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Jewish World Review
April 28, 2005
/ 19 Nisan, 5765
Can the Dems stand getting a little taste of their own medicine?
By
Bob Tyrrell
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As conscientious followers of politics are
doubtless aware, the better sort of American liberal is troubled by the
unprecedented vituperation that has stolen into the public discourse. The
Clintons refer to it as "The Politics of Personal Destruction" well said,
Bill and Hillary. They, and concerned citizens like them, recognize that
this inflammatory rhetoric comes, in the main, from the right or as they
put it, "the extreme right."
Dr. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
likewise is alarmed by the abusiveness from the right or more generally from
Republicans whom he has recently identified as being "evil," "corrupt" and
"brain-dead." Well, I would expect nothing better from such people, and it
is helpful to the commonweal for Dr. Dean to direct the public's attention
to these troubling developments. Allow me to point out that "the right" not
only indulges in jarring invective but it also has adopted polemical
techniques that are very disturbing. For several years its writers have
engaged in discrediting their opponents by quoting them. Yes, they simply
hurl back into a person's face things the person has said, without any
regard as to how this cruel quoting coarsens our society.
Actually, I quite inadvertently found myself accused of this
cheap trick back in the middle 1990s. A year after I was scorned for
publishing stories revealing that Bill Clinton has an eye for the ladies
(and other parts of his anatomy for the ladies as well), it became apparent
that I was right. Other writers such as David Maraniss had just published
the same findings. The Wall Street Journal's David Brooks asked me if I
would like to "gloat" about this subsequent vindication.
Alas, I committed an egregious journalistic excess. I quoted the
writers who a year before had insisted on Clinton's near virginal condition
and on the "dishonesty" of those of us arguing otherwise. "Dishonesty" was
the word Michael Kinsley leveled at us. Joe Klein, now of Time, was equally
critical. And after my Journal piece appeared, he told me to my face that I
had dealt him "a low blow." My innocent response was something to the
effect, "But, Joe, all I did was quote you."
Today I realize how treacherous it is for writers to remind
others of their prior timorousness or imbecility. Kinsley explained how
unfair it is sometime ago when he noted that liberals were having their
foolish statements thrown back at them because of the advent of so many
search engines on the Internet. Search engines make it easy to retrieve a
public person's errors.
Perhaps the foremost villain on the "extreme right" known for
discrediting people by quoting them is OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto.
Just the other day, he indulged in arrant character assassination against
one of those brave souls now opposing the nomination of John Bolton as our
United Nations ambassador. Lynne Finney, a former employee of the federal
government, has written an affecting letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer notifying
her of enormities committed by Bolton against her person in "late 1982 or
early 1983." Allegedly Bolton "screamed that I was fired," Finney writes.
She has since become a "motivational speaker," and Taranto has published
contents of her website, merely to reveal her as a fool.
On the site she confides that we live in a time of "rapid
evolution and intense transformation." "New discoveries in quantum physics,
psychology, and spirituality" reveal "wonderful new realities. It's
estimated that more than 14 million people have already become enlightened
or Self-realized . Each time someone reaches Self-realization, it affects
the collective Mind. Things are heating up. Like popcorn, we are all popping
faster and are reaching enlightenment at a rapid rate." From elsewhere on
the Web, Taranto quotes sources claiming that Finney now engages in
"recovering memories" after her own painful youth. She lives in "a world of
miracles."
Actually the treacherous quoting of innocent liberals has become
a staple of the American right. Rush Limbaugh does it every weekday and so
does Sean Hannity. Every year the Media Research Center holds a huge dinner
in Washington devoted to ridiculing members of the media for things they
have said over the past year and the Media Research Center uses video tape . MRC spends the year taping network news and
then plays select tapes back during its dinner. It gives awards for the
stupidest quotations. Naturally, this year Dan Rather won.
Hundreds of conservatives turn out for the MRC awards dinner
every year and have a very jolly time. I must admit I went this year and
enjoyed myself immensely. Ann Coulter was on the program as well as Hannity.
Midge Decter was the heart of suave hilaritas. But Boone Pickens and Zell
Miller stole the show, along with Swift Boat hero John O'Neill, who was
superb. All in all, it is a very amusing if treacherous evening.
Curiously, never is it ever reported on by major media. Maybe major media is
waiting for Al Franken to put together an amusing dinner. It will be a long
wait.
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