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Scrapbook The Real Objection to McCain-Feingold A good journalistic rule of thumb is not to pick on cripples or old ladies or, if you can help it, crippled old ladies. But the uncompassionately...
...It was normal," Depardieu said, "After that I had plenty of rapes, too many to count...
...Denise Rich, Class of '62 Every scandal deserves a yearbook photo, so as a public service we provide Denise Rich's at right, courtesy of irreplaceable Boston radio talkster Howie Carr, one of whose listeners faxed it to him...
...Neasy...
...Rather it's because of Depardieu's brutish quotes in a 1978 Film Comment piece, in which he related how when he was 9 years old, a friend took him along on his "first rape" in a bus depot...
...Just in time for Senate debate on the McCain-Feingold bill, we receive an advance copy of Granny D's song-of-herself memoir, Walking Across America In My 90th Year, which she'll promote on a two-week campaign-finance-reform walk around the U.S...
...As they say in the land of lutefisk, Gérard: Hit the showers...
...THE REAL JFK The Kennedy clan went into conniptions last week over the use of footage of the martyred president praising tax cuts in advertisements promoting the Bush tax plan...
...Even before the foot-and-mouth outbreak, The Scrapbook supported a Depardieu disinfection...
...But no...
...It's only a matter of a girl putting herself in a situation where she wants to be...
...Ted, Caroline, et al...
...I mean, there's really no such thing as rape...
...In another, she visits a Midland bull riding ring where the cowboys "were very young men, strutting about in tight blue jeans, with colorful cowboy shirts tucked in over their trim bellies...
...Influence-peddlers be warned: Don't mess with us...
...probably shouldn't protest too loudly, since JFK was no liberal by today's standards and was probably closer to Bush than to them...
...I'm not comfortable with those people...
...And not because in 1992 he sired a child with someone other than his wife of 22 years, or because we sat through the stink bomb that was Green Card...
...During Campaign 2000, we had occasion to meet Granny D several times, and were impressed by her ready wit, smart tailoring (fluorescent crossing-guard jacket, even indoors), and Katharine Hepburn-ish dramatics that made every speech sound like a community-theater reading of Our Town...
...But the uncompassionately conservative Scrapbook is going to make an exception for Doris Haddock, aka Granny D, the self-described "old New Hampshire woman with arthritis and emphysema and parched lips and a splintered hat...
...Barry Goldwater once said of Moyers, "Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up...
...It seems the highly infectious disease can be carried not only by clothing, vehicle tires, and migrating birds, but also by overrated French actors...
...Sudden brainstorms and a lovable disposition are characteristics of Denise...
...The real problem: "tamper with the memory of John F. Kennedy and the guardians of the flame will strike you down for sacrilege...
...our favorite anecdote comes when she meets Connecticut congressman Christopher Shays...
...It's enough to call for a journalistic cold shower, which is provided by Bill Moyers's foreword...
...wild sweaters . . . dancing...
...There was nothing wrong with it...
...In fact, Goldwater wouldn't have had to read further than Moyers's first sentence before the onset of nausea...
...disorganized . . . frolicking . . . around the bush...
...She is funloving and is never without something to say...
...But never fear, she can also be an avid listener and a good friend to all...
...You know you are in trouble when the man who praised Al Gore's Earth in the Balance as "a powerful summons for the politics of life and hope" warns us that "The soul of a citizen shines through these pages...
...The Bush tax cut would return less than 7 cents...
...Despite being a tad overwrought—people she meets during her odyssey are said to break down in tears when discussing soft-money excesses—the book is not without entertainment value, particularly when Granny D discusses her runaway libido...
...As an ice-breaker, Shays kneels down to kiss her hand, while Granny leans forward to kiss "the bald spot on the top of his head...
...Here are the other details you've been looking forward to (ellipses in the original...
...I never joined the Americans for Democratic Action...
...She would have made better time had she not kept peeling off to accept awards and speaking gigs at Reform party conventions...
...Moyers would have Goldwater reaching for the Pepcid as he lovingly recounts Granny D facing down Mitch McConnell ("the most ardent apologist for legalized bribery in the United States Senate"), or how Granny D declared, during a march down Lobbyist Row, "our brooms are ballots, and we come a-sweeping...
...he told Charlie Bartlett, "They're sort of like Adlai...
...I'd be very happy to tell them I'm not a liberal," he declared in a Saturday Evening Post interview...
...Kennedy hated being grouped with such people in the public mind...
...Who better to kick off a memoir celebrating high-fiber sanctimony than PBS's own Narcissus...
...Really...
...The Kennedy tax cut returned to the wealthiest Americans 26 cents on every marginal dollar they earned...
...continental .. . offbeat...
...With her trek completed, though, The Scrap-book was hoping we'd seen the last of Granny D's self-congratulatory 45-minute harangues about money being the root of all evil in politics (we like to think Bob Shrum is...
...Marc Rich was apparently known to her friends as "Neasy" and "Neasle...
...Readers will recall her as the 91-year-old publicity-hound great grandmother who spent 14 months hiking 3,200 miles across America to highlight the need for campaign finance reform...
...In her pre-Clinton-fund-raising youth, the future former Mrs...
...We have access to your yearbooks...
...Gold-water had been on the receiving end of what author Rick Perlstein calls the anti-Goldwater "espionage, sabotage, and mudslinging unit" Moyers ran for LBJ...
...Correction We are reliably informed that a couple of details in an article in our February 12 issue ("The Minister of Ministries," by Fred Barnes) were incorrect...
...Well, we'll risk the flame by amplifying the point...
...As Chris Matthews recounts in his book Kennedy and Nixon, JFK shared Nixon's contempt for "Hiss types": "They're not queer at State, but...
...The girls wanted to be raped...
...One of her chapters is entitled "A Man Magnet...
...Yet as Charles Krauthammer noted in his Washington Post column, "the ads are perfectly reasonable...
...Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis who had been George W. Bush's first choice to head the faith-based initiative, did not ask for cabinet status or meet with Dick Cheney about the job...
...Disinfecting Depardieu Good news from Norway: Reuters reports that Norwegian farmers, fearing an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, are insisting that Gérard Depardieu be disinfected when he enters their country for a film shoot later this year...
...dues .. . Nea-sle' is the most striking member of the Senior Class...
...Capitol building (The Scrapbook can circle the grounds in 25 minutes, but then, we don't have a book to promote...
...Indeed, he derided liberals as "honkers...
...There are other arguments against the McCain-Feingold bill, but thwarting the likes of Bill Moyers and Granny D may be the best...
...The Drama Club is slowly going broke under her competent handling of the drama ledger...
Vol. 6 • March 2001 • No. 27
