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Scrapbook The Surprisingly Good Guys List The novelist Dan Jenkins once joked, "They should publish a list every year of who's not dead yet." In a similar spirit, The Scrapbook has decided to...
...And sometimes, of course, they'll show anger because you're a jerk...
...It manages simultaneously to combine unctuousness, cynicism, and pomposity: "A journalist, like a doctor, should uphold the principle: 'First, do no harm.' . . . "If other journalists crowd in and you lose control of the interview, think about ways to alleviate any distress the interviewee is experiencing as a result...
...America has been "niggerized" by the terrorist attacks,' West said, comparing current national anxieties to African Americans' long history of coping with terror and death...
...Consider, for instance, this exchange last week between NBC's Matt Lauer and Air Force general D.L...
...We are already in a war started by others...
...The deeper problem, however, may be that, as a class, we journalists are basically the south end of a horse going north...
...Here's a gift from the U.S...
...If the interviewee cries, this is not necessarily a bad or harmful thing...
...11 Harvard Crimson reports on a lecture by Cornel West at the Kennedy School...
...Many of us have worked hard to change the nation's foreign policy, and I hope many more continue to do so...
...Why Do They Hate Us...
...Call it the surprisingly good guys list...
...Johnson, who was supervising the airdrops of food aid to Afghanistan...
...A Different Kind ofBlowback According to an Oct...
...We are a nation of law, and we should be trying to create a world of law...
...The demonstrator was taken to a hospital, and his condition is unknown...
...There is a serious debate in which progressives must now engage, and it's not in whether force should be used...
...Here are some excerpts: "Like many progressives," writes Shuman, "I've been besieged with various anti-war petitions over the past week...
...One reason people feel self-conscious about crying is nasal discharge, and offering them a paper tissue can help...
...We're referring in the headline not to this country but to journalists, who are always mystified when their fellow citizens fail to adulate them...
...You may want to help them with a sense of purpose for the moment...
...For the first time in years, The Scrapbook found itself last week nodding in agreement with a column by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, this one attacking "mindless moral equivalency...
...It's what kind of force...
...8 dispatch from the Associated Press, a proTaliban demonstrator in Peshawar, Pakistan, (see below) was engulfed in fire while burning a U.S...
...But West changed focus after September 11...
...Hear, hear...
...Part of the problem is the high proportion of callow airheads in our ranks...
...Carry paper tissues at all times, and offer them as a caring gesture...
...We should be deeply skeptical not only of those who argue 'my country, right or wrong,' but also those who believe 'my country is always wrong.'" Feel free to e-mail your candidates for future editions of the list, along with the work that you think qualifies them, to Scrapbook@weeklystandard.com...
...A friendly touch on the arm is also often good...
...Chattering Asses (cont...
...Sounds an awful lot like reparations to me,' West said to shouts of 'Amen!' from the crowd...
...Warren Beatty earns probationary membership on the list (we're not total saps) for recalling in a speech in New York how his father used to like the phrase "Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country," and then voicing his own support for George W. Bush: "The opposition party can support our commander in chief without putting its beliefs of reason, civil liberties [and] social programs aside...
...Sad to say," wrote Alter, "the line between explaining terrorism and rationalizing it has been repeatedly breached by a shallow left stuck in a deep anti-American rut...
...flag...
...More than 6,000 Americans were killed in a surprise attack—twice the casualties at Pearl Harbor...
...Johnson: We're saying this is a gift of food and nourishment to people who are starving...
...Consider the "Practical Suggestions for Journalists Covering Catastrophe" offered recently by our most prestigious finishing school, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (the full document can be obtained at www.cjr.orglyearl01l5lcoveringcatast.asp...
...If this isn't an act of war, what is...
...West drew some of his strongest crowd reaction when he expressed a slight indignation over politicians' sudden infatuation with spending in the wake of the attacks...
...Lauer: But you can't deny the fact that when you drop these into impoverished areas, you're, in effect, sending U.S...
...The central arguments, however well intentioned, are astonishingly misguided: "•We might start a war—Excuse me...
...propaganda into those areas...
...Sometimes people will feel violated or show anger, even if you haven't done anything wrong...
...America's use of force cannot be trusted—Sorry, we're not always the bad guy...
...you're saying, "Taliban bad...
...I didn't think America was into reparations...
...In a similar spirit, The Scrapbook has decided to start a list of people we assumed were chattering asses but have turned out not to be...
...It might help to say, 'I know this is really traumatic for you to talk about, but people need to know about it because ...' Do have a good reason at hand as to why people need to know...
...The Oct...
...But our grievances do not permit us to firebomb the Pentagon, blow up the World Trade Center, or murder innocent civilians...
...The speech "was originally supposed to focus on hip hop culture...
...Avoid stupid questions...
...First among these is 'How does it feel?' . . . Don't say, 'You must have felt . . .' You should be helping the person to articulate her own narrative, whatever it is, and by reflective listening, to legitimate it...
...We're just reaping what we've sown—Yes, America has angered many people worldwide—I'm one of them...
...I have two words of advice to my friends and colleagues on the left: Don't sign...
...Most impressive, though, was the e-mail manifesto "Why I Won't Sign" by lefty Michael H. Shuman, now program director for the Village Foundation, and the former executive director (1992-98) of the Institute for Policy Studies...
Vol. 7 • October 2001 • No. 6
