ranks of Hollywood airhead/conspiracy theorists...
...Clinton and Mr...
...Dzhakishev said Mr...
...That, however, is not quite the sequence of events, as Sheryl Crow sees it...
...Dzhakishev, the Kazatomprom chief, said he traveled to Chappaqua, N.Y., to meet with [Bill] Clinton at his home...
...But readers will be gratified to know that she’s joined the ranks of Hollywood political activists...
...THE SCRAPBOOK can just imagine Deborah Solomon’s eyes popping, and jaw dropping, as she exclaimed: “What are you saying...
...Alas, this second career has not been quite as rewarding as the first...
...Case in point: A recent “Questions For” interview with folk-rocker Sheryl “All I Wanna Do” Crow in the Times Magazine...
...McCarthy was accompanied on the campaign trail by Robert Lowell...
...Taken for a ride by Ted Kennedy, and then left, so to speak, by the side of the road...
...Which, to his credit, Kennedy seemed to perceive...
...So we can safely consign Ms...
...Just as Robert Kennedy’s crowds were larger and louder than Eugene McCarthy’s in 1968, it is undoubtedly true that the saga of the Kennedy family— especially in the halfcentury since the assassinations of John and Robert—resonates with a certain kind of Democrat in 2008...
...Great Moments in Clintonian Deceit A tip of THE SCRAPBOOK homburg to Jo Becker and Don Van Natta Jr...
...Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard...
...Frank] Giustra, a director and major shareholder in UrAsia, would be paid $7.05 per share for a company that just two years earlier was trading at 10 cents per share...
...To which Ms...
...Our favorite passage: “In February 2007, a company called Uranium One agreed to pay $3.1 billion to acquire UrAsia...
...My primary task was to open mail, collate documents, and purchase jelly donuts to satisfy the appetite of the campaign’s slovenly press secretary, Seymour Hersh...
...We are repaid with his abandonment...
Vol. 13 • February 2008 • No. 21
