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Scrapbook Newt American Leadership Newt Gingrich sent out a press release the other day announcing the formation of a new "platform from which Newt Gingrich can communicate his vision for...
...Or, for that matter, where the foreign policy "realists" among them were when Beijing's leaders decided to help prop up Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Belgrade with $300 million in new credit...
...Why would Gingrich, who is busy ducking questions about his longtime affair with a Hill staffer and cashing in on lucrative speaking gigs, bother to start something like this...
...I couldn't take the call...
...Because there was a great allure to it...
...Some of us remember that Gingrich left office because Republicans, under his leadership, becamse the first party in eons to lose seats in an off-year election in which they didn't control the White House...
...This type of policing might seem outrageous, but not to GLAAD's entertainment director Scott Seomin...
...And, most of all, as the man who unintentionally sabotaged the very "revolution" he boasts of starting...
...It seems there is nothing like a threat to academic freedom to really raise the ol' scholarly blood pressure...
...In response, more than a hundred Sinologists have signed a letter of protest, complaining that Song's arrest jeopardizes academic research and imperils exchange programs with the People's Republic...
...The popular radio host, who boasts 20 million daily listeners and has another book coming out this spring, Parenting by Proxy, is developing a syndicated program with Paramount Television...
...During his years in Congress, Gingrich's bio exclaims, Gingrich became a "world-renowned strategist," the one man capable of "re-establishing the House of Representatives as 'The People's House.'" So far-reaching was his impact that the Washington Times called him "the indispensable leader...
...The Committee for New American Leadership gives Gingrich a place to hang his résum...
...Executives have already agreed to meet with GLAAD to discuss Dr...
...So far, so banal...
...She came into New York . . . MATTHEWS: Is there any woman you think wouldn't be a great date, Tom...
...THE SCRAPBOOK shares their indignation...
...We like to think we're influential," Seomin told the Washington Times...
...NAL's website devotes paragraph after paragraph to describing the former speaker's internationally acclaimed attributes and accomplishments...
...Chris Matthews's Finest Hour A memorable exchange on Hardball, brought to The Scrapbook's attention by the Media Research Center's CyberAlert...
...But that's not really what worries the folks at GLAAD, who have been rallying anti-Dr...
...MATTHEWS: Date...
...As Gingrich puts it in the press release: "I don't think that currently the leaders in either party understand these ideas [which he describes as "big ideas," "profound conclusions," "new solutions and new visions"] or how to communicate them...
...And that was just in politics...
...A woman you go out to dinner with, take her to the show, talk and have a great time...
...Gingrich, writes Gingrich, is not only a best-selling author, not just "widely recognized for his commitment to the environment," but is also—and one suspects this gets to the heart of how Gingrich conceives of himself—"recognized worldwide as an expert on world history, military issues and international affairs...
...Georgia Citizen of the Year...
...Headline of the Week From the Jan...
...How so...
...Laura Schlessinger is getting her own TV show...
...According to the release, this "solution-oriented institution," called the Committee for New American Leadership, will be "profoundly different from traditional political organizations...
...I was in the middle of something...
...Fresh from cajoling Walter Isaacson and Time into running a series of gay achievement items, media-savvy GLAAD is ready to dig into Dr...
...21 Washington Post: "Panel Calls for Egalitarian House of Lords...
...Laura's show...
...Joe Keenan, a writer and producer with the show Frasier (produced by Paramount Television) put it best when he said, "What gay person working for Paramount could be happy about this...
...We feel the way the Von Trapp children would feel if Dad decided to divorce Maria and marry Joan Crawford...
...Badda-boom...
...The human norm is heterosexuality...
...But, of course, we wonder where many of these same scholars, such as Chinapologist Michel Oksen-berg, former White House adviser on China policy and now a political scientist at Stanford, have been over the past year while China was busy rounding up hundreds of citizens whose great offense was practicing their faith...
...Gore [she shakes her head]—he actually called from Air Force One [for advice...
...Laura troops in the gay community...
...Laura is correct...
...In the field of health, "his contributions have been so great that the American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest non-medical award and the March of Dimes named him their 1995 Georgia Citizen of the Year...
...In other words, they want to vet her show for political correctness...
...And, boy, does he...
...Unless the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gets its way...
...With Friends Like This Barbra Streisand explains to TV Guide why she'll be supporting Al Gore this year: He's easy to brush off...
...host Chris Matthews and USA Today's Tom Squitieri are discussing Hillary Clinton's appearance on David Letterman's show: SQUITIERI: I'll tell you something, Chris...
...For one thing, it's hard to maintain a cult of personality without an official headquarters...
...You watch and think, 'You need [media] lessons.' Bradley is much more comfortable...
...Gore is a good guy...
...Of course Gingrich is recognized for other things, too...
...Statistically speaking, of course, Dr...
...At the February 14 meeting, GLAAD plans to request that she not be allowed to use "inflammatory" words like "deviance" and that she be required to present "balanced" views on homosexuality...
...Wait, there's more...
...Like his towering ego and relentless solipsism...
...Yet another anti-Beltway K Street lobby group run by people who've lived in Washington for 25 years...
...The Silence of Song Chinese authorities have arrested Yongyi Song, a Chinese researcher from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, for the "crime" of collecting documents on the Cultural Revolution...
...And that, Gingrich says, "is precisely why I left office, and precisely why I founded the Committee for New American Leadership...
...Not Joan Crawford...
...Scrapbook Newt American Leadership Newt Gingrich sent out a press release the other day announcing the formation of a new "platform from which Newt Gingrich can communicate his vision for America...
...Laura believes that homosexuality is contrary to God's law and on her show has referred to it as "deviant...
...Which leads to the second obvious purpose of the Committee for New American Leadership—rewriting history...
...For starters, announced Gingrich, "We believe that the American people ought to influence the politicians in Washington, not the other way around...
...As an Orthodox Jew, Dr...
...That appearance last night is why there's a lot of guys out there who secretly think Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a great date...
...In contrast, presumably, to the many other political organizations whose stated goal is to manipulate the masses from above...
...Perhaps not surprisingly, Paramount is showing signs of wobbliness...
...SQUITIERI: Date, D-A-T-E...
...Laura for her anti-gay rhetoric...
Vol. 5 • January 2000 • No. 19
