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Scrapbook JOHN-JOHN, FARRAKHAN, JACK, AND JUDE Dateline Chicago. “As I reached the front door, another man offered polite greetings and escorted me to a small anteroom, where he provided me...
...Three eyewitnesses have testified in sworn legal documents that your former boss once arranged to meet a young woman in a hotel room, where one of those eyewitnesses says he dropped his trousers and asked the woman to perform a sexual act...
...How come Mandy Grunwald doesn’t think that’s a problem...
...It was moving,” JFK, Jr...
...The striking thing about Louis Farrakhan, 63,” George reports, “is that he seems exceedingly gentle...
...But the “high-powered women who live and work in Washington,” Quinn reports, see things very differently— former Clinton campaign and White House media consultant Mandy Grunwald, for example...
...And he still has his job—as president of the United States...
...After which, the two men exchange thank-yous, and the footsies come off...
...Washington men, says Grunwald, can’t see the Morris incident for what it is: “ugly, sordid, squalid” and “so distasteful when you read the specifics...
...Only in Washington...
...THEY JUST DON’T GET IT The Dick Morris story, according to a September 15 Washington Post Outlook section essay by Sally Quinn, casts another harsh spotlight on the “shameless male culture” of the nation’s capital...
...In an interview with Michael Rezendes for the September 8 Boston Globe, Jack Kemp made the classic (and wrong-headed) message-versus-messenger distinction for Farrakhan...
...Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and William Safire are among the 69 names listed in boldface down the left margin of the ad, which clearly suggests their endorsement of the ad’s attack on the parochialschool plan...
...Here, Kennedy offers the minister some advice: “Why do you single out Jews...
...I wrote an ad and it took me weeks to convince someone to run it...
...John F. Kennedy, Jr...
...Predictably, the UFT opposes the idea, even though private donors will pay the bills...
...Farrakhan claims that 2,000 Christian leaders love him but won’t admit it publicly because they are “so frightened by what Jewish people and financial contributors will think...
...And again: “Why do you single them out...
...Grunwald tells Quinn that the Morris story “confirms the voters’ view of Washington, that it’s full of people with no morality about how they spend people’s money and conduct their lives...
...Gee, Mandy...
...He also calls Kemp’s Farrakhan maneuver “the best news I’d seen from the campaign in a week” and the “kind of dynamic that is required for the Dole/Kemp ticket to close the gap with Clinton...
...Why not Finno-Ugaritic...
...That’s a clever way of saying there were a lot of Caucasians in the crowd—not surprising, considering Clinton was in Iowa...
...That’s amazingly cheesy, even for a teachers’ union...
...replies...
...And again: “You must know that the whole notion of Jewish control is extremely loaded...
...I spent a lot of time on Packwood,” Grunwald tells Sally Quinn...
...Lots of white folks give you the business...
...CLINTON SPOTS A HUNGARIAN ON SIGHT At the conclusion of Bill Clinton’s September 15 speech in Indianola, Iowa, he boasted that America is special because people of different ethnic groups are able to live in harmony...
...Farrakhan compares himself to Christ...
...Yes, but then Clinton also noted that there were Nordic Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, and “Americans of Central European descent...
...puts on those ankle socks—“footsies,” his subject calls them—and proceeds, in his magazine’s October 1996 issue, to conduct a remarkable and repellent interview with “alleged anti-Semite” Louis Farrakhan...
...Wanniski, credited with helping to give birth to supply-side economics, is a Morristown, N.J.-based economics consultant with some peculiar enthusiasms and a very busy fax machine...
...Why not speak [simply of money and political influence generally] and save yourself a lot of grief...
...In a memorandum dated two days after Kemp’s Boston Globe interview appeared, Wanniski called the GOP vice-presidential candidate “the most popular white national political leader in either party...
...A NEW ADVERTISING LOW In a full-page ad in the September 16 New York Times, the New York teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, took a slap at Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s plan to send 1,000 of the public schools’ most troubled students to parochial schools—and did so in the most dishonest piece of advertising we’ve seen in years...
...is enormously popular with women...
...That would be the best news we’ve seen from the campaign in a lot more than a week...
...Kemp “would have liked to have been invited to speak...
...Kennedy says nothing...
...White people of all stripes have been guilty of racial intolerance...
...If your boss stuck his tongue down your throat would he keep his job...
...George editor in chief John F. Kennedy, Jr...
...The Dole/Kemp ticket now suffers an enormous gender gap in the polls...
...Here’s an idea...
...But we have to wonder what it was that led Clinton to identify some people as having German ancestry, and others Central European ancestry...
...Washington men are always like this...
...Last year’s Million Man March, according to Kemp, “was a celebration of responsible fatherhood, individual initiative, of not asking the government to do everything for you, and getting the opportunity to be the man that God meant you to be...
...Quinn says the men she interviewed on the subject are inclined to “shrug off ” Morris’s involvement with a prostitute, his illegitimate child, and his subsequent lucrative book deal...
...This is not the only heart-sinking Farrakhan encounter of the month...
...You look around this crowd today,” said Clinton, noting that there were “Asian Americans” and “African Americans” in the audience...
...But what makes its ad unique is the clear effort to deceive readers into believing that the union’s position on school reform is supported by an ideologically diverse group of prominent Americans...
...Why not Scotch-Irish...
...So Jack Kemp should agree to do an interview with George...
...So Giuliani accepted an offer from Cardinal John O’Connor, who years ago challenged the city’s public-school monopoly by offering to give a better education to 1,000 public school kids at less than one-third the cost of public school...
...Kemp called Farrakhan’s message “wonderful...
...Does he have some special ethnographic perception— a visual acuity similar to Henry Higgins’s ability to discern the location of a speaker’s street merely by accent...
...Where on earth did Kemp get the lunatic idea that necessary Republican outreach to black Americans might in any responsible way have something to do with Louis Farrakhan...
...From Jude Wanniski, we’re told...
...It was shocking...
...I’m reminded of watching Yitzhak Rabin’s grandchildren at his funeral,” Farrakhan remarks...
...Kennedy does it again a few paragraphs later: “Why make a distinction for Jews...
...As I reached the front door, another man offered polite greetings and escorted me to a small anteroom, where he provided me with a pair of white ankle socks...
...And Jude Wanniski should do his own footsie-kissing with Farrakhan—and leave Kemp alone...
...Translated from Wanniskispeak, this means Kemp is the most prominent American political leader who still regularly talks to Wanniski on the phone...
...Only in Washington...
...It gets worse...
...Is there no limit to this president’s blather...
...I was very moved...
...Only on closer inspection could one discover that the list is merely famous people who went to New York City public schools...
...Finally, Farrakhan catches Kennedy’s drift and makes nice...
...The mayor has a problem with a publicschool bureaucracy that graduates only 25 percent of its students and whose students score almost 300 points below the national average on the SAT...
...Remember Bob Packwood...
Vol. 2 • September 1996 • No. 3
