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Scrapbook LOOK WHO'S CRTTTCTZTNG HTIIARY NOW It's time to reexamine the most durable liberal cliche of the Clinton era: that right-wingers have a unique, irrational hostility towards Hillary...
...GRANDPA AL In their continuing struggle to prove to America how normal and regular they are, Al and Tipper Gore let it be known last week that they are now grandparents, courtesy of their daughter Karenna...
...Some economics courses preferred...
...Fax resume to 202-777-3010...
...POOR TOUR It took more than the usual Clintonian brass for the president to choose the Mississippi Delta during his "poor tour" last week as the venue for declaring his commitment to bringing jobs to America's neglected regions...
...And we had to applaud...
...Greer: She shares a bed with the head of state, maybe, sometime...
...This time, it looks like they're the ones who shot themselves in the foot...
...Ehrenreich: What do you think of Hillary's upcoming Senate run in New York...
...The theory is cockamamie (see Henry Payne's "Green Nonsense, Black Losses" in the Aug...
...Now there are women all over the world who've kept their own burrow, who should be there talking to us...
...Average American...
...A healthy indifference seems to have taken hold...
...The two Louisiana plants were also located in state-designated "empowerment zones...
...Harsh...
...Indeed, the only memorable abuse of the first lady these days comes from the left...
...Just another landmark in the lives of Mr...
...Big deal...
...Surprise, surprise, because that job should not have been given to someone in Hillary's position in the first place...
...We're very excited," the vice president told the Washington Post's Reliable Source column...
...If he really feels strongly about those views," says Streeter, "we wouldn't have had the problems that we ran into here...
...Clinton's hypocritical tour comes two months after the administration's environmental racism policy claimed its latest victim: Select Steel Company announced cancellation of plans to build a $175 million plant in economically distressed Genesee Township near Flint, Mich., after being sued by local activists for violating EPA rules...
...Every time I've been to a Women's Year Conference, we've had the wife of a head of state telling us what was what, reading a prepared speech from nowhere—and that included, I may say, the great Imelda Marcos...
...3, 1998, Weekly Standard), but its effects are all too pernicious: excluding jobs from America's poor areas...
...Must be that Greer and Breslin can't stand a strong woman...
...And in the Delta alone, the administration has forced cancellation of a $700 million plastics plant and an $800 million nuclear fuel enrichment plant—all because the Environmental Protection Agency says these Louisiana facilities were guilty of "environmental racism," an alleged conspiracy of industry and state governments to locate plants with a disproportionate pollution impact in poor areas...
...As sociologist Christopher Jencks confessed to the N^'w York Times last week, he had little to say about the president's trip: "one of the ways I preserve my mental health," Jencks told Jason DeParle, "is to read as little as possible about Bill Clinton...
...Indeed, the NRA tripled its membership during the period covered by the study...
...and Mrs...
...It's a lovely hotel and they were very sweet to us," Mrs...
...And how did normal, regular Al and Tipper spread the word...
...There are women attorneys all over this country...
...Gore chimed in, perhaps using the upstairs extension at the V[I?'s mansion...
...Greer: I was incensed when she was allowed to address a plenary session for the U.N...
...Eighty-seven percent of editorials and op-ed pieces on the NRA were negative...
...So, if the liberal media want to start spreading blame for the failure of post-Littleton gun control legislation, they should look in the mirror...
...Not the widows or the wives of politicians...
...The most interesting conclusion, keeping in mind as always with good social science that correlation is not causation, was this: The overwhelmingly negative coverage Patrick found actually went along with a dramatic boost in the NRA's membership...
...No matter...
...Greer: Mm-hmm, and screws it up...
...And, so what...
...Genesee supervisor Scott Streeter, whose community strongly supported the facility, is puzzled by Clinton's stated commitment to economic development in needy areas...
...In any event, they related the entire saga of the birth, and the Post duly recorded it as the lead item in the Reliable Source (Washington gossip isn't what it used to be...
...She gets a job of huge importance . . . "Ehrenreich: You mean health reform...
...And of course Mrs...
...The Gores even managed to work in a plug for the Manhattan hotel that sheltered them while the baby was born...
...The federal government designates Genesee a "distressed community," which makes it eligible for tax breaks designed to attract business...
...Just this once, though, The Scrapbook is prepared to forgive the media for not scrutinizing the Clinton blarney more closely...
...Clinton and his wife spread a layer of soot over this country and now she comes around without even brushing the soot from her sleeves, smiling all over the place as if it never happened, as if New Yorkers are the same as those in Appalachia or Arkansas or any of those other low-IQ areas in which the Clintons do best...
...In the last two years, the Clinton administration has waged a war against dozens of industries trying to bring jobs to America's poor areas...
...So why is NOW so indulgent to Hillary and Bill...
...HELP WANTED Contributing editor Irwin Stelzer is looking for a research assistant...
...After the last four years, with her husband rolling around the White House hallways with Monica Lewinsky, after all this cheap, grubby lying, after Hillary Clinton's smug deviousness and untruthful-ness, after all these character collapses, it is implausible for her to run for the United States Senate from New York...
...Get out of my face...
...And headlines involving the NRA were twice as likely to include belittling jokes or puns (e.g., "Did NRA Shoot Itself in the Foot...
...Part-time graduate student acceptable...
...I just don't get it...
...NRA spokesmen were directly quoted far less in articles than spokesmen for the liberal groups, and were more often cited with loaded verbs like "contends," "asserts," or "argues," than with the neutral "says...
...THE BENEFITS OF BIAS University of Michigan researcher Brian A. Patrick has compared news coverage in the elite media from 1990 to 1998 for five interest groups: the ACLU, NAACP, AARP, Handgun Control, Inc., and the National Rifle Association...
...Why, the same way proud grandparents have always done it—they phoned a gossip columnist...
...She's an attorney...
...Not compared with the rant loosed by Germaine Greer, interviewed by Barbara Ehrenreich in LA Weekly: "Ehrenreich: How do you feel about Hillary...
...Hmmm...
...It feels very natural, very healthy, very wonderful," Mrs...
...This is completely false, it turns out...
...Women's Year in Beijing...
...Gore continued...
...Scrapbook LOOK WHO'S CRTTTCTZTNG HTIIARY NOW It's time to reexamine the most durable liberal cliche of the Clinton era: that right-wingers have a unique, irrational hostility towards Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Though the administration claims to support these kinds of economic affirmative action, it made life miserable for the companies anyway...
...The 200 reporters can consider themselves suckers...
...Not surprisingly, by 16 objective measures the NRA garnered much more negative press coverage than all the other groups combined...
...Here was Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin last week, welcoming Hillary to New York: "There will be 200 reporters following her every sigh and forced smile when she appears at Pat Moynihan's farmhouse outside of Oneonta, New York...
...Lefties disdain her, too...
...The NRA was more than twice as likely as the liberal groups to be portrayed as a pernicious "lobby" or "special interest group," while the liberal organizations were more often innocuously labeled "citizens groups" or "advocacy groups...
Vol. 4 • July 1999 • No. 41
