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Dick Morris Fact-Checks His Book One of the more indignant passages in Dick Morris's soon-to-be-forgotten memoir Behind the Oval Office concerns Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant in...
...Alex claimed that I told him that I personally delivered women to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...As Morris tells the story, a Washington Post reporter called him in 1995 or 1996 and said that Castellanos had told her that when Clinton was governor, Morris "had procured women for [Clinton] whenever he visited New York...
...And no, there wasn't any mention of Wanniski...
...Araki is what Entertainment Weekly likes to call "cutting-edge," so his latest move may portend something very serious...
...17 on the death of Ennis Cosby featured what may be an untoppable teaser line, to get you to hang around during the ads...
...I've read all your columns about me...
...In The Name Of Allah The Beneficent, The Merciful...
...But Louis Farrakhan has taken on that assignment for his people in this day and age, when the circumstances are much different, but the plight of the black family here and in Africa is relevant to what happened 60 years ago in Germany and Poland...
...Or has Araki decided that heterosexuality is the wave of the future...
...Clearly, we shouldn't...
...In a Jan...
...Kathleen Robertson plays Claire, the supposedly brilliant college-president's daughter with a wild streak...
...Now that Kemp is occupied pondering 2000, Wanniski has busied himself reaching out to Far-rakhan...
...We will never know...
...Morris asked...
...After downloading Wanniski's repellent correspondence, the Scrapbook wanted to be fair and so surfed over to The Nation of Islam Online—Farrakhan's home-page on the World Wide Web— where we were cordially welcomed: "Bis-millah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim...
...When Farrakhan claims "to be a messiah, I'm prepared to listen, and when I hear his message of global reconciliation and atonement for sin—which was the message of the Million Man March—I'm even prepared to believe he may be a messiah...
...Cut to inaugural weekend, to a party thrown by chatmeister John McLaughlin at the Willard Hotel...
...Morris had no time for small talk...
...Up Next: Shecky Greene Discusses the Problem of Evil And while we're on the subject of outdoing oneself, the Larry King Live special Jan...
...Araki is one of the premier homosexual writer-directors of the day, with highly praised examinations of gay life ranging from the euphoniously titled All F---ed Up (the dashes are part of the title) to The Doom Generation...
...Castellanos approached Morris and asked, "How's the repentance going...
...The Wanniski Meltdown We swore off coverage of Jude Wanniski after the election last fall, but Jack Kemp's guru has outdone himself...
...To quote from Variety: "Offscreen, the independent film world is buzzing about director Gregg Araki's shift in sexual orientation...
...Coming Out Straight Lest you wonder whether it has been an advantage, or a disadvantage, to be openly gay in the world of pop culture these days, consider the case of Gregg Araki...
...That's no easy feat for the man who called himself Kemp's "puppeteer" and who almost managed to talk Kemp into becoming a sort of junior Warren Christopher—conducting shuttle diplomacy between American Jews and Nation of Islam anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan...
...What was behind the flag...
...His words are taken by political Jews as being anti-Semitic, but I hear them as challenges to Jews to understand that there is a holocaust underway now, today, not a half century ago...
...Morris goes on: "The story was wild, totally ungrounded in any possible fact at all...
...She appears in Araki's new movie, Nowhere, and apparently Cupid's arrow found an unlikely target...
...And for free you can read excerpts from the group's newsletter, Blacks And Jews News, which helpfully explains that Far-rakhan never called Judaism a "gutter-religion" but only a "dirty-religion...
...So his involvement with 'Beverly Hills 90210' starlet Kathleen Robertson [has] set tongues wagging...
...Well, the hateful and anti-Semitic Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews—the Nation of Islam's version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—is on sale...
...Did I really tell you that...
...It seems that Araki is now dating . . . a woman...
...Araki has always been heralded as one of the most important voices in independent gay cinema...
...Huffington has been extraordinarily tough on Morris...
...Would it have done any good if there had been a Jewish Farrakhan, with the ability to rally a million Jewish men to march on Berlin, and proclaim themselves not to be subhuman, but human...
...Said Larry: "We're going to take a break and ask Jesse Jackson to help us deal with death...
...Don't go away...
...Was that item I wrote about you in my book really true...
...But his spirit remains unbroken...
...Dick Morris Fact-Checks His Book One of the more indignant passages in Dick Morris's soon-to-be-forgotten memoir Behind the Oval Office concerns Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant in Washington...
...Click Here or on The Flag to Enter...
...Consider Us Whipped_ Several readers correctly point out that it was not King Lear, as we had it three weeks ago, but Hamlet who asked, "who should 'scape whipping...
...exclaimed Morris...
...In my five-hour dinner with Farrakhan in December, I did not hear a word that could have come from someone who was not a man of God...
...I . . . frankly have been unable to find a clear sign of anti-Semitism in any of his speeches or writings...
...22 letter to "a reader of the Jewish Forward," self-published on his Internet homepage, Wanniski offers the following analysis: • "I've observed in the past that virtually all 'black leaders' have been chosen by the white power structure, and when they have not, they are frequently assassinated...
...At the same party, Morris was introduced to the nationally syndicated columnist (and TV personality, and activist, and author) Arianna Huffington...
...His greeting will live forever in the annals of Washington solipsism: "Oh yes...
...When Castellanos assured Morris that Morris had indeed told him that, the penitent pollster shrunk sheepishly away...
...And not just any woman either...
Vol. 2 • February 1997 • No. 20
