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Scrapbook 1700 Percent Hyped Human Rights Watch is just out with a 41-page report on the "severe wave of backlash violence" directed against Arabs and Muslims here in the United States after last...
...Scrapbook 1700 Percent Hyped Human Rights Watch is just out with a 41-page report on the "severe wave of backlash violence" directed against Arabs and Muslims here in the United States after last year's terrorist attacks...
...Why is it necessary to exaggerate those few such crimes as do exist...
...1) Production Assistant...
...He stressed substantive issues and didn't run any negative TV commercials...
...That figure is derived from the FBI's annual "Uniform Crime Reporting" tabulations, which counted 28 "anti-Islamic" bias crimes in 2000 and then 481 of them in 2001...
...This was the defeat of Steve Largent in the race for governor of Oklahoma...
...paulin is the man who this past April told Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly that American-born Jews who've settled in Israel and the West Bank are "Nazis" and "racists" who should be "shot dead...
...Harvard Grows a Backbone Congratulations to Harvard's Lawrence Summers, who is rapidly becoming The Scrapbook's favorite university president...
...The GOP's War on Sex Mark Morford, a columnist on the San Francisco Chronicle's website and a self-described "neo-pagan gleaner of screaming delicious naked nuances," has just pulled off the political scoop of the year...
...Three of which concededly involved no real evidence of ethnic motivation whatsoever...
...Or e-mail to scrapbook@weeklystandard.com...
...Was that a "severe wave" of violence...
...Gary Copeland of the University of Oklahoma agreed Richardson hurt Largent more...
...Human Rights Watch's extraordinarily sloppy researchers confirm as much in the fact-checking notes they have failed to remove from their final, published text: "JS: is it correct as edited...
...The question of banning cockfighting produced a huge turnout in rural Democratic counties, thus aiding Henry...
...that part's right out of the New York Times...
...But even in numerical terms, UCR hate-crime data are notoriously fuzzy...
...It took votes away from me too...
...And see that it doesn't happen again...
...Our ideal candidate is someone with excellent design sense and strong production skills...
...The FBI reported more than twice that number of "anti-Jewish" bias crimes in 2001, for example...
...I do think Gary Richardson's candidacy probably benefited me by taking votes from Steve Largent," Democrat Henry told the Daily Oklahoman...
...Then a number of factors caught up with him, including a referendum on cockfighting...
...Pre-press and advertising production experience is a plus, as is expertise in QuarkXPress, Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat...
...What happened...
...Its report focuses instead on a handful of specific horror stories, raising a particular eyebrow about seven murders...
...Largent ran the sort of campaign that good government types love...
...is disingenuous...
...Thousands of American soldiers and civilians already risk their lives on a daily basis in the Islamic Middle East...
...One Richardson TV ad was particularly harmful to Largent...
...And then there's this: 481 bias crimes, in a nation of 290 million people, isn't all that many...
...Human Rights Watch has just made things more dangerous for them...
...Especially since the vast majority of incidents at issue, for Jews and Muslims both, were entirely non-violent...
...It showed his response to a TV reporter who asked his whereabouts on September 11, 2001 (he was on a hunting trip...
...But two other factors were more important...
...And he was universally regarded as a rising star among conservatives, even a potential candidate for national office...
...From such a low base, of course, any numerical increase will produce a (misleadingly) gigantic percentage...
...Which, apart from "fear" and "war" and "intolerance" and "white-power laws," turns out to include "bad sex...
...Even a single crime of violent bigotry in the United States would be too much to tolerate...
...Largent's Loss Amid the Republican glee over this year's election, there was a loss both sad and surprising...
...He has a large following especially among religious conservatives...
...Largent, 48, is a former congressman and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
...Expertise in QuarkXPress and Photoshop is required...
...First off, we suppose, it should be pointed out that Human Rights Watch's scare statistic—a 1700 percent increase...
...2) Assistant Art Director...
...Though it acknowledges that federal, state, and local officials " responded quickly and vigorously to" this post-September 11 "ferocity," the organization complains that America should have been better prepared for a "1700 percent" increase in anti-Islamic hate crimes, "which included murder, assault, arson, and vandalism...
...Everyone else in American journalism has missed this story: "Dark storm clouds of sadness and savage spiritual pain [have] settled in over the collective soul of the country and indeed much of the world . . . as the Republican party snatched total control of the American government," Morford writes...
...This is the scoop: Morford reports that the GOP has "really honestly promised to further its agenda...
...Largent, a devout Christian, used the word "bull—" in dismissing the question...
...He won only 14 percent of the vote, enough to keep Largent from winning...
...The other factor was independent candidate Gary Richardson, a renegade Republican trial lawyer who spent $3 million on the race...
...Once those stories start appearing, anybody want to bet what will happen...
...English department chairman Lawrence Buell, who had previously defended the paulin invitation, now says his colleagues "sincerely regret the widespread consternation that has arisen...
...Last Tuesday, after "discussions" with Sum-mers's office, the Harvard English department rather abruptly canceled, and publicly apologized for having scheduled in the first place, a poetry reading by Oxford University professor Tom paulin—which was to have taken place last Thursday...
...Especially since, when the Human Rights Watch "expose" gets picked up by newspapers and television stations in the Arab world, nuance and underlying truth will inevitably be lost, and all that will remain are stories about the "ferocity" of American "violence" against innocent children of Allah...
...Human Rights Watch skips rather casually over this last and—you would think—crucial detail...
...Mail resume, work samples, and cover letter with salary requirements to Personnel Department, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036...
...Help Wanted THE WEEKLY STANDARD is looking to fill two positions...
...Allies urged him to answer the attack ads aired against him, but he refused...
...No, it was not...
...White House sources tell The Scrap-book that President Bush will wait until the Inauthentic Orgasm Act of 2003 is formally introduced before announcing his position on the legislation...
...No, that's not the scoop...
...The ban, by the way, won...
...As late in the campaign as six days before the election, Largent held an 11-point lead over his Democrat foe, state senator Brad Henry...
...The new Republican Congress, Mor-ford reveals, plans to crack down hard on anyone who "really cares about . . . authentic orgasms...
...Our ideal candidate for this position is detail-minded and well organized, with substantial computer skills...
...And one of the others involved a Yemeni gentleman shot to death while in bed with the jealous gunman's ex-girlfriend...
...Where to begin...
...Too bad...
Vol. 8 • November 2002 • No. 11
