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Scrapbook Are Liberals Illiterate? Liberal organizations lobbying the Senate against John Ashcroft's confirmation as attorney general fixed on an interview the nominee gave in 1998 to Southern...
...Yen and her editors at AP will surely want to be more careful next time...
...Not so the Indian nations of Canada, according to Lumsden...
...Such a smart fellow, Bob Zoellick—and yet not a Jew...
...During an interview published in the Jan...
...The wrongs North American Indians suffered are "much more profound...
...There's nothing at all funny about the smear itself, however...
...What it reflects, instead, is that a bunch of "upper-middle class, bourgeoisie, central European families...
...And the art stolen from them has "sacred values...
...Sil-verman claimed it was Bray's idea, but Bray's farewell column made plain that he'd been fired...
...Have you read Thomas West's book, Vindicating the Founders...
...Hmm...
...Ashcroft is supposed to have praised the magazine for "defending Southern patriots like Lee, Jackson, and Davis" against the "malicious attacks" of "revisionists" who claim that slavery was a "perverted agenda...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia...
...And we have now decided, in all extra-special fairness, that...
...the state's concealed weapons law (used to support, now opposes...
...I gave it away to a newspaper editor...
...For one thing, "I think the greater good of mankind might have been served inadvertently by the Nazis by virtue of the fact that, possibly, if some of these works had been left in homes in Amsterdam and God knows where, they'd have been bombed and the works might have been destroyed...
...INTERVIEWER: I've met Professor West, and I read one of his earlier books, but not that one...
...But not everyone is on board, it seems...
...Furthermore, Lumsden went on, none of the paintings in question really belonged in those Jewish homes to begin with...
...They aren't "important pieces of Judaica," and "they don't say anything specifically about the Jewish people....A painting by Pablo Picasso,how does that reflect on one's sense of identity...
...THE SCRAPBOOK has given Silverman not six months but eight, in fact, just to be extra-special fair...
...And an insincere one, to boot...
...And also, as Cohen was forced to acknowledge in print two days later, because Zoellick isn't Jewish, either...
...Liberal organizations lobbying the Senate against John Ashcroft's confirmation as attorney general fixed on an interview the nominee gave in 1998 to Southern Partisan, a magazine of unabashed Confederate irredentism...
...We find a sliver of comedy in the fact that Ashcroft should have been smeared as a crypto-racist on the basis of his conversation about Thomas West's fine book Vindicating the Founders...
...Can this really be true...
...For three sentences later, Ashcroft makes clear that he, too, believes slavery a "perverted agenda" from which the honor of the American founding can and must be rescued...
...First off, D. Brooks Smith was actually nominated for the federal trial court in 1988—by Ronald Reagan, not by George Bush...
...So it turns out John Ashcroft defended not the pro-slavery views of Civil War-era Confederate leaders but the anti-slavery views of the nation's Revolutionary War-era Founders...
...You've got a heritage of doing that, of defending Southern patriots like Lee, Jackson, and Davis...
...Trade Representative's office doesn't count—because "trade negotiator is not a cabinet post...
...The News would remain proudly conservative, he told Winkler, and for proof "I would invite you to look at our editorial page in six months...
...Hellman told Yen that Bush might be inclined to nominate D. Brooks Smith, already a federal district-court judge in western Pennsylvania: "Smith, who was nominated for the federal trial court by former president George Bush, is generally conservative, but is highly respected, Hellman said...
...Traditionalists must do more...
...Nope...
...Too bad Hitler didn't live long enough to invade Canada and set things straight...
...We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect, or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes and their honor to some perverted agenda...
...Among those vacancies are two judgeships on the Third U.S...
...Last September, the editorial page abruptly turned a 180 and denounced the Whitewater investigation as a "political persecution motivated by the determination of Mr...
...Your magazine also helps set the record straight...
...Here's the actual passage in which the above-quoted words appear: ASHCROFT: Revisionism is a threat to the respect that Americans have for their freedoms and the liberty that was at the core of those who founded this country, and when we see George Washington, the founder of our country, called a racist, that is just total revisionist nonsense, a diatribe against the values of America...
...Law Professor Bites Dog A Jan...
...So: "What are we doing about getting these back to the rightful owners...
...We thought it worth reading the interview in the unabridged original, just to make sure the quotations from it cited by People for the American Way—and routinely reprinted in the mainstream media—are fair and accurate...
...We won't be trusting Mark Silver-man very much in the future...
...3 AP wire story by reporter Hope Yen analyzed how President Bush might fill eight vacancies on federal courts in Pennsylvania...
...The Jews have always been good with money that way, you know...
...the Detroit News is moving left...
...And Speaking ofJews In his column last Tuesday, the Washington Post's Richard Cohen vented spleen about how there aren't any Jews in President Bush's cabinet, a fact he found "dismal...
...invested rather astutely" in the early-20th-century art market...
...ASHCROFT: I wish I had another copy: I'd send it to you...
...Then there's this Hellman guy, who apparently believes there's something anomalous about being "generally conservative" and "highly respected" . . . simultaneously...
...Adolf Hitler, Patron of the Arts In art museums throughout the world hang hundreds, maybe thousands of important paintings with mysterious gaps in their ownership histories for the years 1933 to 1945...
...and so forth...
...Ashcroft's "controversial" mention of Lee, Jackson, and Davis seems simply a polite aside to his interviewer...
...The News has similarly abandoned several other recognizably conservative positions: racial preferences in University of Michigan admissions (used to oppose, now supports...
...Professor Hellman and the University of Pittsburgh selection committee that hired him will surely want to be more careful next time...
...Clinton's enemies to accomplish through the courts what they could not achieve at the ballot box...
...Who'd have known...
...I've got to do more...
...Any number of these paintings might have been stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis during those years—and subsequently acquired by Western galleries...
...And among the experts Yen asked for predictions about that court was one Arthur Hellman of the University of Pittsburgh's law school...
...And an intercontinental effort to identify such paintings and return them to descendants of the owners is under way...
...There can't be any serious question about it: "These people" are the Founders, which is why Ashcroft explicitly refers to the Declaration's final words...
...What we should really be worrying ourselves over is "the spoliation of native works into non-native collections...
...Truth-Squadding the Detroit News Last May, Claudia Winkler reported in these pages how Mark Silverman, publisher and editor of the Detroit News, had purged Thomas Bray, director of the paper's universally respected—and conservative—editorial page (see "Jackasses Release Bray," May 15, 2000...
...West virtually disassembles all of these malicious attacks the revisionists have brought against our Founders...
...And slavery, in the view of our next attorney general, is indeed a "perverted agenda...
...4 Ottawa Citizen, Ian Lums-den, executive director of the Beaver-brook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, rather bitterly complained about the project, in fact...
...And no, Cohen went on, anticipating objections, Bush's selection of Robert Zoellick to run the U.S...
...An irritated Silverman angrily denied the move was political...
Vol. 6 • January 2001 • No. 19
