Scrapbook
Scrapbook Takes One to Smell One By now there isn't a political reporter alive who hasn't written a story about the "serious question" whether Bush campaign media consultant Alex Castellanos...
...2) "rats" isn't the word Castellanos would have chosen if he had intended to insert a subliminal message...
...Educating the Prince is available at your local bookstore—or direct from the publisher...
...4) Castel-lanos would have to be an imbecile to bother with such a useless trick...
...And each has also made independent inquiries about what other, more obvious explanation there might be for the now-famous rodent sighting...
...THE Scrapbook is not at all surprised, however, by Clinton's latest exposition of the cosmology of narcissism...
...A Clinton spokeswoman tells reporters: "Hillary knows that this is a difficult time for Paul and his family and she wishes him well...
...Given this development, what is Paul Adler's current relationship to the Clinton Senate campaign...
...So the NRLC had reason to be hopeful about the new man from Connecticut...
...Why is that...
...I'm not going to vote against a judicial nominee just because he's pro-life," Lieberman promised...
...For how important it was, too, that the president shared these private thoughts with Susan Estrich—so that we might read about them in George...
...The volume contains an introduction by Kristol and 21 impressive and provocative essays, many by such Standard contributors as Paul Cantor, Kenneth Weinstein, Clifford orwin, Jeremy Rabkin, and Charles Kesler...
...He faces up to 60 years in prison and a $2 million fine...
...Adler is a big chum of the first lady...
...Make that the three of us—or really all of us...
...Estrich told Clinton why she was soon to divorce her husband...
...Lieberman staffers have disputed the reports of two eyewitnesses to the Whealon meeting...
...Right there on national TV, Adler bragged about his Rolodex, pawing through it and narrating its trophies: "White House, Senate, congressional, statehouse, town hall numbers, private lines...
...Joe Lieberman Borks Himself In January 1989, at a meeting arranged by Connecticut state senator Regina Smith, Joseph Lieberman and several members of his staff had a private conversation with officials of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC...
...had he lost Hillary, he'd have lost his job...
...5) Castellanos isn't an imbecile...
...The book also contains a bibliography of Mansfield's writings, which alone should make it worth the price...
...A few months before, during the closing weeks of his successful campaign against incumbent Lowell Weicker, Lieberman had appealed for support to the Catholic archbishop of Hartford, the late John Whealon...
...But the newsies are nevertheless reporting the "controversial ad" as if it might be a genuine, deliberate dirty trick...
...And he did not disappoint...
...Or perhaps how important it was that we did . . . not just for the country, but for the two of us...
...It seems the "heart and soul of American politics" had pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars to grease local real estate transactions in which he had a financial interest...
...Scrapbook Takes One to Smell One By now there isn't a political reporter alive who hasn't written a story about the "serious question" whether Bush campaign media consultant Alex Castellanos deliberately inserted the word "rats"—as a subliminal message—into one frame of a television ad criticizing Al Gore's Medicare proposals...
...Also: the phone number of a carpenter doing work on Hillary Clinton's Westchester County home...
...Which confidences Estrich has now disclosed, willy nilly, in the pages of George magazine...
...Bill and Susan's Little Heart to Heart Turns out Susan Estrich, who describes herself as a good friend of Bill Clinton, was a guest at one of those White House sleepovers last year...
...In fact, the president paid her—in the form of what would seem unusually sensitive confidences about his marriage...
...I'm not going to apply a litmus test...
...Guaranteed...
...He was early to tout her possible New York Senate race...
...And they are reporting the "appalled" reactions of know-nothing academic "media experts" and other Democrats as if those complaints might be sincere...
...And she didn't even have to pay for it...
...How important" it was "for the country" that he and his wife stay married...
...In short, Adler was a player—said to be next in line as New York state Democratic chairman...
...and (6) what we have here, instead, is an example of a ubiquitous Madison Avenue video technique: a computer-generated optical illusion whereby a few letters from some larger forthcoming caption (in this case "bureaucrats decide") are briefly flashed on screen—so that the full set of words then appears to fly onto the viewer's field of vision from behind his head...
...Educating the Prince, edited by Mark Blitz and The Weekly Standard's own William Kristol, is just out from the publishing house of Rowman & Littlefield...
...They have no idea what we went through to save this marriage, how hard we've worked to save it...
...Except that Monday of last week Adler was charged with eight federal counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, bribery, and extortion...
...They think I got away with it...
...Soon to be a Lippo Group Consultant "We want to introduce you to the folks who are the heart and soul of American politics," CNN's Jeff Greenfield told his audience on the first night of last month's Democratic convention...
...No word yet about Lieberman's version of the NRLC meeting...
...Before she took up residence in Westchester, she frequently stayed overnight at Adler's place and looked to him for advice and crucial introductions...
...Nowadays, of course, Lieberman's running mate, Al Gore, insists that "a Supreme Court majority appointed in a Gore administration would support a woman's right to choose...
...And future such nominees...
...Because they are professionals, of course, all these press types have actually seen the ad in question, multiple times...
...According to a contemporaneous typewritten account of his get-together with the pro-life lobby, Lieberman said he would have voted to confirm Robert Bork to the Supreme Court had he been in the Senate at the time...
...Estrich quotes the president: "If Hillary had walked out, it would have made Monica an impeachable offense...
...Judging from the ensuing videotape, however, it appeared Adler's principal passion was for his cronies...
...In other words, not a single knowledgeable reporter in America actually believes it's possible that the Bush campaign and Alex Castellanos intended to do anything underhanded with this ad...
...Period...
...Buy This Book Admirers of legendary Harvard government professor Harvey Mans-field—which should include every reader of The Scrapbook—will be delighted by a new book of essays in his honor...
...By denying the disagreement, naturally...
...And word had since reached Washington about Lie-berman's assurances to Whealon: If he were elected to replace Weicker, he would prove himself reasonably pro-life...
...Any Scrapbook student who fails to grab a copy gets an automatic C-minus grade...
...So he introduced them to one Paul Adler, chairman of New York State's Rockland County Democratic party—a man, Greenfield explained, with a "passion" for public service...
...And "not just for the country"—a relatively small thing, that, after all—"but for the two of us...
...So how will the senator handle his apparent disagreement with Gore over the acceptability of judges opposed to Roe v. Wade...
...3) subliminal advertising is a folk myth in any case...
...THE SCRAPBOOK is flabbergasted by Clinton's blunt acknowledgment that his presidency was rescued not by the Constitution, but by his wife...
...As Ms...
...And Clinton, she writes, told her precisely why he had avoided such a result...
...you can see it quite clearly...
...Consequently, every such journalist knows full well, and knew it when he was writing about Rat-gate, that: (1) the word "rats" in Castellanos's ad isn't "subliminal" at all...
Vol. 6 • September 2000 • No. 2
