ANTI-SOCIAL CLYMER
Antt-soctat Ctymer Does someone have it in for Adam Clymer? The congressional correspondent for the New York Times, known as one of the more sour members of the media, seems to have gotten on the...
...And if so, is there really only one person in the entire Justice Department who can testify about the budget of the civil rights division...
...the FBI investigation continues, presumably focusing on the actions of House Democrats like Jim McDermott, who resigned from the ethics committee after Clymer's story seemed to finger him as the intermediary who made the illegal tape available to reporters...
...Clymer is perhaps best known for having received and publicized earlier this year a tape of a purloined cellular telephone discussion between Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders concerning the ethics charges against Gingrich...
...On the other side of the Capitol, Rep...
...The provisional legislature, which is not (yet) recognized by the U.S...
...Meanwhile, he is co-sponsoring legislation that supports both an acceleration of NATO enlargement and efforts to build trust between the alliance and Russia...
...Under pressure from Helms, USIA relented and agreed to pull funding for the group's trip...
...Clymer became belligerent and started using profanities...
...A Tory victory is still possible, though unlikely...
...I have been up country for the past few days, forming an impression of how the campaign is going," he told his readers in the April 26 issue...
...Will it hurt or help that he attends the same church as the Family Research Council's Gary Bauer...
...government, is a creation of Beijing designed to supplant Hong Kong's democratically elected Legislative Council...
...Charles Canady of Florida recently made bold to ask that someone from the Justice Department testify before his subcommittee concerning the civil rights division's programs and budget request...
...The story was first reported in the Washington Times, and Clymer believes the paper was fed the information by the police...
...This new "negative reporting" could feature items like, "There have been no reports that most Americans would like to stop driving in order to help the environment," or, "No experts currently believe that continental drift will cause North America to smash into Europe in the next five years...
...The administration came up with only a single person qualified to give testimony, acting assistant attorney general Isabelle Pinzler, and then informed Canady in a May 6 letter that Pinzler wouldn't be available on the scheduled dates because "she will be attending a colloquium on equal opportunity and civil rights in Prague" where she "will participate in panel discussions which will include members of the Czech Parliament and Senate and the Czech Helsinki Committees...
...The leadership fears Jenkins will have an ax to grind over the lukewarm support that's been given to his complaints of election fraud...
...Armey says that NATO expansion should proceed "in a way which is sensitive to Russian interests...
...Following a May 1 press conference in the Capitol, Clymer was told by an officer not to traverse a particular area owing to the impending arrival of the Spanish prime minister...
...He was among the first to signal displeasure with the Clinton administration's policy of "constructive engagement" with China...
...The Next Ralph Reed Now that Ralph Reed has hung out his shingle as a political consultant, who will step into his shoes as executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coali-tion—a position that Reed managed to make one of the most influential in Washington...
...Anderson wrote a prognosticating column the week before the British election that will go down in history...
...Will Armey be the first member of the leadership to insist, against all political winds and despite the constraints of the budget deal, that Congress halt the decimation of the Pentagon...
...The taping was of course illegal, and the Florida couple who made the tape recently pleaded guilty to an infraction of federal anti-wiretapping law...
...And he has told opponents of that policy that he may oppose renewal of China's most-favored-nation status, in what promises to be the hot legislative battle of the summer...
...A Few Good Republicans Despite the era of good feeling ushered in by the budget deal, a few vigilant Republicans are holding the Clinton administration's feet to the fire...
...Richard Lugar and other strong supporters of an American leadership role in Europe...
...Is it really more important than congressional oversight...
...Woody Jenkins, a longtime conservative activist who is presently contesting his loss to Mary Landrieu in last year's Louisiana Senate race...
...But here's the real test of manhood: Defense spending is down 40 percent in real dollars over the last 12 years, and too many Republicans have happily gone along...
...The congressional correspondent for the New York Times, known as one of the more sour members of the media, seems to have gotten on the wrong side of the Capitol Police...
...and Art Rhodes, chief of staff to Rep...
...Not even one...
...Negative Reporting The New York Times is well known for trying to be balanced in its news reporting, but sometimes its efforts verge on the ludicrous...
...One might think that Capitol Hill experience would impress the Republican leadership, which is playing a significant role in the choice of Reed's replacement...
...This squares with the view taken by Sen...
...there is no surge of enthusiasm for Mr...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms learned recently that the United States Information Agency, a branch of the State Department, was planning to fund a visit to the United States by two members of Hong Kong's provisional legislature...
...Clymer again used profanities and left the area...
...Mike Parker of Mississippi...
...Rusbuldt, the son of a preacher, is not campaigning for the job, which may explain his strong position in the race...
...Clymer wrote the story up, and it made a big splash, though not the kind of splash he might have hoped, since it was chiefly Democrats who got wet...
...But an overall Labour majority seems equally unlikely...
...Sounds riveting...
...There will be no uniform national swing," he predicted...
...And the leadership isn't thrilled about either Tate or Rhodes, as both lack national profiles...
...Three candidates' names come up most often, all with Capitol Hill backgrounds: Randy Tate, a 31-year-old former congressman from Washington state who was defeated in November...
...Blair or his party...
...Armey's Army_ In a House Republican caucus not exactly brimming with leaders on the subject of foreign and defense policy, majority leader Dick Armey is beginning to step up to the plate...
...The alternative explanation—a generalized crackdown on reporters using profanities—might seriously deplete the Capitol Hill press corps...
...A spokesman for the Capitol Police told the Hill newspaper that "Mr...
...But that's not the case...
...The advantages of the new negative reporting: It's more dramatic, it requires little if any research, and it's generally accurate...
...Consider the following line from the May 5 front-page article on partial-birth abortion: "While a number of abortion-rights supporters have switched their votes to favor a ban on this particular procedure, there have been no reports of any anti-abortion lawmakers going the other way...
...Ever in the vanguard of journalistic technique, the Times may be striking out in a new direction here—reporting what has not happened, as well as what has...
...The most promising candidate is said to be Bob Rusbuldt, vice president for federal affairs at the Independent Insurance Agents of America, an organization with 300,000 members nationwide that has tended to support conservative Republican candidates...
...Pundit, Heal Thyself_ Every pundit is allowed to be wrong, but Bruce Anderson, the political editor of the London Spectator and John Major's most ardent fan, has used up his lifetime quota...
...Here's hoping that the Capitol Police have in fact decided to launch an anti-Clymer vendetta...
...I could not detect any sign of a Labour landslide...
...Imagine that...
...The officer's supervisor stepped in in an attempt to explain the situation, Mr...
...Revealing his contempt for both, he told the Hill that "a real police force would have talked to me before going to the Washington Times, of all places...
Vol. 2 • May 1997 • No. 35
