OH, SO THAT'S THE PROBLEM
Oh, So That's the Problem In the latest issue of the liberal journal American Prospect, John Judis weighs in on the Lewinsky affair. Judis is deeply disturbed by the behavior of the media;...
...Through the years Stern has overcome network censors, indignant sponsors, and FCC bureaucrats...
...Dole, who posed as a pro-life conservative for much of his political career, had also recently endorsed the pro-choice candidate in Illinois's GOP primary to choose who would take on Democratic senator Carol Moseley-Braun...
...have experience scanning black-and-white and four-color images...
...He complained that "we keep getting caught in these one-issue things...
...Paul Robeson, Hack April 9 is the 100th anniversary of the Stalinist entertainer Paul Robeson's birth...
...Duberman should know better...
...I still think more about 1988 and what happened in New Hampshire," said Dole...
...The most revealing snippet contained in the interview with Richard Berke of the New York Times was that Dole is more distressed over having been defeated in the 1988 Republican primaries by that preppy George Bush than over his drubbing from Clinton...
...I thought '88 was sort of my year...
...The Scrapbook kids you not...
...He] will make an outstanding lawmaker in Washington...
...Among other things, Duberman establishes in the book that in 1949 Robeson met in Moscow with his friend Itzik Feffer, a Yiddish author who had been arrested by Stalin...
...I heard no word about" anti-Semitism...
...So what's Dole saying now...
...Judging from a New York Times piece that appeared in the March 29 Sunday arts section—"A Giant Denied His Rightful Stature in Film"—not bad at all...
...Needless to say, this is a dizzying ideological about-face: a left-liberal encomium to the good old days of powerful media magnates and meddling plutocrats...
...Send resume and work examples to The Weekly Standard, Personnel Dept., 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505, Washington, D.C...
...Private polls show the Coverdell/McCain proposal is more popular than any of the other GOP tax-reform proposals being discussed...
...The senators settled for a promise from Senate GOP leaders Trent Lott and Don Nickles that they will push for higher tax cuts when the House and Senate negotiators meet in a conference committee to iron out differences in their respective budget resolutions...
...Doleful Bob Dole reared his well-tanned head recently, giving his first serious interview since Monica Lewinsky's name became a household word...
...specifically, by the failure of newspaper and TV owners to step in and squash their uppity, anti-Clinton reporters...
...With few compelling issues to run on in the midterm elections, Coverdell/McCain offers a useful blueprint to budget negotiators, many of whom seem to have forgotten that sweeping tax cuts are supposed to be a priority of the Republican Congress...
...What did Robeson have to say about the bigotries and barbarities taking place under Stalin...
...By 1952 Feffer himself had been executed...
...Alas, these publishers "no longer conceive of themselves as guardians of the republic...
...Judis laments the passing of an era when "publishers like the [Washington] Post's Eugene Meyer and Philip Graham or Time's Henry Luce and bureau chiefs like the New York Times's Scotty Reston participated in the deliberations of policy groups...
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...No calls please...
...Was that collateral estoppel good for you, honey...
...The resolution received 38 Republican votes—more than expected...
...Using sign language in a bugged hotel room, Feffer told Robeson about the anti-Semitic purges then beginning in the Soviet Union...
...He cited Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge and New York governor George Pataki—which probably kills any slight chance that either one had...
...Help Wanted_ The Weekly Standard is seeking a full-time assistant art director...
...How is Robeson's reputation faring in the press these days...
...Peter Fitzgerald has a winning message...
...Private P**ts For reasons known only to themselves, executives of CBS television have decided to cede portions of their Saturday-night schedule to radio weirdo Howard Stern, whose approach to sexual matters falls somewhere between that of a 13-year-old boy and a tumescent St...
...Fear Not the Tax Cut The Senate provided a modest improvement in the tax-cut climate last week...
...There are multiple reasons why the press behaved so shamelessly," Judis writes, but the main one is "the abdication by media owners, publishers, top editors, and bureau chiefs of the leadership role they once played...
...But let's see him work his way around lawyered sex...
...During debate on the budget, a number of Senate Republicans protested that the tax cuts included in the budget resolution—just $30 billion—were too small...
...Although he died more than two decades ago—and despite the fact that he made relatively few movies while he was alive—Robeson's life will be remembered over the coming year in no fewer than six documentary films, numerous magazine pieces, and a collection of essays from Rutgers University Press...
...GOP senators Paul Coverdell and John McCain put forward a proposal providing for nearly $200 billion in tax relief, while also advancing the goal of creating a flatter, fairer, simpler tax code...
...Fitzgerald, however, prevailed in the March 17 primary...
...John Ashcroft, Jim Inhofe, Bob Smith, Sam Brownback, and Rod Grams all threatened to vote against the resolution, which would have killed it, if the GOP leadership couldn't find a way to provide more tax relief...
...Bernard...
...But at 11:30 at night, in a way our lawyers are comfortable with, I don't know if it's so terrible to be talking about sex...
...The one encouraging sign from Dole's interview with the Times came when he was asked who he thought would win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000...
...I met Jewish people all over the place," the actor explained to a reporter when he returned from the Soviet Union after meeting with Feffer...
...Dole being Dole, it should come as little surprise that his utterances were packed with reminders of why he didn't pass muster as a presidential candidate...
...Dole also took a swipe at religious conservatives, asking, "What do these guys want...
...They keep raising the bar...
...Domenici and the House-Senate conferees might want to take a second look at an alternative budget resolution providing Reagan-style tax cuts...
...A professor of history at the City University of New York, Duberman is also the author of a respected 1989 biography of Robeson...
...and possess good layout and design skills...
...This criticism wasn't limited to the Times interview...
...But guardians of the public airwaves are not to worry...
...He proved one of the rare celebrity figures," writes Martin Duberman, "willing to place their careers in outright jeopardy to call attention to the bigotries and barbarities of the age...
...In the next issue: an admiring profile of William Randolph Hearst, liberal in a hurry...
...Dole said the conservative in the race, Peter Fitzgerald, was "out there on the fringe" and that the race was between "the mainstream and the extreme...
...Rather than provide Clinton-style targeted tax cuts, Coverdell and McCain want to adjust the tax brackets, allowing more income to fall under the 15 percent tax rate, rather than the more punitive 28 percent rate...
...Candidates must be proficient users of QuarkXPress and Photoshop...
...Yes, Howard talks about sex," said CBS's Mel Karmazin at a press conference last week...
...As readers know, The Scrapbook's approach to sex is highly refined, but still we must insist that "talking about sex in a way lawyers are comfortable with" is, to say the least, utterly pointless...
...A chief stumbling block on the tax front has been Pete Domenici, the tight-fisted chairman of the Senate Budget Committee...
Vol. 3 • April 1998 • No. 30
