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| June 2, 1997 |
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(Vol. Ten; No. 11) |
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Incongruous Comparisons Abound"In the '80s, morning in America sounded
good but proved to be a false dawn. The expansion was fueled by 'high-yield'
junk bonds and government debt, and when interest rates soared and the market
crashed, the junk dealers on Wall Street began to look like perfect mirror
images of the crack entrepreneurs in the slums." "Earlier tonight, we reported the
President's apology for medical experiments that allowed black Americans to
die of syphilis. The President noted how badly this hurt public trust in
government, especially among minorities. The same criticism is being made
today on another score. As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports,
it's the fallout from California's voter-approved ban on state affirmative
action programs." Morning Boos for Paula, Sobs for Susan"You said that you wanted to, if it went
to trial, explore the pattern of conduct on the part of the President. That
sounds to me like you're setting out simply to embarrass the White
House." "She also claims she's being held under
conditions that are inhuman, including solitary confinement, sexual harassment
from male prisoners, and being served oatmeal that is cold and gluey." Capital Gains Tax Cuts: Just for the Wealthy?"On Capitol Hill, the Senate voted
overwhelming approval today for the big balanced budget blueprint. Supporters
of the plan say it would balance the budget in five years, provide $85 billion
in tax breaks mostly for families with children, cut the capital gains tax
which would help immediately the wealthy, and save $321 billion out of
Medicare, defense and other spending." Reality Check: Republican Racists, Democratic Healers"Well, Strom Thurmond did take, was the
first candidate to try to remove Dixie from the Democratic coalition over the
issue of civil rights. He was followed by George Wallace and there's still a
strain, a strong strain now, in his adopted party, the Republican Party, that
maintains this." Howard Fineman, Newsweek: "Jay, this
Tuskegee experiment has been known about in public for decades. Why did
Clinton do this now?" Conservatives Cripple and Kill"Republicans got their tax cuts for
families and investors and some savings in domestic programs. But they dropped
the plans they had in 1995 and 1996 for crippling Medicare and Medicaid,
abolishing government departments and agencies, expanding the military, and
relaxing environmental protections." "The mood of the Republican congressional
leadership is so ideologically obtuse as to doom even this modest first step
down the path of responsibility. They would rather kill people than raise
taxes." Not Quite the Media Reaction to Al Gore's Convention Speech"[Sen. Rick] Santorum's theatrics make me
gag. He may be sincere, but the show that he just put on, the clip we just saw
of him wringing his hands about babies, make me think that it is theater. That
my be unfair to him, but it seems excessive to me and a lot of this is just
showboating on the floor." If Nobody Will Believe Them, Why Demand the Report?"If [the CIA's John] Deutch thinks anyone
in black America is going to take the word of those two organizations [the CIA
and the Justice Department], he's mistaken. Black Americans have been the
target of so much hostility that many of them would not put it past their own
government to finance the war against communism by addicting thousands of
people." vs. "Last fall the CIA and the Justice
Department promised they would investigate the alleged link between coke
smugglers and the CIA. More than six months have passed, and so far neither
agency has delivered its report to Congress. That is a more urgent issue than
the missteps of the Mercury News." American Isolationists and Russian Communists: Both Right-Wing"You're going to find a lot of opposition
from a lot of different trends. The isolationists are going to say wait a
minute, we're not sending troops or our nuclear umbrella to defend Prague,
basically, that's going to be one line. Right-wing Republicans, maybe even led
by Henry Kissinger, are going to say you just gave away the store to the
Russians...You've got a basically, hardline, right-wing Duma, largely, not
largely but a strong communist, I'm not sure a majority but a
plurality..." Memorial Day Media Priorities"Good evening. It has been a mostly quiet
Memorial Day across the country with people coming together to enjoy cookouts,
parades and the great outdoors. And, this holiday weekend, millions of
Americans have something new in common: dinosaurs, financially successful
dinosaurs. So successful, they opened this weekend in what is certain to
become the most profitable movie in history." vs. "Finally this evening, remembering their
sacrifice. It is perhaps too easy on Memorial Day to think of the holiday as
just another long weekend. Easy to forget that a holiday which originated
after the Civil War now honors all those Americans who sacrificed their lives
in all the wars this nation has fought."
L. Brent Bozell, Publisher
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