A REVIEW TO IGNORE
Correspondence A REVIEW TO IGNORE ANDREW FERGUSON SETS a new standard for bias and superficiality in his shallow “review” of George W. Bush’s autobiography A Charge to Keep (“George W. Bush,...
...But if that means handing the schools back to the same old education establishment that watched inequities fester to the point of federal takeover, the prospects are not bright...
...MASTERPIECE KUDOS TO JACK CASHILL for reporting in fascinating and entertaining detail why federal judges make lousy education czars (“Free at Last in Kansas City,” Dec...
...Whew...
...The time is propitious for Kansas Citians to throw off the remaining shackles that impede education progress...
...It is a strange situation when the president of the United States can be treated as though he “doesn’t necessarily speak for the United States” while the president’s wife, who holds no elected or appointed position in the U.S...
...I place “review” in quotes because Ferguson cavalierly dismisses the 253 pages of the book’s text, deeming his interpretation of Bush’s smile in a picture as revealing far more about him than the book’s words...
...government and could not risk damaging U.S.Palestinian relations...
...Since he absurdly stated that the picture of Bush revealed more than the autobiography’s text, I didn’t bother reading the rest of his “review...
...Using the Ferguson omniscient mind-meld technique, I interpret that she was thinking the following: “There’s George W. Bush...
...In that case, Mrs...
...Clinton failed to express (promptly) her opinion with regard to the slanderous comments made by Suha Arafat...
...Of course, the explanation Mrs...
...He seems such a compassionate conservative...
...That’s some smile...
...Researchers of diverse political stripes are finding in cities like Milwaukee, Cleveland, and San Antonio that choice works not just for choosers but for those who remain in public schools, which come under competitive pressure to shape up...
...According to THE SCRAPBOOK, the president’s spokesmen told reporters that the president’s views on this matter should be considered irrelevant to the dispute between Greece and the United Kingdom because they were merely views that the president holds “privately...
...One item (“The President and His Marbles”) revealed the controversy created when President Clinton, during a visit to Athens, expressed, unsolicited, his opinion that the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece...
...ROBERT HOLLAND Arlington, VA...
...Yet within a few days we are told that the president is free to express “privately” held views, and that these should be considered irrelevant to our relations with other countries...
...My humble, non-pundit interpretation is that he was simply happy to have the best pitcher in baseball on his team...
...Clinton...
...That is assuming, of course, that the first lady actually has a privately held opinion that Palestinian slanders against the Israeli government are despicable...
...It is still difficult to tell whether any such sentiment actually resides in the mind of Mrs...
...government, is said to be severely constrained in her public statements because anything she says might be taken as reflecting the official position of the United States...
...STANWATSON Helena, AL K.C...
...This was followed by another item (“Great Moments in Clintonian Diplomacy”) referring to the controversy the first lady recently caused during her visit to Israel...
...Parental choice can bring about true freedom in Kansas City, and with it will come those elusive gains in pupil achievement and parental satisfaction...
...Then, in case a president disgraces his office, a brown-nosing vice president terms such a poltroon ‘one of our greatest presidents,’ and both compromise national security in exchange for illegal campaign contributions from China, Bush can run on his record and restore integrity to the White House...
...In the same picture, a woman sitting a few rows behind Bush is also smiling...
...Clinton gave was that she could not immediately express the outrage that she surely (?) felt because, as first lady, she represents the U.S...
...One can hope that, with control returned to their hands after 22 years, “the people of Kansas City” indeed can do better by their children...
...Why was Bush smiling...
...PreFerguson, I would’ve thought her smile just reflected joy at being at the ballpark on a sunny day...
...But the omniscient pundit Ferguson declares that “the picture says” the following: “He has the look of a man to whom life has dealt an inside straight: handsome, wealthy, with a pretty and intelligent wife, a pair of charming daughters, a lucrative and not terribly taxing job that allows ample time for lunch, working the phones, snapping towels with the fellas in the locker room after a morning run—a man who has arrived where he is by a series of happy accidents, and who, but for the happiest accident of them all, his birth, would have been quite content to stay there...
...Correspondence A REVIEW TO IGNORE ANDREW FERGUSON SETS a new standard for bias and superficiality in his shallow “review” of George W. Bush’s autobiography A Charge to Keep (“George W. Bush, Author,” Dec...
...Surely if the president can express “privately” held opinions that are offensive to the British government, the president’s wife can express “privately” held opinions that are offensive to the Palestinian authorities...
...The picture shows Bush, then part-owner of the Texas Rangers, in a front-row seat as he talks with pitcher Nolan Ryan...
...6 issue exposed yet another example of Clinton administration doublespeak...
...JAMES J. HOGAN Silver Spring, MD BILLARY’S HYPOCRISY THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TWO ITEMS in the SCRAPBOOK of your Dec...
...I hope he runs for governor and does well enough to earn voters’ trust and reelection...
Vol. 5 • December 1999 • No. 14
