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Scrapbook The Other 9/11, cont. When THE SCRAPBOOK reported last week on various commemorations of the "other" September 11 attack—the coup that toppled Chilean president Salvadore Allende's...
...In going out of his way to term members of Hamas as 'soldiers,' Governor Dean insults the memory of every innocent man, woman, and child killed by these suicidal murderers...
...As an exercise in creepy left-wing America-bashing, the Times editorial ranks way up there...
...In what we suppose was a shameless pander to the page's left-liberal base, last Thursday's Times included an editorial titled—you guessed it—"The Other Sept...
...Nobody should have violence, ever," Dean told a campaign audience in New Mexico the week before...
...What's more, the September 11, 1973, attacks "would lead to the deaths of 3,000 people," too...
...Pricking the Dean Bubble It's happening...
...A symbol of the nation" was destroyed on both infamous days...
...When THE SCRAPBOOK reported last week on various commemorations of the "other" September 11 attack—the coup that toppled Chilean president Salvadore Allende's government in 1973—we thought we were simply publicizing the activities of a few far-left performance artists...
...Fine company the Times is keeping...
...oh—almost forgot, back on the Middle East again: You know that damage-control interview Dean gave Wolf Blitz-er on CNN last week, the one where he implied that he thought Israel was justified in targeting Hamas leaders for assassination, 'cause after all, if Hamas "soldiers" are going to make war on the Jews, then Hamas "soldiers" must expect to get killed in retaliation...
...Dean's comments, Lieberman advises, risk breaking one of our "most critical alliances...
...We bet "disappointed" isn't the half of it...
...He set about bravely saying his goodbyes, and his trademark dark humor never failed him...
...Hear, hear...
...When rapper Biggie Smalls went out in a hail of gunfire, we were the dog that didn't bark...
...Hamas militants are not soldiers in a war—they are terrorists who need to be stopped...
...And this just in: Not to be outdone in bare-knuckle combat, Dick Gephardt has delivered a major speech (and released a brutal set of opposition-research fact sheets) designed to alert union members, retired people, and just-plain-folks Americans across the continent to the fact that Howard Dean, "as chairman of the National Governors' Association" in the mid-1990s, "agreed with the Gingrich Republicans" about Social Security and Medicare, which Dean called "one of the worst federal programs ever...
...The moral of the story is that even though "the United States did not directly participate in the coup," as the Times admits, "our nation's hands have not always been clean...
...By which The Scrapbook means: The other candidates have finally decided that they've just about had it up to here with this Howard Dean character and his amateur Internet brigade and his starry-eyed press corps groupies and . . . well, it's time for the grown-up pros to cut Dean's legs off so the grown-up pros can get on with their grown-up pro business, isn't it...
...The Democratic presidential primary campaign has finally been joined in earnest...
...Well, Kerry thinks that's pretty darn disgusting, too...
...Meanwhile, not to be outdone, the flagship of America-hating newspapers, Le Monde, that same day published the grotesque cartoon you see to the left, making the same point...
...Silly us...
...The son of a professional gambler who won Zevon his first car in a card game, Zevon was a noirish spirit to the point that he once house-hunted in Santa Barbara simply because Ross Macdonald lived there...
...Death came from the skies" in both attacks, you see...
...Anybody looking forward to that New York primary...
...Kerry also doesn't think too highly of Dean's position on gun control: "I've never been endorsed by the NRA," he sniffs...
...Warren Zevon, R.I.P Over the years, it has not been The Scrapbook's habit to memorialize deceased rockers...
...Given a full hour of broadcast time last fall by one of his biggest fans, David Letterman, he explained his illness to the audience, "First of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years...
...It was one of those phobias that didn't really pay off...
...Then there is the funniest Cold War intrigue song ever, "Lawyers, Guns and Money," which opened: Well I went home with a waitress / The way I always do...
...But many of his best songs had nothing to do with his own tortured shortcomings...
...The editorial draws turgid parallels between pinochet's military coup and al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...
...A genuine rockstar for about five minutes in 1978, when he charted with "Werewolves of London," Zevon was more of a struggling everyman, albeit a very clever one who always smiled through the pain, and never lapsed into unbecoming self-pity...
...Did you know, Joe Lieberman asks America in a nationally televised debate last Tuesday, that Howard Dean recently said Palestinian terrorism is not reason enough for U.S...
...Diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Zevon had the opportunity to plan his exit, and he made the most of it...
...Nor does Kerry approve of Dean's economic proposals: "If you're a $40,000 income earner, Howard Dean's going to raise your taxes more than 20 times...
...After a two-decade-long drinking binge, he emerged sober with "Detox Mansion": Well I'm gone to Detox Mansion / Way down on Last Breath Farm / I've been rakin' leaves with Liza / Me and Liz clean up the yard...
...To this day, his 1987 paean to former lightweight boxing champion Boom Boom Mancini (Zevon's father had been a boxer) makes us smile: Hurry home early—hurry on home / Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon...
...Through the years, he turned personal failures into lyrical gems...
...To our knowledge, it is the only lyric in the history of song to make use of the death of Du Koo Kim...
...Middle East diplomacy to tilt toward Israel in sympathy...
...John Kerry agrees with Lieberman about this: "Either [Dean] doesn't know that we took sides long ago or he's changing American policy in a major way...
...of all the English-major huggy-bears from the golden era of the singer/songwriter in the 1970s, Zevon wrote the smartest, slyest, most biting lyrics...
...But for Warren Zevon, who died September 7 at the age of 56, an exception is in order...
...Dean pronounces himself "disappointed" in all these attacks...
...How was I to know / She was with the Russians, too...
...It turns out that no less an authority than the New York Times's editorial board was among those wber-blue-state Americans who spent last Thursday commemorating the "other" 9/11...
...For those of you who aren't Chilean nationalists, the building in question 30 years ago was "La Moneda," the Chilean presidential palace...
...But they do, and it's not our place to take sides...
...It may be surpassed by the Broken Tooth Puppet Troupe's production of "The Other 9/11: Another Hemisphere Remembers (& Other Tales)," but we couldn't bring ourselves to carry out due diligence on the puppets...
...When the Bee Gee's Maurice Gibb succumbed to a bad ticker, we were conspicuously silent...
Vol. 9 • September 2003 • No. 2
