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Scrapbook JACK KEMP, SADDAMHUSSEIN, & JUDEWANNISKI We’ve been trying to keep you up to date on the relationship between Jack Kemp and his longtime guru, Jude Wanniski, ever since Kemp’s...
...He is no threat to his neighbors or to the region,” Wanniski wrote...
...Dick Morris...
...BUY ANDY FERGUSON’S BOOK It is with pride that THE WEEKLY STANDARD greets the publication of senior editor Andrew Ferguson’s first book, Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces, which binds together 33 of his essays...
...Note to Joe Lelyveld: This is what we call, in technical parlance, “media bias...
...And so is Mark Singer, who has just written a second Kimberlin story for the New Yorker, a complement to his forthcoming book on the subject...
...Still, Singer is not willing simply to eat crow and apologize...
...MEDIA BIAS GOES KERFLOOEY The Sept...
...The Tribune regrets the error...
...Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces has been brought out by Atlantic Monthly Press at the entirely reasonable price of $22...
...Certainly glad the Tribune caught it...
...It seems what women really want is a president who acts in the national interest only after getting an international permission slip...
...The headline: “Studds’ Open Seat Draws Mass...
...The writer reached this conclusion only hesitantly, years after it had become clear to just about everyone else around Kimberlin—including his drug-dealer friends, none of them hampered by the deep insights that beset investigative reporters—that the man was utterly delusional...
...Singer’s findings...
...No corrections, however, from the New York Times, whose Political Briefing column last week identified Jesse Helms, en passant, as “one of the most anti-homosexual lawmakers in Congress...
...This is why the President had to bomb Iraq without asking Saddam’s friends and neighbors if it was a good thing to do...
...Now go pay for the book...
...Keep watching this space...
...Done...
...The main sponsor of Parental Rights Amendment efforts around the country, a group called Of the People, is a secular conservative organization...
...They would have told him to cool it...
...Unfaithful...
...Huh...
...11 issue of The Hill...
...I believed that he was telling the truth about Quayle,” Singer wrote recently, though he had no evidence...
...Bill Clinton...
...The arguments made on the amendment’s behalf are more often libertarian and populist than “Christian fundamentalist” (whatever that would mean in this context...
...Scrapbook JACK KEMP, SADDAMHUSSEIN, & JUDEWANNISKI We’ve been trying to keep you up to date on the relationship between Jack Kemp and his longtime guru, Jude Wanniski, ever since Kemp’s selection as Bob Dole’s running mate...
...MARK SINGER LOVES A MAD BOMBER Four years ago, a man known to the residents of Indiana as the “Speedway bomber” surfaced in the press with a story that really intrigued Garry Trudeau, the Doonesbury guy...
...Among those taken in was a reporter at the New Yorker named Mark Singer, who dutifully wrote a pro-Kimberlin, anti-Quayle piece before the 1992 election...
...Fundamentalists...
...Kimberlin and his supporters (among them Clinton friend Cody Shearer), however, had another explanation for his imprisonment: Kimberlin, they insisted, was a “political prisoner,” locked down by a Bush administration eager to silence one of its most potent critics...
...It concerned a certain retired congressman with a taste for Hill pages who shared his gender, if not his generation...
...Is it fair to label opposition to making homosexuals a protected class under federal civil-rights law, or resistance to other policies promoted by gay activists, “anti-homosexual...
...Two days later, the Times’s Political Briefing began an item on the proposed Parental Rights Amendment on Colorado’s ballot as follows: “Colorado voters appear poised to hand Christian fundamentalists a striking victory...
...Brett Scrapbook Kimberlin is a criminal sociopath who probably never even met Dan Quayle, much less sold him nickel bags...
...interests...
...That representative paragraph, by the way, comes from Andy’s piece on Don Imus, published here in April...
...As a drug dealer in the early 1970s, Brett Kimberlin claimed, he had sold marijuana on a number of occasions to a college student named Dan Quayle...
...Well, then, it seems Jack will be too...
...Which leads us to the following question for Mark Singer: In what way can reporting be “largely true” if it is actually based on the lies of a mad bomber...
...Vaporous though Kimberlin’s charges were, they were nonetheless used as ammunition by the Clinton campaign, then struggling to overcome its candidate’s admitted drug use, and were swallowed whole by many in the press...
...His new findings about Kimberlin, Singer concludes, don’t “negate what I wrote four years ago—which, to this day, remains largely true...
...5 Chicago Tribune featured the following correction (dug up by Steve Allen of the Internet Guild): “In her Wednesday Commentary page column, Linda Bowles stated that President Clinton and his former campaign advisor Dick Morris both were ‘guilty of callous unfaithfulness to their wives and children.’ Neither man has admitted to being or been proven to have been unfaithful...
...Now things are really getting weird...
...Read a representative paragraph—say, the first paragraph on page 130...
...Two weeks ago, Kemp took Wanniski’s advice and praised Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March...
...Andy is the writer of whom Bill Moyers once said: “If he were a gentleman, I would challenge him to a duel...
...Kimberlin made the charges from his cell in federal prison, where he was serving a 51-year sentence for marijuana smuggling, as well as for blowing off most of a man’s legs with a homemade bomb in the Indianapolis suburb of Speedway in 1978...
...Plus, Singer admits, “Ardently, inordinately, I wanted the Democrats to win the election...
...On October 1, Kemp spoke before a crowd of women in Tucson, a speech whose purpose was, according to a campaign spokesperson, to reach out to “soccer moms and . . . suburban women...
...Where could anybody get such an idea...
...Would the Times call a legislator who has voted against the Christian Coalition’s agenda “anti-Christian...
...Presumably, all Iraq needs is a stable, gold-backed currency and then all will be well there...
...It features an introduction by P. J. O’Rourke and a blurb by George F. Will so amazing that we felt we had to reprint it here: “Don’t just stand here in this bookstore trying to decide whether to buy this book...
...Is Wanniski against bombing Iraq...
...Crowd...
...Will Wanniski succeed in turning the “party of Lincoln” into the “party of McGovern...
...Four years later, Kimberlin is back, released from prison and living in the Washington area...
...GET THIS The headline of the week, or maybe the year, appeared in the Sept...
...Unfaithful...
...Hey, what a blooper that was by Linda Bowles...
...Kemp,” reported the New York Times, “even attempted to cast foreign policy in . . . a feminine light, saying that a Dole Administration would apply the type of diplomacy that a mother would choose and not ‘bomb Baghdad without talking to someone’ . . .” On the same day, Wanniski wrote a memo to former undersecretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz criticizing a Wolfowitz Wall Street Journal piece about the danger Saddam poses to U.S...
Vol. 2 • October 1996 • No. 5
