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JACK KEMP’S BRAIN, PART III A fter a brief intermission, we now return to our coverage of the co-dependent relationship between Jack Kemp and supply-sider Jude Wanniski. In an October 11 memo,...
...JACK KEMP’S BRAIN, PART III A fter a brief intermission, we now return to our coverage of the co-dependent relationship between Jack Kemp and supply-sider Jude Wanniski...
...We’ve written about the way in which Wanniski’s obsession with Louis Farrakhan has already had a deleterious influence on Kemp, who praised the Nation of Islam honcho in a Boston Globe interview last month...
...Yeah, sure: The only two people in the country who bought this, apparently, are Wanniski and— you guessed it—Kemp...
...PRAETERITIO, OH, OH, OH M ove over, Socrates, Cicero, and Cato...
...That’s not surprising...
...We thank Professor Harvey Mans.eld of Harvard for calling this to our attention and for defining grammar up...
...For truth be told, the Times Worst of all, the Times has wildly overemployed has been utterly out of it this election season...
...NEW YORK TIMES OUT OF TIME the editors put the rah-rah headline “President Wins O Tomato Accord for Floridians” on the front page, n October 15, Bob Dole gave a major speech in while the Post made the decision more on newswor-California attacking Bill Clinton’s character...
...But the New York Times buried its story Mexico Reach Tomato Accord...
...Now listen to Kemp echoing Wanniski the very next day on CNN’s Evans & Novak...
...In the same memo, Wanniski praised Dole and Kemp because they “avoided the pleas of Republican intellectuals—from the Wall Street Journal and Bill Kristol’s Beltway Standard—that they take off the gloves and attack Clinton’s character...
...Also on the Latin watch: In Charles Krauthammer’s “Bibi’s Tunnel, Yasser’s War,” in our Oct...
...Wait, it gets worse...
...On Sept...
...thiness when it put this minor story on page 12 The next day’s Washington Post reported it atop the under the more straightforward headline, “U.S., front page...
...We don’t talk about it...
...make room for Bob Dole...
...The speaker promises not to mention something, but by saying so, he allows himself the opportunity to mention exactly what he wants...
...Born in 1903, he has seen in his lifetime “a progressive coarsening” of speech and entertainment and a “souring of many commonly held beliefs...
...In every decade of the century, he wrote two years ago in A Better World for Our Children, there have been enormous changes, some for the good but, “in retrospect, even more ...harmful...
...How foolish we were...
...I consider him a freedom .ghter...
...I lost the debate on debating points but won the debate on outlining Bob Dole’s vision of the future...
...Louis, Farrakhan answered Kemp’s challenge to renounce anti-Semitism and bigotry once and for all as a prerequisite to national reconciliation with the Jewish community...
...This is a newspaper version of the focus-group fraud Andy Ferguson wrote about two weeks ago...
...Best example from Dole in the .rst debate: “And I won’t comment on other things that have happened in your administration, of your past, about drugs...
...Some is worse...
...This is worse...
...about the speech on page A15, choosing instead to The Times has shown itself comically unsophistirun not one, but two news analyses about the speech cated to boot...
...Our leftie friends shouldn’t worry, though, about dispensing parental pabulum from inside the world of Benjamin Spock...
...Casus belli is the plural as well, because casus is, you guessed it, actually a fourth-declension noun...
...LIVE LONG & DON’T PROSPER Y ou don’t have to be a right-winger to agree with Bob Dole that America used to be better...
...In an October 11 memo, Wanniski applauded the debate performances of Bob Dole in Hartford and Kemp in St...
...He joined these classical masters of rhetoric during the debates by employing a favorite tactic of theirs: It’s called praeteritio (translation: “the process of passing over...
...That’s when a reporter interviews 12 “average the editors in New York...
...1980s, Bob Dole had not...
...Benjamin Spock, apostle of disarmament, macrobiotics, daily meditation, and weekly group therapy, was himself an eyewitness to the time of “tranquility, faith and con.dence and action” that Dole evoked in his acceptance speech, and Spock too regrets its passing...
...He makes the point by “passing over” it...
...Some of the Wanniski-Kemp stuff is just foolishness...
...Here’s what the VP candidate said on Evans & Novak: “I was pleased to see that statement...
...The Republican party’s candidate for the vice presidency has no business speaking friendly words about America’s most pernicious demagogue...
...The instant polls taken after both debates indicated Clinton and Gore were the easy winners, and if I were scoring according to Oxford standards I would agree,” Wanniski wrote...
...Part of the cheapest of all tricks, the mood-of-the-people the problem seems to be partisan news judgment by piece...
...Here’s echo #2: When Novak asked Kemp about our editorial last week, “Saving the GOP from Dole-Kemp ’96,” in which David Tell made the point that Dole and Kemp will have to shoulder much of the blame if the GOP loses the Congress, Kemp replied that “it’s the type of attack for which the Beltway Standard is getting known for in order to try to boost their circulation...
...29, it ran a breathless front-on its front page, evidently considering its own inter-page story featuring the astonishing revelation that pretation of the news more important than the news while Jack Kemp had been a supply-sider in the itself...
...p Scrapbook From the second debate: “I have a little foundation for the disabled called the Dole Foundation...
...We’re not electing an Oxfordian debater...
...In his recent memo, Wanniski wrote: “In his speech in St...
...That elderly hippie Dr...
...Petersburg...
...14 issue, we made the mistake of assuming that the plural of casus belli was casi belli...
...But “this national conversation we are having about who will be in charge of the national family for the next four years is not about debating points...
...even though the book is subtitled Rebuilding American Family Values, Spock largely blames Republicans for everything that’s gone wrong in America ever...
...Dole could stay on this tack in order to keep the attacks on Clinton’s character and behavior above the belt: “I will not mention the fact that Clinton violated campaign-.nance laws by allowing an Indonesian family to donate $425,000 to the Democratic party,” or “I will not discuss the lowlife pothead who gathered 900 FBI .les for the Clinton White House...
...I would hope that there would be a response from the Jewish community...
...Five days later, at a rally celebrating the one year anniversary of the Million Man March, Farrakhan blamed America for the “genocide” of Native Americans and blacks and added, “I see [Qadda.] as a victim of America’s evil...
...On October 12, for example, folks” and miraculously discovers that the mood of the people con.rms all of the reporter’s pre-existing prejudices...
Vol. 2 • October 1996 • No. 7
