Bill Maher's Brain Twinkies
Bill Maher's Brain Twinkies Perhaps if Andrew Ferguson took Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect with a grain of salt and recognized it for what it is, he would realize that its existence is positive...
...Ferguson writes that Steven Bochco "threatened to punch out Chevy Chase" and asks "Who among us wouldn't like to see Chevy Chase beaten up...
...Allan J. Favish Tarzana, CA Byron York responds: Allan J. Favish suggests the independent counsel's office substituted a phony pistol in place of the "official death gun" so that Fiske and Starr could claim Lisa Foster recognized the gun her husband used to kill himself...
...The gun she was shown," he says, "was the gun recovered from Foster's hand...
...Balance is the key, and it's a virtue that Ferguson's article was unfortunately lacking...
...Page 2 of Haut's report says the death shot was "mouth-neck," directly contradicting the official autopsy report...
...Unless he is willing to cast aside his class-warfare politics, however, Dick Gephardt will not be the one to lead the Democrats into the tax-reform Promised Land...
...It's obvious that Maher wants the show both to entertain and to inform...
...Starr and York also tell us of an oven mitt supposedly found in the glove compartment of Foster's car...
...Wouldn't you agree that political gurus screaming conflicting facts at one another present just as asinine a display as Hollywood types yelling across a table...
...While Carlson sneeringly calls her naive for seeking the black vote, perhaps if more Republican leaders did the same we might begin to make inroads into that vote...
...Your conclusion was that Republicans are backsliding, nervous, and not advancing the agenda...
...He is also not afraid to tell his guests that they're full of crap—a bit of honesty that I find refreshing...
...Gary M. Polland Chairman Harris County Republican Party Houston, TX A Warm, Fuzzy Relic Tucker Carlson's churlish article about Christie Whitman deserves an answer ("Relic of the Eastern GOP" Nov...
...Well, in this instance, Chase was in the right...
...Despite the failure of some elected officials to support this initiative, the Harris County Republican Party stands strongly in support of this important effort to end discrimination...
...Richard Makover Woodbridge, CT Ferguson makes some valid points about Politically Incorrect...
...Another officer confirmed the same thing...
...It really does not seem to be much of a travesty that Politically Incorrect "is unquestionably the most popular chat show about politics now on the air, with almost as many viewers as This Week and Meet the Press combined...
...Moreover, the "mouth-head" phrase is on page 1 of Haut's report and was obviously altered so as to conceal a four-letter word and put "head" over it...
...And yes, she's more liberal than many Republicans, including me...
...Yet they fail to tell us that a park-police officer who searched the car testified under oath in July 1994 that there was "nothing out of the ordinary" in the glove compartment...
...Matthew Katz Washington, DC Andrew Ferguson's delightful critique of Politically Incorrect hits the mark in all respects but one...
...On pages 81-82, Starr writes that Mrs...
...This is not a legitimate effort to reform the tax code, and Rep...
...No Set-aside of Set asides The editorial in the Oct...
...The potential of Politically Incorrect to decrease political apathy in this country is enough of a reason to praise Maher...
...Foster identified the gun, "although she said she seemed to remember the front of the gun looking lighter in color when she saw it during the move to Washington...
...His show focuses on important issues in a manner that is light, humorous, and sometimes serious...
...Beaten up, indeed...
...He seems much better informed than Ferguson would lead us to think...
...Is this really much worse than receiving information from the bland 60-second blurb of a news anchor or from a red-faced, arrogant John McLaughlin...
...for example, a canvas bag and a pair of moccasins were also in the car but not listed on the evidence report because the park-police officer who entered the items into evidence did not find them significant...
...One possible explanation is that she was not shown the official death gun in May 1994, but was shown a silver gun in order to elicit an identification that could be used in Fiske's report, without mentioning anything about the colors...
...Whitman's statewide campaigns, and, contrary to what Carlson would have your readers believe, she is warm, compassionate, and a caring mother...
...They deceive, manipulate, intimidate, and, when these measures fail, physically attack the suspect...
...York's article is a prime example...
...But give Maher the credit he deserves...
...two laws, Megan's and Joan's, that protect schoolchildren from sexual predators...
...It should not take a math whiz to figure out that lower-income families will be better off paying 17 percent of any income above $35,000 instead of 15 percent—or more—of any income above $17,000...
...Both the Forbes and Armey flat-tax plans provide roughly twice the personal exemption available under current law...
...to examine the body at the park...
...20, 1997, I issued a special edition of The Chairman's Fax Report which stated strong support for the Houston Civil Rights Initiative on behalf of the Harris County Republican Party...
...It is about time that there is a political show that descends from the elite perch and recognizes that Americans need political talk they can relate to, even if it is "The McLaughlin Group after a few beers...
...Genuine tax reform is needed...
...Chase criticized Bochco's NYPD Blue, in which hero cops routinely connive to prevent their suspects from "lawyering up...
...It is unfortunate when a Hollywood ego goes for the quick gag and then short-circuits an otherwise interesting debate...
...I have participated in all three of Gov...
...Lyn Nofziger Washington, DC Render unto Gephardt House minority leader Dick Gephardt is no ordinary politician...
...Gov...
...On the "mouth-neck" wound, Favish sent me documents indicating the phantom wound might have been an exit wound, as well as other materials indicating it might have been an entrance wound...
...She is smart, good on her feet, and, unlike a lot of Republicans I might mention, she does not waffle or flip-flop on the issues...
...Ron Fineman Bakersfield, CA The Vince Foster Mysteries Byron York, like Kenneth Starr, fails to tell us some important facts ("Vince Foster, in the Park, with the Gun," Oct...
...But the examples that he points out are much more the exception than the rule...
...For the record, my source in Starr's investigation says that is simply not true...
...However, Starr and York fail to tell us two important facts...
...Whitman, like Ronald Reagan, and unlike The Weekly Standard's editors, understands that you build a party by including people, though you may not always agree with them—not by excluding them...
...Not everything in the car was...
...Billy Tauzin were right to include only serious proposals in the scrap-the-code tour...
...There is also a clear photo showing Foster's body with a so-called trajectory-rod placed into the actual entry wound in the mouth and protruding out the actual exit wound in the back of the head...
...Bill Maher's Brain Twinkies Perhaps if Andrew Ferguson took Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect with a grain of salt and recognized it for what it is, he would realize that its existence is positive for politics, not a plague on America ("Politically Incompetent," Oct...
...Both the flat tax and the national retail sales tax, for instance, satisfy these two criteria...
...On page 80 of the report, Starr says Lisa Foster "recalled what she described as a silver-colored gun...
...The two guiding principles of serious tax-reform plans are a single rate and the elimination of double taxation...
...Far from being aloof, Gov...
...Wisely recognizing that hatred for the tax code is widespread, he endorsed IRS reform legislation and seized an issue that will help him with voters when he challenges Al Gore for the Democratic nomination...
...But her record includes 14 tax cuts...
...Rees also errs by accepting at face value Gephardt's preposterous claim that a flat tax (or a sales tax, for that matter) would boost tax bills for the poor and middle class...
...Give Chevy Chase a medal for courage under fire while being confronted by an ego-wounded producer...
...In addition, Favish's claim that Starr omitted Mrs...
...Her policies over the last four years have resulted in more than 200,000 new jobs...
...Whitman loves to campaign at the grass-roots level, and does so effectively...
...An even better demonstration of Gephardt's political skills is the way he conned Matthew Rees into believing that his tax plan is worthy of serious attention ("Dems and Taxes," Oct...
...Regarding the oven mitt: According to Starr's investigators, it was not listed on the official evidence inventory because it was not taken into evidence...
...Dick Armey and Rep...
...On balance, the show does its job very well...
...27 issue of The Weekly Standard ("Punting on Preferences") referred to the City of Houston's set-aside program and claimed that no leading Republican officials are supporting the Houston Civil Rights Initiative...
...Some Americans, after watching a Politically Incorrect episode, may become interested enough to pick up a newspaper the next day and read a story on the subject...
...According to Starr's investigators, there is an autopsy photo—a clear, professional photograph, not a Polaroid—showing a close-up view of the side of Foster's head, with no exit or entrance wound of any kind in the neck...
...Bill Maher does not pretend to be a Beltway pundit...
...Her report of the color, omitted by Starr and York, is crucial because the official death gun is black-colored...
...Furthermore, when Starr's team showed the picture of the mitt to officer John Rolla, the man who had said that there was "nothing out of the ordinary" in the glove compartment, he remembered the mitt's being there...
...On page 27 of Starr's report, he quotes from a two-page medical report made by Dr...
...and higher school standards...
...Starr tells us that Haut's report says that the death shot was "mouth-head...
...Yes, she's made mistakes, but what governor or president hasn't...
...The government's failure to tell us the true facts about this case is matched only by an identical failure by the dominant media...
...Neither Starr nor York explains why she described a supposedly black gun as silver or why such a misperception failed to elicit any apparent comment from those present, including her attorney, a deputy of Robert Fiske, and at least two FBI agents...
...welfare reform...
...Please be advised that on Oct...
...Daniel J. Mitchell Heritage Foundation Washington, DC...
...Gephardt's proposal, by contrast, maintains five tax rates and actually exacerbates the level of double taxation in the current tax code...
...Foster's memory of the gun's color is false...
...And there is no mention of an oven mitt in the official evidence inventories for the car...
...While openly pro-choice, she has campaigned, without hesitation, for pro-life Republicans...
...Donald Haut, the only M.D...
...When Lisa Foster made her tentative identification of a gun shown to her in May 1994, she described the gun being shown to her as silver-colored...
Vol. 3 • November 1997 • No. 9
