THE PROFESSOR VS. THE INFO-BABE
The Professor vs. the Info-Bare There's a fascinating argument going on between two Dartmouth Review-niks. But wild dogs couldn't drag us into the middle of this one, so we'll just report the...
...The "Extremists" Are Back What do the following people have in common: Gary Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, Robert Casey, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Princeton professors John J. Dilulio, Jr...
...And not just extremists...
...An initiative patterned on CCRI, which would outlaw race and sex discrimination in public employment, contracting, and education, is being promoted now in Washington state...
...It obviously was designed to promote what she foolishly believes to be a career in the media...
...Hart continues, "In fact, while at Dartmouth, Ingraham held the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable...
...It was a piece written from the heart and not meant in any way as an attempt to malign my friends...
...She recalled her Review days when she had called homosexuals "sodomites," but said her views have been tempered since she learned her brother is gay...
...Jeffrey Hart, a Dartmouth professor and the Review's longtime faculty adviser, has been circulating a memo in which he takes Ingraham to task: "Ingraham constructed a Stalinist show trial in which she acted as the prosecutor with her former self as defendant...
...A year before that, in June 1984, Farrakahn gave a speech larded with references to the evil scientist Yakub, whom Nation of Islam adepts believe created the degenerate white race by selective cross-breeding of weak black stock...
...They are among the distinguished signatories of a full-page ad advocating U.S...
...On the whole, good news for school-choice supporters—whom we soon expect to be denounced as "right-wing extremists" by Clinton-Gore spokesmen...
...But the signatories have something else in common, too...
...Tony, Bob, et al.: Please don't make us quote this man's vile words again...
...On February 23, Laura Ingraham, a former Review editor who has gone on to fame as a CBS pundit, wrote a piece for the Washington Post...
...Updates the sight of almighty God...
...In this political show trial she invited The Dartmouth Review to join her in the dock as she made her phoney political confession...
...They are hopeful for the initiative's success in 1998, noting that polls show 71 percent support for the idea across the state, and a "surprising" 62 percent in "liberal Seattle...
...Louis Farrakhan...
...Now that nation called Israel never have had any peace in 40 years and she will never have any peace because there can be no peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your gutter religion under his holy and righteous name...
...America and England and the nations [that backed Israel's existence] are criminals in ?crapbook Religious Rights president William Donohue...
...In one of his questions to Farrakhan, Snow said: "You have in the past, described some—some Zionists—and you've been misquoted on this largely, but you have said some Zionists are practitioners of a dirty religion...
...They are, said Gore press secretary Ginny Terzano, as the Washington Times reported, "right-wing extremists interested in attacking the vice president...
...Hart sent around his response, opening, "Nothing that follows is confidential...
...In the race for state Superintendent of Education, the anti-choice incumbent John Benson held his job, 55-45, against insurgent schoolteacher Linda Cross, who supports parental choice...
...a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard) and Robert P George, Emory University professor Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Southern Baptist leader Richard D. Land, and Catholic League for Civil and California's Civil Rights Initiative, whose progress was often chronicled on this page, looks like another one of those cases where California led the nation...
...For example, she was wary of eating at a local restaurant then called 'Bentley's' because she thought the waiters and cooks were homosexuals and might be spitting in her food...
...as a reading of the whole speech (readily available on Nexis) makes clear, he also hates Christians, whites generally, and large chunks of the modern world: I say to the Jewish people, and to the government of the United States of America, the presence of a state called Israel is an outlaw act...
...The only possible misreading to which these excerpts might lend themselves is that anti-Semitism is the only hatred Farrakhan indulges in...
...And she concluded, "I wrote the piece mainly for my brother and for Richard, who died yesterday...
...This ad ran Easter Sunday in the Washington Times under the headline "An open letter to Vice President Gore...
...Any volunteers to mediate this dispute...
...And he concludes, "This is an extremely dark episode in career-building and conscious manipulation...
...As to her final sentence, Hart wrote, "Socko ending...
...So being for religious freedom is right-wing extremism, according to the Clinton administration...
...She went on to express hope that Hart's missive was written in a "flash of anger...
...That's an interesting—and euphemistically dishonest—way to put it...
...A strange chorus of right-wing well-wishers has lately joined Farrakhan in his denials, which may be where Snow picked up the "some Zionists" phraseology...
...Tony Snow and the Farrakhan Cult In his ecumenical Easter edition of Fox News Sunday, host Tony Snow interviewed Nation of Islam honcho Min...
...In the process Snow showed signs of wanting to be the second journalistic convert, after columnist Robert Novak, to Farrakhan revisionism...
...He called Ingraham's letter "pathetic" and asserted that Ingraham "legitimized the smears everlastingly issued by the Dartmouth administration...
...Ingraham responded in calm tones...
...She said that before she saw AIDS ravage her brother's partner, she had thought AIDS was just another disease...
...But wild dogs couldn't drag us into the middle of this one, so we'll just report the facts...
...This, as it happens, is the same speech in which Farrakhan said that Judaism is a "gutter religion"—a phrase whose paternity he has ever since been denying...
...For the record, here are excerpts of what Farrakhan said in his June 24, 1984, address to followers at his Chicago headquarters, as broadcast on WBEE radio, tape-recorded by the Chicago Sun-Times, and subsequently transcribed by the Associated Press...
...And in Wisconsin, in the April 1 elections reported on two weeks ago by Craig Gilbert, Supreme Court justice Jon Wilcox, who is expected to uphold the constitutionality of that state's experiments in school choice, prevailed over challenger Walt Kelly, who was backed by the teachers' unions, by a 63-37 margin...
...If she wants to read garbage over a teleprompter, fine...
...Who needs to misquote a man who is so quotable that he once regaled Washington Post editors and reporters with the tale of his 1985 trip aboard a flying saucer to chat with the shade of Elijah Muhammad...
...Farrakhan has hardly been misquoted...
...government attention to the cause of religious freedom in China...
...This is the view that—though the man sounds like a crackpot anti-Semitic anti-American demagogue—he is in fact a cleverly disguised family-values proto-Republican...
...In fact, people die all the time, and not only of AIDS, as she seems to think, and for which she demands more federal spending as a 'duty to us all.'" Finally Hart declared: "I have absolutely zero interest in her career...
...For daring to tick off the vice president with their ad, they join the ever-growing list of, yes, "extremists...
...Now she is an advocate of increased AIDS funding...
...Its chief advocates—the Ward Connerlys of the Granola Belt—are Scott Smith, a state representative, and Tim Eyman, the owner of a small business...
Vol. 2 • April 1997 • No. 30
