APARTHEID AT THENEW YORK TIMES
Apartheid at the New York Times The New York Times went recruiting last month to the journalism school at Berkeley. A number of students showed up, Helen Vozenilek and Philip Dawdy among them. So...
...And only Frank Rich thought to claim that Heston's gorgeous looks in the 1950s carried a subliminal homoerotic message...
...A talented Nazi, maybe—Rich compares him to Leni Riefenstahl, the propagandist who made for Hitler the visually stunning movie Triumph of the Will—but still a Nazi...
...Heston deserves congratulations for his latest honor, and as for Rich, well, once upon a time—and it was a long time ago—he was a discerning theater critic, capable of subtle appreciations and delicate distinctions...
...So far, so ordinary...
...The Farrakhan-Wanniski Tag Team On the very day last week that Louis Farrakhan held a press conference in Baghdad to accuse the United States of engaging in "terrorism" against Iraq and of being "the greatest threat to world peace," the Nation of Islam leader's supply-side acolyte, Jude Wanniski, penned the essay that followers of Wanniski's Web-site rantings have long anticipated: "Why Jews Are Different...
...Every year the Kennedy Center in Washington honors a small group of American artists, and the Oscar-winning film star and National Rifle Association official was in this year's crop...
...Incidentally, what does the New York Times have to say about its apparently illegal practice of "minority candidates only" recruiting...
...Now, which spaceship would that be...
...But only Frank Rich decided to blame him for the recent school shootings in Kentucky...
...The president's testimony during the Whitewater trial...
...Rage...
...This set off a two-day e-mail firestorm on campus...
...I am pleased to announce that they were able to identify a forum in which the president frequently answered questions with a very curt 'yes or no.' The venue...
...Since the coming of Mrs...
...It doesn't really seem quite enough to go through adult life with...
...But thanks to the first lady's bravura performance among the 32 middle- and high-schoolers in Boston last week, this shortage of cheap emotion has now been rectified...
...Continued the embittered impresario, "Why don't we have a referendum, not about Europe, but about, 'Do we want the arts?'" Thatcher, he tearfully avowed, had made England inhospitable to the good, the beautiful, the true...
...Did the young Hillary Rodham belong to a segregated swim club growing up in the prosperous white Chicago suburbs...
...A: No...
...And somewhere along the way his critical judgments even about actors narrowed to only two categories: himself and the Nazis...
...One professor did say, "We made mistakes by not informing students better about what recruiters were looking for...
...With all the terrible things that civilization has endured for these millennia, Jews have traveled through as if on their own private spaceship...
...Thatcher [in 1979]," he said, "the arts have been scrimped and economized on" (a declaration greeted by the audience with "loud cheers...
...Boehner included copious examples...
...Sir Peter could only observe, sadly, "We are a daft country"—a belief to which, on the hallowed boards of the Old Vic, he gave evidence...
...Did she have a secret girlhood crush on a politically incorrect person such as the late Mayor Daley...
...The one with the evil scientist Yacub that Farrakhan took a ride on...
...But as the Daily Californian first reported, Vozenilek "said she was stopped at the beginning of the session and informed by the recruiter that the internship position was for 'minorities only.'" And Dawdy, a white male, "was stopped in his tracks by the Times interviewer and told that the internship was not for whites...
...Q: Did you ever ask David Hale to make Jim McDougal a loan...
...So he's a Nazi...
...A sample of the Wanniski mind at work: "While the population of the world has gone to 6 billion, with Jews now only a tiny fraction at 13 million, that small number is the most powerful and educated and talented, pound for pound, than [sic] any other group...
...A white soccer goalie...
...It's hard to see what this has to do with race, or even prejudice, or anything besides Hillary Clinton's desperate desire for the spotlight of victimhood...
...Q: Did you ever ask David Hale to make you a loan...
...According to the Daily Telegraph, Sir Peter pointed a heavy accusatory finger at the English elite's arch-villain, or rather, -villainess: former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (who left office in 1990...
...Little Rich The world is a simple place in the nursery, and it has stayed a simple place for New York Times columnist Frank Rich: Either you're on his side, or you're a Nazi...
...The upshot: Not a single Berkeley professor or administrator had a critical word to say on the record about racially exclusive hiring—or about the Times...
...A soccer goalie who said—get this—to the future first lady: "I don't have to know you to hate you...
...Now, what could this possibly mean...
...Clinton, as the AP reported, "spoke openly of her own encounters with prejudice...
...Charlton Hes-ton, for instance, thinks that gun control is a bad idea...
...But then he decided to put away childish things and write for the editorial page...
...The Succinct Clinton Last week, The Scrapbook invited the White House to cite an instance in which the president had given a simple yes or no answer to any question—this, after Clinton badgered conservative scholar Abigail Thernstrom at his Akron race-fest to give a yes or no answer about affirmative action...
...According to the Daily Californian, she said, "It is important that even non-eligible students go to the interviews and talk to the recruiters because the recruiters keep extensive files and refer to them later as job opportunities turn up...
...Blow!_ The Old Vic theater in London has seen its share of weepy melodrama since it was founded in 1818, but Sir Peter Hall delivered a particularly risible performance last week, when the theater, which is being sold, hosted a final King Lear...
...And maybe Heston isn't so talented anyway, Rich adds: Gore Vidal says he was a lousy actor in Ben-Hur, and who should know better about bad actors than Gore Vidal...
...not enough minorities testifying to the pain of victimhood...
...A: No...
...Well, the White House didn't rise to the bait, but Rep...
...John Boehner of Ohio did...
...As Boehner correctly notes, "It would appear the president is perfectly capable of limiting his answers—at least when any misstep could potentially result in a perjury charge...
...What he really means is that there haven't been enough Hallmark moments—not enough crackers 'fessing up tearfully that their inner child is a bigot...
...Why take out after Heston now...
...Almost without exception, press accounts of the event made some disparaging aside about the actor's politics...
...And Marcia Parker, director of student and career services at the J-school, had laughable advice for the white students...
...Considering this White House's difficulty in locating records and files, I asked my staff to lend a hand in this endeavor...
...Now, For Some Candor When President Clinton bemoans the lack of candor in the national conversation on race that he's been staging, he's not being candid himself...
...Dear Scrapbook," Boehner writes...
...No, it turns out that a "soccer goalie" in high school was mean to her...
Vol. 3 • December 1997 • No. 15
