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/when there is a problem in ghettos between asians and the poor, the liberals blame the asians [prove ????] and feel sorry for the poor. say spose to give something back.
/see av
/ cut off hand in saudi
/baby-bath water: no vouchers/kill the goose that ..
/taxing lux boats. b out with ba water iq tests. vals, auth,/libs criticize singapore and jap. baby with bathwater.
/baby with ba water: singapore, japan, iq tests, drug runner profile, mc vals
disc, taxing lux boats, killing my informal rms, paying em to not work
/dir scott of pov law center missed pt entirely. would put person on st rather than in bed in gar or in a car as that’s il. stupid.
baby with ba water Henry Ford the lst./see sig?/wouldn’t refer kid to sub min wage job. would put cheri on st rather than in a room not up to code/see cl/jap, etc are boring/state wide ban on iq tests in calif. tv 94.
/baby with ba water: no job is better than …
/ba with bath water pov law cent: close rm even if hmless.
/pov law center saying better cheri be on st than in illegal rm./baby w ba water: child labor, singapore, jap, indonesia
/had to hire blacks in richmond and const. stopped said goldwater ’89
baby w. dir of pov law cent say he’s close my rm even if it meant person would have to sleep in car or be hmless./drug profile in fl./baby with ba – grad with no trade./nancy kaufman.
/garmet industry doesn’t pay mw nor overtime. raids, thus 200 fams lost their jobs. 94 /hillary, j jackson, & blk caucus all send their kids to pri schs. 95 jo clark./steelworkers priced self out of job.
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Journalists report that “business-oriented news outlets” and “major daily newspapers” provide the highest quality coverage of economic policy issues, while “broadcast network TV news” and “cable news services” provide the worst.
I. INTRODUCTION
The idea that the mainstream media have a “liberal bias” has long been conventional wisdom.
Professionals in general, they observe, often have “liberal” leanings on social issues and there is no reason to expect journalists to be any different.
the powerful corporate interests which own and sponsor the news media ensure that news content never strays too far, for too long, from protecting the status quo. You don’t understand the corporate ideology of General Motors by studying the personal beliefs of the assembly-line workers, the argument goes. Ideological orientation is introduced and enforced by those high in the organizational hierarchy who have the power to hire and fire, to reward and punish. Working journalists, despite their sometimes high visibility, usually do not call the shots in the nation’s media corporations. (The documentary “Fear and Favor in the Newsroom” provides vivid illustrations of this situation.) Consequently, the private views of individual journalists often matter little. Lotta bull
most journalists identify themselves as being centrists on both social and economic issues. Flaw: Perhaps this is why an earlier survey found that they tended to vote for Bill Clinton in large numbers. Clinton’s centrist “new Democrat” orientation combines moderately liberal social policies (which brings criticism from conservative anti-gay, “pro-life” and other activists) with moderately conservative economic policies (which brings criticism from labor unions, welfare rights advocates and others). This orientation fits well with the views expressed by journalists.
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Q#22. On social issues? |
Q#23. On economic issues? |
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Left 30% |
Left 11% |
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Center 57% |
Center 64% |
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Right 9% |
Right 19% |
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Other 5% |
Other 5% |
most have left leanings concerning social issues and right leanings concerning economic ones. This is consistent with a long history of research on profit-sector professionals in general. High levels of education tend to be associated with liberal views on social issues such as racial equality, gay rights, gun control and abortion rights. High levels of income tend to be associated with conservative views on economic issues such as tax policy and federal spending. Most journalists, therefore, would certainly not recognize themselves in the “liberal media” picture painted by conservative critics.
2. State of the Economy
The Washington press corps has often been accused of being an “elite” that is out of touch with mainstream Americans. journalists responding to this survey certainly did have very high household incomes, with over half living in households with $100,000 or more in income, and one-third in households with $150,000 or more income. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that journalists have a much more positive assessment of the state of the economy than the general public – baloney. All this need graphing
— stopping here ——- too academic.
3. Economic Priorities
When asked about a series of possible economic priorities for the federal government, 56% of journalists saw the need to “reform entitlement programs by slowing the rate of increase in spending for programs like Medicare and Social Security” as “one of the top few” priorities (19% said it should be the single highest priority) (Q#10b). Only 35% of the public felt similarly when polled by Greenberg Research Inc. in November 1996 (just 10% of the public saw this as the single highest priority.).
Instead, 59% of the general public identified the need to “protect Medicare and Social Security against major cuts” as “one of the top few priorities” (a full 24% of the public saw this as the single highest priority). Only 39% of journalists felt the same (with 13% identifying it as the single highest priority) (Q#10a). While 12% of the public put reforming and slowing Social Security and Medicare “toward the bottom of the list,” only 4% of journalists did (Q#10b). Journalists’ emphasis on slowing entitlements contrasts sharply with the general public’s emphasis on protecting entitlements.
When it came to health insurance, 32% of journalists felt that requiring employers provide health insurance to their employees should be “one of the top few priorities,” while a larger 47% of the public did (Q#10d).
By far the biggest gap between the public and journalists, though, came with the issue of NAFTA expansion (Q#10c). Of journalists, 24% thought it was among the “top few” priorities to “expand the NAFTA trade agreement to include other countries in Latin America.” Only 7% of the general public agreed. Indeed, a whopping 44% of the general public—compared to just 8% of journalists—put NAFTA expansion “toward the bottom of the list” of priorities.
In these issue areas, the claimed economic centrism of journalists is belied by a series of economic priorities that are actually to the right of the public, and which would bring opposition from groups on the left: labor unions, health care advocates, senior citizen advocates.
4. Environmental Laws
The one area in the survey where journalists could be considered slightly to the left of the general public was regarding environmental regulation (Q#11). When asked to choose between whether stricter environmental laws and regulations “cost too many jobs and hurt the economy” or “are worth the cost,” 79% of journalists said such laws were worth the cost, while 21% disagreed. However, in an October 1996 poll by the Pew Research Center, only 63% of the public said such laws were worth the cost, while 30% disagreed. This result may not be very surprising since the economic cost of environmental regulation is often perceived to be carried by workers in the form of lost jobs—a problem which may not be of immediate salience for professional journalists.
5. Corporate Power
The general public is more critical of the concentration of corporate power in the United States than are journalists. When asked whether they felt “too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few large companies,” 57% of the journalists agreed, while 43% felt they did not have too much power (Q#12). The numbers were quite different, though, when the Times Mirror Center asked the same question of the general public in October 1995. A full 77% of the public felt that corporations had too much power, with only 18% feeling that they did not.
6. Taxes
The centrist orientation of journalists comes through clearly when assessing Clinton’s 1993 economic plan which modestly raised tax rates on the wealthy, countering the trend of reduced tax rates that they had enjoyed in previous years (Q#13). Nearly half (49%) of journalists thought this policy was about right, while 14% thought it went too far, and 18% thought it didn’t go far enough. In stark contrast, when the public was asked a similar question in an ABC News/Washington Post poll in April 1993, 15% of the general public felt Clinton’s policy went too far and a huge 72% felt it didn’t go far enough. (10% volunteered that they thought it was about right.) Here again, the relative economic privilege of the Washington press corps may partly explain this contrast with the public.
7. NAFTA and “Fast Track” Authority belongs above?
Compared to the general public, journalists have a distinctly more positive assessment of NAFTA’s impact and are more likely to support granting the President “fast-track” authority to negotiate new trade agreements. 65% of journalists feel that NAFTA has had more of a positive impact on the United States, while only 8% feel it has had more of a negative impact (Q#14). But in a Hart-Teeter/NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in July 1997, only 32% of the public thought NAFTA’s impact was more positive, while 42% felt NAFTA’s impact on the country has been more negative.
Perhaps as a result of these differing assessments of NAFTA’s impact, journalists are more likely to favor granting “fast track” authority to the President to negotiate new trade agreements—authority opposed most forcefully by unions (Q#15). A full 71% of journalists favor such a policy, while only 10% oppose it. According to an October 1997 Hart-Teeter/NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the rate of opposition to “fast-track” amongst the general public is over five times that of the rate amongst journalists. Only 35% of the public says it favors “fast-track.” A full 56% oppose it. In the debate over trade, most journalists tend to agree with the corporate position on the issue, while most members of the public side with the critical views of labor and many consumer and environmental groups.
8. Medical Care
As indicated above under “Economic Priorities,” journalists are less interested than the general public in requiring that employers provide health insurance to their employees. Journalists are also less likely than the public to believe that the federal government should guarantee medical care for those who don’t have health insurance (Q#16). While 43% of journalists felt that the government should guarantee medical care, a similar 35% felt that this was not the responsibility of the government. In contrast, a February 1996 New York Times/CBS News poll found that the general public supports government guaranteed medical care by more than a two-to-one margin (64% to 29%).
Policy Scorecard
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On these issues journalists appear to be… |
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…to the left of the public |
…to the right of the public |
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Protecting Medicare and Social Security |
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XX |
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The expansion of NAFTA |
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X |
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Requiring employers to provide health insurance to their employees |
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X |
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Stricter environmental laws |
X |
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Concern over concentrated corporate power |
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X |
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Taxing the wealthy |
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X |
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Impact of NAFTA |
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X |
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“Fast track” trade authority |
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X |
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Government guaranteed medical care |
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X |
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IV. CONCLUSION: BEYOND THE “LIBERAL MEDIA” MYTH
There appear to be very few national journalists with left views on economic questions like corporate power and trade—issues that may well matter more to media owners and advertisers than social issues like gay rights and affirmative action. Bad writing.
Like many profit-sector professionals journalists tend to hold “liberal” social views and “conservative” economic views.
This adherence to the middle is consistent with news outlets that tend to repeat conventional wisdom and ignore serious alternative analyses. Bull, flaw. This too often leaves citizens with policy “debates” grounded in the shared assumptions of those in positions of power.
There are two important responses to this claim. First, it is sources, not journalists, who are allowed to express their views in the conventional model of “objective” journalism. Gotta be a flaw there. Therefore, we learn much more about the political orientation of news content by looking at sourcing patterns rather than journalists’ personal views. As this survey shows, it is government officials and business representatives to whom journalists “nearly always” turn when covering economic policy. Labor representatives and consumer advocates were at the bottom of the list. This is consistent with earlier research on sources. For example, analysts from the centrist flaw Brookings Institution and right-wing think thanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute are those most quoted in mainstream news accounts;
7.a. Have you ever been cut off from communication––even temporarily––by a source upset because of something you or your news organization reported about economic policy issues or debates?
27% Yes
70% No
3% Don’t know/not sure
b. If “yes,” which of the following sources cut off communication?
76% Government officials
55% Business representatives
32% Labor representatives
3% Wall Street analysts
0% Consumer advocates
0% Think-tank analysts
5% University-based academics
5% Other
8. In covering economic policy issues, how often is your news organization’s reporting, story assignment, or story selection influenced by coverage in a national “paper of record” such as The New York Times or Washington Post?
43% Often
42% Occasionally
12% Rarely or never
3% Don’t know/not sure
Questions About Journalists’ Assessment of Economic Policy Issues
9. First, how would you rate economic conditions in this country today?
34% Excellent
58% Good
4% Fair
1% Poor
2% Don’t know/not sure
10. Here are a few issues facing the country. How high a priority do you think each one should receive from Congress and the President? Use the following scale in responding:
1 = Single Highest Priority below proves the bias
2 = One of Top Few Priorities
3 = Near the Top of List
4 = In the Middle of List
5 = Toward Bottom of List
8 = Don’t Know/ Not Sure
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
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a. Protect Medicare and Social Security against major cuts |
13% |
26% |
16% |
13% |
15% |
16% |
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b. Reform entitlement programs by slowing the rate of increase in spending for programs like Medicare and Social Security |
19% |
37% |
15% |
8% |
4% |
17% |
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c. Expand the NAFTA trade agreement to include other countries in Latin America |
4% |
20% |
24% |
29% |
8% |
16% |
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d. Require that employers provide health insurance to their employees |
15% |
17% |
19% |
16% |
16% |
17% |
Skipping 11.a. Which of the following statements comes closer to your own views?
21% Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy
b. Do you agree strongly or not with the statement you chose above?
8% Agree strongly
13% Agree, but not strongly
0% Not sure/don’t know
79% Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost
b. Do you agree strongly or not with the statement you chose above?
32% Agree strongly
43% Agree, but not strongly
4% Not sure/don’t know
12. a. Which of the following statements comes closer to your own views?
57% Too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few large companies
b. Do you agree strongly or not with the statement you chose above?
24% Agree strongly
32% Agree, but not strongly
1% Not sure/don’t know
43% The largest companies do NOT have too much power
b. Do you agree strongly or not with the statement you chose above?
12% Agree strongly
30% Agree, but not strongly
1% Not sure/don’t know
13. Do you think President Clinton’s 1993 economic plan went too far or not far enough in raising taxes on the wealthy?
14% Went too far
18% Didn’t go far enough
49% Was about right
18% Don’t know/not sure
14. So far, would you say that NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement passed in 1993) has had more of a positive impact on the United States or more of a negative impact on the United States?
65% More of a positive impact
8% More of a negative impact
27% Don’t know/not sure
15. President Clinton sought “fast-track” authority on trade agreements, allowing Congress to vote only up-or-down on agreements. Do you favor or oppose Congress granting the President “fast-track” authority to negotiate new free trade agreements?
35% Strongly favor
36% Somewhat favor
7% Somewhat oppose
3% Strongly oppose
18% Don’t know/not sure
16. Do you think the federal government should guarantee medical care for all people who don’t have health insurance, or is that not the responsibility of the federal government?
43% Yes, the government should guarantee medical care . PROOF
35% No, that is not the responsibility of the government
20. Which of the following best describes you?
89% Caucasian/White (not Hispanic)
5% African American/Black (not Hispanic)
3% Hispanic
2% Asian
2% Other
22. On economic issues, how would you characterize your political orientation?
11% Left
64% Center baloney
19% Right
5% Other
23. On social issues, how would you characterize your political orientation?
30% Left
57% Center
9% Right
5% Other
24. For classification purposes, into which of the following ranges does your annual household income fall?
5% under $50,000
27% $50,000 – $74,999
16% $75,000 – $99,999
21% $100,000 – $149,999
17% $150,000 – $199,999
14% $200,000 or more
ISSUE: The State of the Economy
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Journalists |
The Public |
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Excellent 34% |
20% Excellent |
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Good 58% |
46% Good |
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Fair 4% |
27% Only fair |
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Poor 1% |
7% Poor |
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Don’t know/ not sure 2% |
0% No opinion |
ISSUE: Economic Priorities
NOTE: Journalists’ responses are listed on the first line in bold, the public’s response is on the second line.
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
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a. Protect Medicare and Social Security against major cuts |
13% |
26% |
16% |
13% |
15% |
16% |
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24% |
35% |
24% |
12% |
5% |
1% |
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b. Reform entitlement programs by slowing the rate of increase in spending for programs like Medicare and Social Security |
19% |
37% |
15% |
8% |
4% |
7% |
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10% |
25% |
20% |
26% |
12% |
6% |
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c. Expand the NAFTA trade agreement to include other countries in Latin America |
4% |
20% |
24% |
29% |
8% |
16% |
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2% |
5% |
7% |
33% |
44% |
9% |
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d. Require that employers provide health insurance to their employees |
15% |
17% |
19% |
16% |
16% |
17% |
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16% |
31% |
18% |
20% |
13% |
2% |
(Pew Research Center, October 1996)
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Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy |
Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy |
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Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost |
Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost |
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7% Neither/don’t know |
ISSUE: Corporate Power
(Times Mirror Center, October 1995)
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Too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few large companies |
Too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few large companies |
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The largest companies do NOT have too much power |
The largest companies do NOT have too much power |
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5% Neither/don’t know |
ISSUE: Taxes
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Journalists |
The Public |
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Went too far 14% |
15% Went too far |
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Didn’t go far enough 18% |
72% Didn’t go far enough |
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Was about right 49% |
10% Was about right (volunteered) |
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Don’t know/ not sure 18% |
4% No opinion |
ISSUE: NAFTA Impact
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Journalists |
The Public |
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More of a positive impact 65% |
32% More of a positive impact |
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More of a negative impact 8% |
42% More of a negative impact |
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7% No impact either way (volunteered) |
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Don’t know/ not sure 27% |
19% Not sure |
ISSUE: “Fast Track” Authority
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Journalists |
The Public |
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Strongly favor 35% |
12% Strongly favor |
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Somewhat favor 36% |
23% Somewhat favor |
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Somewhat oppose 7% |
25% Somewhat oppose |
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Strongly oppose 3% |
31% Strongly oppose |
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Don’t know/not sure 18% |
9% Not sure |
ISSUE: Medical Care
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Journalists |
The Public |
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Yes, the government should guarantee medical care |
64% Should |
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No, that is not the responsibility of the government |
29% Not responsibility |
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Don’t know/not sure 22% |
7% Don’t know/no answer |
9/l5/03 la
liberals and the liberal centers that fund them
By David Horowitz
The No. 1 book on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” written by comedian Al Franken. It’s actually not a funny book — unless you happen to be an exceptionally mean-spirited and ill-informed liberal who thinks all Republicans are racists and that President Clinton was a pro-military foreign-policy hawk who devoted more time to tracking down Osama bin Laden than he did to the Monica Lewinsky mess.
Yet there’s no denying that the book is a huge success.
A prime reason for this is the publicity boost provided by a misguided (and aborted) lawsuit that Fox News filed against Franken in an attempt to stop his use of their logo, “Fair and Balanced,” for his subtitle. (What could Fox have been thinking?) But there is another reason as well.
Although it pretends to be a funny book, the real purpose of this tome of nearly 400 pages is quite serious. It intends to be a campaign manual for the next presidential election, touching in its chapters every base of partisan dispute.
Who tanked the economy? Who created the mean-spirited political atmosphere? Who stole the 2000 election? Who is stronger on defense? Who has the support of a biased media? Who is more anti-terrorist?
Surprise, surprise: Its answers line up relentlessly (and tendentiously) in favor of the Democrats.
And the assertions in the book come backed with facts and figures and citations from so many sources it would take a team to produce them.
Which raises an interesting question. Where did a comedian like Al Franken get the time, research power and expertise to cover such a wide range of subject matters, almost all of which are out of his normal depth?
The answer, which Franken himself provides, is Harvard. It seems that the Kennedy School of Government there called him up and offered him a fellowship.
Harvard told him, “You can run a study group on a topic of your choosing,” and, yes, the study group can be about how Republicans are racists and liars.
He had to write something, but he could use 14 students to provide him with his research and write as much of it as he cared to let them. All under the auspices of the university.
By disclosing these facts with the breathless candor of a kid who has stumbled into a toy store where the merchandise is free, Franken has exposed for all who care to look a national educational disgrace.
Although liberals like Franken regularly complain about the unfair advantage “big right-wing think tanks” provide to the Republican cause, Harvard and in fact the entire Ivy League constitute infinitely larger left-wing think tanks that serve the Democratic cause. (For comparison, Harvard’s endowment, according to the latest figures, is $17.5 billion; the Heritage Foundation’s is $63 million.)
Ann Coulter has written a parallel bestseller (under her own steam, however) that attacks liberals and Democrats like Al Franken. Can anyone imagine Harvard soliciting Coulter to write her book, “Treason,” by providing her with 14 graduate students to research it?
I once looked at the faculty roster of Harvard’s Kennedy School and of those whose affiliations I recognized, I was able to identify only five Republicans — and one them was the political switcher David Gergen.
A just-released study conducted by my Center for the Study of Popular Culture looked at the faculty at 32 elite colleges and universities, checking the primary-election voter registration of professors in six major liberal arts departments. When party affiliation could be determined — and it often couldn’t — Democrats outnumbered Republicans 10 to 1. Among California schools, at UC Berkeley we turned up 100 Democrats to eight Republicans; at Caltech, 22 to four; at UCLA, 137 to 11.
The center also looked at commencement speakers at the same 32 schools over a 10-year period and found that the choices were biased in favor of Democrats and liberals by a factor of 15 to 1. At 22 of those schools, not a single Republican or conservative speaker — judging from his or her public political positions and comments — had been invited to address a graduating class in a decade.
The administration and faculty of Harvard — and of American universities generally — don’t seem to care about this kind of academic bias. “Diversity” is the big buzzword in the world of higher education these days, but “intellectual diversity” — the diversity that really matters to a good education and a healthy democracy — is not on the radar screens of the academic establishment at all.
Perhaps Franken will get Harvard to provide him with 14 graduate researchers to help him write his next book about that. But don’t hold your breath.
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Miami herald – http://www.chronwatch.com/editorial/2002-03-20dga.asp
/BIAS by Bernie goldberg
Sun, Mar. 17, 2002
BIAS AND THE MEDIA
Author contends that liberal journalists tilt the news toward the left
By GLENN GARVIN
The New York Times called it ”the most astonishing event in the last 12 months.” Nearly half a million copies of Bernie Goldberg’s book are in print, he’s been atop the bestseller lists for nearly two months, and he’s done 400 radio shows and 35 cable TV shows. There are only three news organizations that don’t want any part of him: NBC, ABC and CBS. ”They won’t have me on their news programs, not even the overnight shows at 3 in the morning,” says Goldberg. “And they say there’s no bias on network news?”
Goldberg worked 28 years as a reporter and producer at CBS News, winning seven Emmies, before wrecking his career with a 1996 op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal that complained about liberal bias on the CBS Evening News. (The report that prompted his complaint called the flat-tax plan of Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes ”wacky” and suggested he go try it out in Albania before foisting it on the United States.) Goldberg, who lives in Miami, is now a reporter for the HBO program Real Sports. He has written a book that recounts, in minute detail, what he calls the systematic political bias of network news.
Goldberg writes of the way his network career crashed and burned: “I said out loud what millions of TV news viewers all over America know and have been complaining about for years: that too often, Dan and Peter and Tom and a lot of their foot soldiers don’t deliver the news straight, that they have a liberal bias.” He offers plenty of examples:
* ”We pointedly identified conservatives as conservatives . . . but for some crazy reason, didn’t bother to identify liberals as liberals.” So, on a CBS This Morning piece on sexual harassment, Phyllis Schlafly was introduced as ”conservative spokeswoman,” while Catherine MacKinnon — a radical feminist who has argued that all sexual intercourse is rape — was merely a “noted law professor.”
* When it came to reporting stories about the homeless, network correspondents were very careful in choosing which homeless to show: ”White was better than black. Clean was better than dirty. Attractive was better than unattractive. Sane was better than insane. And sober was better than addicted.” That not only made for a more compassionate image, but made it easier to blame Ronald Reagan’s social policies for the homeless problem, rather than mental illness or substance abuse.
* The networks relentlessly predicted an epidemic of AIDS among U.S. heterosexuals because ”scaring the hell out of people makes for good television even when it makes for shallow journalism.” When the epidemic stubbornly refused to materialize — when drug use and hemophilia are discarded, less than 7 percent of American AIDS cases involve heterosexuals, according to government statistics — the networks simply pretended that it had: “We showed people with AIDS on television and never bothered to say they were gay. We showed straight suburbanites with AIDS and never bothered to ask if they shot drugs into their veins or had sex with people who did.”
ATTENTION-GRABBER
Praise — and criticism — increase as book’s sales rapidly rise. Goldberg clearly touched a nerve. Though it was published by a small Washington house with little promotion, Bias immediately shot to the top of the bestseller lists and stayed there. President Bush was even photographed with the book under his arm.
The news media — particularly the networks — have been less enthusiastic. Andrew Hayward, president of CBS News, bragged to a meeting of TV critics in January that he hadn’t read the book and didn’t plan to. Hayward’s vengeful defenders were not so muted. Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, a longtime CBS admirer, called Goldberg a ”full-time addlepated windbag.” Michael Kinsley, the retiring editor of Microsoft’s www.Slate.com Web site, contented himself with labeling Goldberg “remarkably dense.”
Counters Goldberg: The dense ones are the guys running the news business, who don’t seem to be able to connect the dots between the declines in TV news ratings, newspaper circulation and the public’s confidence in journalists.
Goldberg isn’t the only whistleblowing journalist with a book about how liberal bias is disfiguring news coverage. In his book “Coloring The News,” veteran reporter William McGowan argues the news media’s crusade to hire members of ethnic and sexual minority groups has spawned a crippling political correctness in newsrooms. The book was released in November.
McGowan, who has worked for Newsweek and the BBC, says ”diversity hiring” — the term news media generally prefer to ”affirmative action” — has unquestionably brought talented minority journalists into newsrooms that were previously dominated by white males.
The problem, he says, is that news organizations wind up hiring reporters who have different color skin or a different sexual orientation, but think exactly the same: “a kind of Benetton diversity that looks good on a poster, but is completely superficial.” McGowan’s book, too, is full of case studies of coverage he says was driven off-track by the political biases of the people who report and edit the news:
* In 1998, when two thugs in Laramie, Wyo., savagely beat a young gay man named Matthew Shephard and then tied him to a fence post to die in the freezing night, a computer search turned up 3,007 stories about the incident in the first month.
But the next year, when two gay men in Arkansas kidnapped a 13-year-old boy named Jesse Dirkhising, raped him for hours, and then left him bound and gagged to suffocate, a computer search found only 46 stories published in the next month. None were on the three major networks or CNN, or in The New York Times or The Los Angeles Times.
”No one admitted the obvious: that the Dirkhising story was too hot to handle because it raised the explosive issue of gay pedophilia and because it threatened the sanctity of the gays-as-victims script which had attained the status of holy writ in the media,” writes McGowan.
* The Miami Herald has caved in to ”the city’s ethnically assertive and politically influential Cuban community,” McGowan writes. The Herald ”pulled its punches, shying away from rigorous, searching pieces that might call into question the assumptions of Cuban Miami and the actions of its political elite.” He is particularly critical of The Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Elián González, which he says “demonstrated a pattern of foot-dragging in reporting news developments that supported the return of the 7-year-old boy to his natural father.”
Though the focus of McGowan’s book is somewhat different from Goldberg’s, the two men agree that liberal political bias is distorting the news. Conservative critics of the press have been saying the same thing for years, but what lends an unusually sharp edge to Goldberg and McGowan’s criticism is that they come from the very culture they attack: Both are newsroom insiders with moderately liberal political convictions.
They are also resolute that the bias is not the product of a conspiracy. Rather, the bias is the unconscious product of groupthink among journalists who overwhelmingly share the same liberal ideals.
JOURNALISTS `APOLITICAL’?
Studies show most call themselves liberals who vote for Democrats. That newsrooms are mostly staffed by political liberals is pretty much beyond dispute, although a few keep trying to argue the point. CBS anchorman Dan Rather — who declined to be interviewed for this story — frequently says journalists are apolitical. ”Most reporters don’t know whether they’re Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way . . . [They] would fall in the general category of kind of common-sense moderates,” he said in 1995.
But there are plenty of studies, dating back to the 1930s, that prove him wrong: Most journalists describe themselves as liberal and vote Democratic, and among the profession’s elite — the staffs of the three major networks, the weekly news magazines and influential papers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times — the political skew is overwhelmingly to the left:
* A comprehensive study published in 1981 by the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs showed that 54 percent of elite journalists identified themselves as liberal but only 19 percent as conservatives. In every presidential election between 1964 and 1976, at least 80 percent of them voted Democratic.
* A 1996 study of Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents by the independent journalism foundation Freedom Forum found that 89 percent of them voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, and just 7 percent for George Bush. Sixty-one percent said they were liberals, only 9 percent conservatives; 50 percent were Democrats, only 4 percent Republicans.
Whether the personal politics of journalists color their reporting is more difficult to pin down, although some of Goldberg’s arguments about distorted stories are statistically verifiable.
Network news really did distort the identity of AIDS victims, the Center for Media and Public Affairs concluded after monitoring 1992 coverage of the disease. Just 6 percent of the AIDS victims shown on the evening news were gay men, compared to 58 percent in real life; only 2 percent were intravenous drug users, compared to 23 percent in reality.
And a center study of television and news coverage of the homeless said the stories ”provide a blueprint of advocacy journalism.” Of the sources quoted in 103 stories, only one out of every 25 said homelessness was connected to the problems of the homeless themselves — mental illness, drunkenness, drug abuse, laziness. The other 96 percent blamed political or economic conditions.
But other manifestations of bias are nearly impossible to prove — if, indeed, they exist. ABC anchor Peter Jennings says bias is hard to detect because it isn’t there. He concedes that newsrooms sit well to the left of American society, but insists that makes no difference.
”We all have baggage,” Jennings says. “But one of the good things about journalists is that they recognize bias and work hard to keep it out of their coverage . . You can have all sorts of people who voted for Bill Clinton, but the media gave Clinton one hell of a time. Now we hear a lot from people who complain that we don’t give George Bush as hard a time as we gave Bill Clinton.”
Others are not so sure. ”Goldberg is right in that there are belief systems at work here that influence us,” says Tom Fiedler, The Herald’s executive editor, who was so impressed with Goldberg’s book that he invited him to lunch recently with several of the paper’s senior managers.
“I hate to say there’s a political correctness that guides us, but I think there is. We tend to give more credibility to groups on the liberal side of the spectrum than on the conservative side . . . We have to guard against falling into a groupthink.”
PUBLIC PERCEPTION
Polls show more viewers turning away from network news shows. Whether journalists will confront the issue or not, it’s clear that the public believes there’s a problem. A 1998 Gallup poll showed 46 percent of the public thinks the news media has a political bias (27 percent said it was a liberal bias, 19 percent said conservative). Network television was seen as the most biased. There are two other sets of statistics that probably aren’t a coincidence:
* Journalism’s credibility is slipping. Though the numbers have taken a bounce upward during the war in Afghanistan, before that, the percentage of Americans who agreed that journalists ”usually get the facts straight” had dropped from 55 in July 1985 to 35 last year, according to The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
* More viewers and readers are switching to the Internet, cable TV or talk radio for their news. Ratings for the evening newscasts on the big three broadcast networks have been in steady decline for 10 years. Meanwhile, the Fox News cable channel, founded by owner Rupert Murdoch as an antidote to what he saw as liberal bias at the big three networks, is steadily increasing its ratings and now consistently beats CNN.
News executives at the big three broadcast networks deride Fox News as a right-wing clown show. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes basks in the criticism. Ailes says, “The public is so sick of left-leaning media that they’re desperate for anything else. We’re not conservative, we’re just not liberal, and the other networks can’t tell the difference.”
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato says the public’s concern over bias is directly connected to the decline in credibility and ratings, and that mainstream journalism is in serious need of a wake-up call:
‘Journalists would be much better off admitting, `Yes, I’m human, I have opinions, they influence me, they’re bound to slip out from time to time. When they do and you catch it, you tell me. We’ll try to control it.’ People would appreciate that candor.”
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Election ’04: a Guide for the Complexed
Relax, it’s OK for liberals to hate Bush.
By Lee Siegel, [not max boot] Lee Siegel is a contributing editor to Harper’s, the television critic for the New Republic and the recipient of the 2002 National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
There’s a new weapon to use against liberals. It’s called complexity. And happily for the conservatives, liberals are using it against themselves.
So terrified are liberals of being branded as extreme that some now preface any criticism of President Bush by saying that despite the fact his policies stink, they are sure he would make a lovely dinner companion. Other liberals offer the thought that though Bush may be dumb, which is an unwelcome trait in a world leader, his forthrightness bespeaks a self-awareness deeper than mere brains.
Such chastened liberals might say that Bush’s unjustified and unjustifiable adventure in Iraq is deplorable, and then immediately add that they don’t, you know, hate the president on a personal level. They are quick to follow that up, however, with the assurance that they do hate Michael Moore. They hate Moore because he hates the president. Moore also seems to hate capitalism, and because Moore hates Bush, and capitalism, and maybe even America, no one post-Moore can hate Bush without sharing the whole package of Moore-hatreds: Bush, capitalism, America.
Such conclusions derive from what many liberals now like to call /”complexity” and “nuance,” which are the essential components of “civility.” (Civility was last year’s complexity.) They contrast these qualities with the “simplicity” and “extremism” of “the left,” though besides Moore, and Noam Chomsky, and some anarchists with nose rings and hangovers who are on the protest party circuit, no one can actually say what the left is or what role its members have played in a national politics that has swung steadily /rightward for the last quarter-century.
No matter. The important thing is to be “complex” and not “extreme.” So at a time of war, when the country and the world are entering a new historical phase, when radical change in social policy benefits the rich and ignores the poor, when voters are facing the most important election in decades, the liberals’ role model is not FDR or Harry Truman or LBJ or Martin Luther King Jr. It’s Henry James. @@@@@@@@@@@@@
How did a Republican Party that has left vast stretches of the population convinced Bush /stole the presidency,
that /dragged the nation into a purposeless war under false pretenses, that gives /no quarter to dissenters within its own ranks, that compares John Kerry to Hitler and sponsors a smear campaign against him — how did this truly fanatical, extremist political party succeed in making its critics feel guilty about the intensity of their criticism? Good pt
The answer lies in the way conservatives have managed to manipulate the word “liberal.” A guilty liberal used to be someone who felt bad about having so much when other people had so little. The ’60s radicals who forswore material goods were protesting just this discrepancy between preaching and practicing that haunted the liberals. But the radical movements of the ’60s imploded into irrationality and extremism, and the liberals used that debacle to jettison their guilt. Ultimately, the radicals themselves evolved into people unashamed to flourish in society and play by the rules, while they harbored and even acted on a liberal vision of society. They had beat the hypocrisy rap.
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Or so they thought. With the ascendance over the last 25 years of the radical right, the specter of liberal hypocrisy loomed again. This time, any liberal who passionately critiques the Bush administration, or any liberal who plays the ruthless game of politics that conservatives have mastered, gets charged with betraying the temperate, tolerant and “complex” spirit of liberalism — in other words, like the “limousine liberals” of yore, today’s liberals are accused of not really being liberal. Nowadays, to be conservative is to be political, but to be liberal is to be held to a philosophical and moral ideal that transcends politics.
Thus liberals, in order to prove their tolerant, complex liberalism, are bending over backward to accommodate the conservatives’ position, which consists, in turn, of the belief that the concept of “liberal” has been betrayed by its present-day adherents and is now synonymous with the words “radical” and “intolerant.”
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For conservatives, if you follow this crazy logic, a Bush victory in November would mean the triumph of the true liberal spirit, that is, a spirit that isn’t radical or intolerant. For some liberals, a Bush victory would give them four more years to demonstrate their powers of complexity and to have a shot at throwing off the slur of liberal hypocrisy. For a complicated, liberal Bush-hater such as myself, this is a terrible muddle.
And so in the interest of setting twisted matters straight, I herewith offer to my fellow liberals “A Guide for the Complexed.” Its premise is that real complexity is not a fig leaf for timidity, but a complement to conviction.
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• I love America. I hate Bush.
• Michael Moore’s politically effective film was devious, dishonest, distorting propaganda. I hope dozens of films just like it appear before election day.
• I would like to see Bush removed from office. By legal means.
• It is possible to fight fire with fire without losing your head.
• It is possible to criticize bias without being driven by bias.
• I want the U.S. to contain and, if necessary, to destroy its enemies. I do not want the U.S. to go to war for no good reason.
• Left-wing passion in 1968 is entirely different from liberal passion in 2004. One epoch’s extremism is another epoch’s pragmatic response to extremism.
• In matters of intellect, when you meet a contradiction, make a distinction. In politics, when you meet a contradiction, blame it on the other side. There is no intellectual beauty and little intellectual clarity in the practice of politics.
• I hate George W. Bush. And I don’t want to have dinner with him either.
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America the Conservative
Europe is in the 21st century, but we remain locked in the 18th
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Whether President Bush is reelected or Sen. John F. Kerry prevails, the United States will be the most conservative developed nation in the world. Its economy will remain the least regulated, its welfare state the smallest, its military the strongest and its citizens the most religious. According to data taken from the World Values Survey in the last decade, 60% of Americans believe that the poor are lazy (only 26% of Europeans share that view), and 30% believe that luck determines income (54% of Europeans say so). About 60% of Europeans say the poor are trapped, while only 29% of Americans believe they are. And roughly 30% of Europeans declare themselves to be left wing, but only 17% of Americans do.
Why is the U.S. such an exceptionally conservative nation?
It’s tempting to think that American conservatism is the natural result of exceptional economic mobility in the country, but the odds of leaving poverty in Europe are higher than those in the United States, in part because European social democrats enacted national education policies that do a better job of looking after the poor than local schools in the U.S. Instead, American conservatism stems from political stability and ethnic heterogeneity.
The Constitution was designed with checks to protect private property and to ensure that change happens slowly. The U.S. elects its representatives by majority vote, which leads politicians to cater to the voter in the middle, not the poorest. By contrast, proportional representation in many European countries gives greater voice to politicians who stand for minority groups like the poor. In most European countries, proportional representation is also strongly related to spending on social programs.
The sharp separation of powers in the U.S., as the Federalist Papers predicted, has reduced the extension of government. Battles between Congress and the presidency — such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fights with the Senate in the late 1930s — have historically stymied the growth of the welfare state. The powerful, unelected Supreme Court has supported conservatism at many critical periods in our history. For example, in the late-19th century, it declared the income tax unconstitutional; in the 1930s, the court ruled that the New Deal was unlawful; and in 2000, it intervened to decide the presidential election. The nation’s federalist structure, furthermore, limits states’ welfare spending because they fear the flight of capital and wealthy residents.
One doesn’t need to embrace Beardian conspiracy theories to believe that the Constitution was designed to limit the central government’s ability to extract resources from wealthy citizens. As a result, it has succeeded in checking the rise of an American socialist state while all the larger countries in continental Europe have socialism-friendly political institutions.
It wasn’t always so. At the start of the 20th century, the U.S. looked progressive compared with Europe’s empires. The big difference between the U.S. and Europe is that the U.S. kept its 18th century Constitution, while most European countries discarded theirs. In a wave of revolutions and quasi-revolutionary general strikes, European countries, one by one, replaced their older conservative constitutions with ones often designed by socialist or labor leaders.
Some small nations introduced proportional representation before World War I in response to uprisings that threatened their governments’ stability, but the war was a watershed for great powers like Germany, Russia and Austro-Hungary. These nations’ armies had traditionally checked militant labor unrest, just as in the United States, but during World War I, mass mobilizations and steady demoralization broke the armies’ will to fire on rioters. As the armies’ policing power vanished, empires were upended by left-wing revolutions. The new constitutions of these countries were written by socialist leaders like Friedrich Ebert, who were determined to craft institutions, like proportional representation, that would entrench socialist power. France had a constitution drafted by a socialist-heavy group, but this had to wait until after its defeat in World War II.
By contrast, the U.S. has not lost a war on its home soil and thus has never faced the internal disruptions caused by such a collapse. The U.S. military and private armies, like Pinkerton’s, have always been able to subdue agitators, such as the Homestead, Pa., strikers who faced off against Andrew Carnegie in 1892 and the jobless World War I veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to ask for their bonus, and were dispersed — with swords drawn — by Army troops.
The nation’s racial heterogeneity also partly explains its conservatism. U.S. heterogeneity sharply contrasts with the much greater homogeneity in Canada, Britain and continental Europe. People are much less likely to support income redistribution to people who are members of different racial or ethnic groups. Ethnic divisions make it easier for the enemies of welfare to vilify the poor, by making them seem like parasites who could be rich but prefer to live on the public dollar. The pro-redistribution populists were defeated in the South in the 1890s by politicians who stressed that populism would help blacks (which was true) and that blacks were dangerous criminals (which was not.) The enemies of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society also employed racial messages that conveyed the idea that welfare recipients were dangerous outsiders who should not be helped. The sharp racial division that runs through American society makes it possible to castigate poor people in a way that would be impossible in a homogeneous nation like Sweden, where the poor look the same as everyone else.
Across countries, ethnic heterogeneity strongly predicts a smaller welfare state. The U.S. states with larger populations of blacks have historically been less generous to the poor (even controlling for state per capita income). Work by Erzo Luttmer, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, shows that people who live around poor people of their own races say they want the government to spend more on welfare. But people who live around poor people of another race say they want the government to spend less on welfare. Sympathy for the poor appears to be muted when the poor are seen as outsiders.
Increased immigration to Europe is making those societies more heterogeneous, and we have already seen opponents of social welfare, such as Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, Joerg Haider in Austria and Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands, use inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric to discredit generous welfare payments. We may like to believe that human beings are colorblind, but the reality is that American diversity has always made redistribution less popular here than in more ethnically and racially homogeneous places.
Edward L. Glaeser is a professor of economics at Harvard University, director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Kennedy School of Government, and author with Alberto Alesina, of “Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference.”
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Academia, Stuck To the Left
By George F. Will
Sunday, November 28, 2004; Page B07
Republicans Outnumbered
In Academia, Studies Find
— The New York Times, Nov. 18
Oh, well, if studies say so. The great secret is out: Liberals dominate campuses. Coming soon: “Moon Implicated in Tides, Studies Find.”
One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least /seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring.
Another study, of voter registration records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford. Among younger professors, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans.
But we essentially knew this even before the American Enterprise magazine reported in 2002 on examinations of voting records in various college communities. Some findings about professors registered with the two major parties or with liberal or conservative minor parties:
Cornell: 166 liberals, 6 conservatives.
Stanford: 151 liberals, 17 conservatives.
Colorado: 116 liberals, 5 conservatives.
UCLA: 141 liberals, 9 conservatives.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reports that in 2004, of the top five institutions in terms of employee per capita contributions to presidential candidates, the third, fourth and fifth were Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft. The top two were the University of California system and Harvard, both of which gave about 19 times more money to John Kerry than to George W. Bush.
But George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at Berkeley, denies that academic institutions are biased against conservatives. The disparity in hiring, he explains, occurs because conservatives are not as interested as liberals in academic careers. Why does he think liberals are like that? “Unlike conservatives, they believe in working for the public good and social justice.” That clears that up.
Much from here on:
A filtering process, from graduate school admissions through tenure decisions, tends to exclude conservatives from what Mark Bauerlein calls academia’s “sheltered habitat.” In a dazzling essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University and director of research and analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, notes that the “first protocol” of academic society is the “common assumption” -It is a reasonable assumption, given that in order to enter the profession, your work must be deemed, by the criteria of the prevailing culture, “relevant.” Bauerlein says that various academic fields now have regnant premises that embed political orientations in their very definitions of scholarship:
“Schools of education, for instance, take constructivist theories of learning as definitive, excluding realists (in matters of knowledge) on principle, while the quasi-Marxist outlook of cultural studies rules out those who espouse capitalism. If you disapprove of affirmative action, forget pursuing a degree in African-American studies. If you think that the nuclear family proves the best unit of social well-being, stay away from women’s studies.”
– that, at professional gatherings, all the strangers in the room are liberals.
This gives rise to what Bauerlein calls the “false consensus effect,” which occurs when, because of institutional provincialism, “people think that the collective opinion of their own group matches that of the larger population.” There also is what Cass Sunstein, professor of political science and jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, calls “the law of group polarization.” Bauerlein explains: “When like-minded people deliberate as an organized group, the general opinion shifts toward extreme versions of their common beliefs.” They become tone-deaf to the way they sound to others outside their closed circle of belief.
When John Kennedy brought to Washington such academics as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, McGeorge and William Bundy and Walt Rostow, it was said that the Charles River was flowing into the Potomac. Actually, Richard Nixon’s administration had an even more distinguished academic cast — Henry Kissinger, Pat Moynihan, Arthur Burns, James Schlesinger and others.
Academics such as the next secretary of state still decorate Washington, but academia is less listened to than it was. It has marginalized itself, partly by political shrillness and silliness that have something to do with the parochialism produced by what George Orwell called “smelly little orthodoxies.”
Many campuses are intellectual versions of one-party nations — except such nations usually have the merit, such as it is, of candor about their ideological monopolies. In contrast, American campuses have more insistently proclaimed their commitment to diversity as they have become more intellectually monochrome.
They do indeed cultivate diversity — in race, skin color, ethnicity, sexual preference. In everything but thought.
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Why Academia Shuns Republicans
Poor article: A few weeks ago, a pair of studies found that Democrats vastly outnumbered Republicans among professors at leading universities. Conservatives gleefully seized upon this to once again flagellate academia for its liberal bias.
Am I the only person who fails to understand why conservatives see this finding as vindication? After all, these studies show that some of the best-educated, most-informed people in the country overwhelmingly reject the GOP. Why is this seen as an indictment of academia, rather than as an indictment of the Republican Party?
Conservatives have a ready answer. The only reason faculties lean so far to the left is that deans, administrators and entire university cultures systematically discriminate against conservatives.
They don’t, however, have much evidence to back this up. Mostly, they assume that the leftward tilt is prima facie evidence of anti-conservative discrimination. (Yet, when liberals hold up minority underrepresentation at some institutions as proof of discrimination, conservatives are justifiably skeptical.) @@@@@@@@
Conservative pundit George Will recently tied the dearth of conservative professors to the quasi-Marxist outlook in African American studies, women’s studies and cultural studies. Aaaaaaa And at many campuses, those departments certainly don’t amount to much more than left-wing propaganda factories. It’s also true that radical multiculturalist theory — which sees white male oppression as the key to everything — has taken root in plenty of more mainstream disciplines.
This no doubt makes things hard on prospective conservative academics, not to mention mainstream liberal ones. ??????? A historian I know (a liberal) used to complain that history departments showed little interest in the traditional research he did, only caring about subjects like “buggery in the British navy.”
But the rise of fashionable left-wing scholarship can be blamed for only a tiny part of the GOP’s problem. The studies showing that academics prefer Democrats to Republicans also show that this preference holds in hard sciences as well as social sciences. Are we to believe that higher education has fallen prey to trendy multiculturalist engineering, or that physics departments everywhere suppress conservative quantum theorists? He’s trying to be cute.
The main causes of the partisan disparity on campus have little to do with anything so nefarious as discrimination. First, Republicans don’t particularly want to be professors. To go into academia — a highly competitive field that does not offer great riches — you have to believe that living the life of the mind is more valuable than making a Wall Street salary. On most issues that offer a choice between having more money in your pocket and having something else — a cleaner environment, universal health insurance, etc. — conservatives tend to prefer the money and liberals tend to prefer the something else. It’s not so surprising that the same thinking would extend to career choices.
Second, professors don’t particularly want to be Republicans. In recent years, and especially under George W. Bush, Republicans have cultivated anti-intellectualism. Remember how Bush in 2000 ridiculed Al Gore for using all them big numbers? [Too recent an example.]
That’s not just a campaign ploy. It’s how Republicans govern these days. Last summer, my colleague Frank Foer wrote a cover story in the New Republic detailing the way the Bush administration had disdained the advice of experts. And not liberal experts, either. These were Republican-appointed wonks whose know-how on topics such as global warming, the national debt and occupying Iraq were systematically ignored. Bush prefers to follow his gut.
In the world of academia, that’s about the nastiest thing you can say about somebody. Bush’s supporters consider it a compliment. “Republicans, from Reagan to Bush, admire leaders who are straight-talking men of faith. The Republican leader doesn’t have to be book smart,” wrote conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks a week before the election. “Democrats, on the other hand, are more apt to emphasize … being knowledgeable and thoughtful. They value leaders who see complexities, who possess the virtues of the well-educated.” aaaaaaaaaaaa
It so happens that, in other columns, Brooks has blamed the dearth of conservative professors on ideological discrimination. In fact, the GOP is just being rejected by those who not only prefer their leaders to think complexly but are complex thinkers themselves. There’s a problem with this picture, all right, but it doesn’t lie with academia. # semi 0.
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Fear and Rejection By DAVID BROOKS Events in Western Europe are slowly discrediting large swaths of American liberalism. 6/2/05
Published: June 2, 2005
Forgive me for making a blunt and obvious point, but events in Western Europe are slowly discrediting large swaths of American liberalism.
Most of the policy ideas advocated by American liberals have already been enacted in Europe: /generous welfare measures, /ample labor protections, /highly progressive tax rates, /single-payer health care systems ?????, /zoning restrictions to limit big retailers, and /cradle-to-grave middle-class subsidies supporting everything from child care to pension security. And /yet far from thriving xxxxxxx , continental Europe has endured a lost decade of relative decline.
Western Europeans seem to be suffering a crisis of confidence. Election results, whether in North Rhine-Westphalia or across France and the Netherlands, reveal electorates who have lost faith in their leaders, who are anxious about declining quality of life, who feel extraordinarily vulnerable to foreign competition – from the Chinese, the Americans, the Turks, even the Polish plumbers.
Anybody who has lived in Europe knows how delicious European life can be. But it is not the absolute standard of living that determines a people’s morale, but the momentum. It is / happier to live in a poor country that is moving forward – where expectations are high – than it is to live in an affluent country that is looking back.
Right now, Europeans seem to look to the future with more fear than hope. As Anatole Kaletsky noted in The Times of London, in continental Europe “unemployment has been stuck between 8 and 11 percent since 1991 and growth has reached 3 percent only once in those 14 years.”
The Western European standard of living is about a /third lower than the American standard of living, and it’s sliding. European output per capita is less than that of 46 of the 50 American states and about on par with Arkansas. There is little prospect of robust growth returning any time soon.
Once it was plausible to argue that the European quality of life made up for the economic underperformance, but those arguments look more and more strained, in part because demographic trends make even the current conditions unsustainable. Europe’s population is aging and shrinking. By 2040, the European median age will be around 50. Nearly a third of the population will be over 65. Public spending on retirees will have to grow by a third, sending Europe into a vicious spiral of higher taxes and less growth.
This is the context for the French “no” vote on the E.U. constitution. This is the psychology of stagnation that shaped voter perceptions. It wasn’t mostly the constitution itself voters were rejecting. Polls reveal they were articulating a broader malaise. The highest “no” votes came from the most vulnerable, from workers and the industrial north. The “no” campaign united the fearful right, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, with the fearful left, led by the /Communists.
Influenced by anxiety about the future, every faction across the political spectrum found something to feel menaced by. For the Socialist left, it was the threat of economic liberalization. For parts of the right, it was the threat of Turkey. For populists, it was the condescension of the Brussels elite. For others, it was the prospect of a centralized European superstate. Many of these fears were mutually exclusive. ??????? The only commonality was fear itself, the desire to hang on to what they have in the face of change and tumult all around.
The core fact is that the European model is foundering under the fact that billions of people are /willing to work harder than the Europeans are. Europeans clearly love their way of life, but don’t know how to sustain it.
Over the last /few decades, American liberals have lauded the German model or the Swedish model or the European model. But these models are not /flexible enough for the modern world. They encourage people to cling fiercely to /entitlements their nation cannot afford. And far from breeding a confident, progressive outlook, they breed a reactionary fear of the future that comes in left- and right-wing varieties – a defensiveness, a tendency to lash out ferociously at anybody who proposes fundamental reform or at any group, like immigrants, that alters the fabric of life.
This is the chief problem with the welfare state, which has nothing to do with the success or efficiency of any individual program. The liberal project of the postwar era has bred a stultifying conservatism, a fear of dynamic flexibility, a greater concern for guarding what exists than for creating what doesn’t.
That’s a truth that applies just as much on this side of the pond.
E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com #
When the Profile Fits the Crime
By PAUL SPERRY Published: July 28, 2005 nyt IN response to the serial subway bombings in London, Mayor Michael Bloomberg prudently ordered the police to start searching the bags of New York’s subway riders. But there will be absolutely no profiling, Mr. Bloomberg vowed: the police will select one out of every five passengers to search, and they will do so at random, without regard for race or religion. In that case, the security move is doomed to fail.
Young Muslim men bombed the London tube, and young Muslim men attacked New York with planes in 2001. From everything we know about the terrorists who may be taking aim at our transportation system, they are most likely to be young Muslim men. Unfortunately, however, this demographic group won’t be profiled. Instead, the authorities will be stopping Girl Scouts and grannies in a procedure that has more to do with demonstrating / tolerance than with protecting citizens from terrorism.
Critics protest that profiling is prejudicial. In fact, it’s based on statistics. Insurance companies profile policyholders based on probability of risk. That’s just smart business. Likewise, profiling passengers based on proven security risk is just smart law enforcement.
Besides, done properly, profiling would subject relatively few Muslims to searches. Elderly Muslim women don’t fit the terrorist profile. Young Muslim men of Arab or South Asian origin do. But rather than acknowledge this obvious fact, the New York Police Department has advised subway riders to be alert for “people” in bulky clothes who sweat or fiddle nervously with bags.
Well, a lot of people wear bulky clothes. A lot of people fiddle with their bags. And for that matter, a lot of people sweat. Could the Police Department be any more general in describing the traits of an Islamic suicide bomber? Could its advice be more useless?
Truth be told, commuters need to be most aware of young men praying to Allah and smelling like flower water. Law enforcement knows this, and so should you. According to a January 2004 handout, the Department of Homeland Security advises United States border authorities to look out for certain “suicide bomber indicators.” They include [and now they give away their tips!!] a “shaved head or short haircut. A short haircut or recently shaved beard or moustache may be evident by differences in skin complexion on the head or face. May smell of herbal or flower water (most likely flower water), as they may have sprayed perfume on themselves, their clothing, and weapons to prepare for Paradise.” Suspects may have been seen “praying fervently, giving the appearance of whispering to someone. Recent suicide bombers have raised their hands in the air just before the explosion to prevent the destruction of their fingerprints. They have also placed identity cards in their shoes because they want to be praised and recognized as martyrs.”
The bodies of the London suicide bombers were recognized by their identification cards. And on the eve of the 9/11 attacks, the hijackers shaved and perfumed themselves with flower water in a pre-martyrdom ritual called ablution. But don’t expect the federal authorities to screen for these indicators on Amtrak, which pulls into Penn Station in New York and Union Station in Washington, two of the biggest commuter-rail depots in the country. Not only is there no passenger profiling on Amtrak, but there’s no screening or mandatory searching of carry-on bags. The only restriction on bags is a 50-pound weight limit – and that’s not much comfort when you recall that the bombs used in London weighed only 10 pounds.
Once an Islamist suicide bomber is sitting next to you on the train, your chances of escape are slim. The only solution is for the police to stop him well before he boards your car. But with the system as it stands, that terrorist could easily slip in through the numerical window of random security screening. By /not allowing police to profile the most suspicious train passengers – young Muslim men who fit the indicators above – Mr. Bloomberg and other leaders not only tie one hand behind law enforcement’s back, but they also unwittingly provide terrorists political cover to carry out their murderous plans. Call it politically correct suicide.
Paul Sperry, ty nnnnn a Hoover Institution media fellow, is the author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.”
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Why Righties Can’t Teach
By JOHN TIERNEY
Liberals on campus have become so used to hearing their opinions reinforced that they have a hard time imagining there are intelligent people with different views.
Condescensional Wisdom
Thursday, May 4, 2006; Page A25
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist who died last week in his 98th year, has been justly celebrated for his wit, fluency, public-spiritedness and public service, which extended from New Deal Washington to India, where he served as U.S. ambassador. Like two Harvard colleagues — historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Sen. Pat Moynihan, another ambassador to India — Galbraith was among liberalism’s leading public intellectuals, yet he was a friend and skiing partner of William F. Buckley. After one slalom down a Swiss mountain, inelegantly executed by the 6-foot-8-inch Galbraith, Buckley asked how long Galbraith had been skiing. Thirty years, Galbraith said. Buckley mischievously replied: About as long as you have been an economist.
Galbraith was an adviser to presidents (John Kennedy, a former student, and Lyndon Johnson) and presidential aspirants (Adlai Stevenson and Eugene McCarthy). His book “The Affluent Society,” published in 1958, was a milestone in liberalism’s transformation into a doctrine of condescension. And into a minority persuasion
In the 1950s liberals were disconsolate. Voters twice rejected the intelligentsia’s pinup, Stevenson, in favor of Dwight Eisenhower, who elicited a new strain in liberalism — disdain for average Americans. Liberals dismissed the Eisenhower administration as “the bland leading the bland.” They said New Dealers had been supplanted by car dealers. How to explain the electorate’s dereliction of taste? Easy. The masses, in their bovine simplicity, had been manipulated, mostly by advertising, particularly
on television, which by 1958 had become the masses’ entertainment.
Intellectuals, that herd of independent minds, were, as usual, in lock step as they
deplored “conformity.” Fear of that had begun when the decade did, with David Riesman’s “The Lonely Crowd” (1950), which was followed by C. Wright Mills’s “White Collar” (1951), Sloan Wilson’s novel “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” (1955), William Whyte’s “The Organization Man” (1956) and Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders” (1957).
Galbraith brought to the anti-conformity chorus a special verve in depicting Americans as pathetic, passive lumps, as manipulable as clay. Americans were what modern liberalism relishes — victims , to be treated as wards of a government run by liberals. It never seemed to occur to Galbraith and like-minded liberals that ordinary Americans might resent that depiction and might express their resentment with their votes.
Advertising, Galbraith argued, was a leading cause of America’s “private affluence and public squalor.” By that he meant Americans’ consumerism, which produced their deplorable reluctance to surrender more of their income to taxation, trusting government to spend it wisely.
If advertising were as potent as Galbraith thought, the advent of television — a large dose of advertising, delivered to every living room — should have caused a sharp increase in consumption relative to savings. No such increase coincided with the arrival of television, but Galbraith, reluctant to allow empiricism to slow the flow of theory, was never a martyr to Moynihan’s axiom that everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.
Although Galbraith coined the phrase “conventional wisdom” and thought of himself as the scourge of groupthink, “The Affluent Society” was the distilled essence of the conventional wisdom on campuses. In the 1960s that liberalism became a stance of disdain, describing Americans not only as Galbraith had, as vulgar, but also as sick, racist, sexist, imperialist, etc. Again, and not amazingly, voters were not amused when told that their desires — for big cars, neighborhood schools and other things — did not deserve respect.
But for liberals that was precisely the beauty of Galbraith’s theory. If advertising could manufacture demand for whatever corporations wanted to supply, there was no need to respect markets, which bring ???? supply and demand into equilibrium.
“The Affluent Society” was the canonical text of modern liberalism’s disparagement of the competence of the average American. This liberalism — the belief that people are manipulable dolts who need to be protected by their liberal betters from exposure to “too much” advertising — is one rationale for McCain-Feingold. ?????? That law regulating campaigns embodies the political class’s belief that it knows just the right amount of permissible political speech.
Of course if advertising really could manufacture consumer wants willy-nilly, few new products would fail. But many do. “The Affluent Society,” postulating the awesome power of manufacturers to manufacture whatever demand they find it convenient to satisfy, was published nine months after Ford Motor Co. put all of its marketing muscle behind a new product, the Edsel.
Small wonder that a conservative wit has surmised that the wisdom of economists varies inversely with their heights. Milton Friedman, 93, is 5 feet tall.
Affluence and Its Discontents
Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Page A25
You hear the refrain all the time: The economy looks good statistically (4.7 percent unemployment), but it doesn’t feel good. Although the United States is the wealthiest nation in history, our quarrels and quibbles with our prosperity are unending. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? fffff It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith, the former Harvard University economist who died recently at 97.
“The Affluent Society” is a modern classic ???? because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was the all-pervasive fact of that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” No, indeed. After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent. In 1946 only 8,000 households had TVs; by 1960 about 90 percent did.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad 00000 and would breed discontent. 000 Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or need. 0000 Because so much spending was artificial, 0000 it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being shortchanged because people instinctively — and wrongly — stigmatized government only as “a necessary evil.” 0000000000
“Automobiles have an importance greater than the roads on which they are driven,” he wrote scornfully. “Alcohol, comic books and mouthwash all bask under the superior reputation of the [private] market. Schools, judges and municipal swimming pools lie under the evil reputation of bad kings [government].” The book argued for more government spending and less private spending. 0000000000
By and large, these ideas have not aged well.
For starters, material desires seem infinite. They are not simply contrived by advertising. In January 1985 the number of U.S. mobile-phone subscribers was 91,600; by December 2005 it was 207.9 million. In 1984, 8 percent of households had home computers; by 2003, 62 percent did. Were all these consumers simply conned? Are Chinese, Indians, Brazilians and others who exhibit comparable tastes similarly duped? +++
Galbraith also underestimated the spontaneous demand for government services. Even without his preaching, people believed that their prosperity entitled them to public programs for common needs. In 1956, two years before he complained about neglected roads, Congress created the interstate highway system, the biggest road-building project in U.S. history. Social spending and regulation (for education, anti-poverty programs, health care, the environment) have consistently expanded. In 1954 defense accounted for 69.5 percent of federal spending and “human resources” (programs such as Social Security, Medicare, job training and food stamps) only 18.5 percent. In 2005 defense was 20 percent and human resources 64.2 percent. sig
It’s often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving rich — overpaid chief executives, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most people’s incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted median family income — for families precisely in the middle — rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200, the Federal Reserve says. People feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often don’t satisfy their rising wants — for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.
The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear they’ve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name. Galbraith expected the affluent society to be a placid society. Giant corporations would control markets and provide safe jobs; government would regulate business cycles. Underestimated were the disruptive effects of new technologies, globalization and activist shareholders.
Ours is a post-affluent society. Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the advent of widespread affluence suggested utopian possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much less physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.
Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants — public and private — of their citizens. The social order depends on it. But the quest for growth unleashes new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence /liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a “unique way to self-fulfillment,” writes historian Avner Offer. But the promise is so extravagant that it preordains many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have antisocial consequences, including family breakdown and obesity. Fffff Statistical indicators of happiness ?????, Offer notes, have not risen with incomes.
Should we be surprised? Not really. We’ve simply reaffirmed an old truth: The pursuit of affluence does not always end with bliss. 0 ending?
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August 2006
“Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?”
Fred Barnes
Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard
He failed to prove a number of points.
Let me begin by defining three terms that are thrown around in debates about the media today. The first is
1 objectivity, which means reporting the news with none of your own political views or instincts slanting the story one way or another. Perfect objectivity is pretty hard for anyone to attain, but it can be approximated. Then there’s
2 fairness. Fairness concedes that there may be some slant in a news story, but requires that a reporter will be honest and not misleading with regard to those with whom he disagrees. And finally there’s
3 balance, which means that both sides on an issue or on politics in general—or more than two sides, when there are more than two—get a hearing.
My topic today is how the mainstream media—meaning nationally influential newspapers like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today; influential /regional papers like the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times; the broadcast networks and cable news stations like CNN; and the wire services, which now are pretty much reduced to the Associated Press—stacks up in terms of the latter two journalistic standards, fairness and balance. In my opinion, they don’t stack up very well.
Twenty years ago I wrote a piece in The New Republic entitled “Media Realignment,” and the thrust of it was that the mainstream media was shedding some of its liberal slant and moving more to the center. This was in the Reagan years, and I pointed to things like USA Today, which was then about five years old and was a champion of the Reagan economic recovery. CNN was younger then, too, and quite different from the way it is now; Ted Turner owned it, but he wasn’t manipulating it the way he did later, which turned it into something quite different. Financial news was suddenly very big in the midst of the 401 (k) revolution, and the stock market boom was getting a lot of coverage. The New Republic, where I worked, had been pro-Stalin in the 1930s, but by the 1980s had become very pro-Reagan and anti-communist on foreign policy. I also cited a rise of new conservative columnists like George Will. But looking back on that piece now, I see that I couldn’t have been more wrong. The idea that the mainstream media was moving to the center was a mirage. In fact, I would say that compared to what I was writing about back in the 1980s, the mainstream media today is //more liberal, more elitist, more secular, more biased, more hostile to conservatives and Republicans, and more self-righteous.
Liberal and Impenetrable
Liberalism is endemic in the mainstream media today. Evan Thomas—the deputy editor of Newsweek and one of the honest liberals in the media—noted this very thing with regard to coverage of the 2004 presidential race, which I’ll discuss later. It was obvious, he said, that the large majority in the media wanted John Kerry to win and that this bias slanted their coverage. And indeed, every poll of the media—and there have been a lot of them—shows that they’re liberal, secular and so on. Polls of the Washington press corps, for instance, about who they voted for in 2004 always show that nine-to-one or ten-to-one of them voted Democratic. Peter Brown, a columnist who just recently left the Orlando Sentinel, conducted a poll a few years ago of newspaper staffs all around the country—not just at the big papers, but midsize papers and even some small papers—and found that this disparity existed everywhere.
Nor is this likely to change. Hugh Hewitt, the California lawyer and blogger and talk radio host, spent a few days recently at the Columbia Journalism School, supposedly the premiere journalism school in America. He spoke to a couple of classes there and polled them on who they had voted for. He found only one Bush voter in all the classes he spoke to. Steve Hayes, a fine young writer and reporter at The Weekly Standard, went to Columbia Journalism School and says that during his time there he was one of only two or three conservative students out of hundreds.
This is not to say that there aren’t many fine young conservative journalists. But they aren’t likely to be hired in the mainstream media. When I was at The New Republic for ten years—and The New Republic was quite liberal, despite its hawkish foreign policy—any young person who joined the staff and wrote stories that were interesting and demonstrated that he or she could write well was grabbed immediately by the New York Times or other big newspapers, Newsweek, Time or the networks. But that doesn’t happen at The Weekly Standard, where I work now. Some of our young writers are the most talented I have ever met in my 30-plus years in journalism. But they don’t get those phone calls. Why? Because they’re with a conservative magazine. Of course there has been one famous exception—David Brooks, who is now the conservative columnist with the New York Times. But he was probably the least conservative person at The Weekly Standard. Conservatives are tokens on most editorial pages, just as they are on the broadcast networks and on cable news stations like CNN and MSNBC. Of course, I have a vested interest, since I work for FOX News; but if you compare the number of liberal commentators on FOX—and there are a lot of them—with the number of conservatives on those other stations, you’ll see what I mean.
The fact is that the mainstream media doesn’t want conservatives. It doesn’t matter whether they’re good reporters or writers. They go out of their way not to hire them. This was true 20 years ago, and it’s true today. This impenetrability is why conservatives have had to erect the alternative media—talk radio, the blogs, conservative magazines and FOX News. Together, these form a real infrastructure that’s an alternative to the mainstream media. But it’s still a lot smaller, it’s not as influential and it’s largely reactive. It’s not the equal of the mainstream media, that’s for sure.
Powerful and Unfair
One way to see the unequaled power of the mainstream media is in how it is able to shape and create the stories that we’re stuck talking about in America. A good example is Cindy Sheehan last summer. The Sheehan story was a total creation of the mainstream media. And in creating the story, the media shamelessly mischaracterized Sheehan. It portrayed her as simply a poor woman who wanted to see President Bush because her son had been killed in Iraq. Well, in the first place, she had already seen President Bush once. Also, though you would never know it from the dominant coverage, she was in favor of the Iraqi insurgency—the beheaders, the killers of innocent women and children. She was on their side, and she said so. She was also filled with a deep hatred of Israel. Yet the media treated her in a completely sympathetic manner, failing to report the beliefs that she made little attempt to hide. In any case, the Cindy Sheehan story came to dominate the news for the latter part of the summer; only the mainstream media still has the power to make stories big.
To see how distorted the mainstream media’s view of the world can be, one need only compare its coverage of the Valerie Plame “leak” story with its coverage of the NSA surveillance leak story. Plame is the CIA agent whose name was written about by reporter Robert Novak in a column, following which the media portrayed her as having been outed as an undercover CIA agent. The simple facts from the beginning were that she was not an undercover agent any more; she was not even overseas. The story had no national security repercussions at all—none. But that didn’t stop the media, which built the story up to great heights—apparently in the groundless hope that it would lead to an indictment of Karl Rove—and kept it front page news, at least intermittently, for what seemed like forever. The NSA surveillance story, on the other hand, also created by the media—this time pursuant to a real leak, and one that was clearly in violation of the law—had tremendous national security implications. After all, it revealed a secret and crucial program that was being used to uncover plots to bomb and massacre Americans and probably rendered that program no longer effective. Not only was this important story treated on an equal basis with the non-story of Valerie Plame, but the media was not interested, for the most part, in its national security repercussions. Instead the media mischaracterized the story as a “domestic spying scandal,” suggesting constitutional overreach by the Bush administration. Well, a domestic spying story is exactly what the story was not. Those being spied on were Al-Qaeda members overseas who were using the telephone. If some of those calls were with people in the U.S., they were monitored for that reason only. But the media’s stubborn mischaracterization of the story continued to frame the debate.
This brings me to the use of unfair and unbalanced labeling by the media. How often, if ever, have you heard or read the term / “ultraliberal”? I don’t think I’ve ever heard or read it. You’ll hear and see the term “ultraconservative” [and archcons…] a lot, but not “ultraliberal”—even though there are plenty of ultraliberals. Another widely used labeling term is “activist.” If people are working to block a shopping center from being built or campaigning against Wal-Mart, they are called “activists.” Of course, what the term “activist” means is liberal. But while conservatives are called conservatives by the media, liberals are “activists.” For years we’ve seen something similar with regard to debates over judicial nominees. The Federalist Society, with which many conservative judicial nominees tend to be associated, is always referred to as the conservative Federalist Society, as if that’s part of its name. But the groups opposing conservative nominees are rarely if ever labeled as liberal—giving the impression that they, unlike the Federalist Society, are somehow objective.
Related to this, I would mention that conservatives are often labeled in a way to suggest they are mean and hateful. /Liberals criticize, but conservatives hate. Have you noticed that the media never characterizes individuals or groups as Bush haters? There are Bush critics, but there are no Bush haters—whereas in the Clinton years, critics of the president were often referred to as Clinton haters. I’m not saying that there weren’t Clinton haters on the fringes in the 1990s. But far-left groups like MoveOn.org have been treated as acceptable within the mainstream of American politics today by the media, while in truth they are as clearly animated by hatred as the most rabid anti-Clinton voices ever were.
Secular and Partisan Bias
With regard to religion, Christianity in particular—but also religious faith in general—is reflexively treated as something dangerous and pernicious by the mainstream media. +++++++ Back in the early 1990s when I was still at The New Republic, I was invited to a dinner in Washington with Mario Cuomo. He was then governor of New York, and had invited several reporters to dinner because he was thinking about running for president. At one point that night he mentioned that he sent his children to Catholic schools in New York because he wanted them to be taught about a God-centered universe. This was in the context of expressing his whole-hearted support for public schools. But from the reaction, you would have thought he had said that one day a week he would bring out the snakes in his office and make policy decisions based on where they bit him. He was subsequently pummeled with stories about how improper it was for him, one, to send his kids to religious schools, and two, to talk about it. It was amazing. The most rigid form of secularism passes as the standard in mainstream journalism these days.
President Bush is similarly treated as someone who is obsessive about his religion. +++++ And what does he do? Well, he reads a devotional every day; he tries to get through the Bible, I think, once a year; and he prays. Now, I know many, many people who do this. Tens of millions of people do it. And yet the media treats Bush as some religious nut and pursues this story inaccurately. Again, it is clear that partisan bias is involved, too, because in fact, Bush talks publicly about his faith much less than other presidents have. There is a good book about Bush’s religion by Paul Kengor, who went back to every word President Clinton spoke and found out that Clinton quoted scripture and mentioned God and Jesus Christ more than President Bush has. You would never get that from the mainstream media. hmmmm
The partisan bias of the mainstream media has been at no time more evident than during the last presidential election. Presidential candidates used to be savaged equally by the media. No matter who—Republican or Democrat—they both used to take their hits. But that’s not true any more. Robert Lichter, at the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, measures the broadcast news for all sorts of things, including how they treat candidates. He’s been doing it now for nearly 20 years. And would anyone care to guess what presidential candidate in all those years has gotten the most favorable treatment from the broadcast media? The answer is John Kerry, who got 77 percent favorable coverage in the stories regarding him on the three broadcast news shows. For Bush, it was 34 percent. This was true despite the fact that Kerry made his Vietnam service the motif of the Democratic National Convention, followed weeks later by 64 Swift Boat vets who served with Kerry in Vietnam claiming that he didn’t do the things he said he did. It was a huge story, but the mainstream media didn’t want to cover it and didn’t cover it, for week after week after week. Not proving another one.
There was an amazingly well documented book written by a man named John O’Neill—himself a Swift Boat vet—who went into great detail about why John Kerry didn’t deserve his three Purple Hearts, etc. It might have been a right-wing screed, but if you actually read it, it wasn’t a screed. It backed up its claims with evidence. Normally in journalism, when somebody makes some serious charges against a well-known person, reporters look into the charges to see if they’re true or not. If they aren’t, reporters look into the motives behind the false charges—for instance, to find out if someone paid the person making the false charges, and so on. But that’s not what the media did in this case. The New York Times responded immediately by investigating the financing of the Swift Boat vets, rather than by trying to determine whether what they were saying was true. Ultimately, grudgingly—after bloggers and FOX News had covered the story sufficiently long that it couldn’t be ignored—the mainstream media had to pick up on the story. But its whole effort was aimed at knocking down what the Swift Boat vets were saying.
Compare this with September 8, 2004, when Dan Rather reported on documents that he said showed not only that President Bush used preferential treatment to get into the Texas National Guard, but that he hadn’t even done all his service. The very next morning, the whole story—because CBS put one of the documents on its Web site—was knocked down. It was knocked down because a blogger on a Web site called Little Green Footballs made a copy on his computer of the document that was supposedly made on a typewriter 30 years earlier and demonstrated that it was a fraud made on a modern computer. Then, only a few weeks after that embarrassment, CBS came up with a story, subsequently picked up by the New York Times, that an arms cache of 400 tons of ammunition in Iraq had been left unguarded by the American military and that the insurgents had gotten hold of it. Well, it turned out that they didn’t know whether the insurgents had gotten that ammunition or not, or whether indeed the American military had possession of it. It was about a week before the election that these major news organizations broke this unsubstantiated story, something that would have been unimaginable in past campaigns. Why would they do that? Why would Dan Rather insist on releasing fraudulent documents when even his own experts recommended against it? Why would CBS and the New York Times come back with an explosive but unsubstantiated arms cache story only weeks later? They did it for one reason: They wanted to defeat President Bush for re-election. There is no other motive that would explain disregarding all the precautions you’re taught you should have in journalism.
I’ll wind up on a positive note, however. Forty years ago, John Kenneth Galbraith—the great /liberal Harvard economist—said that he knew conservatism was dead because it was bookless. Conservatives didn’t publish books. And to some extent, it was true at the time. But it’s no longer true. Conservatives have become such prolific writers and consumers of books that Random House and other publishing companies have started separate conservative imprints. Nowadays it is common to see two or three or four conservative books—some of them kind of trashy, but some of them very good—on the bestseller list. Insofar as books are an indication of how well conservatives are doing—at least in the publishing part of the media world—I would say they’re doing quite well. They’re not winning, but they’re much better off than they were before—something that can’t be said about how they are faring in the unfair and unbalanced mainstream media.
A Wrong Turn Led to the ‘L-Word’
Tuesday, August 22, 2006; Page A15 terrible. What did he say?
Why are liberals the way liberals are? What is it about the L-word that has become so offensive to so many? It has become such a turnoff that countless liberals dare not admit to their own label.
At its best, liberalism is about the defense of the /underdog, of minority rights, of social justice, of active but restrained government, of civil liberties, of openness and tolerance.
In their own defense, those who still admit to being liberals would argue that the very fact that they have stood up for minority rights — including, heroically, for civil rights in the 1960s — made them unpopular, sometimes with a majority of the country.
They also argue, correctly, that the demonization of their creed goes all the way back to those who opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program of reform at home and internationalism abroad. The reaction to FDR /bred McCarthyism and the libelous charge that liberals were, at best, “squishy soft” on communism.
But liberalism has /also become associated with elitism, arrogance and disdain for the values of average Americans. Think of the consumer preferences tossed at liberals from the right as epithets: brie, chablis (now updated to merlot), Volvos, lattes, vacations on Martha’s Vineyard. Never mind that it’s conservatives who want to eliminate inheritance taxes on those Vineyard mansions. F then he blew it.
This needs to be outlined and summed up.
The West is at risk from Muslim extremists, but you wouldn’t know it by asking the left
Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists.
By Sam Harris, SAM HARRIS is the author of “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason.” His next book, “Letter to a Christian Nation,” will be published this week by Knopf. samharris.org.
September 18, 2006
TWO YEARS AGO I published a book highly critical of /religion, “The End of Faith.” In it, I argued that the world’s major religions are genuinely incompatible, inevitably cause conflict and now prevent the emergence of a viable, global civilization. In response, I have received many thousands of letters and e-mails from priests, journalists, scientists, politicians, soldiers, rabbis, actors, aid workers, students — from people young and old who occupy every point on the spectrum of belief and nonbelief.
This has offered me a special opportunity to see how people of all creeds and political persuasions react when religion is /criticized. I am here to report that liberals and conservatives respond very /differently to the notion that religion can be a direct cause of human conflict.
This difference does not bode well for the future of /liberalism.
Perhaps I should establish my /liberal bone fides at the outset. I’d like to see taxes raised on the wealthy, drugs decriminalized and homosexuals free to marry. I also think that the Bush administration deserves most of the criticism it has received in the last six years — especially with respect to its waging of the war in Iraq, its /scuttling of science and its fiscal irresponsibility.
But my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that /liberalism has grown dangerously /out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.
On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious /demagogues on the Christian right.
This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that “liberals are soft on terrorism.” It is, and they /are.
A /cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a “war on terror.” We are /fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.
This is /not to say that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy.
Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the /most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.
Given the degree to which religious ideas are still /sheltered from criticism in /every society, it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb — and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals /continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.
At its most extreme, liberal /denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. A nationwide poll conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that more than a third of Americans suspect that the federal government “assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so?? the United States could go to war in the Middle East;” 16% believe that the twin towers collapsed not because fully-fueled passenger jets smashed into them but because agents of the Bush administration had secretly rigged them to explode.
Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization. There are books, films and conferences organized around this phantasmagoria, and they offer an unusually clear view of the debilitating /dogma that lurks at the heart of liberalism: Western power is utterly malevolent, while the powerless people of the Earth can be counted on to embrace reason and tolerance, if only given sufficient economic opportunities. Ty ty ty
I don’t know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate. The truth is that there is every reason to believe that a terrifying number of the world’s Muslims now view /all political and moral questions in terms of their affiliation with Islam. This leads them to /rally to the cause of other Muslims no matter how sociopathic their behavior. This benighted religious solidarity /may be the greatest problem facing civilization and yet it is regularly /misconstrued, ignored or obfuscated by liberals. Sig?
Given the mendacity and shocking incompetence of the Bush administration — especially its mishandling of the war in Iraq — liberals can find much to lament in the conservative approach to fighting the war on terror. Unfortunately, liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly /fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are.
Recent condemnations of the Bush administration’s use of the phrase “Islamic fascism” are a case in point. There is no question that the phrase is imprecise — Islamists are not technically fascists, and the term ignores a variety of schisms that exist even among Islamists — but it is by no means an example of wartime propaganda, as has been repeatedly alleged by liberals.
In their analyses of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy, liberals can be relied on to overlook the most basic moral distinctions. For instance, they /ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we and the Israelis (as a rule) seek to /avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, and this accounts for much of the collateral damage we and the Israelis cause; the political discourse throughout much of the Muslim world, especially with respect to Jews, is explicitly and unabashedly genocidal.
Given these distinctions, there is no question that the Israelis now hold the moral high ground in their conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah. ????? And yet liberals in the United States and Europe often speak as though the truth were otherwise.
We are entering an age of unchecked nuclear proliferation and, it seems likely, nuclear terrorism. There is, therefore, no future in which aspiring martyrs will make good neighbors for us. Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies.
Increasingly, Americans will come to believe that the only people hard-headed enough to fight the religious lunatics of the Muslim world are the religious /lunatics of the West. Indeed, it is telling that the people who speak with the /greatest moral clarity about the current wars in the Middle East are members of the /Christian right, whose infatuation with biblical prophecy is nearly as troubling as the ideology of our enemies. Religious dogmatism is now playing /both sides of the board in a very dangerous game.
While liberals should be the ones pointing the way beyond this Iron Age madness, they are rendering themselves increasingly irrelevant. Being generally reasonable and tolerant of diversity, liberals should be especially sensitive to the dangers of religious literalism. But they /aren’t.
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. Aaa The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization. # this needs to be outlined, summarized.
September 11, 2001
The Broken-Windows Myth
By BERNARD E. HARCOURT
AMBRIDGE, Mass. — Whatever the outcome of today’s mayoral primary, there is already at least one clear winner: the notion that New York City’s remarkable drop in crime can be sustained only by continuing the Giuliani administration’s crackdown on quality-of-life offenses.
This “broken windows” theory — the idea that tolerating minor infractions like graffiti, aggressive panhandling and turnstile jumping encourages more serious crimes by sending a signal that the community is not in control — has been endorsed in some form by all the candidates. Some have expressed concern that the police under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani have not paid enough attention to civil liberties. But what they have missed is that this style of policing leads to the violations of personal rights that they denounce. And what voters have missed is a real debate on crime and policing, as each candidate jockeys to be the next Rudy Giuliani on crime.
There is little, if any, evidence that the crackdown on squeegee men and graffiti scribblers has played much of a role in reducing crime in New York. Since the early 1990’s, most major American cities have seen their crime rates drop significantly, in some cases even further than New York’s has. Many of these cities did not undertake anything like New York’s crackdown on small-time offenses.
A 1999 study of the 17 largest cities compared each city’s most recent drop in homicides. New York’s rate of decline was the fifth-largest, behind those of San Diego, Washington, St. Louis and Houston.
San Diego, seated along a major drug smuggling corridor close to the Mexican border, is particularly interesting. In the late 1980’s, its police department began adopting a very different style — a problem-solving, community-oriented approach. While recording impressive drops in crime between 1993 and 1996, the city also posted a 15 percent drop in arrests and an 8 percent decline in complaints of police misconduct.
Criminologists say a number of other factors have contributed to declining crime rates in New York — among them, the sharp increase in the police force. Former Mayor David Dinkins hired more than 2,000 new police officers, and Mr. Giuliani hired another 4,000. From 1991 to 1998 the force grew by almost a quarter, giving New York the highest ratio of officers per civilian of the nation’s large cities.
A fall in the crack cocaine trade, a strong economy, new computerized police tracking systems, more prisoners and an aging population have also contributed to lower crime rates.
The best social-scientific evidence has shown that a neighborhood’s graffiti, litter or public drunks do not necessarily point to a serious crime problem. The research suggests that rather than leading to serious crime, disorder — like crime — is caused by conditions like poverty and a lack of trust between neighbors.
The most rigorous research to date, a 1999 study by Robert Sampson of the University of Chicago and Stephen Raudenbush of the University of Michigan, concludes that “the current fascination in policy circles on cleaning up disorder through law enforcement techniques appears simplistic and largely misplaced, at least in terms of directly fighting crime.”
Whatever effect the quality-of-life campaign has had on serious crime in New York is, in all likelihood, not a result of fixing broken windows or cleaning the city of squeegee men. It is because of the increased surveillance afforded by Giuliani-style policing. The broken-windows policy has made possible a 66 percent jump in misdemeanor arrests from 1993 to 1998 and sharp increases in stop-and-frisks that allow more searches for guns, more checks for outstanding warrants and more fingerprint collection.
This enhanced surveillance has come with a big price tag: a 37 percent increase in complaints of police misconduct from 1993 to 1999, significant racial disparities in enforcement, illegal strip searches and many traumatic encounters — some of them deadly — for ordinary citizens. It has also aggravated racial divisions.
So do we need a broken-windows type of policing? Not for combating serious crime. This approach to law enforcement diminishes trust between the police and the community, violates basic rights and scapegoats the homeless and other people we deem disorderly. Clearly, there still needs to be a mayoral debate on whether New York City wants to bear that cost.
Bernard E. Harcourt is a professor of law at the University of Arizona and the author of “Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing.”
A Reality-Based Economy
By DAVID BROOKS
The neopopulist story line about skyrocketing inequality and the tides of globalization is incredibly simple-minded.
If you’ve paid attention to the presidential campaign, you’ve heard the neopopulist story line. C.E.O.’s are seeing their incomes skyrocket while the middle class gets squeezed. The tides of globalization work against average Americans while most of the benefits go to the top 1 percent.
This story is not entirely wrong, but it is incredibly simple-minded. To believe it, you have to suppress a whole string of complicating facts.
The first complicating fact is that after a lag, average wages are rising sharply. Real average wages rose by 2 percent in 2006, the second fastest rise in 30 years.
The second complicating fact is that according to the Congressional Budget Office, earnings for the poorest fifth of Americans are also on the increase. As Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution noted recently in The Washington Post, between 1991 and 2005, “the bottom fifth increased its earnings by 80 percent, compared with around 50 percent for the highest-income group and around 20 percent for each of the other three groups.”
3 The third complicating fact is that despite years of scare stories, income volatility is probably not trending upward. A study by the C.B.O. has found that incomes are no more unstable now than they were in the 1980s and 1990s.
4 The fourth complicating fact is that recent rises in inequality have less to do with the grinding unfairness of globalization than with the reality that the market increasingly rewards education and hard work.
A few years ago, the rewards for people earning college degrees seemed to flatten out. But more recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that the education premium is again on the rise.
5 Fifth, companies are getting more efficient at singling out and rewarding productive workers. A study by the economists Thomas Lemieux, Daniel Parent and W. Bentley MacLeod suggests that as much as 24 percent of the increase in male wage inequality is due to performance pay.
6 Sixth, inequality is also rising in part because people up the income scale work longer hours. In 1965, less educated Americans and more educated Americans worked the same number of hours a week. But today, many highly educated people work like dogs while those down the income scale have seen their leisure time increase by a phenomenal 14 hours a week.
7 Seventh, it’s not at all clear that the big winners in this economy are self-dealing corporate greedheads who are bilking shareholders. A study by Steven N. Kaplan and Joshua Rauh finds that it’s not corporate honchos who are filling up the ranks of the filthy rich. It’s hedge fund managers. Or, as Kaplan and Rauh put it, “the top 25 hedge fund managers combined appear to have earned more than all 500 S.&P. 500 C.E.O.’s combined.” The hedge fund guys are profiting not because there’s been a shift in social norms favoring the megarich. It’s just that a few superstars are now handling so much capital.
8 Eighth, to the extent that C.E.O. pay packets have thickened (and they have), there may be good economic reasons. The bigger a company gets, the more a talented C.E.O. can do to increase earnings. Over the past two and a half decades, the value of top U.S. companies has increased 500 percent, according to Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier. The compensation for the C.E.O.’s of those companies has also increased 500 percent.
9 Ninth, we’re in the middle of one of the greatest economic eras ever. Global poverty has declined at astounding rates. Globalization boosts each American household’s income by about $10,000 a year. The U.S. economy, despite all the bad-mouthing, is chugging along. Thanks to all the growth, tax revenues are at 18.8 percent of G.D.P., higher than the historical average. The deficit is down to about 1.5 percent of G.D.P., below the historical average.
All of this is not to say everything is hunky-dory. Inequality is obviously increasing. There’s evidence that global trade is producing more losers.
Instead, the main point is that the Democratic campaign rhetoric is taking on a life of its own, and drifting further away from reality. Feeding off pessimism about the war and anger at Washington, candidates now compete to tell dark, angry and conspiratorial stories about the economy.
I doubt there’s much Republicans can do to salvage their fortunes by 2008. But over the long term a G.O.P. rebound can be built by capturing the Bill Clinton/Democratic Leadership Council ground that the Democrats are now abandoning. Whoever gets globalization right will have a bright future, and in the long run, the facts matter. #
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By Joel Kotkin and Fred Siegel
December 2, 2007
After decades on the political sidelines, liberalism is making a comeback. Polls show plunging support for Republicans and their brand of conservatism among young, independent voters and Latinos. But what kind of liberalism is emerging as the dominant voice in the Democratic Party?
Well, it isn’t your father’s liberalism, the ideology that defended the interests and values of the middle???? and working classes. The old liberalism had its flaws, but it also inspired increased social and economic mobility, strong protections for unions, 0000 the funding of a national highway system and a network of public parks, and the development of viable public schools. 0000 It also invented Social Security and favored a strong ?????? foreign policy.
Today’s ascendant liberalism has a much different agenda. Call it “gentry liberalism.” It’s not driven by the lunch-pail concerns of those workers struggling to make it in an increasingly high-tech, information-based, outsourcing U.S. economy — though it does pay lip service to them.
Rather, gentry liberalism reflects the interests and values of the affluent winners in the era of globalization and the beneficiaries of the “financialization” ??? of the economy. Its strongholds are the tony neighborhoods and luxurious suburbs in and around New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco and West Los Angeles.
Just as the number of industrial workers and traditional middle-class households has declined, the ranks of the affluent class have grown. From 2000 to 2005, the number of millionaires in the U.S. rose 26%. Meanwhile, households with incomes of more than $100,000 a year were the most rapidly growing income category, according to Ogilvy & Mather demographer Peter Francese. From 1994 to 2004, the number of six-figure-income households jumped 54%.
Although many of the newly affluent are — as is traditional — politically conservative, a rising number of them are turning left. Surveys done by the Pew Research Center indicate that an increasing number of households with annual incomes greater than $135,000 — the nation’s top 10% — are moving toward the Democrats. In 1995, there were nearly twice as many Republicans (46%) as Democrats (25%) in this category. Today, there are as many Democrats (31%) as Republicans (32%).
The political upshot is that Democrats now control the majority of the nation’s wealthiest congressional districts, according to Michael Franc of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
In part, this is because the Democratic gains in the 2006 elections were in affluent districts once held by the Republicans. In Iowa, for instance, the three wealthiest districts now send Democrats to Washington, and the two poorest are safe Republican seats.
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Perhaps the best indicator of the growing political power of gentry liberals, however, is their ability to generate campaign contributions. Chiefly drawing on Wall Street, Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, this year’s Democratic presidential candidates have raised 70% more money than their GOP counterparts, according to the Wall Street Journal. The securities industry, which awarded Republicans 58% of their campaign dollars in 1956, gave the GOP only 45% in 2006. In the newest sectors of the securities industry, most notably hedge funds, Democrats are favored. This year, hedge fund managers have given 77% of their contributions to Democrats in congressional races, reported the Journal.
Gentry liberalism is not an entirely new phenomenon. Its intellectual roots can be traced to historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s 1948 book, “The Vital Center.” Schlesinger himself was the archetype of the gentry liberal. A product of Harvard University, he was as comfortable in the fashionable precincts of Manhattan’s Upper East Side as he was advising presidents in Washington. Schlesinger was suspicious of the traditional liberalism of President Truman, who baldy appealed to the basic interests of returning middle- and working-class veterans of World War II.
In “The Vital Center,” Schlesinger dismissed both the then-largely Republican business class, as well as mainstream Democratic politicians like Truman, because he thought they were too craven in their appeals to middle- and working-class interests. He believed that government should be in the hands of “an intelligent aristocracy” — essentially men like himself — whose governance would be guided by what it considered enlightened policy rather than class interests.
Since the 1960s, the intellectual class epitomized by Schlesinger has grown many times over. Academic liberals have become something of a political power in their own right. College campuses constituted the largest single base of contributors to the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. Professors are among the highly compensated and pampered professional cadres of the knowledge economy — which also includes lawyers, engineers, doctors, wealth managers, investors and other educated professionals — that make up the ranks of gentry liberalism and flatter the politicians who advocate its positions.
Gentry liberalism has established a strong presence on the Internet, where such websites as MoveOn.org and the Huffington Post are lavishly funded by well-heeled liberals. These and other sites generally focus on foreign policy, gay rights, abortion and other social issues, as well as the environment. Traditional middle-class concerns such as the unavailability of affordable housing, escalating college tuitions and the shrinking number of manufacturing jobs usually don’t rank as top concerns.
But gentry liberalism’s increasingly “green tint” distances it the furthest from the values and interests of the middle and working classes. Leading gentry liberals, whether on Wall Street, in Hollywood or in Silicon Valley, are among the greatest scolds on global warming. They justifiably excoriate the Bush administration for its overall environmental record, but some of them — movie stars, investment bankers, dot-com billionaires — are quick to insulate themselves from charges that their private jets or 20,000-square-foot vacation homes in Nantucket spew prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide. Repentance typically includes the purchase of carbon “offsets,” parcels of rain forests, hybrid vehicles or solar panels.
The gentry liberal crusade to tighten U.S. environmental regulations to slow global warming could end up hurting middle- and working-class interests. U.S. industry needs time and incentives to develop new technologies to replace carbon-based energy. If it doesn’t get them, and an overly aggressive anti-carbon regime is instituted, the shift of manufacturing, energy and shipping jobs to developing countries with weak environmental laws and regulations could accelerate.
Ignoring these potential Third World environmental costs would result only in shifting the geography of greenhouse gas emissions without slowing global warming — and at a terrible cost to jobs in the U.S.
The ascent of gentry liberalism remains largely unchallenged, in part because of the abject failure of the Republicans to address middle-class aspirations in a serious way and in part because of the absence of a strong pro-middle-class voice among Democratic presidential contenders, with the exception of former Sen. John Edwards. As a result, Democrats are unlikely to stop, let alone reverse, the current economic trend that dispenses major benefits to gentry-favored sectors such as private equity firms, dot-com giants and entertainment media.
Over the last half a century, liberals have moved from strong support for basic middle-class concerns — epitomized by the New Deal and the G.I. Bill — to policies that reflect the concerns and prejudices of ever more elite interests. As a result, neither party speaks for broad middle class concerns.
The nation deserves better than that.
Joel Kotkin is a presidential fellow at Chapman University and the author of “The City: A Global History.” Fred Siegel, a professor at the Cooper Union for Science & Art, is the author of “The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life.”
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On Campus, Liberal Professors Retire By PATRICIA COHEN Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education, are being replaced as part of a vast generational change. [it goes on forever …………. Some parts confirm my exp]
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Editorial
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Published: August 3, 2008
Many banks are ailing, lamed by hundreds of billions of dollars in bad loans and poor investments and hamstrung by the prospect of continued multibillion- dollar losses.
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There is no painless solution. If banks retrench by making fewer loans, families and businesses are hurt and with them, the broader economy. If banks cope by building bigger cushions against losses, shareholders take the hit in the form of lower dividends, lower earnings per share, lower stock prices or some combination.
Yet, for the past month, some private equity firms have been promoting what they claim would be a relatively pain-free fix of the nation’s banks. And the Federal Reserve — which must know that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is — has yet to say no, as it should.
Private equity firms say they are ready to invest huge amounts in ailing banks — provided the Fed eases up on the regulations that would otherwise apply to such large investments. The firms’ desire to jump in makes perfect sense. Bank shares are cheap now, but for the most part, are likely to rebound when the economy improves. The firms’ push for easier rules, however, is a dangerous power grab, and should be rejected.
Under current rules, if an investment firm owns 25 percent or more of a bank, it is considered, properly, a bank holding company, subject to the same federal requirements and responsibilities as a fully regulated bank. If a firm owns between 10 percent and 25 percent of a bank, it is typically barred from controlling the bank’s management. To place a director on a bank’s board, an investor’s ownership stake must be less than 10 percent. The rules exist to prevent conflicts of interest and concentration of economic power. They protect consumers and businesses who rely on well-regulated banks, as well as taxpayers, who stand behind the government’s various subsidies and guarantees to banks.
To maximize their profits, private equity firms want to own more than 9.9 percent of the banks they have their eye on and they want more managerial control — and they want it all without regulation. They argue that because they tend to be shorter-term investors, problems that the rules address are unlikely to occur on their watch. That is a weak argument. It does not necessarily take a great deal of time to do damage. And as the financial crisis demonstrates daily, decisions and actions taken by unregulated and poorly supervised firms can prove disastrous years later.
Worse, the private equity firms are exploiting the desperation of banks and regulators. They know that banks are desperate to raise capital and that doing so is a painful process bankers would rather avoid. They also know that regulators and other government officials, many of whom where asleep on the job as the financial crisis developed, want to avoid the political fallout and economic pain of bank weakness and failure.
Federal regulators would be wrong to cave. Now, when there is great uncertainty about which institutions are too big or too interconnected to fail, is exactly the wrong time to allow less transparency and less regulation. And with confidence in the financial system badly shaken, it would be a mistake to signal to global markets and American citizens that the government is willing to put expediency above long-term stability.
Held to the same rules as other investors, private equity firms may choose to invest less. Some banks may have a tougher time repairing the damage to their institutions. Some banks will fail. That, unfortunately, is what happens in a financial crisis.
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McCain’s Problem Isn’t His Tactics. It’s GOP Ideas.
By Greg Anrig
Sunday, August 3, 2008; Page B01
At long last, the conservative juggernaut is cracking up. 000 From the Reagan era until late 2005 or so, conservatives crushed progressives like me in debates as reliably as the Harlem Globetrotters owned the Washington Generals. The right would eloquently praise the virtues of free markets and the magic of the invisible hand. We would respond by stammering about the importance of regulation and a mixed economy ???, knowing even as the words came out that our audience was becoming bored.
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Conservatives would get knowing laughs by mocking bureaucrats. We would drone on about how everyone can benefit from the experience and expertise of able civil servants. ty They promised to transform stodgy old Social Security into an exciting investment opportunity that would make everyone wealthy in retirement. We warned about the scheme’s “transition costs” while swearing that the existing program would still be around for today’s younger workers. They offered tax cuts. We talked amorphously about taxes as the price of a civilized society. After Sept. 11, 2001, they vowed to strike hard at terrorists anywhere and everywhere without worrying about the thumb-twiddlers at the United Nations. We stood up for the thumb-twiddlers.
But now, seemingly all of a sudden, conservatives are the ones who are tongue-tied, as demonstrated by Sen. John McCain‘s limping, message-free presidential campaign. McCain’s ongoing difficulties in exciting voters aren’t just a tactical problem; his woes stem largely from his long-standing adherence to a set of ideas that simply haven’t worked in practice. The belief system and finely crafted policy pitches that enabled the right to dominate the war of ideas for the past 30 years have produced a relentless succession of governing failures, from Iraq to Katrina to the economy to the environment.
Largely as a consequence, the public’s attitude toward government — Ronald Reagan‘s bête noire — has shifted. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that, by a 53-to-42 percent margin, Americans want government to “do more to solve problems”; a dozen years ago, respondents opposed government action by 2 to 1. Meanwhile, Republican constituency groups’ long-standing determination to put aside their often significant differences and band together to support GOP candidates is fracturing: The libertarian darling Ron Paul and the evangelical Christian leader James C. Dobson are among the Republican bigwigs who haven’t so far endorsed McCain. And the mountains of books and articles by conservative writers attacking liberals and liberalism have begun to be matched by new stacks of tomes exploring what went wrong with conservatism and what is to become of it.
As I listen to leading voices and thinkers on the right pondering the condition of their ideology, it is increasingly clear to me that they face a fundamental dilemma — one that cannot be resolved anytime soon and that might well leave the conservative movement out to pasture for as long as we progressives have been powerlessly chewing grass. That choice is whether to stick with rhetoric and policies wedded to free markets, limited government and bellicose unilateralism, or to endorse a more robust role for the public sector at home while relying more on diplomacy and international institutions abroad. Either way, conservative Republicans seem destined to have a much harder time winning elections for the foreseeable future. Just ask McCain how much fun he’s having.
The single theme that most animated the modern conservative movement was the conviction that government was the problem and market forces the solution. It was a simple, elegant, politically attractive idea, and the right applied it to virtually every major domestic challenge — retirement security, health care, education, jobs, the environment and so on. Whatever the issue, conservatives proposed substituting market forces for government — pushing the bureaucrats aside and letting private-sector competition work to everyone’s benefit.
So they advocated creating health savings accounts, handing out school vouchers, privatizing Social Security, shifting government functions to private contractors, and curtailing regulations on public health, safety, the environment and more. And, of course, they pushed to cut taxes to further weaken the public sector by “starving the beast.” President Bush has followed this playbook more closely than any previous president, including Reagan, notwithstanding today’s desperate efforts by the right to distance itself from the deeply unpopular chief executive.
But in practice, those ideas have all failed to deliver on the promises the conservatives made, and in many instances, the dogma has actually created new problems. Particularly after Hurricane Katrina, when Americans saw how hapless the Federal Emergency Management Agency was, the public has begun to realize that the right’s hostility toward government has produced only ineffective government.
One can see the results in recent headlines: a Justice Department where non-conservatives need not apply; tainted spinach, jalapeño peppers and pet food; dangerous imported toys; poorly enforced environmental laws and a warming planet; the regulatory failures that led ???? to the subprime mortgage fiasco. Meanwhile, large tax cuts (as under Reagan) have weakened the country’s fiscal health without significantly improving the lot of the vast majority of citizens. Aaaaaaa And the right’s enthusiasm for Bush’s brand of “benevolent hegemony” in foreign policy, which insists on the U.S. right to wage preventive war and dismisses the United Nations as a band of meddlesome bureaucrats, has weakened our security — most notably through the unnecessary calamity in Iraq — by diluting our military capabilities and diverting their focus from genuine threats from al-Qaeda.
So now what? In new books, two conservative stalwarts, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the anti-tax guru Grover Norquist, don’t even bother wrestling with such failures. Instead, they argue for an even stronger dose of the medicine that has, so far, produced mainly toxic reactions. They owe their fame to denigrating the government, so one can hardly blame them for sticking with the program. For conservatives to abandon the arguments that have served them so well politically for so long would be akin to a Fortune 500 company dropping its core business when it recognizes that the market for its product is rapidly disintegrating.
Running away from something that has made you successful, even after the public is clearly no longer buying, is extremely difficult to do. Business-school curriculums are filled with case studies of long-prosperous companies that went bankrupt precisely because they were unwilling or unable to shift to an enterprise better suited to changing times. Future political science classes might some day teach a similar story about conservatism.
Shifting course won’t be easy, either. Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, a pair of conservative authors decades younger than Gingrich and Norquist, argue in their new, much-hyped book “Grand New Party” that the time has come to “move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mindset of the current Republican power structure.” They suggest plenty of proposals that many progressives would support, including a fairly ambitious and expensive national health-care plan, subsidies for entry-level jobs and more investment in infrastructure.
But while Douthat and Salam deserve credit for alerting fellow conservatives to the perils of staying the course, their embrace of a relatively activist government — if adopted by the broader movement — would shift political battles to a playing field on which progressives have a much stronger footing. Once conservatives concede that something like national health insurance is desirable, it becomes hard to discern what will remain of their Reaganite identity. On July 14, Rush Limbaugh himself fulminated on-air about reformers such as Douthat and Salam. “We have some Republicans who seem hell-bent in throwing away the one proven winning formula twice that won 49 states,” he said. “If you want to big-tent the Republican Party, go right ahead. You start big-tenting conservatism, and you’re going to have it end up meaning nothing.”
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It’s bad enough that opening up the conservative agenda to energetic government would lose Limbaugh. Worse, it would alienate the wealthy business executives and scions who have financed the formidable network of right-wing institutions that includes think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, activist groups such as Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and a plethora of conservative media outlets. That money flowed because its sources benefited directly and enormously from such policies as tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks. Those sugar daddies are unlikely to find much to be enthusiastic about in a Grand New Party, and their money will largely determine whether and how conservatism will transform itself.
David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, tries to resolve the central dilemma confronting conservatives in his own recent book, “Comeback,” by having it both ways. On the one hand, he writes: “There are things only government can do, and if we conservatives wish to be entrusted with the management of the government, we must prove that we care enough about government to manage it well.” But he offers little in the way of concrete ideas for improving government, drawing heavily on familiar, ineffective ideas such as school vouchers and U.N.-bashing. Frum’s solution of pouring the old wine into new bottles can’t do much good since the wine itself has gone bad.
Traditionally, conservatives have defined themselves as resistant to change, standing “athwart history, yelling Stop,” as the late William F. Buckley Jr. famously put it. But right now, conservatives — including McCain — are damned if they do change and damned if they don’t.
Greg Anrig, vice president of programs at the Century Foundation, is the author of “The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing.”
‘The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule’ by Thomas Frank
As the author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” argues, the GOP’s goal is to free big business and big interests from government regulation: And if that means appointing mediocre bureaucrats and ado
By Jon Wiener
August 24, 2008
The Wrecking Crew
How Conservatives Rule
Thomas Frank
Metropolitan Books: 372 pp., $25
HOW CAN we explain the incompetence, the scandals, the corruption, the waste, the giveaways, the bridges to nowhere and the no-bid contracts in Washington, D.C., today? “Fantastic misgovernment of the kind we have seen is not an accident,” Thomas Frank writes in “The Wrecking Crew,” “nor is it the work of a few bad individuals.” Those who run our government “have not done these awful things because they are bad conservatives; they have done them because they are good conservatives.” They want government to fail ????, he argues, because that gives them a stronger argument for cutting regulations and taxes that reduce corporate profits. Some may see this as a powerful argument for electing Democrats this November.
Frank’s last book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” answered the question liberals were asking after President Bush was reelected in 2004: How did the Republicans do it? How did they get ordinary people to vote for tax cuts for the rich? His answer was that Republicans confused ordinary voters with a phony kind of class-war rhetoric and with the culture wars. Close a town’s factory, he observed, and the next week the unemployed workers are picketing the local abortion clinic — as if that was the source of their problems. The book was widely debated.
In his new book, Frank has shifted the focus from the metaphorical Kansas to the real Washington, from the voters to those who govern — not just the president and Congress but the lobbyists, government contractors and political operatives who have shaped so much of what has gone wrong in the last eight years. The challenge of writing a book like this is to avoid wearing the reader down with gloom and outrage. Frank acknowledges this problem at the outset, in one of his characteristically glorious sentences: “We climb to the rooftop, but we cannot find the heights of irony from which we might laugh off the blend of thug and pharisee that is Tom DeLay. . . .” Nevertheless from his rooftop, he has met the challenge, often brilliantly. He tempers his rage with bitter sarcasm, and his gloom is leavened by an eye for the unexpected and the absurd.
The heart of the book examines conservatives in power: “the leviathan of waste and misgovernment that is the glory of conservative Washington.” I thought I knew a lot about how Republican rule worked. I knew that the man in charge of disaster preparedness at the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned out to be incompetent and unqualified. But I didn’t know that appointing unqualified people to run federal agencies has been an announced principle of conservative government: Frank calls it “sarcastic staffing,” and it shows its fullest flowering at the Department of Labor. I didn’t know that the man appointed to oversee the Employment Standards Administration had previously written a report titled “How to Close Down the Department of Labor.” I didn’t know that the man in charge of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had previously worked at “a union-busting law firm.” I didn’t know that the chief economist of the Labor Department was “not only a ferocious enemy of unions but an advocate of allowing entrepreneurial prison wardens to bring back convict labor” and that he now runs a 9/11 conspiracy website.
Conservatives don’t want excellent people in government, Frank writes, because that would make government look good; it would make people like government. That principle was stated explicitly starting with the Reagan administration. Lyn Nofziger, Reagan’s political affairs director, said in 1981, “we have told members of the Cabinet we expect them to help us place people who are competent. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who supported Reagan is competent.”
The next step in conservative government is contracting out work — the source of truly big money for corporations and the lobbyists who represent them. Government contractors today not only build submarines and fighter planes; they also collect income taxes and write budgets for federal agencies; at policy meetings about the Iraq war, contractors take the minutes. There are many more people working under government contracts than there are federal employees. And the real goal of federal employees who are conservative is to get out of government and into contracting — or lobbying for contractors.
“The Wrecking Crew” also examines how conservative principles are regularly contradicted by conservative practices. Thus conservatives are anti-communist — until Red China opens the gates to employing super-cheap labor. Conservatives are for the free market — until they need a bailout for the mortgage industry. Conservatives are anti-government — unless they can get no-bid contracts from the government.
What explains this hypocrisy? It’s simple: Conservatism is “an expression of American business,” Frank writes, and thus “a movement that is about greed, about the ‘virtue of selfishness’ when it acts in the marketplace.” When conservatives say they are for getting the government off our backs, they are talking about the backs of employers who don’t want to pay the minimum wage or comply with worker health and safety regulations. The hypocrisy is necessary because “people like the liberal state. They like the prospect of a secure retirement, a guaranteed education for their kids, pure food, clean air, crash-free airplane trips, safe working conditions, and a minimum wage.” So it has been hard work for conservatives to take apart the liberal state.
It might seem as if conservatives got everything they wanted during the last eight years. But they lost their biggest battle: the campaign to privatize Social Security (although it’s still on John McCain’s agenda). That was the real conservative nirvana — to get ordinary folks to put their Social Security contributions into the stock market. The campaign, led by Bush, argued that everyone would benefit, because the stock market was going to keep going up. Remember that 2000 bestseller “Dow 36,000”? Eight years later, with the Dow closer to 11,000 than 36,000, first editions of the book are selling on Amazon.com for a penny — I guess that’s the free market at work.
Conservatives reply to arguments such as Frank’s by claiming “Everybody does it” — Democrats appoint cronies, Democratic lobbyists make millions and Democratic donors milk the system too. It’s true that downsizing and outsourcing were practiced by the Clinton White House. But Frank has strong evidence that the scale of corruption, waste and mismanagement of the last eight years dwarfs anything that came before.
Will electing Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress change all this? That’s not really Frank’s subject, so he devotes only a few paragraphs to his answer: not necessarily. What is needed is “a revival of the social movements of the left that brought liberalism into being in the first place.” That’s because “liberalism is a philosophy of compromise, and without a force on the left to neutralize the tremendous magnetism exerted by money, liberalism will naturally be drawn ever further to the right.” It may have been hard work for conservatives to wreck the liberal state, but it’s going to be harder putting it back together.
Jon Wiener teaches history at UC Irvine and is a contributing editor of the Nation. His most recent book is “Historians in Trouble.”
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Bratton’s exit opens the door to questions of conflict of interest
An independent probe is needed into the relationship between the departing police chief and LAPD monitor Michael Cherkasky, who will soon be Bratton’s boss.
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By Tom Hayden
August 13, 2009
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Now that Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has announced that he is leaving his job in October, the popular law enforcer has become practically untouchable. But for the future of policing in Los Angeles, an independent inquiry is needed into whether his departure involved a conflict of interest that has compromised the latest chapter of police reform.
In May 2001, the Los Angeles City Council selected a former New York prosecutor, Michael Cherkasky, and the firm he then ran, Kroll Associates, to be the independent monitor overseeing police reforms mandated by a federal consent decree in the wake of the Rampart scandal. A leading member of Cherkasky’s monitoring team under the five-year, $11-million contract was William Bratton, former New York City police chief and a senior consultant at Kroll.
For a period of months before applying for the LAPD chief’s job, Bratton worked for Cherkasky on the consent decree, contributing to reports the monitor prepared for the city. On Oct. 2, 2002, Bratton became LAPD chief. There were obvious red flags even then: The man monitoring the city’s compliance with a federal decree was the friend and former employer of the man he was supposed to be monitoring. Was this really the sort of independent, conflict-free relationship required of a monitor?
It is not clear whether Bratton and Cherkasky interacted professionally outside the framework of the consent decree, but we now know, according to what Cherkasky recently told this newspaper, that the two men had always hoped to work together again. In July, Cherkasky told the federal judge overseeing the consent decree that the LAPD had sufficiently reformed itself and recommended the consent decree be lifted. In the same month, Cherkasky created Altegrity, a new holding company for his expanding security business. On Aug. 5, the former monitor hired Bratton to run a subsidiary, Altegrity Security Consulting. It all raises questions that should have a public airing.
If Cherkasky knew it was unlikely Bratton would leave his job before the decree was lifted, and if Cherkasky wanted to hire Bratton, then didn’t the monitor have a business interest in lifting the consent decree?
Bratton has done a lot of good in Los Angeles. But what will happen now that the chief is departing and the decree has been lifted?
The question is why the decree was lifted now, before a number of critical reforms were achieved.
In a 2009 Harvard University study of the department’s reforms, the authors found much to praise, concluding that “the LAPD of today is a changed organization” and lauding the department for achieving unprecedented public approval, greater responsiveness to minority communities, and reductions in the use of excessive force.
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But it also noted some potentially disturbing findings, including:
* A 17% increase in the use of nonlethal force (stun guns, bean bags, etc.) in the LAPD’s Central Bureau during the last three years.
* “A troubling pattern” in which African Americans are “subjects of the use of such force out of proportion to their share of involuntary contacts with the LAPD.”
* A doubling of total pedestrian stops in six years and a 40% rise in vehicle stops, overwhelmingly in the inner city.
* “Steep increases” in arrests for minor offenses because of “police management decisions to use arrest powers more aggressively for less serious crimes.” There were an average of 298 arrests a day last year for what the Harvard report describes as minor crimes.
* A complete rejection by the department of citizen complaints of racial profiling. Internal investigators upheld none of 1,200 reports from citizens made between 2003 and 2008.
* A near-complete rejection of complaints of “officer discourtesy.” Of 2,368 complaints filed, the LAPD concurred in only 1.6% of the cases. Moreover, a survey revealed that 85% of LAPD officers consider citizen complaints frivolous.
This evidence suggests a work in progress, not a fully reformed police department. Worse, the Harvard analysts cast serious doubt on the capability of local authorities to hold the LAPD accountable in the absence of federal oversight. The office of LAPD inspector general, created in 1996 as a result of earlier controversies, was commended by the report, but it also noted that the office has only “modest” powers and that the Police Department is free to ignore its recommendations. The report noted that if the Police Commission had been performing its oversight role well, a monitor would have been unnecessary. But as the report notes, police commissioners are unpaid and the inspector general’s office cannot conduct independent or parallel investigations of its own.
As the city-funded “Rampart Reconsidered” report concluded in 2007, “The federal court is the only entity with the independence, power and sustained focus capable of ensuring that the city and the LAPD maintain current reform efforts.” Now that watchdog is gone, thanks to Cherkasky’s endorsement that his once and future partner, Chief Bratton, has improved the department to the point it no longer needs an outside eye.
We have to hope he was right.
Tom Hayden is a former California state senator. His most recent book, “The Long Sixties,” comes out in December.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
Inequality as Usual By ROSS DOUTHAT If a period of Democratic dominance doesn’t close the gap between the rich and the rest of us, it will represent a significant policy failure for contemporary liberalism.
/Misguided Monetary Mentalities By PAUL KRUGMAN Some of the bad ideas that helped cause the Great Depression have, alas, proved all too durable.
The Agony of the Liberals By ROSS DOUTHAT American liberalism has always been frantically self-critical. But even by those standards, the anguish over the Obama presidency seems bizarrely disproportionate.
Who Killed the Disneyland Dream? By FRANK RICH For all the inequities of America in 1956, economic equality seemed within reach, at least for the vast middle class.
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The Gated Community Mentality
AS a black man who has been mugged at gunpoint by a black teenager late at night, I am not naïve: I know firsthand the awkward conundrums surrounding race, fear and crime. Trayvon Martin’s killing at the hands of George Zimmerman baffles this nation. While the youth’s supporters declare in solidarity “We are all Trayvon,” the question is raised, to what extent is the United States also all George Zimmerman?
Welcome to gate-minded America.
From 2007 to 2009, I traveled 27,000 miles, living in predominantly white gated communities across this country to research a book. I threw myself into these communities with gusto — no Howard Johnson or Motel 6 for me. I borrowed or rented residents’ homes. From the red-rock canyons of southern Utah to the Waffle-House-pocked exurbs of north Georgia, I lived in gated communities as a black man, with a youthful style and face, to interview and observe residents.
The perverse, pervasive real-estate speak I heard in these communities champions a bunker mentality. Residents often expressed a fear of crime that was exaggerated beyond the actual criminal threat, as documented by their police department’s statistics. Since you can say “gated community” only so many times, developers hatched an array of Orwellian euphemisms to appease residents’ anxieties: “master-planned community,” “landscaped resort community,” “secluded intimate neighborhood.”
No matter the label, the product is the same: self-contained, conservative and overzealous in its demands for “safety.” Gated communities churn a vicious cycle by attracting like-minded residents who seek shelter from outsiders and whose physical seclusion then worsens paranoid groupthink against outsiders. These bunker communities remind me of those Matryoshka wooden dolls. A similar-object-within-a-similar-object serves as shelter; from community to subdivision to house, each unit relies on staggered forms of security and comfort, including town authorities, zoning practices, private security systems and personal firearms.
Residents’ palpable satisfaction with their communities’ virtue and their evident readiness to trumpet alarm at any given “threat” create a peculiar atmosphere — an unholy alliance of smugness and insecurity. In this us-versus-them mental landscape, them refers to new immigrants, blacks, young people, renters, non-property-owners and people perceived to be poor.
Mr. Zimmerman’s gated community, a 260-unit housing complex, sits in a racially mixed suburb of Orlando, Fla. Mr. Martin’s “suspicious” profile amounted to more than his black skin. He was profiled as young, loitering, non-property-owning and poor. Based on their actions, police officers clearly assumed Mr. Zimmerman was the private property owner and Mr. Martin the dangerous interloper. After all, why did the police treat Mr. Martin like a criminal, instead of Mr. Zimmerman, his assailant? Why was the black corpse tested for drugs and alcohol, but the living perpetrator wasn’t?
Across the United States, more than 10 million housing units are in gated communities, where access is “secured with walls or fences,” according to 2009 Census Bureau data. Roughly 10 percent of the occupied homes in this country are in gated communities, though that figure is misleadingly low because it doesn’t include temporarily vacant homes or second homes. Between 2001 and 2009, the United States saw a 53 percent growth in occupied housing units nestled in gated communities.
Another related trend contributed to this shooting: our increasingly privatized criminal justice system. The United States is becoming even more enamored with private ownership and decision making around policing, prisons and probation. Private companies champion private “security” services, alongside the private building and managing of prisons.
“Stand Your Ground” or “Shoot First” laws like Florida’s expand the so-called castle doctrine, which permits the use of deadly force for self-defense in one’s home, as long as the homeowner can prove deadly force was reasonable. Thirty-two states now permit expanded rights to self-defense.
In essence, laws nationwide sanction reckless vigilantism in the form of self-defense claims. A bunker mentality is codified by law.
Those reducing this tragedy to racism miss a more accurate and painful picture. Why is a child dead? The rise of “secure,” gated communities, private cops, private roads, private parks, private schools, private playgrounds — private, private, private —exacerbates biased treatment against the young, the colored and the presumably poor.
Rich Benjamin is the author of “Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America” and a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan research center.
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Occupy’s Version of the Odd Couple Unfolds A culture clash is under way as newcomers adjust to a London Occupy camp, which has an unusually fastidious list of rules governing everything from when food can be cooked to when music can be played. Video: Culture Clash at Occupy London 4/l2
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Can Occupy Wall Street be more than talk, teach-ins and tents? 4/l2
/ The Credit History Underclass Lawmakers should stop employers from unfairly using credit checks to shut out job applicants.
Free Speech at Military Funerals A law signed by President Obama, which broadens restrictions on protests at military funerals, may well violate the Constitution.
/ Immigrants to Pay Tuition at Rate Set for Residents By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Massachusetts will provide an in-state discount at its public colleges for young people in the country illegally.
/ When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading By MICHAEL BRICK So far, education “reform” has given us little but re-segregation and the same dismal scores in math and science.
/ And at the Bottom of the Wage Scale … Workers in 10 states will get a raise this year, but a long overdue increase in the federal minimum wage would help many more.
/ Criminalizing Children at School By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Districts should think twice before deploying more cops in schools because it might hurt students more than it helps them.
/ Milton Friedman, Unperson By PAUL KRUGMAN 8/l3 The curious case of a disappearing icon.
/ The Government as a Low-Wage Employer By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Obama should sign an executive order to raise the pay of millions of poorly paid employees of government contractors.
/ The Civil Rights of Children By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Obama administration speaks out against zero tolerance disciplinary policies that disproportionately affect minorities.
/ College for Criminals By BILL KELLER Now – when the economy is recovering, the crime rate is relatively low, and there is an emerging awareness that our way of punishment wastes money and lives – is the time to expand inmate education.
/ Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of Malaise By LIZ ALDERMAN
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/ Taking on Teacher Tenure Backfires By JESSE ROTHSTEIN Firing bad educators won’t close the achievement gap. 6/l4
/ Why Teenagers Act Crazy By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN It’s not their fault. It’s all in the timing of brain development. 6/l4
/In Washington, Second Thoughts on Arming the Police By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Jolted by clashes between protesters and the police in Missouri, President Obama has ordered a review of the strategy of outfitting local police with military-grade body armor, officials say.
/2016 Ambitions Seen in Walker’s Push for University Cuts in Wisconsin By JULIE BOSMAN
Critics of Gov. Scott Walker say he is capitalizing on a view that is popular among conservatives like those in the Iowa caucuses: that state universities are elite bastions of liberal academics.
/More Assaults on Fair Pay By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Republicans continue the fight against “prevailing wage” laws. 5/l5
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Too Many People in Jail? Abolish Bail
By MAYA SCHENWAR It’s unjust to lock someone up just because he’s poor.
The Alamo and Walmart By GAIL COLLINS
There’s a whole new way to mess with Texas.
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Boston Bomber’s Sentence Unsettles City He Tore Apart NYT Now By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, ABBY GOODNOUGH and JESS BIDGOOD To many Bostonians, the death sentence given to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev felt like a blot on the city’s collective consciousness.
What College Applications Shouldn’t Ask By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
High school disciplinary records have no place in the admissions process.
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Liberals and Wages By PAUL KRUGMAN Workers’ pay can be raised without costing jobs.
For Prisoners, a Path to Society By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Obama administration is wise to restore limited access to Pell education grants for prisoners.
A.C.L.U. Sues Over Handcuffing of Boy, 8, and Girl, 9, in Kentucky School By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The federal lawsuit seeks to spotlight the use of handcuffs to restrain young children who act out in school.
Brooklyn Man Awarded $4 Million After 2009 Rooftop Fall in Police Chase
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L.A. Police Commission drops proposed civility rule for meetings
Kate Mather
The Los Angeles Police Commission has dropped a controversial proposal to require people attending its public meetings to show courtesy and civility or risk being removed.
Annoyed by Loud Chewing? The Problem Is You
/ex of twisting it all around – http://hechingerreport.org/filmed-classroom-arrest-of-south-carolina-schoolgirl-spotlights-police-brutality-prison-pipeline/
/is this idiocy due to lib?: Imagining a Rikers Island With No Jail By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The sensible thing to do with the jail complex is to close it.
/H.I.V.’s Toll on Black and Latino Men By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Infection rates can be curbed even among these disproportionately affected groups.
New York Passes Rent Rules to Blunt Gentrification
/ Kerry Won’t Apologize to Japan for Bomb [and japan won’t apologize enuff or try to make it up for what it did to asia]
/ Summer Jobs for All City High School Students By THE EDITORIAL BOARD A new proposal by the Community Service Society of New York makes a strong case for a universal summer jobs program.
/ Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? By NEIL GROSS
It’s a boon for the Democrats, though they need to be alert to its dangers.
/The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus By NICHOLAS KRISTOF We liberals hurt ourselves when we don’t hear others’ voices.
/ Don’t Shun Conservative Professors
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS 3:21 AM ET
Welcoming the stranger is one of the great moral traditions liberals have.
/ California’s Sexual Assault Law Will Hurt Black Kids
By LARA BAZELON 3:21 AM ET
Harsh school discipline policies fall hardest on students of color.
Mugabe and Other Leftist Heroes By BRET STEPHENS
Why do progressives keep falling for tyrannical liberators?
/ Will Betsy DeVos Expand the School-to-Prison Pipeline? By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
She keeps finding new ways to fail our kids.
/ Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think You Are By GERARD ALEXANDER
Self-righteousness is rarely attractive, and even more rarely rewarded.
Parkland Shooting Suspect Lost Special-Needs Help at School When He Needed It Most
Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators but I won’t click.
/ New York City Is Making ‘Hair Discrimination’ Illegal
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/nyc-bans-discrimination-black-natural–hair
Feb 18, 2019 · Despite research showing evidence of bias against black women with natural hair, there is no federal law that prevents this form of racial discrimination. But discrimination on the basis of hair or hairstyle has prevented children from going to school and …
4/29/20 la: Arrested 4 times in 3 weeks: L.A. police blame zero bail for rise in repeat offenders
While crime in L.A. is down since the pandemic began, law enforcement officials say career criminals are exploiting the new zero-bail policy.
Biden’s Plan Promises Permanent Decline
/ biden is one of our worst presidents – Bing
/ How looting in San Francisco turned the city into a ghost town (nypost.com)
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This week we are looking back on 2021. Today, culture.
This year headlines chronicled how a loose constellation of ideas are changing the way that white, educated, left-leaning Americans view the world. Connecting them is the belief that disparities between racial groups are evidence of structural racism, and that free speech and individualism are camouflage for discrimination. The “woke”—as they are dubbed by left and right alike—believe that injustice will persist until systems of language and privilege are dismantled.
Such notions were incubated in universities. Some graduates took a horror of feeling “unsafe” with them to jobs in the media and in politics, business and education. Progressives of the old school remain champions of free speech. But illiberal progressives think that equity requires the field to be tilted against those who are privileged. That means restricting their freedom of speech and making an example of reactionaries. The results are calling-out, cancellation and no-platforming. Milton Friedman once said that the “society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither”. He was right. ======================== = = = |
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/ L.A. skid row’s ‘everything store’ offers food, drink and lots of kindness
The owner of People’s Market wants the store just south of Little Tokyo to be more than its inventory. During a shift, employees might serve as therapists, social workers, confidants or mediators.
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Stay Away from These 6 Liberal Myths
Liberalism is primarily based on equality before the law and consent of the governed. The NY Times has been largely accepted as a liberal newspaper all over USA for the above principles. With respect to social issues, it is fair to call the NY Times liberal, and even the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times fall in the same category. However, misinformation does lead to misunderstandings and the adoption of a misguided political or personal philosophy. Thereby, it is important to step away from myths that may be in the guise of liberalism.
In today’s times of fake news and false history, it gets very difficult for even the established NY Times Liberal journalists to identify the real. Here’s a look at the 10 liberal myths that have been mistakenly believed by many conservatives in the US: [this is @@@@]
1. Overpopulation as a World Crisis – Various forms of information such as The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich and the year 1973 movie Soylent Green have made assumptions about populations increasing at rapid rates. However, real statistics with respect to fertility rates across 100 nations state that global population will increase, but will start declining quickly after 2050.
2. Liberals Mean Well but Are Misguided – This is not true as per research. As compared to conservatives, liberals have been found to exhibit the following traits:
- Less likely to think that being married is important
- Unlikely to think that putting another person’s happiness ahead of one’s own leads to happiness
- Less likely to believe in an obligation to care for a seriously ill parent or spouse
- Very less chances of hugging their own children
- Less likely to give money to charity
3. Most Mass Murderers Are White – There are statistics to show that non-Hispanics commit murders at roughly the same rate as their population share
4. Most Wars Occur Due to Religion – History begs to differ from the last statement. Motivation for warfare has primarily arisen due to burning desires for wealth, resources, land, lust, glory, and power. Take examples such as Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, the Vikings, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Julius Caesar. Religious has clearly never held any importance in any of these.
5. Middle Ages led to Oppression, Technological Stagnation, and Ignorance – A closer look at history reveals the following facts about medieval Europeans:
- They were aware that the world was round
- They invented Western harmony and musical notes
- They erected some of the world’s most beautiful buildings
- As cheerful people, they revived popular drama and gave rise to the carnival
- They produced genres of art that were adored around the world
- It can be clearly seen while looking at the history above that this was not the “Dark Ages”, but a brilliant period instead.
6. Higher CO2 is Always Bad – The increase in CO2 can actually be beneficial since it enables better plant growth. Conservatives constantly try to link it with the increase in global warning, which is not completely right. A world rich in CO2 will be a green world.
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A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying | The Economist
Seattle to pay millions to settle lawsuit over damages from George Floyd-inspired ‘autonomous zone’ protests (msn.com) defund the cops there. same I Portland?
/ brookings inst. 5/4/23: The debt ceiling is dumb. Here’s why. “Political bickering over the debt ceiling—which so far has always been raised or suspended, often at the last minute—is a waste of time and energy, creates unnecessary uncertainty, threatens the benefits of issuing the world’s safest asset, and undermines public confidence in our political institutions,” argues Louise Sheiner. Read in Newsweek
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credit libc
see valn? vs val
/solarz. thinkers, on cutting edge =
touchy topics, civil rights
*- cons dictators treated better by our gov than soc. ones as am. f.p protects am biz. – [we overlook corruptos if anti com]
/los mineros – about miners? the salt of the earth. some struggle in n.m.
/lib lead way on lac? but want gov sol
/chancellor: cap better, but it didn’t win, comm fell. cons wanted to bomb kremlin. nato held back.
*/libs have to be given some credit after jim and tammy thing.
women’s rights
/sexual freedom in gen ?
/insts: s.s., collective bargaining, gi bill, medicare, anti discrim statutes.
*/broadminded, openminded, informed, not quick to judge, exposed, tolerant, flex, expansive, some psych
*/birth control,
int’l involvement,
* new issues: battered spouses, gay rights, euthansia, environment, abortion, impotence, divorce, gun control, handicapped rights,
-lib or con: consumer rights, child abuse, incest, impotence,
– More openness re: [responsible] premarital relations, addiction,
‑ “Diversity” [=pluralism] rather than “singularity” (one course of study, one type of work, one spouse for life, one set of beliefs & friends)
– More questioning of religion. hypnosis, round world,
/libc access for handicapped
/sid sheldon said norman lear changed tv. before him it was only surprise parties.
/mccarthy
*/cons probably consistently worse toward minorities
*/tobacco
/our freedom of info act is one of the most lib in world. cnn 92
/mcgovern: gov promotes clean air, water, soil. product safety,
/lib: gov makes sure ingredients are listed on labels.
“Diversity” rather than “singularity” (one course of study, one
type of work, one spouse for life, one set of beliefs & friends).
/lib – women’s sufferage, child protection, animal rights
*/media led way in integrating their news staffs.
/you see program on haiti and are lib
/libs led on birth control. gergen?
/intermarriage
/immigration?
/aclu protested the interment ofjap-ams during wwii.
Premarital Sex and Maturity – how responsible relations helped a narrow mind. Useful to those pulled between promiscuity and abstention. 400
/credit for lot of regs once thot impossible – sig – file cab
/libs and epa, ed, energy
/cons probably wouldn’t have allowed the album, the lst fam, or all in the family. good pt.
/all in the fam is widely credited with changing the course of tv comedy in am. They’ve led the way over the years on: slavery, women’s sufferage, birth control, forbidden issues
more openess about: battered spouses, gays, incest, abortion, euthansia.women’s sufferage,slavery, Bringing up subjects like incest, impotence, etc.
/racially diverse newscasters is a good idea.
/gun control.intermarriage.
[yet bashed japan and cut the number of asians entering college.]
/integration of news teams.
/lead way in bringing up: incest, homo, child abuse, adoptions..
/will tear down insts to be realistic
/media: led way on integrating sitcoms, news staffs. all in fam.
/media probably helping girls get into football. like black coach, all he wanted was a chance.
/reverse list of where cons are out of it.
/w. raspberry actually said to punish, even severely in lib op.
“Diversity” rather than “singularity” (one course of study, one type of work, one spouse for life, one set of beliefs & friends). Intermarriage.
/libc hollywood blacklist.
/put good pysch ahead of good? rel. lot of credit here.
/driving that safeway out
*/libs led on integration of sports. and mil? [out of nec]
/lib hollywood must have done some good. rainman,
/libs led way on cath becoming pres?
/libs fot aparteid, child labor, for 5 day wk wk.
/scopes trial
/took smoking off tv?
/press gave newt hell during lst l00 days, but actually gave him lot of credit at the end for more or less fullfilling the contract. 4/95
/lib press led in civil rights, w-gate, vw.
/supported blks in so africa
*/envir regs helped. great progress against the ozone-layer depletion. reformulated gas has cut smog in la by more than half since the lst earth day, even tho the no of cars has doubled.
easterbrook. la 4/95
/libs far more open to im than cons on buckley’s panel
/libs are thinkers – no doubt about it
Claim Am. foreign policy protects Am. business abroad.
Protest conservative dictators being treated better than socialistic ones.
/envir regs helped. great progress against the ozone-layer depletion. reformulated gas has cut smog in la by more than half since the lst earth day, even tho the no of cars has doubled.
easterbrook. la 4/95
access for the handicapped?,/unmarried people living together. /libc – am leads the way
/hollywood supporting tibet. libc
/equal op for ims/ellen, rainman, charlie, forest gump, guess who’s coming to dinner, in the heat of the night – have helped.
/libs led on intermarriage, integrating newsrm.
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(As much damage as liberals have done, they deserve credit for:
More rights for minorities, women, gays, the handicapped.
More openness about battered spouses, the gay world, addiction, child abuse, incest, abortion, impotence, etc.
More acceptance of ethnic diversity and intermarriage.
More acceptance of separation & divorce.
More use of psychology to get to the roots of one’s problems instead of “keeping it all in” and enduring “long suffering”.
More openness about public figures instead of putting them on a
pedestal.
More open-minded about premarital relations in long term, responsible relationships.
More questioning of religion.
Integrating newsrooms.
Media liberals led the way with these because of their challenging old ideas, being open to new ones, and their interest in those with less.)
More openness about public figures instead of putting them on a
pedestal.
More rights for everyone. minorities, women, homosexuals, youth, the handicapped.
Getting to the root of one’s problem instead of “keeping it all in.”
/sig: our lib country looked more at pedo priests than any other, apparently
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/complain bout level playing field when they dom the media./libs forgot where they came from – tradval
/they want level playing field vs lm, rh dict.
/forgive debts [so rest of us can pay higher rates]/how the other half lives.
Liberals have chided us on prejudice since the civil rights movement, yet they bash Japan as much as anyone.
/if they’re so compassionate, why are they slow on animal rights./all help sheriff search for fugitives but the wel off who knows where they are. ty. tv 96. dateline? privacy act. wel can’t even ask em if they are wanted. diff laws by diff agencies.
/libs believe in tolerance, but are very INtolerant, said leo straus.
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lo = lib outline [for op]
should this go under lac? or p6? too much to keep up with. counter with recs.
categories some on sep files
anti biz, anti pri, care, class, collectivism, courts, credit, dialectic, doubles, equal, excuses, guilt, hist, hypocrisies, ideal, ment, neg, new, old, prejudice, results, underdog, simplistic, soc, yourh
see lac, sig, excuses, soc, econ?, collect, j, t, myths, issues, blk, lm, lmn, boon, op, pri, sp2, sw, swn, libc
dialectic
ideal
guilt
old=cap, pri
new=secure, soc, =, class.
care, permissive, generous
dialectic bout same as summary which is on libn?
The political, social, and economic establishments oppress “underdogs” and thus are “guilty”. They are part of the “old” traditional values which caused todays problems. The solutions can be found with “new” methods and values.
Psychology is important, thus we should be permissive.
“Caring” and “compassion” means generousity, which means meeting people more than half way.
Security through a welfare state.
“Equality” [means equal outcome]. Level the classes. The young understand this better.
Corollaries: anti‑private sector, anti-business, pro union.
status quo is bad; change is good [as it requires a lot of mental work]
The establishment oppresses.
“Old” is bad, “new” is good.
Psychology, permissivness. “Caring”, “compassion”.
Security. Welfare state. “Equality”. Level the classes.
Pro union. Venerate youth.
anti‑private sector, anti-business,
sig: add iq dialectic to above. & psych +
thus faulty approach dialectic
/libs study and dwell, mostly emotionally, on those who aren’t getting ahead, not on those who do. like abnormal psych, not normal
/hard to build, easy to tear down. hard to earn, easy to spend.
/Liberals are so insistant on rights, they have no conception of preventative police work. needs explaining
/libs beginning to think pop has obligations as well as entitlements. ah ha. l/90 us news.
backbone, no an endless talk show.
/jumping on civilian border patrol [as makes them look bad?], bernie getz, vigilantes, what else.
/lib – big on rel thus nothing that will cause resentment vs wel does.
/don’t take a stand, take a course
anti-biz see biz file
anti pri
-la needs a civic cul like ny [the most wel oriented] in 20s & 30s with labor law reform, wel, pub ed [from la mag l/l5/89] since la has smaller cos than ny, more gov is nec for hiwys, sewers, etc. [course no credit for la getting to where it is w/out gov]/
-libs never look at pri justice, pri comms, pri schs, pri rds, hosp, prisons, etc. see pri
-brokaw: vol agencies strained to breaking point with homeless in atlanta and gee, shouldn’t the gov really jump back in.
– agnostic about thatcher rev. they say greed is sapping nat. spirit and bringing selfishness. vs 4 in l0 blues back cons.! l/2 of blues advance?
care fit? they care more and better – part of the badge. love.
credit in their mind: /broke the depression, won the war, forged a new order abroad, stimulated dom. growth. thru ed, thru marshal plan, va mortgages, hiways.
credit in the minds of others:
/ahead on fundamental religion.
experimentation [define], thinking, disecting bodies, round world-environment
/wattenberg: dems in 60’s got health insur, jopa, vote for l8 yr olds. environ..
/lib would have favored archie bunker when it started.
/libs probably resp for c span
crime
/connie chung’s program on willie boskins – poster child for capital p.
affected speech. con. sick”,
/60 min. criticize police for letting crimes go on, after they have stolen a car, have warrents out, etc. so they have enuff to put criminals away for long. miss whole point that it take that much.
/get criminals off the st.soon as behind bars, everyone feels sorry
/used to do preventative detective wk said eddie eagan. cop talk 89.
/best cops and worst laws in calif – pete wilson quoting someone
/no c.s. justice in cal said someone who took case to nevada.
double standards
/Whites who don’t mix socially with minorities are prejudiced; minorities who don’t mix with whites or with each other are not.
/quick to condemn colonialism while ignoring the greatest colonial power. /They don’t live in ghettos, nor their kids go to slum schools, yet they claim to know what is best. is this essentially a double.
ed
/libs never credit cath or other pri schs=2 tiered.
/new haven is poor, yale is wealthy. new haven needs help, but $ isn’t enuff. how does the city use yale to turn the city around.
yale has CHOSEN to live behind walls. some in new haven take pride in id ing with yale. same with st john div
/s donaldson. can’t have vouchers if it affects integration
/libs see ed as the cure for every ill.
equal see equal
/libs believe clients want to get ahead, & with the same effort m.c.
would make – meaning enuff to get job done
/leveling down = grammar, manners, profane, excuses
class
presumptuous – who appointed them?, condecending, patronizing, –
intellectual vanity and contempt for the common man, wc.
/white man’s burden? vs facts thus guilt – round and round, but on top – no thot of getting out.
/michael novak la l0/l8/90: critics of rich carefully define rich as just above them. some of these critics make l00k or more/yr. for the pub, it’s 50k -the top 20%. marriage correlates w/income. top 20% has more workers. household. also more ed, buy and read more bks, sub to more mags. during rr yrs most people got richer. census bur uses 9 brackets. ea moved up. phenomenal econ progress. thus tax burden shifted upward. [gives dramatic proof. the left says of course rich paid more as they earned more. right says, they earned more as more incentive [lower tax rates]. “it breaks the heart of the left but, alas, only as the rich earn do their income taxes pour in.” [must be laffer curve]
/most of the critics are hypocrits as they’re in the top 20% or much higher. michael novak la l0/l8/90
/a lib is someone who puts your $ where his mouth is.
underdog gap twix rich and poor biggest in the 40 yrs it’s been measured. would be lost w/o an underdog.
thatcher said something bout libs want to pull rich down to reduce gap, never the poor up?
excuses see e
generous in for aid and wel
guilt see guilt
crocodile tears – fit?
health
dumping patients is obscene = emerg rms.
hist
68 marked start of decline for lib. ironic as goldwater was too far right in 64. wow.
/for 20 thence, reps used lib as bad. so udal used “progressive”.
/bush: remants of 60’s, the new left, campus radicals grown old, peace marchers, & [anti nukers].
carter, wilson, truman.
/ fdr widely hated – you’d never know it
/fred barnes, described as a cons: 50’s were trivial and boring
lib with tr in l900 – till hoover in 28. then with fdr ’32 – ? then with lbj in 64
/dems, espec in 60’s and 70s became id w/ protest – mostly racial, , viet, and soc permissiveness in crime, drugs, sex. this bugged the m.c. -la.
/libs backed castro’s struggle in 50’s and after he won power in 59 and embraced comm. despite disapproval by dem and rep admins, libs in congress showed sympathy. [for how long]
/r. samuelson. plodding pea brain ike who had restraint & knew what was sig. dismissed as mediocre, poor leader. ranked 22 out of 33. but now being seen better. he foresaw end of cold war. he healed: debates over new deal and reds. he kept a sound econ: uib = 4.8, infl = l.4 median hh inc rose 22%. had 3 surpluses. believed in limited gov. seemed slo on race, but jfk and lbj only acted when forced. 3 recessions. he resisted tax cuts from reps and increased spending from dems. it was lost as then came 60s econ with deficits and infl for growth. far less restraint. had we followed ike’s caution and cs we’d have never had big infl and the recessions to cure it [a?]. #
/libs used to think bourgeois soc was a doomed stage of devel toward a shimmering soc future. ll/90 wash mo. corporation doesn’t mean evil anymore. and biz men actually can contribute. commies destroyed link twix effort and reward. must also be from ll/90 wash mo.
human nature /libs never met lazy, improvident, irresp, spoiled, immature person
/b & c rules and hse rules !! would never get shit list
hypocrisy? or inconsisten, self-rightous, flaws, arbitrary, or self-appointed
/libs never taught, nor run b&c, nor worked in jail, been a cop, been victim,
ideal see in
media see lm & lmn
neg
new ‑ all hart had to do in 84 was said he had new ideas and thou-
sands flocked to his banner. youth, psych, ed, tech. soc is new.
new patches on old clothing = baby with ba water.
/doing his part to bring CHANGE. vs the more they stay the same
old is bad
/hist [ians?] has not been kind to republican eras of prosperty. [l9th cent] 20s seen as prelude to depresson. 50s were the Silent Decade – of sleepy ike, but they were times of great econ growth. lib historians prefer grim heroics of the 30s, the outlandish excess of the 60’s or the counterculture of the watergate 70s. 80s = greed and passivity over morality and soc consc…. reason 5/88.
/structure of society causes people to feel alienated thus change it. – not that changeable. old is bad [baby with ba water
permissive /leave jail angry vs cubans consider out jails holiday inns.
/i never hear a lib saying we have to buckle under, tighten our belts, be tough, sweat, etc. they always have theories, ed, psych, syndromes,
/libs don’t believe in backbone, firmness. so no disc. as a preventative measure; no preventative police work, no entrapment, stop and frisk, detain?, no confrontation, no accountability, no spanking, death penalty
/some teacher with l9 yrs exp. taken to crt for yelling at stu. hitting one w/brush. and putting soap on finger sucker. using baby talk in crt
/parent classes say don’t use words don’t and no
pov
/never hear bout the indians, west indian blks, haitians, appalachians, etc. that made it and HOW
/ims appreciate this country, lot more than lot of ams – something libs can’t get.
recs /if lib policies were reversed: less welfare, phased out min wage, less union power to restrict the number of jobs, there would be far more jobs, more necessity to work [with lower welfare payments], more people would be working ….. less time for crime, better wk habits. better citizens
results
/un considers cuba to have one of the most equitable distributions of capital 86
/threw white man out of africa
/libs criticize past colonial powers, but not ussr
/gov programs have caused a dependency class while pov, urban decay and crime persist. source?
/we’ve got to stop pitting one group against the other – taxes, min wage, etc. a. laffer. melody and sis
/throw baby out with bath water [tradval]
/It says no job is better than a low paying job.
/Their education programs as much as say they don’t want anyone to get ahead unless everyone does. – prove
/They want schools to be social agencies.
/it was AFTER for aid was withdrawn from taiwan and s. korea that their economies took off.
/it’s exactly the lib cities that are having a backlash against the hmless: sf, ny, s monica, santa cruz, berkeley, sausalito, venice?, lv?.
/backlash against hmless. also in sf, slc, las vegas, ny, santa cruz, santa monica. 7/90
/why is no job better than a low paying job. or no pay better than lo pay.
/asians discriminated against in l7 colleges. 7/89 tv
/all pay for col ed of mid and upper classes – vs st paul
resp /trace where libs misplace resp. [pass buck]
rich ?/schlesinger said hopkins not impressed with the pretensions of the rich. [so how impressed was schles with kennedys?]
rights /lib seen an obsessive love for rights
[l] stu rights thus no disc
[2] wel rights which made temp help perm
[3] felon rights.
secure protection from risks.
soc /always more. never look back at damage – irresp for security
tip o neil – i’ll never forget what he said.
simplistic
collect – all is fed – sec guards, b & c, 2 classes
summary
– People are benevolent, enlightened, charitable, humane, wise, etc.
– An ideal society is possible. Since our society is not, the establishment is guilty.
– Caring makes the difference.
– Old is bad. [This postpones traditional values indefinitely.]
– New is good. [The social “sciences”, education, youth … ]
– Equality [sameness]. Redistribute the wealth and power; level the classes.
– “Generousity”, permissiveness, security.
– (Collectivism) = socialism, unionism. mw,
– The above will make a better world. If not, liberals are not responsible as they had good intentions. ??????
– The private sector is not to get in the way.
– Business is greedy and corrupt.
social work /labor dept ordered sal army to pay mw to 50k in work-therapy. labor sees em as employees; sal army sees em as beneficiaries. sub min wage for disabled has been around? for long. sal army is one of most efficient said Fortune [mag]. robert knight [heritage] r.
thatcher /eng: the intellectual left = chattering classes. agnostic about thatcher rev. say greed is sapping nat. spirit and bringing selfishness.
4 in l0 blues back cons.! l/2 of blues advanced?
underdog /libs concerned bout innocents in prison, not the guilty
/When tenants kick addicts out of their housing project, the media worry about the addicts.
val /ims appreciate this country, lot more than lot of ams – something libs can’t get. dup
vocab
/they want to “protect” – canadians feel more “protected”
/reagan says according the Dem dictionary: oppor means subsidies; closing
youth
When a youth is spanked, he is “beaten”.
/our media practically want young japan to rebel. just like they worshipped the 60’s radicals.
bit of same for me w/ my degree, but I didn’t do damage like he did
/china compared to woodstock and one chinese to abby hoffman. comp to flower children, sds, 60’s, protests.
/never bout the peaceful stus of the 60s
/libs just dying to have stu kick up on the 90’s – they can’t wait for resurgent campus idealism. – here we go again.
/libs like youth as anti establishment to begin with.
/hyperventilating intellectuals. nostalgia for playpen of 60s. faculty club radicalism, sandbox rev. intoxicated by self-sig. tantrum. g will. 3/90. la.
abstract skip.
/take pride in keeping the intellectual highground.
/vague, [no def] no details: chores, manners, resume, hygiene, attire, grooming, work habits, but not do cons.
credentials /haig said libs almost exclusively preoccupied with soc justice.
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/need liberal traps, in which they end up in hypocritical positions
/how libs have polarized the classes
/lib belief in ideals contributes to pity.
/libs contribute to pity since things aren’t ideal.
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/blame sc more than ucla? for ignoring ghetto.
/watch out for new, rights, =, entitle.., change, profit?, GOV.
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Dear Director: ll/95
I would like to collaborate with your organization on a project concerning:
HOW THE LIBERAL BIAS AFFECTS US
The bias
– Description (the haves are guilty, redistribute the wealth, new ways, security, socialism, anti-business … ).
– Where the following fall along the liberal/conservative spectrum: regions of the country, cities, the media, business, academia, publications, think tanks, politicians [graphed], and public figures. [I have a list.]
The effect
How we’ve been conditioned to feel about the following vs. what the facts are (graphed when possible):
Economic issues
Capitalism, socialism, unions, minimum wage, rent control, tariffs, subsidies, price ceilings, privatization, industrial policy, managed trade, regulation ….
Social Issues
Poverty, slums, riots, social classes, social programs.
Other
Negativism, self-pity, false guilt, disillusionment, morbid egalitarianism, a rise in welfare, crime, and illegitimacy, and a decline in education, work habits, and values.
Recommendations
– Credit liberals for leading the way on birth control, civil rights, women’s rights, animal rights, euthanasia, intermarriage ….
– Credit conservatives for most traditional values, privatization, capitalism ….
Related ideas [I have material for these.]
– Liberal and conservative positions.
– Characteristics of the far left, middle, and far right.
My role I would want to direct this project as an idea man. I’d prefer to work mostly from home, trading info [thru e-mail] with an informal group at your organization sympathetic to the views of Milton Friedman.
Your organization’s role Clerical work, collecting, surveying, research, digesting, developing, outlining, writing, rating, public relations, publicity, promotion, and clearinghouse.
The staff should be interested in the subject, bright, but not necessarily highly-educated. They should be moderate-to-conservative (not far right), mature, practical, not idealistic. and believe in traditional values. They should not be bohemian, anti-establishment, bleeding heart liberals or socialists.
Guidelines
– A balanced approach [despite the title].
– Plain English, short sensible titles.
– Graphs, charts, ratings, outlines, lists.
My qualifications
Lived in slums … worked in welfare, child neglect, drug abuse, juvenile detention, domestic peace corps (VISTA) … taught Eng. … worked on Capitol Hill during Watergate … ran shelter for homeless … started home for mental patients and lived with them for 2 yrs.
My essays (A number have been published.)
The Liberal Media, Liberal Spin on Riots, Discovering Milton Friedman, What the Free Market Wants, Minimum Wage, Privatization, Social Classes and Liberals, Downward Mobility, Living with Bums, Social Work in the Past, Neighborhood Care Homes, To Fight Drugs, How Not to Study a Gangbanger, Psychobabble, Social Work Myths, National Service Corps – idealistic, The Homeless, Hazlitt on Poverty, Poverty Myths, Why Immigrants Pass the Poor, The Decline of Values, This Age of Excuses, Traditional Values, Beware of Idealism, Political Mentalities.
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False. Meaning false botton?
blkbusting: panic whites into selling [low?], and sell hi to minorities. also do this to beat rent control. those on wel demand less serv.uib and wel recognize an informal min. no applicant may be required to accept “unreasonable” offers of wk./make too much for medicare, but can’t afford health insur. same with working hmless & apts
/false [bottom] disabled = [roomer] bad attitude, unsoph, demanding
/false bottom. no punish. then it all builds up
/min standards = false
/false b mislead poor, minorities, stu, im,
/false: illegals?, teens,
/make too much for medicare, but can’t afford health insur. same with working hmless & apts
/false – sheltered workshop
/false: dumping grounds: slums, projects,
/underclass/false creates envy/underclass-st paul – paid not to wk /no chronic poverty outside this class.
/false: wel, stamps, medicaid, rent, heat, mw, excuse addict, crime,
legal aid, /don’t pay taxes
/deserving
/pov line
however, liberals have gotten many of us to frown on menial work, which has been the traditional route out of poverty.
/jobs go begging while we handcuff illegals
/make too much for medicare, but can’t afford health insur. same with working hmless & apts
/make too much for medicare, but can’t afford health insur. same with working hmless & apts
– Consider that l8th century England had to set relief payments below the wage of the lowest worker to get people to look for work.
– Expand workfare and lower benefits till welfare recepients reach the same level.
– Gradually phase out the minimum wage to create thousands of jobs for mental patients, runaways, dropouts, delinquents, derelicts, addicts, minorities, refugees, welfare recipients, students, and the retarded, aged, and handicapped. thus less illegals
/illegals – lst of all, realize illegal aliens show the inconsistencies of our attitudes toward our poor. 2 articles?
reflects on our poor.
the policies we’ve established for our poor. They are, in effect, paid not to work. Illegal aliens take work, our poor won’t touch.
– Phase out the minimum wage, expand workfare and set welfare payments below the wage of the lowest worker to get our people to look for work, as was done in l8th century England. These three would bring our poor into line with the realities of the labor market by making them compete with illegals. [no pt in talking about w/o these]
– Something is wrong when we handcuff illegals who will take menial jobs that go begging, while giving welfare to people over l8 who’ve never worked.
terms of fairness: those who come illegally are rewarded; those who obey the law and stay out are punished. The number of illegal aliens has made a mockery of immigration quotas.
– The problem is basically economics: most come out of desperation. Most of us would do the same, in their position.
/no mw for agr workers/ims want what hippies toss away/exploiting workers/false: child labor, bank in bangladesh -same w/ trickle up thing in ny
– the mil/sweat shop /mw,
/same in foreign aid that stops develop – taiwan, s. korea/il into false bottom
/fix: hm depot, pep boys, … perform an aux service. by enabling do it yourselfers, they increase the teaching, knowledge, plans, and RESP, maintenace, appreciation, duration, efficiency.
/tradval, cap, mw, non union, no excessive regs, no rent control, hm ownership, vouchers, are especially sig for minorities. DEVELOP
/wel recipients sue for more aid. complain bout having to shop at k amrt and not being able to afford meat. la 6/l8/92 /you can’t find good help, yet you can’t hire il/too many emerg services are free …. ag/so cent is getting FREE insul: weather stripping, caulking, lo flow shower heads, water heater blankets. tv 3/93
/no good day care/vista is part of this/can’t afford a burial an underclass,/competition vs security/nanny’s, farm labor
/join mil and get 30k worth of ed later. 93
/wel – need good jobs false.
/vista is part of this/vista, legal aid/make too much for medicare, but can’t afford health insur. same with working hmless & apts
/false – rehab
/false $45/hr
/can’t be idealistic with the poor/less crime when mw was lower? sig.
/cardbd condos, shelters, rent control, sros/food rescue, gleaning etc. vs mw.
/false ALLOWS blacks to blame racism./false – rehab
/brokaw worshipping habitat 94 vs nixon’s pa building hse from mail order cataloque.
/welfare enables and encourages people to tormet pub util, cable, etc. and remember those on wel in the hosp were the most demanding, and the kids on wel in the cafeteria were the most wasteful. sig/libs make our insur go up./my finally getting uib
/farm labor thus cut off lower rungs. w. williams 94/law is not for common man/braceros/truancy/habitat/libs get you in debt. then wants debts forgiven. amnesty too?
/il, mw, wel +,/halfway houses, nimby. habitat
/false: uib, wel, mw, pensions?, disability, mi’s,
/habitat/false bottom means less dig
/volunteerism/if segundos go to mex, just think of what PRI trash pick up could do, also mw, and charity/false: segundas, stuff picked up by charities is sold abroad/i, mw, pov, vista/sweat shops, abort, /on jon stossel’s ‘freeloading’ temp employ agencies said jobs go unfilled as shelters give em so much.
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j for loaded vocab.
go thru for i/, -/, h/
/libs tend to portray cons as far right.
/lib thinking lends itself to: new, ideal, thus neg, self-pity. sig
/eternal frustration
/people who care are a dime a dozen; people who are effective are rare and controversial
/the looney left [in eng. bit by 60 min]
/pro hand wringers – everything wrong, the sky is falling, and I’m the only one who cares. – donahue – and finger point. hangnail
/good at abstractions – ty of u.c.
/iq – introspective – love to soul search:
/csc
/lib def of fam is diff? trad fam: 2 parent – l working
/self-delusion.
/worship ed
/deficit means raise taxes. see sowell’s under eng? in file cab.
/women torn twix job and fam – well they should be said buckley
/Kemp: 90% of the jobs created in last 8? yrs were in u.s. l0/88
/fed contracts vs entreprenurship
/limited gov vs wartime /
/mc govern and mcneil said l0/88 cons have made lib a dirty word but embrace lib programs – I say they’ve been conditioned; true cons. want to dismantle em. both of them didn’t handle it well. viet war hurt libs said mcgovern. [can’t believe lib is a dirty word] 88 or 89?
/reform and reaction [ty subtitle]?
long waiting lists in eng for pri schs.
L word: how liberalism lost its lure la ll/5/88 bad article
/lib = term of devastating pol … [ty overeaction]
/older dems feel but for others, spec white mc and other who are swing vote, lib is bad soc policy and pers vals.
/lib went from helping individ to spec ints. cul relativism, social experimentation. gay parents.
-/lost touch w/ masses. due to civil rights?, great sc, and anti war. forced integration of housing, ed, and wk.-d.
/fed action to take over local sch sys or dictate who got hired and fired in local factories.
/civil rights encouraged latinos, gays, women.
/great soc: medicare, hd start + ok, but great soc promised more than it could deliver. thus bitter skepticism. wel, bussing.
libs favored viet war, then split.
/counterculture.
/rights of accused, rehab criminals,
/most ams are pragmatic moderates with little int in L or R.
/lib = gov. intervention lousy article. #
us news zuckerman. ll/7/88 [need new]
-lib helped all thru ed, thru marshal plan, va mortgages, hiways. but
baby boomers alienated by viet, watergate, inf, hi int, hi taxes. thus populist? revolt – prop l3, programs that helped all but mc & wc, who felt elites pushed hedonism and self-exploration and disdained self-reliance. felt libs talked left, but lived right and made m.c. pay.
ams are pragmatic above all. [on amn]
overreg., tariffs, quotas. misery index.
wel touched racism with ?
affirm action and busing.
reasons for wel fams to breakup and have more kids. thus? perm underclass. blamed academics for f.p.
rr reversed the historic perception of 50 yrs that reps better for pocketbk than dems.
now blows it on ir econ, im, for takeovers. need new phil to compete #?
/those on east side willing to have addicts in neigh.
/libs seemed to distain fam, religion, and country [?].
/lot of people love to be emotional, self-righteous, indignant, subjective.
the two big bad ones: busing and affirm action [legal discrim against whites],
“equity” and “justice”
Complex. He sees things as complex, but the principles involved are simple. “Complex” is too often used as an easy out for fuzzy thinking or as an excuse for a failed project.
/what is it to help somone make same mistakes over and over
/no int in starting at the unglamorous beginning. thinned skinned care,
/possible anti asian bias at ucla, to let fewer in. same day ll/l8/88 in la times, latinos threatening action if more of them aren’t let in [under quotas].
/if it’s a sin to make money, then it must be a virtue to give it away. should you give profits away so you break even?
us news ll/28/88 a crisis of liberalism is annouced every l0 yrs or so – sig. lib seen an obsessive love for rights and procedure and a set of explanations about why some problems can’t be solved. sig
/the nyclu puffed joyce brown who was later picked up on a heroin charge.
Dumping mi’s on sts due to the right [save $] and left to free em from insts. But KEEPING em on the streets was the left. as they tend to convert soc problem into civil-lib issues. ? sig? /mi’s stay on sts till dangerous.
/libs invent ever more rights when doing so puts people & soc at risk. [sure just like spoiled kids] ex:
/gays made 6th caucus of dem nat comm along with blacks, women, hispanics. /possible anti asian bias at ucla, to let fewer in. same day ll/l8/88 in la times, latinos threatening action if more of them aren’t let in [under asian-pac… d?
/liberalism can cope with anything except a crisis.
/lib helped break up the fam by fostering excessive individualism, and a narrow concept of justice. [?]
/resp = pluralistic sig?
/your family’s been hanging on to my coatails for years.
/media plays up person who lost apt, not the ll who lost lot of $
/lift my lamp beside the golden door – was more golden then for the poor
/ultra left back when warren was chief justice was like mcgovern’s bunch
/hollywood – bedrock for lib causes/
/reported china econ is overheating. thus inflation of 20%, corruption and unrest – who are they to say it’s overheating. kissinger said it.
/contests to see who can appear to care the most bout pov etc
/aud – guys don’t ever look at front page
/our parents went thru depression w/o counseling
/never hear em tell of teen who thanked judge for being tuff
/do you want an answer vs churn
-/ams are “ideologically cons”, and “operationally lib” – g. will?
libs who came of age in 50’s learned 3 WRONG lessons
l skepticism bout mil force from korean war. @#$%^&@#$%
2 being anti-commie is bad – from mccarthy. [did they exagerate him.]
3 intellectual vanity and contempt for the electorate – as a reaction to ike’s 8 yrs. When they left power in 53 they said the new dealers were being replaced by car dealers. snobbery toward electorate, who couldn’t understand what libs had done for them. -d
/dems the principal shaper of mod am./
credentials churning +
good intentions=?, guilt, religion?, articulate, complex, great throwing up of the hands,
/in a hurry to advertise their caring = fasionable, as is being educated, informed, well-mannered, etc. prove how noble they are.
ed, causes?, so africa?,
/thin skinned, self-right… indignant.
like civil rights: blks right
/the farce of the irv. animal shelter. got all upset bout their dig. [probably just as well to have defeated it as the libs would have felt terrible and made sure the hmless did too. vs tent over pub housing
/little joe with hangnail. then little jose from cent am. -teen? – left there. couldn’t have gone anywhere else in lat am. never asked what their policies are. or how he got here. but one day he crosses border. and finds a lib reporter. shazam! all of a sudden he’s got more rights – med, hot meals, food, shelter, trans to miami?, counseling, temp. papers? bilingual ed, heat?, voc. counseling?, legal aid, protection from coyotes. finds it ruff? then alc or drugs, then detox. rehab, then his cousin
/lib’s basically unhappy. their phil is.
[media’s rarely proud of am? – always critizing]
/love problems – unhappy, never satisfied-kennedy, fonda, hart, media.
/they don’t understand the problem, so they can’t devise a sol.
/want vicarous thrill – crime, poor, etc
/says jesse j says blks out to do with what they have instead of crying bout what they don’t have. lot of oppor.
/japan bashing throws a big wrench in their thinking as supposed to be not prejudiced if they are the ones in the media doing it – hard to prove.
/can you say that cons don’t go into vista or pc?
/drug war, like viet, like sw – got hands tied – prove.
/2 tier ed
/media sure covering the labor side of eastern airlines strike
/greater inequalities in other cul and less crime? can’t prove
/libs don’t want to hear the poor may NOT need em.-same with jim and tammy
/more interested in the innocent behind bars than the criminals outside.
/holy bout spanking, but skip the rest
/easier to meddle than to stay out and let things develope naturally-weak
/when lib power collapses, it does from within. [as bankrupt]
-/monihan thot the iq left was as rigid and destructive as any force.
/shifts responsibility from individuals to the government.
/the sig of exp – thus mislead youth
/limousine liberals
/gov.soc. owe the parents good life, then prenatal, then child care, pre sch, hdstart,
/fams bad. THUS sch’s resp to do all
/then list of things thru sch, recreation, trips, enrichment, no flunk, if drop out then all sorts of things to keep him out of drugs or crime. child. pathology. if crime then remedial, this literacy, job training. if no job then— if drugs then treatment and job training, no work along way cause it might be menial, if he gets girl preg, then same for her kid. if the kid born addicted, then multiply it. mex hangnail above. vs the cons. way.
/average hs dropout today makes 20?% less than the one l5 yrs ago.
/drug dealing exciting, interesting
/unions of workers good, but of drs bad?
/hollings article – their whole life is gov
r/hi uib rate due to discrim. only partly; due to min wage 227? before rates of white teen and black teen uib were roughly equal 227
r/tarrifs protect am workers 33 false they keep those industries from adjusting to the real market and they increase prices 38
/Laws during the depression adding the llth and l2th grades were passed to benefit young people
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[this is not conclusive. nor done well]
-us exploits 3rd world causing pov [and rest?]
-affirm action – 80% of media favor it
-don’t sweat homo 85 for permitting homos as teachers
-54 don’t sweat adultery; l5 do/
-abort
-the underdog. wel st.= close rich-poor gap, income redist
-all pol systems concentrate power and are repressive. xxxx
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/pay more atten to criminal than victim
/coverage of anyone who favors the underdog: the aclu, ralph nader
/call for fed sol, never even looking for pri or local solutions to problems
/posturing and buck passing
/braceros were rented slaves said bert corona
/specifics -no thot as to how much common sense the poor person uses when it comes to health or anything.
/mix top with bottom- bernstein]
/vista – grower was monster and migrant was hero
/rangle said kids need ed and job training re drugs
/wel rights
/libs have a lot of experience in thinking, not doing.
/they assume the poor want help
/is their guilt tied to caring or does it matter?
/am press serves cap by presenting developing countries in a bad light and suppressing their authentic voices ??????
/structure of society causes people to feel alienated thus change it.
/lib is never having to say your sorry
/ucla teachers strike in la. jim said union got most the pub
/libs want life to be a picnic and if you get into one of their fields, you’re hamburger.
/libs talk about hiroshima and cons talk bout pearl harbor?
/sympathy for sandanistas, harsh on contras. prove
/neg: down on recession, 82, and still down as we came out of it in 83 – 85% stories were neg. source.
/media got us critical of nuclear energy and the oil industry.
/cons pubs say higher ed is highly lib. sig
/aud – put ims outside rm. they don’t want soc, handouts, protest – but some did in dc riot.
/who are criminals more afraid of libs or cons judges, prosecuters, cops?
-/fallacy of unifying a whole country under one leader or system
/andy young said civil right movement was out to change? pov, racicism, & war and “came pretty close”
-/campuses permitted all kind of lib nonsense, but stiffle cons counters to keep the peace – even when it got legal, said accuracy in academia
/soc, unions, and fed are singular and easier to understand [simplistic]
/libs takes selves too seriously. can’t change that much
m-colonialzation was terrible. but on own, african countries have become basket cases, but could that be said of other countries. also no black countries would reverse it.
/lib logic, sexual needs, fertile, flower of youth, pregnant – then the fun begins: prenatal, free birth, insur, medical. same with crime
/cry over am poor, but ignor im poor- who are more deserving – weak.
-/irresp but how to prove
/where are libs after l/2 minority stu flunk out of college-never apologize or sorry – cause not resp. took j. fonda l6 yrs to say she was sorry for some of the things she had said bout war
/pros and lib – flip, but how
/d. gergen: conservatism w/ a human face
/racial burden put on schs?
/libs must be rebels, iconoclasts – menkin
/libs love to publicly anquish over problems
/t hayden’s dad didn’t talk to him for l5 yrs.
/firm judges seen as harsh, but need examples
/libs = frustrated? parents?, great levelers
/bernard goetz let off real light. so media proccupied with this being signal for vigilatism. police st
/libs like to speak for common man.
/libs are whiners
/libs don’t study cubans or viets
/too messed up to consider: too much dem for people to enter biz. this created instablity till the 30’s when gov created stability. [leveling] . am – the 2nd cent. – tv. underconsumption. gov helped plan and rationialize our econ. wwi. too much credit. before depression it was rugged individualism. v tape 5.
/pied piper
/left: anti establ. question, tear down, acrimony. water down, cavalier,
/heros vs leveling
/wealth = excess
/probably see ethnic groups as homogeneous = collect
/libs lose int in blk mc cept when fighting
/solarz right on top of korean and phillipine problems & kurds.
/the Monkeys says eur leaves stars up, but am whittles em down
/views of ims in audience of donahue, etc are overlooked
/lib: heaven help us when comedy gets tame and won’t take chances.
/never tell you how people get into pov or out; just that we owe em
/w.r. grace: lst resp of biz is to make $.
/who said in cuba they changed things, in chile, they tried.
/econ justice – jessie jackson
-/with gov doing less, pri donations went up around 86
/lib: cap exploited women and children and turned em out w/o comp when no more wk. it didn’t give cheap housing or trans. source
/when blks forced out, it’s a crime; when whites, much less so.
/where are libs when viets force whites out – millbank bread store – weak?
-/lib 2 generous 3 ample 4 loose interpretation 5 broadminded 6 favoring reform or progress
/what if wel were cut off tomorrow
/donahue: we have 2 ams cuomos and reagans
/friendship of libs is shallow said krystol
/kirkpatrick and weinberger prevented from speaking on campus said accuracy in academia.
/race, class and gender
/on campus banned coors – due to pol stance
/let blks, latinos, and hippies into college.
/media made [what?] pt of pres of burger king not having a degree
/ny post – made a liberal showcase by dot schiff. it created a following in ny’s mc advocating honest unionism, soc reform, humane gov, civil rights, civil liberties. said taxes far less demoralizing than priv charities. – least devastating way to meet soc needs of under and over privileged. said kept orgs are no good so paper must make it
-/j leo: lib see all as indiv rights vs big gov. they leave out comm. sig
looks good, but i didn’t include enuff info.
/lib thing from ny:
people will do right thing ——- what they have to
albany and dc caused ny’s problem ——- ny did
/the masses —————————the individ
new programs ………… can be new patches on old clothing
hospitals owe the poor emerg care ……
reagan, maddox, agnew are jokes ……
lindsay …..nix?
criminal rights …….. citizen rights
/rent control is needed during housing shortage .. rent control created it
/everyone is equal … if they start that way, it soon changes due to talent, work, foresight
student militants…..hard hats
woodstock …… peoria
ny’s east side is antiseptic, uptight ……. clean, decent
Ny’s west side is colorful, natural ……… unsafe, depressing
Greenwhich vilage ……… anything but
NY is dynamic ……. nuerotic
Outside NYC is provincial …… normal
NYC schls tolerate disruptive students …… mid am suspends them
Dirty lots are the city’s resp …… the owner’s
Historic plan to hold sch’s accountable for ed stu .. [they’re catching on]
Decreasing poverty will decrease illegitimacy … naive ??
NYC spends l.6 mil/day in welfare …. and can’t find dishwashers [newswk]
Entitled to a decent income …… to what they are worth dup?
Making welfare mothers work would be forced labor … join the club.
Mayor Lindsay:
when a teacher is … beaten up, students are robbed of a … chance to learn …” … [and it time for a new mayor]
Lindsay at the Kent State Funeral ……
What will kids do when sch’s out ……… stay out of trouble.
/stu must be part of admin or be alienated —- ho hum.
the youth have new ways ……. if adults abdicate the old ways.
SDS, weathermen, yippies ………. aren’t ready for an ed.
Listen to them before it’s too late … for what – gov. by teenager?
Kent State – a tragedy ……… true, but don’t milk it.
Worship youth ………………. ask em to grow up.
This is one of the brightest,
best-informed generations ……….one of the saddest, most disturbed, and most irresponsible.
Report to the pres
roots of stu activism lie .. in
our nat life ……………….in soc’s caving into them
Impressed with the idealism …… it’ll wear off
War must end .. univs must ..reform and gov must avoid appearing repressive ……………………………… or what – more childishness?
NY times stressed the above; it didn’t stress from the same report or article: “stus must accept resp … protect the right of .. speakers, be reminded .. language that offends will seldom persuade … not expect their views to determine nat policy
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ny times emphasized parts of report on stu unrest: stu idealism is good. their problem due to soc. thus end war, reform u, don’t repress. they did NOT emphasize: resp, right of spkr, profanity, not expecting to change gov
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college ed is a right …. a priviledge
Stu militants are revolutionary ….. all stu are somewhat idealistic but have been asked to grow out of it.
Many youths hate the system …… and themselves.
They are unahppy with war, racial problems, hypocrisy … welcome to life.
They don’t want to be trapped by
fam, job, and ……………… and anything else resembling resp.
Counterculture, 3rd world movement,
anti -establishment …………………… grow up.
Peace……..in 4000 years there have only been 400 yrs of peace.
Good that a owner of a theater
chain showed free movies ……. losing $25k and getting punched twice.
Excerpts form the ny cons party platform: mand training and ed for wel … repeal of medicaid … require parents of juv vandals be liable … trans pub housing to pri and free market. tax credits for parents pri sch stus.
Schs are repressive ……. dalton’s hdmaster barr: “… many fathers of students are mothers and .. mother’s are sisters
Cardinal Cushing’s Easter plan of
amnesty for war protesters …….. nonsense
Letter of the law “rights” …. spirit of the law common sense weak
/Gibbon wrote of the decline of greek civ “in the end, more than they wanted fredom, they wanted security. …when the freedom they wished for was freedom from resp, then Athens ceased to be free …”
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/in copying these i remember the anquish of it all. this gives perspective to these issues and my thinking.
/w post guy said a free press is always anti estab.
/of course we abandon everyone.
/robin hood. you don’t give a blank check to kids
/hiroshima complex
/meet their “needs”.
/lib keeps giving hungry fish [wel, stamps, rent, heat, ed, job training, medicare] till ready? cons gives couple of fish and a pole and the hungry man is ready. larry the liberal vs – no make it jfk vs nix.
/self-appointed, self-annointed, self-enobled
-/don’t like cap cause they can’t control it or predict it
/libs whine, bellyache
/worry bout how biz “takes $ out of the ghetto”, not about how the mafia takes $ out.
/jap corps giving tons in us for pr. & tax breaks. [now the flaws}
this is more shrewd than sincere.
nice they want to leave some profit here. f
they are stingy at hm. no tax breaks. a
shows they are just not int in profit. but now should move on to
volunteerism. f
not giving is being an irresp outsider. a
jap didn’t understand why am needy not taken care of by fam or co here, but workers here give to charity to do job. so if jap gives to charity, they are helping the workers. but maybe it’s only to buy influence. [diff systems. too hard to develop f & a ] source #
/all burdens put on schs?
/no credit given for breakup of at&t. valid? watch it – anti trust
/we keep our youth in sch too long
-/lib bias against conformity and obedience. source.
-/libs surprised to find the north so prejudiced
/s. eizenstat, former carter aide: dems can’t run the econ, nor protect country. they blush or look condescendingly at patriotism, fam vals and concerns bout sex and vio on tv [re rights].
good dem[ocries?] have 2 parties.
l for market and indivi,
other for gov and comm vals. dems [in us?] are latter.
soc dem parties and left of cent parties in engl, g, and i have all lost. cons parties have tried to slo, not stop, wel st. the libs that have gained have been tuff on f.p., econ.
[us?] dems went from ir resp for wwi thru viet to timidity and neo-isolation..
from reducing barriers to
from …..? to austerity
from inclusiveness to means testing, which reps tried in 30s & 40s.
from upward for wc to forgetting they paid the bills ??????
race is heart and soul of dems. he blew a few – he was a carter aide #
/litmust test for libs is porn 204 t of p c. morris.
/do libs dislike anything that stratifies – like big biz or csc
/bvi = brit vir is.. vs usvi. hard
early bvi: eng split and blacks got land. blks didn’t get it in usvi.
bvi – controlled growth and land spec. usvi uncontolled land spec and commercial growth. thus? usvi had l0 times the pop. [& growth?]
bvi – far less tol of crime. thus safe. [link w above?] usvi is opposite.
hurricane hugo hit both, but only looting in usvi.
he says above is cause, – a ? ? ? and that libs and cons are right. a? a? la l0/l/89 #
/libs really believe pov, racism, + excuse crime, drugs, alc.
/libs don’t under hum nature nor econ
-/export dem
-/libs are apologists
/libs never ask if there is too much gov, if gov should NOT have a role in /we have lowered ed goals for soc justice. sig jack anderson.
/look at the way they use words – lib, sw, psych?, unions
/new haven is poor, yale is wealthy. new haven needs help, but $ isn’t enuff. how does the city use yale to turn the city around.
yale has CHOSEN to live behind walls. some in new haven take pride in id ing with yale. for others it stands for privilege and inequality.
[just like sc] yale it new haven’s biggest employer, [but somehow that isn’t enough – it’s supposed to become a soc agency] stu drive up the costs of housing and thus limit the supply of affordable housing. yale has a moral resp. from governing l2/89 stupid pub
/cap is sig for resp. sig
/”the prince” [libs hate it]
/intellects get bored easily or w/ certain areas: ed, crime, pov
/libs can’t stand anything punitive
/sure a lot of self-pity in the media by libs last 8? yrs.
/libs have l0 times the $ cons have. [meaning think tanks?] us news l2/88
vs reps have more than dems ??????????
/what we owe client: detox, job train.. spec ed for her baby born addicted
/6/89 libs tripping over themselves to be lst to announce the end of the cold war. vs their silence re e. eur.
/is mostly the miners side being covered now re wild cat coal miner strike
/carolyn see called the criminal mind? bk hidious.
-/libs are paranoid about ever thinking a slow stu can’t keep up or catch up with a fast student – fraid he’ll be traumatized for life.
/where were libs when l/2 of minorites flunked college. – off in towers.
/should nip it in bud – noise, profanity, litter, trash, graffiti,-
lib can’t be bothered with this
/libs love to dump on castes of india and classes of eng
/one’s understanding depend mostly? on one’s experience
/libs want to equalize the weather.
-/texas has to ed kids who live in mex, and are us citizens
/great pride taken in not judging
/libs deny reality, hist, human nature because of imperfection.
/the poor make others feel sup.., enables em to patronize, are proof of their charity – this [weak] from green bk
/media anti giving biz any credit for helping ed? or it’s their duty.
/media wants us to bail out 3rd world countries. prove
/assumption that everyone is and should progress thru the grades evenly
/libs don’t understand biz so they don’t understand soc, or comm.
/libs dk [reality &] hum nature – classes, immaturity, spoiled, irresp
/permissive is irresp – bettleheim
/lib is prolonged adolescence
/mass for mcgovern and their prisons – furloughs, etc.
/libs don’t have time for little things – cons val them
/libs like to tear down – never credit mormons, amish, mid am, jap? etc.
/libs unhappy as don’t accept past, human nature, thus reality
/progressive, intellectual, modern, compassionate
/punish = mean; rehab = kind the implicit assumptions.
/traditional vals are a hindrance
/amnesty ir and greenpeace are lib?
/sentor jon kerry must be a lib
/when divistiture against so africa [same as sanctions?] didn’t work, you didn’t hear about it. even so some pols wanted MORE sanctions.
/reckless and irresp like kids who want to see fight
/they write about the cia l9 times as much as the kgb & the stories are
4-l unfavorable
/extreme leftist collegues in oc univ are extremely quiet bout break up of e. eur – let to ed ’90?. weak?
/4 days after hurricane hugo, pr’s bitching that fed aid not fast enuff.
9/23/89 la. same with quake.
/am. reporter saying radical stu are the conscience of korea./
/b. goetz. vigilantes [rights]
/rabbits – compassion, whales?
/holland – drugs, soc, artists.
/libs hate the word should – [judgemental]
/libs see mc and poor and MISS the wc. a? a? a?
/big jr hi’s impersonal, not meeting their emotional needs.
/reckless and irresp like kids who want to see fight.
/for every farmer that lost, there was a winner, said who
/notice how with crimes and ___- they have to interview a shrink.
/brokow on 58K dollhse in eng vs hmless here. or there.
/brokow getting more and more sub. blk that was supposedly abused in l.b.
/brokow: if blk kid doesn’t make it as athlete, where does he go. weak
/as they want to save world, lib must look hard for neg a a a
/sander vanocer. 5 comms investigaged oct 87? plane? crash w few recs but someone still holds out hope for reform – he arbitrarily assumes its nec.
/didn’t even touch free market.- when ussr began opening up. but did later.
/media so big on compassion, but they don’t give balanced coverage to problems: boat people. blk africa. abduction of women & kids for slaves by both sides in civil war in Sudan.
/libs would kill all the wolves [and lions?]
/roloff, bethell, kids of skid row,
/krauthammer is cons?
/”the new class” of intellects and burs that admin the wel st.
con = [a] cons what is or [b] individ, free market, anti soc
lib = [a] reform or [b] soc equal. source?
these can get the left neatly off the hook?
/dems tried to evade lib tag thru rr yrs and before. reps made it a dirty word said willy brown. people blame lib said b frank.
/lib = coddle criminals, deficit spending on soc., less mil
3/4 of del at [88?] dem conv surveyed wanted more for wel.. 96% wanted more for housing. 2/3 oppose gramm-rudman. 84% wanted higher tax rate for rich.
carter seen by many voters as more cons than ford.
/instead of excusing what’s wrong, they should credit what’s right.
/do you ever see a story bout a biz man who helped one of his workers-no, but if biz man vols, its a story. jap expected to give to charity and vol.
sig /r. samuelson: 7 of l0 ams do not think am is divided twix haves and have nots. [dup on aud] in eng 7 of l0 DO !!! redistribution isn’t pop in am. r. samuelson. should gov reduce diffs twix rich and poor: 36% in am say yes, but 63% in w. ger, 70% in eng, 8l% in italy. am more for oppor and the individual than [= outcome] r. samuelson
/hodding carter l/89 more acceptance of stratification
/ I got mine
/lib might use prevent.. on car but not on people.
/b walters: “Do we want to rehabilitate criminals or punish them?”
/the right shows the poor logic and poor eng of ghetto logic.
/libs: tax and spend. cons: borrow and spend. latter supposed to have clear heads to compensate for cold hearts. g. will
/detroit. l/2 left. but trad lib thriving in ny, minneapolis, & seattle. the mayor says whites flight is racial, but mc blks leaving too. gov can’t tear down all the abandoned hms. $50 moves you in – rent or buy.
/lib: love neighbor as thyself. brothers keeper
/cons: self int. thus ????? gov by for and of the few.
-/look at the people you went thru sch with who had more or less same advantages – they turned out greatly unequal in $, power, influence, job satisfaction, divorce, alc, happiness, .. more. well libs look at this and say, ah ha inequality – caused by cap, greed, lack of compassion, race, ethnic, class. but you KNOW better.
/keep giving em fish +
/libs love dig.
/test scores bad due to cut in hd start
/end of cold war means now we have to improve ed & pov.- with a marshall plan for the poor.
/declining outlook for young blacks. thus do something or else.
/if left is respectable, why isn’t the right or
/the lib is the mother, the cons the father. lib liek parent who won’t let go
/ted bundy
/a lib gives starving man all, a cons gives him some but keeps him hungry enuff so he practically has to fish. the lib is the ma, the cons the pa. trace this w/ jd’s, mi’s, wel, hmless, disabled, old?, im, disc. stu, ed? parenting, pol,
/m l king talking bout radical redistribution of power. also: a crime to get starvation wages. haves and have nots.
/lib and turning clock back
/now same excuses for blks in so africa as ours here.
/all is fed – standards for sec. guards.
/lib is good progressive, iq, compassionate. cons is far right weird. The /media have convinced many the 80s were a time greed. This doesn’t hold up according to wattenberg, samuelson?
/behind bars – all feel sorry for him
/their offenses are not gone into.
They rush to get people on welfare, but have little to say years later when they have become dependent. skip
/did libs cheer chinese stu on to tragedy – irresp
/classless society.
/When working class blacks fight to keep lower class blacks out of their neighborhoods, they are baffled.
/terrance smith says some thinking of fundamental shift in housing pol
/lib – fallacies of DEductive logic
/libs probably hate everything victorian
/Pantheon – left wing publisher. intellects protest pantheon’s being being told to stop losing $ as unlettered greed. tantrum as it doesn’t have an unlimited draw on other people’s $. g. will #
/blacks aren’t served by libs
/libs patronize youth, poor, ethnics
/quotas are racist in their assuming that blks and hispanics can’t compete equally.
/dk human nature: classes, greed, =,
/social programs have pinched the working and middle classes. 90? source.
/soaking the most productive [manufactures and investors] is suicidal.
/mid and uc lib favor soc programs
/democratized education
/by denying class and pushing =, libs make blues defensive.
/Lower class areas are often considered impossible for small businesses, yet asians have started businesses there, which provide badly needed services.
/Hollywood demeans the working class by portraying it as something to escape [Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, etc.]
/tv said media 80% republican owned when nix ran against jfk
/being a lib is never having to say you’re sorry.
/dumb to say cons out of a job now with decline of comm 6/90
/can have elites in sports and entertainment & other fields, but not biz /bernstein and blk panthers
/like trying to say l0% of drs have to be black. only l0% of basketball players can be black
/libs spend a lot of time congratulating themselves and posturing.
/pluralism = diversity: some schs pay more,
/harry smith expected unanimity among blks.
/7/90/7/90 la. florio of nj will raise tons from rich to go to schs of poor, ss, and prop tax rebates. is he a sea change, since rr, OR another in along line of failed left dems. [well put]. dems in l0 yr down sym by dukakis. stiffist ban on assault rifles. put thru law to force big insur cos to pay half the debt of hi risk drivers. insur cos have it in crt. woodrow wilson was a legendary reformer in nj. predecessor kean was pop: 600k jobs created, lo uib, & cut st taxes, but econ in ne has slowed. nj has most crowded hiways, highest car insur. r.e. up so prop taxes went up with it. and st’s debt. then florio in, cut spending. teacher in poor city got 20k and rich town 50k. but he wants to be gov of ONE nj. ty. st takeover of local ss. ty. biggest tax increase in st. hist, despite campaign statements. he’s wc. #
/iq’s of 60s thot ike was 0 – the bland leading the bland. and jfk promised to get am moving again.
/la hailed ex pres cobb at csf for building “diversity” = 1 more minority stus and 2 more minority and women faculty. [min stu at expense of oth/do libs have it all backwards or are they just down on the country.
/don’t libs discourage ethnic breakdown of stats on crime, low births, etc.
/weak?: libs tolerate domestic nonsense [crime] and ir nonsense [castro?]
like domestic wel and foreign aid.
/dems typically call for more fed involvement. us news l2/9/9l
/mitch calls wattenberg and m. novak extreme right.
/is les miserable lib?
/libs wait till someone is killed. THEN they begin.
/lib is about as effective as religion.
/leftists in mex oppose free trade.
/$ is a great incentive – but never hear it from libs
/trendy pessimism. mc no vanishing. am standards aren’t stagnating. 0-25k poor; 25-50K middle group; 50 + [no name] samuelson ll/9l
/big lib until they have a kid sig or until happens to them.
/il on 48 hrs said not taking jobs as you can always find work
/oppressed BY mortgage payments
/we’re always dividing into 2 countries, b vs w, rich vs poor, etc.
/tradval are corny to libs, iq’s, quaint, unglamorous, not trendy.
/can’t buy goods you produce. – moyers.
/libs are apologists
/ever remember how some crisis taught you a lesson you never forgot – like big debt, no $ or whatever. well, libs want to protect you from such a crisies.
/lib and idealism are luxerys – the wc doesn’t have.
/tradval are corny, quaint, unglamorous, not trendy.
l/l3/92
/leo. ny pols famous for viewing the nonworking as helpless victims. lib dems speak a constricted lang of rights and demands. don’t ever ask em about obligation and reciprocity.
/where is lib when they flunk or become dependent on wel?
/lib talk disc forEVER-as they believe in reason
/depressing part is your sup..
/”ed, work,” have diff meanings for classes and ethnic grps -viets
/mono for equality
/low weight babies, hemeophiliacs, e rooms
/libs make just under the rich skip
/libs say workfare is cruel and unusual pun.. said mich pol.
amnesty
/bush: re soaking rich: when they aim at the big guy, they hit the little guy.
/nyc bd of ed let teachers and stu skip classes to protest vw.
/with fdr, the gov “cared” [=stuck their nose in it]
/bad news gives em a chance to crusade.
/how do libs feel bout referees, judges, cops, di’s in boot camp
/copy of fam tree notes should go into haps vault. on disk too.
/60’s liberalism has flopped. class consciousness of 60s factory workers. idea of purification of the pol process. us news 2/24/92/economic imperialism
/they find a flaw in cap and want to junk it.
– show the need to return to the past laws of dealing firmly with vagrants, mental patients, runaways, alcoholics, and addicts.
/cutting wel is negativism.
/cowboy capitalism.
/ft apache, the bronx
/teen rampaged city hall, wrecked few cars over cut in summer jobs. police held back. later lindsay came thru with money for jobs. later suspended leader of protest got his job back. par for course
/no disc etc. but do all by personality, pr, pos. sw and ed.
/nixon: we stumbled into world leadership. we didn’t want it. libs say we’re not worthy.
/nix: academics enamored with equality at any cost thus soc. look to gov rather than to people. anti biz. time has passed the academics. the decline of the us is dear to their hearts.
/could you say being too lib with iraq brot the war?
/us ready to hand out death penalty but not deal with root causes
/allow them to be hateful and insist the solution is to love them.
/lib: bk r of am: what went wrong. fbased on puliz prize candidate series of articles in the Philadephia Inquirer. documents the looting of am. under rr and bush. stopped here.
/soc resp widely embraced by corp am after wwii. thus jub security. thus suffocation. mediocrity. hard to fire. entitlement mentality: job sec, big fringies, auto pay increases. workers loved the security but felt trapped by it. r. samuelson w post j/6/92
/la: peter h king: none of the people we admire are products of the silver spoon. pub schs won’t get better if we abondon them. if they dont teh whole state goes down the tubes. out duty to bring all up together.
/media lib as libs made it more easily with brains and privileges than the masses.
/m. barone: lib was majority. 000. gi bill, fha hm mortgage guar, dependent exemptions. but in mid 60s lib swung to pov. and blamed for wel cul, hi crime, higher mc taxes. blame am lst lib.. us news 3/23/92
/m. barone. the supposedly greedy 80s us news 3/23/92
/david toma: kids want direction, limits, disc. told what to do. judges liberal till get mugged.
/linda chavez: nyc = epitome of wel st.
/chipping away at any freedom will turn us into a police state.
/lib op wk: pie in the sky do gooders, carping little liberals. but ll yrs of cons got us recession, decaying schs, racial tenson, staked sup crt. that threatens to regress us.
/an astonishing 60% of the nations’s income GAINS in the past decade went to the top l% of the pop. gergen us news 4/6/92 so what.
/libs won’t give ethnic breakdown of crime, violent crime, illigit, fam breakdown, sm biz. record,
/if you have aids, we owe you a hospice. if drugs, we owe you treatment. if mike tyson, we owe you treatment. schs are soc agencies.
/is change as important as new
/lot of blacks led to believe free market is conspiracy by cons.
/gov is top down solutions.
/r. woodsen: 92 admin ask not which problems are solvable, but fundable. leadership addicted to soc programs, designed by ba’s for their interests. so many of those who worked hardest for civil rights benefitted least. those who got newly opened? jobs said it was because they were qualified.
/woodsen: why take blacks from a superior blk sch in roxbury and put em in an inferior white one. white ma said now they’ll grad as dumb as our kids. leaders had no answer.
blk leadership has bot into the politics of victimization. lot of pity in blk comm. if you mug or take drugs etc. it’s not your fault. [exactly what i say]
it’s not the $ you bring home; it’s your attitude bout life. no outsiders should do more for us than we will do for ourselves [l/2 way] woodsen
eliz wright? started issues and views. marcus garvey was a big capitalist. gary franks a black rep congman from conn. pub housing takes away am dream of owning your own house or apt. kennilworth had to fight for curfew, landscaping, clean sts, rules and regs. these didn’t come from money but from respect for ea other. [kids chewing gum.] suburban kids get an allow. poor kids need wk. blk leadership is basically lib. this from blk cons. tv 3/3l?/92/blk leadership is basically lib. this from blk cons. tv 3/3l?/92
/libs are more neg
/lib ideal: secure. thus less? resp. whatever goes wrong is someone else’s fault – soc, system, pity. tech. pro ? pos.
/libs less hot for sm biz, as not hot for individ
/mandatory retirement – lib.
/moyers: how’d he get naive, he was in the white hse. focuses on crying wife – because bad guy is in swiss.
/too hung up on corp punishment and cap punishment [chance to be noble?]
/long time and work to shape up bad kids, but libs won’t let you.
/libs want shortcuts
/lib wants comm rel.
/libs don’t want to export dem and cap like they miss tradval with lc. sig. just like wel and foreign aid.
/always more services: e rm, paramedics, choppers, counseling, wk comp, ed, and all get used to it. it’s free. so have more kids and bitch
./moyers doing BAD job: 80s didn’t create the KINDS of job [he wanted].
/lib: if guy loses job, it’s fault of the co
/chic-egg libs and disc
-same with cops/compassion vs revenge lead article op sec of la sun 4/l9/92
/”dis”proportionate amount of minorities people in jail and in city jobs.
/used to be you bury a kid at l4 and dig up at 25 and he’d be ok. but now, it’s 30.
/decoys catch criminals. cs. cons glad, but libs want to know right away if his rights were violated.
/49% of blk income is earned by richest 20% of blacks – an even greater disparity than exists among whites. la sat.
/watts riot WAS considered the defining symbol of am black anger and militancy. la mon. so they interview a rioter from then. 000
*/is having the guard there “provacative?”
/libs can’t imagine a soc program not working
/2 criminals a and b. both bad guys. but read further and turns out that b is a black. all of a sudden, he’s not a criminal, he’s a victim of 400 yrs of racism.
/lot of people more mod to cons than they think. they’ve just been conditioned to think lib.
/urban policy is no l priority. la 5/l2
/hawthorn cop sgt don jackson is roughly arrested by lb police. [crap]
/49% of blk income is earned by richest 20% of blacks – an even greater disparity than exists among whites. la sat.
/hawthorn cop sgt don jackson is roughly arrested by lb police. [crap]
-left out his smart mouth
/lib thot : to shift resp from indiv to soc level. tom bethel
/p.j. o’rourke: libs have invented who college majors – psych, soc, & women’s studies – to prove nothing is anybody’s fault. [humor?]
/moyers included a rap song and the singer on his post riot program. she was disrespectful, fed up, bored, angry, sister souljah, -diamond in her nose.
/lib excuses apply to all of soc, but when applied to poor, we have to pay more.
/crumbling of old social order and the coming of egalitarian dem in the l828 election of andrew jackson. la aaa
/lib policies erode fam, discourage resp, promote dependence, foster contempt for law. lte
/with the riots, the libs at last have their 60s crusade. same old rh sig
/squeeky wheel gets the grease
/lib barney frank got burned when letting boyfriend use his place.
/worst ever – were 4 guys who beat trucker in riot thugs or heros?
/new left not called far left; but right always thot of as far right.
/whole fams looting together. val crap of last 30 yrs is a phil… which ignores indivi resp., saying one’s econ and soc envir causes beh. criminals become victims and victims become stats.
/2/3rd of all births in la county pub hosp in 9l were ti illegal im mas. —lte 5/28/92-a proposed amend to l4th amnd would not let kids born here of il im parents become citizens. HJ res 357/iq’s the most critical of us, said gorby. lte 5/92/dana parsons oc-la 5/29/92: libs seen as anti fam, anti am. flag burning.
/when you hear a pol say he will tax capital [?] [the rich] to help the poor, you’re hearing someone badly mistaken. it’s capital that creates jobs and makes workers productive. nr whenever econ policy is driven by envy, ruin results. taking re shelter away from rich was supposed to bring 30 bil. it didn’t. p c roberts nr 3/92
/yale has mandatory security orient.. for frosh, shuttle, l00 outside emerg tels, 66 patrol officers. this yet yale supposed to get more involved with comm. nr 3/92
/gentrification. push out
/lib dem spend for all but mil. they are more prone to spend for biz than reps. nr
/lib mistakes: l ideal bks. 2 haves-simplistic 3 bad/victims /feminist” quayle longs for a fairy tale of teh 50s where women and minorities knew their place. trad fam val is right wing euphemism for: dad is boss.
/highly respected blk scholar w j wilson “sociologist, like other liberal soc scienttists, …avoidd[ed] describing .. beh .. unflattering or stimatizing to … minorities. us news 5/25/92
/attorn gen barr: if you point out a hi % of inner city kids are ow, you’re blaming the victim, say apologists.
/cosby criticized by some black critics for presenting an idealized image of a black mc fam. with ambition and pride. cc
/there are no cons on faculties. mon charen. cc/battling lib is battling i.
/connect lib and i.
/libs say gov funds must support art insulting relgigion, but not arts supporting religion. – m. barone
/libs can be conspiratorial – biz, class,
/guilt vs no resp. sig.
/cops should be fair and firm. same in disc. but lib don’t get “firm”.
/libs uncomfortable bout judging poor and minorities by white mc vals. same with iq tests. n gabler
/If you’re young and not a socialist you don’t have a heart. If you’re old and still a socialist, you don’t have a brain.
/tony brown said all excusing blks for yrs. those who didn’t were white racist republicans. but now some dems are saying same thing – bradely and kerry. program racism or excuses? 6/7/92 then into jive.
/naacp guy said always been trouble between buyers and sellers. 6/92
/no matter how much resp rich take, they are guilty; no matter how much resp poor could ever take, they are never guilty.
/libs freak out over any tuition increase
– They don’t want anyone to get ahead unless everyone does,
/soc is simplistic as it leaves out the pluralism of independ biz. sig.
/libs seek to avoid confrontation, taking a stand, standards, authority, a bottom line … they think problems can be resolved thru reason, understanding, good will, caring, generousity, vs bronson, eastwood.
/libs get you to thinking your tradvals are the problem.
/sp. crime rate when up. how much was black. shhhh. illegit rate up. shame shhhhhh.
/union violence is ok. past? company violence was dispicable.
/schs, biz, cops, parks, media, entertainment should all be social agencies. vs the soc resp of media
/sam walton of wal-mart discounted mechandise to give something back. ridiculed by katz who reviewed bk on him. lot of nasty comments.
/dem party more accepted in ne and nyc is its center. la times. 7/92
/illusions, delusions, fantacies, mirages, misunderstandings
/webster’s II new riverside univ. dictionary: lib: l .. civil liberties, dem reforms, gov for soc progress. 2 .. freedom of individuals to act or express selves/functionally illiterate get into comm colleges. said mensa
/divert, illusion, fantasy, detour, off the track, circumvention, pitfall, trap, idealism,
/fallacies, delusions, misconceptions, flaws, evasions, dodges, naive, inocencetitle: lib naivete, inexperience
/mislead, misconceptions
/libs never compare pri charity to pub, rarly compare pri schs to pub,
housing, justice,
/later show how lib leads to i and pity.
/would libs credit mormons. no. amish, etc.
/libs gripe bout inequality – what about when bum breaks into rich man’s house – hosp, legal,
/spare the rod and spoil the child.
lib mistakes
ideal, haves vs nots, libs as god, redistribute, give. what else
Layman’s Guide to Liberal Pitfalls Mistakes
/how come I can’t define the far left as easily as the faright
/libs destroyed tradval and trad fam?
/j. leo: am jlib, rip: lib gave us ss, civil rights, medicare, fair labor rel, deposit insur. but also
/libs in heaven would start an exchange program with hell the lib iq’s – the soul of the dems. sig wilson fall 83
/bk r of the true and only heaven; progress and its critics. by lasch. progress is at the heart of lib. idea of perfectivility from l8th cent enlightenment. petty bourgeoise – the lower mc. – margaret thatcher’s pa, rr’s ma. and other enemies of lib. lower mc: envy, resentment, servility. moral conservatism, eqalitarianism, respect for workmanship, loyalty, and struggle against resentment. cons rely on these. libs lost touch with wc as wc put over vals, survival, happiness of fam, neighb, before progress. sm biz, artisans, tradesmen are often the victims of progress. bk r in la l/9l
/wc: racism, nativisn, anti iq ism. lasch. fam. comm, tradition.
/u.c. lib has become distainful of tradval. historian seigel of cooper u.
/libs more for bold dramatic iniatives. change, reform, rev.. change.
/give jobs or we’ll join gangs
/no race of criminal suspects in dc mentioned in media.
wants to mix the classes via mil, sch,.
/the growth of media outlets, argues clinton media adviser…, made the media much more dem”. us news 9
/7/92/libs: guilty until proven innocent
/dem party more cons now: wel to wk in 2 yrs., parental resp, l & o [which used to be seen as racist] 92
/lib and clients let ea other down.
/dem – the party of change – activists.
/doesn’t uc tend to be lib?
/bonus marchers would probably get their $ today.
/libs more concerned with outcome than with oppor. d. armie. 92 sig /zero sum = one’s gain is another’s loss.
/armie: protectionism is another way libs can get their hands on gov power. -that’s what I’ve suspected.
/libs worried bout outcome with: dereg, free trade with canada and mex, vouchers, airbus?, health care?, day care?, housing?, income?, cul?,
/if you can’t call a black thug a thug, you’re a racist.
/need example of no job being better than low paying job.
/back east housing more divided along income levels. ag. they talk of mixed income.
/do libs feel we shouldn’t try to export dem and cap
/in wake of riots, “wk ethic” arises. [stupid to even have this debate] a blk in downtown la with 36 workers has fewer than 5 blk workers. rest are im as mw ok and they have a higher wk ethic. a latina teaches it but doesn’t use the words. it’s a turn off for [blk?] stu. now theory.
“getting paid” = robbing and drug dealing. how to act at wk = diff cul. for those uib for yrs or always. minorities [why s?] feel bosses use “wk ethic” as polite way to gripe about those of color. even in sports: wk ethic is about whites, natural abilty is about blks. bosses say psych of entitlement took hold in 50s, 60s. now excuses. blame biz and mw. mex ims find wk more than blks due to [crap]. [cause they came from where there WAS NO WEL. sharp ethnic diffs those looking for wk or wking have developed since 60s. sig. – this from study of chi inner city by univ of chi soc william julius wilson. ’91. more excuses. ims will live crowded – l0 in an apt. mex ims have 2nd adult for child care. 84% of mex ims live with another adults vs 29% of blks. the 2nd adult find suplus food, soup kitchens. so blks live closer to edge than mex ims. and thus are not as dependable as workers. crap. so blks more likely to have util cut off. more likely to be evicted. less likely to have an operative car or a saving account. [just e – disgusting]- i stopped here as getting disgusted. la 9/l7/92 tried to start again but worthless. #
/hist lib: reason, progress, order [?], rights of individ? anti concentrated power. libs stir up class passions, they seek to redist.. and restructure insts. during depression lib indulged in romantic delusion. flirted with marxism, utopias. class conflict.
it reappraised itself after wwii as was revulsed by stalinism. and did penance by rallying to truman’s anti-communism. came to see man as capable of great evil. art schlesinger [a lib] criticized libs as idealistic, blind to ussr imperialism and the bad of the am commie party. thus ada in l947, which recognized complex reality, corrupton of power, virtues of pragmatism and gradualism.
lib – anti big biz. galbraith said don’t worry bout it. they did and relaxed. gone went the old worry for the masses. iq’s despised am.
lib virtues: moderation, compromise … they railed against org man, mad ave, hidden pesuaders, tv, tail fins, materialism. as 50s waned.
iq’s like to think of selves as friends of progress and justice. quiet. [iq and lib seem same]. spudnik. 57. the affluent soc in 58 by galbraith. p l45. commies gaining. libs led nation in orgy of self-flagellation. ike appointed comm on nat purpose. crap. it eluded all. deflating jfk – good l47. stevenson was the darling of the libs.
the lib iq’s – the soul of the dems. sig p l49? jfk’s election brot back lib. 60s lib from ny and cambridge – most were lib. jfk courted them, sewed up nom, chose lbj to get the so, which ticked off libs, as they did NOT like lbj.
/in the minds of many ams, the death of jfk marked beginning of 60s.
/says jfk was lst of all pol. only lib when had to be. [but his rh was?]- this excellent piece was an essay drawn from a chap of The Unraveling of Am: a Hist of Lib in the l960s. by allen j. matusow harper and row l984. this was in wilson quarterly, fall l983
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/we are returning to the days of the exploited working class: taxes, real estate assessments, mil serv. wash mo. 9/9l
/sweat shops are bad Some immigrants would rather be poor here than rich in their countries.
/libs say the estab feel the poor are dragging coutnry down.
/more stratification. increasing diversity, so where is commonality. ty. more poor. less mc. w post 6/8/92
/libs freaks for change; so they tried it: open classrm, etc. dumbed down text bks.
/mickey kaus – author of the end of equality. 80s a snob decade as put on airs more. trump the worst. mc emulated the rich. money lib and civic lib. populists get votes by attacking educated elites. eur doesn’t have an underclass like us. tv but developing one. carter admin was disaster for libs: wel over wk; funded hellish housing projects; absurd ext of criminal rights; let teachers’ union run the ed dept. and unions run labor dept.. his idol: harry hopkins who launched wpa overnight. wants to mix the classes. says media is lib. selfishness and greed make cap work. [caps are not pol?] c span 8/92
/criminals – no one ever gave em a chance. just one break and instant commraderie, law abiding, work habits, smiles, hugs, melodrama, campfire, songs, miracle.
/leo, a dem. us news 7/27/92 lib gave us ss, civil rights mov., medicare, fair labor relations, deposit insur. but also dubious gifts: divisive race based remedies, advanced victimology, grp rights, quotas, litigiousness, …, distain for everyday struggles of ordinary people. lib got into stupid position of going against am’s core vals. libs excused all. jessie j and t kenney still very lib.
/earth summit: 3rd world has rights and developed world has obligations. j kirkpatrick. 4/92
/prison: everybody wants em off the sts. once there in prison, everyone feels sorry for em. sig
/the no of libs and kooks who think to teach or counsel a kid, they have to be like one – pony tail, earing, t shirt, jeans, boots, spec handshake, etc. if adult, be an adult
/generally the more ed a person is, the more lib he is.
/libs: patch em up, they run out in front of another car to get hit.
/libs: l ideal 2 haves 3 redistrib 4 give 5 don’t learn
/libs keep dropping the age for porn, booze, ???? aaa
/do libs ever praise the police?
/libs won’t tighten belts.
/idealism contributes to negativism. sig.
/gi bill used vouchers
/see wel
/no one primes the viets pump?
/libs probably never give scouts, sports, mil credit for tradval?
/human beings and human insts are basically good, etc.
/thurow: wage of average worker [in real terms?] has fallen l0% in last l0 yrs. [so what] thurow worries but the airbus of eur.
/armie: protectionism is another way libs can get their hands on gov power.
[that’s what I’ve suspected].
/fallows says other countries have plans and we don’t so we’re at their mercy. crap.
/biz leaving calif as taxes, regs, wk comp.
lib hypcrisies jb, pri schs, slums, materialism, nimby?
outcome: rich richer, poor, poorer. vouchers.
/libs and their trickle down resp.
/comm is stripped of resources. locals cut off from mobility, jobs.
/lib idealism? contributes to superficialism
/most pols are lawyers, not biz men. they dk it.
/libs called pie in the sky do gooders, carping little liberals, the L word.
/libs believe tradval happen. vs drilled.
/in ’89 the concentration of wealth was more extreme than that of any time since ’29. from 83-89 richest am fams [top l/2 % increased wealth by 26%. net worth of bottom 80% fams fell 6%. due to income & stock prices. [so what – can’t blame em for holding stock. ] us news ll/9/92/kozal: [libs] worry too much about being loved.
/libs don’t praise work
/prof galston, u of md, said: dems have become the party of individual rights but not individual resp. of self-expression but not self- discipline, of sociological explanation but not moral accountability. leo: this kept em out of touch with voters for a gen. leo us news ll/l6/92
/can’t assume that since some? don’t get ahead, something is holding them back.
/modern maturity oct 92.
galbraith: [change means need more gov].
libs accept and respond to change. cons are hauled reluctantly abrest of the times.
lib: ss, uib, reg of wk hrs or women and kids. unions, wel, pub housing, stabilizing biz cycle whcih made cap semi secure. otherwise it wouldn’t have survived. 00000 pri doesn’t bring jobs. thus gov must. 000 only gov can help inner cities. as barren [0] suburbs protect selves from inner. defense, bailouts, and int on debt mean big spenders are cons. the rich hurt poor, cut rich taxes, pushed defense.
/libs are the ineffective champions of those with less.
/libs love to be unhappy: pub not pri ed; poor-not ims; what else. all and no tradval. all that’s new- nothing old.
atlantic oct 92/il could go to hi sch. it brot the sch $. il got driver’s lic with no proof of legal residency.
/then he assumed low wages will lead to riots. crap
/prove libs don’t challenge anyone to mature.
/lib ideal, thus neg, pity, e?
/libs patronize wc, poor, bums, common, criminals.
/the comm college system has to be regarded as a defacto incentive for im – a gi bill for people who were never GIs.
liberals don’t “judge” people, especially “underdogs”.
/r. brookhiser’s article in atlantic l0/92. the fairness issue is how tax cuts make the rich richer, ignoring how much more productive they are for the econ.
/lib takes you away from tradval. sig
/could the lib media have picked foggy g. will? doubtful
/ [since 60s use bad eng to prove we’re all equal].
/libs try to overlook bad eng like bad appearance.
/lib: kids to see all to gain knowledge, then decide. con: shelter kid till later. develop. lib =good habits come from knowledge. vs cons: good come from training.
/wattenberg worked for lbj. great soc was lib at its ht.
/72 dem conv was a joke. abbie hoffman in t shirt & hair. j jackson’s hair. others too. one in short pants only. lib becoming dirty word.
dems seen as too lib. jackson wanted dems to go left.
/when libs patronize wc and poor, it’s condescending? put down?
/libs want shortcuts
/misery index invented by dems. tv
/lib – gimmicky, coddling, trendy. things only fail from lack of funds.
/are libs quicker to aid somalia? probably can’t tell.
/am prospect. rh: open to real progressive reform. national repair. survived the 80s. excesses of cons. decay of pub discourse. people who don’t hate gov will have a turn at running it. ideas signal what is politically thinkable. renewal of pub life. practical idealism. to reclaim the promise of am. am can become more decent AND prosperous.
/people don’t want to get involved as no pt in half way or …
/libs and bounty hunters, boot camp, confront ther.
/corner on indignation
/vista: migrant was wrong, the grower was wrong; the overseer was like the grower. same in wel training.
/”excesses”[ty] of guilded age of l880s?
/lib: envir, nader, feminism, recycle, pub int, no censor, sep church and st, gays. want to shed image as angry protesters. post adolescent dogmatism. anti auth of 60s. some libs have trouble with anger, power, and competitiveness. w post l2/92
/times are so new we must adjust to youth ….
/we don’t want a police state.
/sen irvin: soc becoming consumers and producers.
/lib’s trad ans to ethnic nat was self-determin.. . but look at yugo. /cops set up checkpt in lawrence mass. aclu said it was martial law without fed troops. l2/22/92 la
/do libs have corner on emotion, indignation.
/libs: bottom line, backbone, confront, impose – never tell anyone else what to do.
/wesley dodd – kept letting him go in wash st. – known for progressive treatment of sex offenders. he finally killed kids.
/redist of wealth = getting their hands on levers of power, said some cons.
/r. neibur: human desires grow [as fast as they can be satisfied.]
/libs are so persecuted.
/gov $ so kids can paint murals on burned out bldg or whatever. the mural at k chruch shows its not appropriate.
/cap.. is based on greed.
/80’s were not greedy. kemp.
/libs live and let live yet seek to rescue have nots. sig?
/vigilantism, police state, rights,
/ominous signs for clinton, l/l2, i say: rumpled off beat staff and think tank, something for all, new new – jfk, he trying too hard and not delegating. hilary?, media’s glossing over of jennefer flowers. ed, infrastructure, shalala, haitians building boats, bosnia
/lib contributes to pop psch, self pity, i
/libs contempt the common man and tradval
/libs look at archie bunker and waltons and call it inequality.
/better to have any job than no job.
/the lib says I know what’s best for you – wc, poor, etc.
/love, care can never be tuff to libs. don’t? credit tuff love?
/3 mos to get non paying tenants out in most states.
/lib might like to breed dependence, as it will lengthen their stay in power or influ. sig
/libs are sophomoric/[hollywood and dc use ea other]
/libraries supposed to be all to all, like schs, like wk.
/guilt is bad as it undermines conf in soc. sig sig sig. ban 76/jd’s to work in b&c, day care cents.
/lib: i, neg, pity,
/sending guard and cops thru was seen as provocation. what’s wrong with that type of provocation.
/feinstein anti nafta if not higher mex wages – as job flight.
/probably most blks who do NOT criticize k’s DO work.
/libs leave out sm biz? as details and not collectivist.
/tough love is cons
/lib is paternal
/black chief greenberg of…. saying we ignor the poor who go straight. and ed meese says criminals not held accountable. sig.
/libs prefer bad news.
/if you pay lo wages you’re exploiting, of you pay no wage for vol, you’re giving em oppor or exploiting them, same with teens, same with your kids doing chores. so if you do em yourself, are you exploiting yourself?
/twice as many kids as open slots in [pub?] child care./white fear of blacks. what about BLACK fear of blacks.
/when we limited the no of jap cars, the prices on ALL cars went up. ch 2 . eve news? so up $l400 on minivans.
/kids who can’t afford team sports, drill team, etc. have that much more right to wear [gang] caps, jackets, etc.
/macdonalds exploits? kids. nwswk 92. ty.
/because la won’t open a speedway, teens race and get killed.
/dems [libs] are so committed to class warfare. n gingrich. tv 2/93
/some dems don’t like idea of having to wk for your wel, even if at gov jobs. libs say that hurts the kids of irresp parents and victimize poor who can’t find jobs.
/many of present gen won’t get as much as folks as we dropped ed & tradval.
/b&w approach is quiest way to polarize people/us news. 2/l5/93 dems are seen as soft on criminals.
/libs hung up on schs that don’t work, criminals that don’t rehab, abnormal psych,
/no wise guys, punks, rats, etc.
/don’t accuse libs of using cs
/libs contribute to victimization
/libs don’t want money to leave the country.
/libs oppose workfare. 2nd time i’ve heard that. tv & mag.
/they claim the soc platform of 30s? is now part of landscape.
/kelling’s broken window theory [nip it in the bud] low-level disorder – petty crime, public drunkeness, panhandling, abandoned cars, people sleeping on sidewalks – is a sign that social controls have broken down. stable citizens move out. taking the tax base with it. EVEN some of our most LIBERAL cities have realized this: NY took back bryant park and tompkins sq park. BERKELEY threw campers out of peoples park. SANTA MONICA fired its city lawyer for not prosecuting people sleeping and camping in parks. curfews in parks, prohibiting camping, loitering, begging. leo l2/l4/92
/class gap growing as libs let the bottom get away with all.
/always want to find root causes of comm crime, never white collar crime‑ Avoiding job quotas, charity, subsidies, and preferential treatment.
/kelling’s broken window theory [nip it in the bud] low-level disorder – petty crime, public drunkeness, panhandling, abandoned cars, people sleeping on sidewalks – is a sign that social controls have broken down. stable citizens move out. taking the tax base with it. EVEN some of our most LIBERAL cities have realized this: NY took back bryant park and tompkins sq park. BERKELEY threw campers out of peoples park. SANTA MONICA fired its city lawyer for not prosecuting people sleeping and camping in parks. curfews in parks, prohibiting camping, loitering, begging. leo l2/l4/92
l) we have a lot of judge-made law. from leg to jud leo l2/l4/92
2) soc problems converted into narrow rights issue.
nyc 8l right to shelter: half a bil $ for 25k beds.
aclu got mi’s out of insts.
anticamping violates freedom of movement, says aclu leo l2/l4/92
/libs in fp must be more anti force, more talk, more aid,
/lib: if you enforce the law, you don’t care. dup? same as disc. letting guy off is the only way you can show you care.
/rorbacher: the u.s. has more libs than other countries.
/libs far less ready to see a child as spoiled.
/never pt out or credit the good people in ghettos.
/libs reward the bad; not the good.
/in 87 paul kennedy’s bk, the rise and fall of the great powers, went over big. against the background of the rr paramountcy, it was received with glee by countless libs who wanted to believe the recovery of conf under rr was not justified. that us was in decline [and libs didn’t want the blame?] so they pushed the book onto the bestseller lists. bk r in w post 3/93
/to academics, the state is the same as society. reason 3/93
/cops are an occupying force in so cent. l2/92 childish. blks have to play a role. if they have a demo, and cops show up in riot gear, it’s disrepect.
/libs: smart people with dumb ideas.
/tom snyder says this country is terribly confused? about morality, where they are going, etc. ty 93
/libs put more burden on schs, cops, while taking away more of the tools.
/nice guys finish last.
/i loved the way hew hewitt put it – people don’t trust gov and thus don’t want taxes raised. 93- take selves too seriously. naive. new tech vs new hum nature.
equal, ethnics, vice, hist, anti establ, never learn, perm underclass
/galbraith: “the notion that people associated with money have intelligence is a silly notion that we can dispense with in the aftermath of the rr-thatcher-bush era.” 92?
/nothing worse than being poor. la l2/92
/cons has been limited to anti commie, anti gov. la 92
/good news can only come from the gov.
/do libs blame jap more than cons? 92
/sex rev
/liberal mean charitable, good, modern, etc. to lots.
/love is like sex, it sells
/as lib is friend, love, etc. he can’t disc.
/kids of mex get ed here
/vigilantism
/lib is as full of crap as sw is. sig
/libs are anti stigma? for ow birth, crime, wel,
/p.m. major said labour would rather have pub ent losing $ than pri making $. profits create jobs.
/fred barnes wks for new rep. he’s never met a lib perot supporter.
/drug rehab: grp, aa, na, phy activity [& NO WORK]. her conning son of 29. another fam racked with guilt over their 40 yr old alc rel. $$$. this ma would not be further victimized by son or system. counselors made her feel guilty. it’s the exploitation of parents as caretakers of young and old. even grandparents have to raise grandkids [everyone is coping out so much]. all dependent. nwswk l/29/93 In college, liberals feel that if l0% of the population is hispanic, l0% of college students should be hispanic; but many of them are not interested in college. Liberals push them in and many flunk out. Much the same has happened with blacks, especially those recruited for athletic ability. In effect, liberal policies have let in under-qualified blacks and hispanics (and kept out highly qualified asians).
/capital vs labor.
/some working men probably make as much as libsLiberal premises are: ideal, “guilt”, old is bad (anti-establishment), new is good (youth, education, psychology), “equality” (level the classes. equal opportunity somehow means equal outcome), permissive, generous, welfare state, pro-union, less defense, governmental solutions, more personal rights, and fewer economic rights (anti-business).
Conservative premises are pretty much the opposite and conservatives have superb arguments for them. But the lib
/l9% of c kids in Ivy league are cons – all 4 yrs. 58% are lib. us news 93. those in eng [which us news took as an indication of lib arts] were consistently to the left of those in biz. 93
/pov. – root causes.
/calling 6 am wake up tuff, insults the rest of us ?
/i say libs contributed to big lawsuits.
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/once you understand lib
byproducts i, pity, collect?, pri, ed, c, class, credendialism?, biz, hm, val, false: mw, sw=hm, pov, wel, mw, slums, /if a guest gets injured he can sue me and all in hse.
/making a diff.
/might believe in tradval for selves but not poor/biz in china: pri over pub, individ over grp, comp over coop./reps big on anti comm and tax cut. tv. lost both as big issues. 93/belief in the individual assumes indivi over grp, and assumes the individ of the dom grp.
/blk studies teaching blk kids that white am in their enemy. 93
/85% say courts are too easy on criminals. 2% say opposite. us news 5/93.
/libs for the glamour issues.
/criminals meet victims and get idea of suffering. riker’s is. as if they has NO idea. eve news 93 criminals GRAD from program.
/if cops treat clubs like gangs, they become gangs. tv
/from good neigh: you don’t know what a bad neigh is like, but you DO know what a GOOD neigh is like – order, clean, peaceful, sensible, tasteful.
/libs see life as a conspiracy of some getting ahead and lording it over others. that’s adolescent./far left is too disenchanted
/bret richmond has to score 95, women 85 and hispanics and blks 65. and latter still get pref. reverse discrim.
/lib=collect. thus no time for details and hurt some of the little guys they champion. they mess with natural law?
/those in mil or pc “served” their country. those not in, didn’t. thus do jury duty. w. mo. aug 92
/arrogant and presumptuous – libs
/more ego in lib? thus youth.
/the new deal said society’s well being is the gov’s resp. [thus] keynesianism. pfaff.
/nihilism is very alluring to am sophisticates. libs are for progress, freedom, the little guy. libs: upton sinclair, clarence darrow, dr. al schweitzer, einstein, all kennedys, some roosevelts, jc, gandhi, all the great thinkers and artists from world hist. cons are robber barons, racists, mil officers, sen joseph mccarthy. libs love all causes; cons don’t. tyrell. la 6/92/am – its ruling lib cul. tyrell
/forgive debts, crimes,/title: liberal misinformation, misconceptions/pri ed with a conscienc. cap with a human face. conservatives with compassion. a businessman who cares.
/the nat times said the success of rush has spooked the op ed elite which doesn’t mind populism as long as it means left. they see right wing pop… as an attempt to repeal progress and feed prejudice. 4?/93/libs don’t believe people can be fools, idiots,
/pol asylum
/restaurant ordered to pay $l03k to black it rejected. 3/93 la
/libs quiet on bashing the foreign born in la l2/92
/libs don’t sep bums from the resp hmless. same with poor./libs dominate the dems but not the u.s. us news 6/l4/93
/libs can’t stand anything that helps the rich
/gary hart thinks clinton should be bold and polarize. and could be great. crap. 5/93
/libs – always tearing down.
/libs embrace or somehow condone all that is modern/libs are busy sharing someone’s pain.
/lib from fdr to lbj. libs fear clint caters to mc. libs eroded in urban centers and unions. and apathy among lo income. jews are anti quota; blks are pro. ada is lib. fdr: l/3 ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished. libs promise equal results. la.
mc pop.. gives you trickle down for the poor. says kevin phillips. [xxxxx?] libs applaud nat serv corps. the depression forged modern lib. why didn’t this mention cons? something bout left is dead. by robert shogan [lib?] la. 7/93[can never figure out if mc included wc/dem – the party of the working man
/personnel offices have to be shrewd thus can’t be lib?
/all are supposed to be soc agencies: biz, schs, cops, courts.
/far left wallows in therapy
/bleeding hearts for vicarous pain
/gov in there with $ after huricanes, floods, riots./lib: no hm is better than a shanty. no job is better than lo paying job,
/tv courses on 43 are biased.
/names were “taken away” on ellis island.
/lib wouldn’t dream of asking poor person to put out effort ims do. or the handicapped do.
/libs hurt the poor.
/bk r of new dealers. biased. tva = good. fdr got good lawyers to fight wall st lawyers who were the best $ could buy. [you never hear of the latter]. had to morally improve cap. jews kept off wall st. fdr hired more than any before. whole u.s. remade. nat times via insight 93/libs don’t think you can spoil a kid/teen=child, spank=beat, auth, draconian, mean spirited, punative.
/self-pity on the assembly line till they started losing their jobs in 82? /what mi’s and lc did to me. libs say people aren’t like that so I must have done something to them.
/after bennet’s sp there were 3 responders. why. cause if not, they’d disrupt sp. = they controlled platform, not the sch.
cons afterwards came up and whispered their approval. why. well c is lib. and might get censored. /new style dem is supposed to help mc, not just the poor. la 93/chap ll = irresp/libs: when the going gets tough, you have every reason to collapse. cons: the tough get going. teachers should not be accused of brainwashing when insisting on decendy, honesty, fairness./la should go after the cause of the riots.
/police dept look for humane alts.
/NOT a fancy neigh: library, sch. fed grp, mall?
/oc deputies are 0 on ice cream t, dogs, stereos,/worry about income “disparities” on the bottom, not top [asians]/if we are rich nation, no one can be poor. xxx
/can’t appreciate lib until yrs later?/libs: too much disheveled hair [rainforest coif], rumpled suits, and slouching. [finally someone said it.] w post/jessie jackson wants more of a bal twix labor and mng. 93
/libs dominate our fed gov. said j kemp.
/libs dominate our fed gov. said j kemp.
/libs crying over civil rights movement not having produced a perfect society.
/libs don’t believe: exp is an expensive sch and a fool ….
/libs have to share your pain
/what positions do libs take in ir
/libs like missionaries or fawning parents. = patronizing.
/libs are i & dead wrong on: econ, hum nature [class, pov, crime, anti soc]
/if your lib and believe in soc programs, you’re at work and lc are at the beach.
/what WE owe the poor fam. – paternalistic, patronizing.
/libs always questioning vals. always permissive.
/lib pols get more coverage than cons pols. said ferrer? of diario las americas. tv 8/l4/93 on women’s program. this vs vocal minority of times mirror …./how much do libs choose far right columnists?
/do libs believe in youth forever.
/someone is lib or even a leftist. never heard it put that way.
/libs int in intentions going in – not results.
/libs put thru bankrupcy laws.?
/compassion means no pain. nafta.
/idealistic lib reporters use c for their games. ag
/mcglaughlin: suprising that dems are talking pri. 93
/handicapped person struggling down st. yet we owe gangs a living.
/blues have accepted selves, but libs haven’t accepted them.
/prisoners bring frivilous lawsuits clogs courts and slows OUR legit claims. 20/20 9/93 /lib involves more ego?/libs never contact collection agencies. re poor etc.
/libs got mi’s on to sts.
/e-rooms should be able to treat your symptoms of heart attack = everything on demand society./folklore of libs/libs bellyache more as i/they don’t credit blu collar as getting more exercise?/cons guilty for holding to the past/cap couldn’t have survived w/o welfare. crap from galbraith. /no patience for details thus hurt small biz/asked what kind of sch she’d like to go to, one l6 yr old said, “one where I wouldn’t have to be scared all the time…” 93. that irritates./lib tell the poor their incompetent to choose in ed, housing, med?
/libs whine more.
/libs say for cap to wk, there have to be losers.
they don’t buy the need for growth.
/libs don’t believe in anger, but some cons are plain just too angry. conversely do cons not believe in compassion?/read lib article, 87, & surprised how on target i was 93 after having it tested by speeches./[lib?] critics worry that voc-ed stus take easy academic classes. [of course dummy, they’re wc] us news 93
/libs wallow in problems. /libs hurt poor with myths: k’s take $ out of ghetto, etc.
/libs want to plan all and control it. don’t like unpredictability.
/libs in love with healing process.
/liberal follies /individuality = selfishness to libs. sig
/soc creates spec ints – voting blks-sig
/if galbraith were pres, we’d be a soviet republic. wfb. 93
but they’re close friends.
/libs think profit and pub serv can’t mix.
/libs: committed to change.
/libs sure seem brighter/great soc programs were to rehab criminals. $, failed. left sour taste. /ny got most $ in depression. terrible. fits into everything I felt there.
/judges etc. should say youth have obligations/r woodsen: no resp. never your fault. victim crap. never credit the non pros who perform heroics in ghettos. la 93/how has an apt for $233 when most probably run over $600. 93/illegal aliens fly into u.s. have an operation, then leave. tv, but shetchy. 93
/libh – for little guy yet shafting him.
/il’s into hosps along border. by law: can’t even ask em where they’re from. 93. $$$. nafta will make it worse?
/60s libs fear right wing crime bills
/underclass rose in mid 60s when econ rose. xxx but did.
/the dream and the nightmare the 60s legacy to the underclass, by myron magnet of fortune.
/libs tear down more?
/the populist left of the dem party.
/bad teens going thru anguish in boot camps. people feel sorry for em. ty ty ty tv 93
/libs don’t like anyone to suffer – bad kids who are being disciplined, criminals, bums and others who have to shape up./p schroeder wants biz ot pay part timers a pro-rata share of all full-time fringe benefits. nr 93
/lib – dig..
quota-mania./oh, now we might make illegal’s legal to drop discrim. tv 93.
/libs like you to think you can’t make without them. sig.
/random hse dict and thesaraus worship lib and condemn cons./gov lost 4 times in uib, etc. benefits what the collected in taxing lux boats [and planes]. l00k jobs lost. thus hit little guy.
/libs go for instant remedies. nr
/lib = liberated/now in 93 some waiting for another harrington and new frontier. [sig] but most ams frustrated [& fed up] with pov./libs talk of freer trade as if it’s their position to allow it.
/no job is better than a low paying job.
/libs love problems – thus exaggrate – to justify existence/ims must laugh as what libs consider obstacles.
/cuomo was anti nafta.
/libs want instant remedies. nr.
/ken hamblin, 53, the black rush limbaugh. lib implies blks can’t get a fair shot. paternalistic libs can’t believe there are bad blacks. [& mc blks] columnist for denver post./steve cohen – too emotional. says were too optomistic about dem and cap in ussr. lib? l/94
/their commitment to change shows they disparage the past and the status quo/trad LIB view is this is the promised land and ims, especailly those on our borders, have as much right as those that are born here. said morley safer.
/they never ask jail guards or prison guards about lc/health care is not clinton’s to give.
/[libs] have fatal conceit
/libs want to understand your rage, share your pain.
/lib: new, feel good, spoon fed, sugar coated, life owes, bed of roses,
/libs want a risk-free soc.
/decent job, profit seeking insurers, forcing single ma’s into saturated job market, redist, selfish ints, environ vs cap, full employment, inequality. ed asner’s dem soc.
/ny libs wrecked NY./p for am way: pluralism, individ, no censorship, no sch. vouchers.
/nat pub radio is lib says am spec
/are lawyers lib? sig.
/5% of NYers works for the city. am spec.
/2 op ed pieces [in last 3 yrs 94] in ny times: 2 readers apologized for being mugged. both said they understood their attacker’s feeings perfectly, felt sorry for them, and only wished they could have done more to help. am spec
/libs see cons as heartless bigots who talk about good vals just to argue that the poor have bad vals. dionne 94
/if vals are simply a club to use against the poor, they aren’t vals.
/in the 80s real incomes for the wealthiest hh’s rose l7% vs 4% for mc and 5% for those at bottom. w post 3/93.
/of course, non profits can’t help poor by themselves.
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/tyrell, r, 5/90: hobo and st looney given rights. nyc, a one party city, has been the capital of progressive ideas for 60 yrs. no city in us has tolerated so many protracted racial conflicts w/o restabl.. order via cops or courts. if the same happened in the south, troops would have been called in long ago. but nyc is progressive so the hate and misery can never be candidly addressed. the lawyer for one of the whites of bensonhurst problem got chased, punched, kicked by mob of blacks – no outrage.
tumbledown liberalism = absurd rights w/o pers resp. – hypocritical and cowardly. said tyrell. needs examples.
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/basic econ text written by LIB paul samuelson.
/talk of raising int rate so econ won’t overheat. 2/94
/the end to GUARANTEED college admission. 94 in calif j./if you’re on crack, you get a scholarship. 0 if not.
/libs don’t like competition, said rush. sig/lib ism is a chance for emotion.
/don’t help a good kid go wrong. take your car keys. ny
/lib – working “without benefits” [boo hoo].
/”working another man’s land.”
/can’t buy the product you make./st trooper said, maybe his folks would punish him more than the juv justice system.
/people repelled by the trad elitism of reps. said fred barnes. 3/94
/l6 yr old took subway train for 3 hr ride. koch: be careful not to ruin his life. maybe he should get intership with transit auth. w. kunstler: let him go. some rev said it’d be a mistake to send him to jail. rush’s book.
/l/3 of lawsuits in fed court come from prisoners. many frivolous.
/libs are suspicious of status quo.
/libs don’t like competition.
/al shanker dumping on full inclusion of disabled into reg classrooms, when they need spec teachers. like mi’s out of insts. [for same reason?] for socialization. but that is only one reason. and schs are for many reasons. advocates say sep but equal parallel. as blks have same abilities. spec ed must be judged on what it produces, not on our wishes for inclusion, which [disregards results] [lcd] new republic? 94
/tracking students is elitist, regressive, even racist.
/uncle sam is uncle sucker.
/lot of sch dists don’t use iq tests. discrim. 94
/libs insult c.s. of us all.
/is tv more lib than press? sig
/hosp are sw ers?
/rich kids from taiwan dropped in so. cal. for free ed. age l4 on. supposed to be a legal guardian, but often they live alone. not the staff to check up. front page, rr. l0k from taiwan. costs calif $40 mil/yr. fake documents and claims. none of the kids would do it to their kids.
/if you stick up for the mc in NYC, you get attacked said koch.
TIME: blks stus more physical and boisterous said … they are twice as likely as whites to be disc … 4/4/94. in cincinatti sch sys. now they will trac the race of teachers in disc cases. ty. union said teachers lost control in 8l with no swats and fewer susp. /never credit mil sch. pri sch, cath sch, mil boot camp.
/dup: can’t blame as no one’s resp.
/libs want consensus and coop, not comp..
/money to ed prisoners, but no money to victims fam.
/p for am way: pluralism, individ, freedom of thot, expression, religion. a sense of comm, tolerance, compassion. obe, outcome based ed. sex ed. p for am way anti v as $ will go to sectarian schs.
*/lib hypocrisy: all =, yet am lst. jb
/public broadcasting is lib said dole. 92 sig. w monthly sep 93
/question on test that girls got wrong more often than boys
/libs can’t admit defeat.
/when libs see wages falling. it’s due to global comp, but they’re not concerned with that. they blame ir or our gov.
needs work.
/libs believe in activist gov, cons don’t said t. wicker. [depends on issue. ag]
/if libs are thin skinned, then it fits that media are no skinned. a schozetneizen said same.
/lib is dreamy, esoteric etc cause it comes from sch.
*/kids work in fields, yet bums get disability.
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Lib .. ism + individual freedom. Lib arose in Europe between the Reformation and French Revolution. During 16th, l7th, l8th centuries the medieval feudal order gave way as Protestantism, the nation‑state, commerce, science, cities, and a middle class [an ha] of traders and industrialists developed. The new liberal order‑‑drawing on Enlightenment thought‑‑began to place human beings rather than God at the center of things. Humans, with their rational minds, could comprehend all things and could improve themselves and society through systematic and rational action. Liberal thinking was hostile to prerogatives of kings, aristocrats, and the church; it favored freedom‑‑a natural right‑‑from traditional restraints. These notions did much to precipitate the American and French revolutions and were important factors in various uprisings in the 19th century. Liberalism sought to expand liberties and to limit political authority in favor of constitutional representative government and promoted the rights to property and religious toleration. In the economic sphere, classical liberalism was opposed to direction by the state, arguing with Adam SMITH and David RICARDO that the forces of the marketplace were the best guide for the economy
(see LAISSEZ‑FAIRE).
[Eng] John LOCKE. Thomas Jefferson drew upon his ideas in
framing the Declaration of Independence, and the French Enlightenment
philosophers VOLTAIRE and MONTESQUIEU were indebted to him. Leading
liberal voices in the 19th century included Jeremy BENTHAM, John Stuart
MILL, Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE, and Thomas Hill Green (1836‑82).
in the 19th century, liberalism stood for limited government with a separation of powers and for free enterprise. Because of the reaction against the excesses of the French Revolution, however, liberalism shed some of its reliance on rationalism and began to base itself on utilitarianism. = ? A link was thus forged between early revolutionary individualism and a new idealistic concern for the interests of society. ???????????
In Britain the Liberal party came into being (1846) under the leadership of Russell and GLADSTONE. In France, liberalism developed in opposition to the policies of the restored Bourbon kings and became a major force in the Third Republic; leading French liberals were Leon GAMBETTA and Georges CLEMENCEAU. In the United States the most characteristic representative of liberalism was Woodrow WILSON. [out of context?]
By the 20th century, political and economic thinking among liberals had begun to shift ah ha in response to an expanding and complex economy. &^%$#@#&^%$@#$
Liberals began to support the idea that the government can best promote
individual dignity and freedom through intervention in the economy and
by establishing a state concerned about the welfare of its people.
With the rise of the WELFARE STATE, the new liberals also looked to
government to correct some of the ills believed to be caused by
unregulated capitalism. They favored TAXATION, MINIMUM WAGE
legislation, SOCIAL SECURITY, ANTITRUST LAWS, public education, safety
and health laws, and other measures to protect consumers and preserve
the environment (see GOVERNMENT REGULATION). Some liberals became
socialists, although opposing doctrinaire Marxism and communism. The
more traditional free‑market liberals, who held to the ideas of Adam
Smith and John Stuart Mill, found themselves classed as conservatives. ah ha.
Lennart Frantzell Bibliography: Barash, David P., The L Word (1992); Church, F.Forrester, God and other Famous Liberals (1992); De Ruggiero, Guido, The History of European Liberalism, trans. by R. C. Collingwood (1927; repr. 1977); Eccleshall, Robert, British Liberalism (1986); Gerber, William, American Liberalism, rev. ed. (1987); Gray, John, Liberalism (1986); Hamby, Alonzo, Liberalism and Its Challengers (1985).
/they don’t even look at pri BLACK schs./lib guilt – is self enobling.
/libs get more credit is soc is right. hard. skip.
/public getting tired of excuses for addicts, alc, hmless, etc. and tired of paying the bill. tv 5/94.
/lib meant activist gov [loaded term] since new deal, but became bad word in 80s. tv?
/Globalization is destructive. crap. the alts are: the right offers racism and nationalism. the left has been disarmed. we have rereg, pri, trade lib.. which reflect the failure of nat. left policies. the nation 94.
/lib: an unreg market is a jungle. workers don’t get their fair share of what they produce. cap degrades and disorients wc, pollutes streams, goes in cycles which hits wc the worst. 30s 40s brot lit about big gov. 60s-80s brot lit showing fallacies of it.
/libs treat wc etc like kids who can’t accept resp. ag. sig /libs have no infl in pri sector. thus sub
/as long as there are hmless there will be compassion and an undercover cop just a step away. 5/94 ny. tv. n quarrels.
Because of a liberal bias, the social sciences failed to recognize the importance of the military in politics until after WWII. /the tilt of the news: lib bias in media. current, mar-apr 94 ref # al535l863.
/cbs and ny times are lib. univ microfilms ir.
/how us media avoid labels for lib causes, but emphasizes cons slant whenever possible. insight on the news sep 27, 93 ref # al4277735
/lib not int in pri sector. or right to work states. or black con. or when gov gets out of things.
/singapore: am’s are fed up with liberal’s hair splitting on rights
/dershowitz: abuse excuse, syndromes. 94
/libs in love with agrarian reformers, che g, etc.
/libs never gave realistic view of sw, slums, pov, class, cap, pro, biz,
/lib’s don’t care if singapore has no grafitti; they only care about crying over someone’s rights. they seem to prefer grafitti all over our cities to caning one person. how do workmen across the st feel about it?
/libs always claiming we’ve outgrown something.
/lib slant pervades usc and ucla film schs.
/the bar leans left.
/why sci ed is lib. tech r.
/lib democracy.
/libs look down on wc, assume poor can’t take care of selves.
/lib bias is a rite of passage/to see someone as a victim is a putdown. newt.
/lib: boom bust economists; gov hands off, competition uber alles. they bal the budges by ignoring human misery. think econ can bounce back.
/keynes said gov must spend spend was out of pits.
/so many jews are ultra lib and radically secular. don feder.
/lib social policy is good; restrictive is bad.
/being poor is humiliating/as part of security is predictabilty, control/people want blacks represented everywhere, yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the cons. movement. sow
/paternalism toward others has long been camouflage for power for oneself. sow/lib: chinese crazy bout $ now. nam too. = erosion of vals.
/allies were vindictive after wwi. cnn. crap.
/dc is for incrementalism. and shalala and clint want big steps.
6/94. garf.
/moynihand is ahead of his time. he worshiped jfk. /can’t afford a lawyer, a dr., a shrink,
/if only haves will cough up the money to train the less advantaged.
/big city lib [of 60s?] forgive graffiti, allow mi’s to live on sts, make it impossible to disc unruly stu, restrict cops, tax sm biz, get pol support from pub employee unions. result: mc and biz to suburbs. us news 94
/libs make ALL feel bad about what they have. mislead and hurt wc and condemn the haves.
/libs put thru bankrupcy laws.?
/compassion means no pain. nafta.
/won’t give pri schs credit, so why give other pri … credit.
/ghetto guys told libs, let the criminals out in YOUR neigh.
/tenured profs are like people inside the beltway, said rush. send c.
/why not regulate outrageous settlements in lawsuits.
/drunk il plowed into truck carrying lq. and won big lawsuit. lq paid. bran hit viet, who claimed kid in back seat. there was none, but insur co found it cheaper to settle. donna hit il, fender bender who claimed and got whiplash. said donna.
/w kristol: in 60s 70s libs thot 1] kensian econs would end the ups and downs of biz cycle 2] gov would mng eoncon 3] soc programs would end pov 4 progressvie ed would wk 5] lib from conv morality. jfk’s bunch thot lib was progress. libs have stake in big gov and don’t want vouchers. imprimis. 94?
/dial a ride, meals on wheels.
/libs run all down.
/lib in l8, l8th cents. against eng monarchy & southern slavery. and progressive mov in 20th cent against corps. la
/the id of lib win 20th cent with wars that cannot be won [k, vw] or with those won on battlefield, but lost at conf table. [versaille, yalta] la
/aud: if you create l00 jobs, no credit. if you have extra $ and give it away, you get credit. but if you were to instead take the same money and use it to create more jobs, which would do more good than charity, you get no credit. same with profit and non profit nursing hm.
/leo on cuny. un news 8/l5/94 decline and ruin of cuny [and, he says, the SYSTEM]. 30s thru 60s it was good. but now: racial pol, any norm is elitist. thus [lcd]. race to the bottom. remedial ed has almost swallowed up the curriculum. even low standards are rarely met. only 2l% grad after 5 yrs. [xxx] 64% drop out. the degree hasn’t been worth much since ’70. affirm action in mid 60s. racial disturbances, violent takeover of one campus by blk and pr’s. thus it tried to enroll minorities by their % of the city’s pop. [crazy] so no entrance requirements. remedial coruse for some who had often never read a bk or used standard eng. minority enrollment still low. so recruited fro bottom half of hi sch. [extra crazy]. and tuition for them. so good stu split. plan to keep unskilled stu in antechamber till ready, but this seen as stigmatizing. so walls between remedial and reg college work came down. [isn’t this fun?] lcd. but not meeting even lower standards. thus theories: teachers were guilty of trying to impose alien standards on min. culs. and mrginalize unwanted grps. stunning level of failure. thus non hierarchical, collaborative, nonjudgmental classes. with multicul, self-esteen, and therapy. for goal of competence in one’s cul. [only in c] feelings and adjustment instead of learning. #
/lib media show blacks in wel, crime, housing, alc? drug? when there are more whites in all for yrs pols promised to use govs to protect people from markets. m barone us news 8/l5/94/as a minority person rises in media, they are compromised, etc.
/”harsh”
/libs hung up on preventing crime – root causes.
/people need to take resp for neighbor’s kids. 0
/we never worried bout preventative measures with crime bills in the past. 94
/spread, thus anti PRI, anti cap.
/hi patrol used to be able to ask em for insur when they stopped em for anything. now it’s only if in an accident of $500 damage to one. no good with cheri and me as both cars aren’t worth that. 8/94.
/one LL in nb had couple in. they moved another couple in and ea got 90 day stays. thus a yr of free rent. said rudy estrada.
/root causes: tradval !
/before in china there was great pov, but they shared it equally. tv 94
/handicapped person struggling down st. yet owe gangers a living.
/blues have accepted selves, but libs haven’t accepted them.
/don’t give em the $ in the lst place. h jarvis.
/Inequality has been a problem in all societies. No society distributes income evenly.
/to lib, people = gov. to a cons, the people means the people
/don’t lay off anyone, but hurt the co.
/all the rights are on the side of the employee when it comes to refs said attorney angel gomez. 93 la
/sig: what libs want for all vs have nots
/libs don’t like competition, said rush. sig
*/libs and their lawsuits re handicapped and highly disruptive stus. lcd.
*/race norming, iq tests out, drug runner profile out, not asking em if they are il, paying em if on drugs, rodney king got 3.8 mil.
*/becoming a have makes one cons.
*/as a minority person rises in media, they are compromised, etc.
/strict parent vs permissive parent
/m. barone on boomer libs: self-right.. selfish, self-indulgent, adolescent, cling to the rock music of their past, long for woodstock. defied auth when young and wonder why others don’t respect their auth. 9/5/94 us news
/gibbon warned about greece. clinton quoted him.
/haves and have nots. vs doers and [lazies]
/r. brownstein people want firm and simple rules: 3 strikes, wel cap, no aggressvie panhandling, curfews, lower age to try jd’s as adults, one yr susp for gun in class. spent too much time arguing bout exceptions than rules. people feel no vals as no standards. since the post 60s left. uniform standards goes against multicul… uniform standards will hurt minorities [disparate impact] – said libs the last 25 yrs. so requiring a hi sch dip is discrim. thus resisted nat ed standards and tougher sentencing. should stress uniform standards are for society as a whole. lower standards tell minority stus we believe they can’t learn. if woman is expected to wean self from wel, farmers, corps, and others can wean selves from subsidies.
/libs like aid without standards – like wel without cap. con like standards without aid – like tougher penalities without social programs to deter crime. w post 8/94
/if profits go up, salaries should go up/send kids away to $, prestigious c and they come back saying
– cap is [bad &] destroying the planet – rich are paying fair share – marx was misunderstood – gov owes all health crare and job. – fed deficits are harmless. polls say 80% of all c grad consider selves lib or rad libs. mark skousen
/employers supposed to be all: child care, health,
/m. kingsley: populism is more gov.
/hug a thug.
/lib e for blks gives young blks an excuse to get alway with anything: drop out, preg, crime, wel, drugs,
/threats – can’t call cops till too late. – benny.
/do lib’s mislead minorities? the way they do the wc?
/as libs don’t want competition, what do they want?
/profit=sin
Great amounts of money are spent to try to help “underdogs”, but somehow they never get ahead, and the liberal, having “failed”, feels “guilty”. His guilt is somewhat presumptuous and condescending as it sets him above the masses as the one who decides what is right for them.
/disasterous soc: mw, uib, medicare?, po, ed,
Because of lack of experience and a realistic approach, his thinking doesn’t mature. He believes good intentions are all that matter. Cost effectiveness, a bottom line, traditional values, etc. are irrelevant.
biz is bad and big biz is
post sets aside the expensive lessons of the past – one of which is that most became traditional because they worked. *?
He earns their apparent gratitude in the short run and their resentment in the long. his permissiveness has wreaked havoc on the schools; /security vs comp ??
give earmarks, examples
new is good is naive and presumptuous. They are “victims of society” who need to be “understood” and “helped”. he can reduce complex matters to basics (with out being simplistic);
/lib is THEIR religion – to be blind about.
/hillsdale,
/arresting topless women on ny subway is disciminatory. 9/94 tv.
/wear their lib as a badge
/part of their being anti pri is their hang up on =.
/vigilantes
/libs love to take pics of pov in foreground and us cap in background.
/libs: power, infl, atten, judge, robin hood, ma teresa, santa claus.
/making money is the new religion in china?
/libs don’t credit pri, nor good families.
/lib from nat geo: concentration camp survivors as LL’s shouldn’t have pushed sro’s out. ny. $2l3/mo for one. in ’90.
abusive guards at worst shelter. #/c. kruthamer. (jones bch and the decline of lib in time?) r moses built jones bch for wc which is not the mc. good old activist gov.
/libs tell lwc – they can make it and they can’t due to int and ability. and ims pass em and they tell em 2] they can’t make it without gov programs.-and they tell me the haves are holding em back and thus gov owes em.
/lib is about power, said rush. sig? as their infl etc.
/cuomo: on the last econs of am lib. [activist gov, new deal, can solve problems]. his supporters: minorities, union mems, feminists, ims, ethnics, lib iqs,
/corps give 7 times as much to lib causes as to cons ones. ford f too, said a mason
/libs: change and progress.
/libs? wallow in what does NOT work [pub sch].
and since not ideal, neg, and constantly tear down.
/not accepting real world and the spread, means neg.
/lib read mi article and said they knew how to get my goat.
/lib tendency to see the world in grps, said lte.
/i know lib doesn’t work because of my exp in sw.
/gov agents want as many clients as they can get. sig sig. tom bethell, am spec.
/lib & pros get fatal conceit.
/guy got mba from standford and never was brot up fried or adam smith. fried says right as c is soc. sig.
/libs make us break down all by race, said krauthammer.
/they persecute newt the way they did me in sw.
/libs never look at those who fail in biz. only those who succeed [and look with envy.]
/cast out by soc. cast themselves out.
/share the wealth -hugy long
/gov reg of health insur, clean air, safe water, food, and drugs is efficient and popular. says waxman. he’s jewish.
/why invest so much in ed if we can hire from abroad. ag.
– besides, let biz make the decision.
/r. brownstein people want firm and simple rules: 3 strikes, wel cap, no aggressvie panhandling, curfews, lower age to try jd’s as adults, one yr susp for gun in class. spent too much time arguing bout exceptions than rules. people feel no vals as no standards. since the post 60s left. uniform standards goes against multicul… uniform standards will hurt minorities [disparate impact] – said libs the last 25 yrs. so requiring a hi sch dip is discrim. thus resisted nat ed standards and tougher sentencing. should stress uniform standards are for society as a whole. lower standards tell min.. stu we believe they can’t learn. if woman expected to wean self from wel, then farmers, corps, and others can wean selves from subsidies.
libs like aid without standards – like wel without cap. con like standards without aid – like tougher penalities without social programs to deter crime. w post 8/94
/pc: hawkeyes, seminoles,
/libs don’t want it to trickle down; they’d rather give it.
/burs love routine. they don’t listen. a teacher is good when the kids love her. [pop]. haves and have nots. vs doers and [lazies] must be sow./libs don’t like econ cycles. insur cos leaving cal by the droves as gov TELLS insur cos renewals for hmowners HAVE to include quake insur. [not same for commercial insur] 94/libs assume orphanages and all insts are heartless.
/rush: libs can’t enjoy selves till world is perfect. they put down the 80s.
/when teaching, newt and armey couldn’t get tenure.
/gephart can’t grasp how reps promote fam vals if fams don’t have decent income, meaningful work,
/lawyer approach is win-lose. the biz approach is win win.
is this ty of christian civs.
/in germ, workers put wheels on cars for $26/hr; in china for $l/hr. 94 la
/[lib:] self-expression, indivi, self-realization, personal choice.
/libs don’t want to be happy.
/stop punishing success and rewarding failure. ollie north.
/lib = gov activism/would be lost w/o an underdog
/rush said libs are all knowing and arrogant. said jennings said 94 election was like people having a 2 yr old temper tantrum.
/the gingrich who stole xmas on cover of TIME. BEFORE he took office. death threats.
/lib: don’t dare close a st for safety, or gate a comm, or send kids to a pri sch.
/if youth feel good bout selves, they won’t do anything wrong. i
what feels right must be ok. la 93. 25 yrs ago./a: those in pov are society’s failures. w post. bull.
/lib elites [hillary] talk down to the rest.
/rewarding victimhood instead of resp.
/reverse racial and gender discrimination.
/n podhoretz said most am jews are lib. /lib elites [hillary] talk down to the rest.
/rewarding victimhood instead of resp.
/reverse racial and gender discrimination.
/in early l900s progressives built bur gov to reg corps. and later for wwi, depression wwii, cold war, civil rights. us news 95
/legacy: grad: functinally ill, sats, crime, ow, remedial ed in c
/neighbs protested half way hse. hud sent letter saying they could be sued [for intimidation, coercion, discrim].
/black youth worked more than white youth till l950. then? liabilty laws, labor laws, mw, teens kept from delivering xmas mail, red tape, tax forms. thus cut off lower rungs. w. williams 94/wc class KEPT from trades by c oriented hi sch.
/libs are portrayed as generous when they tolerate conservatives, but cons are not genrous when they tolerate cons.
/libs: if gov can’t do the job no one can. sw./libs make society gentler before safer.
/libs not big on l0th amend. what is not fed is state. la
/dems: mc resent the rich. bull. they resent the nondeserving poor. krauthammer. l2/94 la
/bennet said armey and newt couldn’t get tenure so they went into pol.
/ow births went up in 65 with rise in wel.
/wel protects the confidentiality of fugitives. tv 95/lib: gov knows what you [boss] should provide your workers with and what mw to pay em./compassionists ag/m – cap leaves some out.
/am: initiative, competition, innovation. they cause pov. 0.
/decline of punish in 60s. man in st. knew it. pros never got it. wattenburg. wilson
/want to make us all the same via every? soc program: mw, ss, medicare, ed
/lib till they have teenage kids.
/libs believe man is good.
/lib: give without strings.
/orphanages or ANY excuse to cry and preen selves on compassion 2/95/people get spoiled: oj. that’s what wrong with tenure, unions, monarchies, security,
/libs say no hm schooling, pri sch, or sch choice, as WE know better.
/libs don’t believe there are lazy people.
/lib don’t credit pri prop.
/libs must polarize neighborhoods [as they do classes with wel.]
/libs not interested in past success of pri charity. ag.
/never look at ones who start on mw and make it.
/j kirkpatrick: blame am lst.
/maya angelou said the republicans must have the courage to care. 94
/joan baez thinks cap is greed.
/newt’s historian got ax for something. if roles reversed, it wouldn’t have happened. just like prejudice.
/libs would reg the weather if they could/sit on the left hand of god.
/libs are chosen.
/cancel mexicos debts to us, repeal nafta, stop contract on am. 95 ramsey clark,
/sign lang interpreter for a juror. 95.
/”access” to health care. rh
/media so lib, you suspect everything.
/Christ-like attitude of environ…
/that graph of world pov had 0 on 4 tigers./jon stossel blew holes in hunger, battered women, via surveys on 20/20 3/3l/95/ivy league liberals.
/the spread gives them aNOTHer reason to dump tradval. ??? ag/gepheart says rep ideas will hurt someone to help the rich. 95 /presumptuous/jew? liderman? of cwla said shouldn’t ask which poor are deserving 95/cons call the cul elite secular, nihilistic, hedonistic, and anti-family, anti-auth.
dialectic spread-guilt, old/new, secure, soc, anti pri, anti biz misc: care, permissive, generous.
[spread means =, vic.., guilt] [saving ideal = ?]
thus spread
/lib ascendancy began with t dewey in ’44
/midnight basketball. what are doing out at that hour anyhow?
curfews would be better. sow
/in 60s program for felons to finish sentences at sjs instead of in prison. rapes at sjs went up. police chief said could be a link. the c censured him for it. felons arrested. yet program continued l0 yrs, during which no felons graduated. sow
/squeamishness about punishment is transformed into presmptions of loftier morality. sow
/gephart talking to union. no idea of cap or labor. 95./iq’s are libs, said peggy noonan, writers, journalists, historians. iq’s put down exp. sig.
/prime time? dianne sawyer unhappy with scenes of what goes on in classrm. hidden cameras. frisbee throwing, goofing off, violence in hall. privacy … so they can’t tell you the new stu is bad 4/5/95 lib reporters finally unhappy with it. brot it all back. makes you sick.
/who runs class, the jail, the soc, the biz, is there auth.
/i don’t know what to do with kids. you can’t touch us till we’re l8. deputies were going to try to talk the kid out of suing me.
/dems play the class warfare card, w. kristol. 95 tv
/could l reason most academics are lib be, they are working for st univs.
/bad tenants drive out good. libs don’t believe in bad.
charity, ed, wk.
/yellow energy guides brot to us by gov and libs?
/hoover knew about relief.
/libs simplistic: have to have one solution: dc. can’t be local, cnty, st. has to be fed.
hypocrisies /level playing field vs lm/libs have to have something someone to blame.
/freedom is not dependence. soc is dependence. we were freer before the wel state.
/newt says you talk of cutting programs and you’re touching the power base of libs. 95
/libs have no bottom line.
/reporter said unions made working class people mc. sig. tv 95
/saying that whites use some words against blks: quota, crime, welfare, immigration. [where do they get immigration] 9s5/commentary said cons and jewish? really?/r samuelson. [heard he’s a lib. tv?] blowing it?
bad one to knock newt & co.
/hiroshima liberals/rush: libs are arrogant and condescending.
/lib: symbolism over substance. trying to collect after walk for …. whatever. rush./the pity industry.
/aud: judicial sys lib? sup crt?
/idealism – so haves have to apologize for an unperfect world.
/lib = lcd: beh, vals, ed, eng?/poor don’t need your help – LOUD block parties by outsiders who would never allow it in THEIR neighborhoods.
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JONES BEACH AND THE DECLINE OF LIBERALISM
BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER [how can he be a cons?]
Take a drive out of Manhattan, first east, then south, and in about an hour
you arrive at one of the most pleasing monuments to activist government to be
found in America: Jones Beach, a magnificent ocean park built on a sandbar
off the south shore of Long Island. Jones Beach opened 65 years ago, Governor
Franklin Roosevelt of New York presiding. But the idea had erupted full blown
from the mind of that public‑works genius and master builder, Robert Moses. A
few years earlier, arriving by boat on that desolate stretch of sand, he
sketched on the back of an envelope the park you see today.
The wonder of Jones Beach is the way it was meticulously designed to serve
the crammed and harried working classes of New York City, offering them the
kind of ocean playground that until then had been open only to the rich. At a
time when public beaches meant meager toilets in shabby wooden shacks, notes
biographer Robert Caro, Moses sketched two enormous bathhouses a mile apart,
with canopied terraces, vast swimming pools and even diaper‑changing rooms.
*And in place of the barkers and hot‑dog vendors of Coney Island, he decreed a
serene, pristine boardwalk offering shuffleboard and paddle tennis, all at
nominal prices ‑‑ no commerce allowed.
It was an enormous success. By the hundreds of thousands, workmen and their
families poured out of the sweaty city to this marvel of a beach. You can
still see it today. True, gone are the legions of sailor‑suited college
students picking up trash. Gone too, in this age of tort, the archery range
and roller rink. But the rest is there, a grand beach park for yet another
generation of working‑class New Yorkers, with Hispanics and blacks now
joining the original beach population of white ethnics.
At the time, writes Caro, designers and architects came from all over Europe
to gaze at this wonder. An Englishman summed up their verdict: ”The finest
seashore playground ever given the public anywhere in the world.”
Moses went on to build many more monuments. F.D.R. went on to erect social
programs as promiscuously as Moses built state parks. But the point of such
activism was plain:
*/30s: government was to produce something tangible, visible,
usable for the ordinary working‑class ‑‑ now called middle‑class ‑‑
American family. That was the theory of the New Deal, with its
*unemployment insurance, old‑age pensions and assorted public works. That was the animating vision that allowed American liberalism to dominate national politics for four decades.
In recent years, faith in activist government has declined precipitously. The
cause is not just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal
activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the
great middle‑class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty
that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little
trace ‑‑ indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and
deviancy of every sort.
Bill Clinton’s genius in the 1992 campaign was understanding the abiding
power of the idea of activist government ‑‑ activism directed not, however,
at the fringes of society but at the great middle that keeps it going. He
campaigned for the ”forgotten middle class.” Forgotten, one might note, by
modern liberalism. No matter. Clinton remembered.
Hence his national‑service program, an echo of the G.I. Bill, aimed at
working kids, who would repay their schooling with community service. Hence
the crime bill he fought desperately to save, a $30 billion potpourri of
prisons and cops, of therapists and social workers turned loose on the
ordinary American’s No. 1 nightmare: crime. Hence the piece de resistance of
Clinton’s activist vision: health care ”that cannot be taken away.” It
addresses the quintessential middle‑class fear: losing what you’ve got.
There is something valiant if archaic about Clinton’s trying to resurrect
activist government. Delivering the goods is far more difficult today.
Government is broke. And the issue is not a bathhouse that can be built for a
few hundred thousand dollars but a health‑care entitlement that could cost
trillions.
It is easy to admire the energy and drive behind Clinton’s activism. Those
skeptical of government’s doing social engineering rather than bathhouse
construction register a mixture of wonder and alarm at a President so fixed
in a belief that runs against the tide of public opinion and the fiscal
capacities of modern government.
But to succeed, Clinton must stick to his vision. The principal reason his
ambitions for health care and crime met such resistance is that what started
out as grand schemes to allay middle‑class anxieties were increasingly seen
as yet more remedial programs for the poor. Working people don’t play
midnight basketball. They go to Jones Beach. Build that, and activist
government might once again become a going proposition.
Copyright 1994 Time Inc. All rights reserved. ESSAY
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/don at exch said squatters moved into foreclosed house next door and utility cos HAD to turn their utils on. 8/95
/libs don’t WANT to be happy. they wallow as it’s control, influence, sig = robin hood.
/love bad news as they can crusade, make their suggestion, give it their spin.
/arrested a shoplifter at stater bros. woman said ‘poor guy.’
/no one ever credited the wc with better health due to exercise. they only sot to pity em./no one ever credited the wc with better health due to exercise. they only sot to pity em. vs they don’t watch their health?
/lot of cops time wasted by going back to same place.
/to them cap means winner take all.
/glass is half empty
/tradval – blk muslims.
/clean for gene campaign by his workers. haircuts.
/cops won’t enforce noise, jd facilities won’t get tuff [so shippped to ariz], can’t get rid of bad tenant, wel, mw, etc.
/broder likes: jacksonian dem, progressive movement, new deal. are the lst 2 as idealistic.
/brokaw – too many i reports.
/tendency to reject any OLD method. marva
/libs cry over poor. ims pass poor, so the tears of libs are crocodile
tears [induced?, phoney? misplaced?]
/because the neigh is poor, all has to be junk.
/easier to be lib.
/lib is a religion. rush.
/extra cops after rodney king verdict would provoke.
/more lib than con spec ints get $. rush. 95
/libs: presumptuous.
/gov distorts the pri econ.
/libs want to see a fight – like trash tv.
/lib: indiv is greed, comp is cuthroat, mean,
/libs stay abstract. avoid specifics.
/what’s compassionate about putting your grandkids in debt.
/libs see glass as half empty. and stressed bush’s kinder, gentler, and sot guiliani’s softer side.
/those who want to be heros or victims need villians.
/once you have more then: guilt, apology, introspection, psych…, intellectualizing, MEDDLING, play god, presumptuousness, pretentions, patronizing, condescension, give away.
/no pt in being cops, ed, etc. unless you can punish
/could do lot more for poor, sick, aged, marginal biz if mw were down/work hard all your life, get more, go iq, shrink, apolgize, feel guilt, give it away, patronize, rescue, philisophical,
/75% of the left is funded by gov. pres of ams for tax reform. 95
/annointed libs can’t let [victims] have resp as it’d cut them out of pic and sense of moral superiority. sow’s bk: the vision of the annointed.
/rd to hell is paved with good intentions.
/what turned pj orouke cons was getting a paycheck and seeing all they took out. more fun to be lib. show biz is a lib pro. those who care feel better than those who seem not to. cheap virtue? libs don’t believe ideas or actions have consequences.
blame murder on bad childhood, get on talk show, explain it, now let me go. pc is desire for cheap virtue.
/libs in econ, sw, press, law, ed,
/lib: winner takes all.
/lib: work to get something, the feel guilty. work to make something good [50s], then tear it down.
/@#$^ judge said wm city council has to pay fire union. 95/cuomo is *&^%$# on nafta. said cap hasn’t worked.
/libs, etc. love great building projects. triboro, dams, hi ways.
/forgive debts [so rest of us can pay higher rates]/libs miss pt because it require resp. sig thus? all but cs in sw.
/quotas proMOTE prejudice/wel is studied by those wearing crumpled suits./rich are some of the most favored ams. g mcgovern.
/compassion re: grad em functionally ill, victims of crime, put out of work by … , 22% more in taxes. merchant, cops,
/everything had to be sugar coated and spoon fed.
/libs in media are to provoke or entertain like the smart alecks in entertainment?/LIBERAL CHAIN
/become cons when get paycheck, victim of crime,
/libs LOVE to wallow in negs.
/a cockburn – marxist. 95/how lib contributes to i and pity
/you’re less lib than you thinkgot dumped in the little church around the corner
/libs are dead in miss. 95
– Other traditional values are obsolete or might be: responsibility, foresight, self-reliance, golden rule, law and order, authority, discipline, punishment, family teamwork, hard work, diligence, moderation, restraint, wholesomeness, modesty, self-respect, one’s appearance, practical education, some censorship, some conformity, no panhandling.
/chela has a good position at a college. and thinks my views are radical right. that cause she’s on a campus.
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– An ideal world is possible. Since ours is not, the (old)
– “Establishment” is “guilty.” Thus
– Old is bad (new is good).
– Level the classes (redistribute the wealth).
– Capitalism is bad. (Thus bring more regulation, stronger unions higher taxes . . .)
[- Do these through [bigger] government (socialism).]
/libs like change vs security. dog hse-irv./any tool you grab, the lib jerks it out of your hand.
lib chain use 3 boys? a b c? prenatal, hdstart, no flunk,
slow and fast, sex ed in val free .., great strain on teachers, can’t give iq test, pass/fail, open classrm, and new math? no metal detectors
no trades as c, or
-into jd and pampered till l8, no curfew, no out of parks, no dress code,
drugs – self medicating. no drug profile in fl.
child jd till l8 then shocked by prison. or
-grad func ill, [can’t get in mil?], dk how to work. boss may have to teach him. to jc for remedial, grad in debt? does boss have to teach him? frivilous lawsuits. and predators [mm] starts fam, and we owe him all. NEVER was he held accountable. NEVER. espec if dark skinned. breaks into your hse.
then jb.
=======================================-vs cons chain/libs hurt poor and wc/la times poll nr time of dem conv in atlanta [sum 87?] found
7 of l0 ams do NOT think am is divided twix haves and have nots. /macdonalds paid $2mil for hot coffee = how many teens didn’t get jobs.
/cops get drunk after his wife, with terrible attitude, he cries, they give him ride away. needs disc. [counseled] out there later to get him with knife. they blew it lst time. chased him into bushes, cuffed, big attitude, won’t get in paddy wagon. 95
/media all rattled about the econ [with buchanan winning in nh] when uib is 5.8%. 3/96 /lib tendency to believe in diplomacy without the threat of force. commentary.
/winner take all. rest are losers. w post. 95. haves and have nots, how other half lives, underclass.
/mayflower co say people are leaving fastest: ny, nj, cal. 95
and loving idaho, wyoming?, & …..
/work hard to get something, then feel guilty.
/crocodile tears – patronizing? contrived?
/crocodile tears – patronizing? contrived?
/multicul = all culs are =. thus learn bout all. but it became tear down west. anti cap. at stanford. tv 95
/libs like reginald denny hugging his attacker’s ma. and to forgive debts [and it’s your $]
/dennis prager. they ask him: what, you don’t believe people are basically good? jewish. diff vocab for libs.
/libs and beta, apple, edsel
/people withdraw due to lib’s coddling criminals etc. less civic mindedness.
/people walk up l6 flights of stairs in chi housing projects to avoid the gangs on the elevators. 96
/guilt & forgiveness support lib.
/mcgovern credits lib with: ss, medicare, mort deductions, tva, rural elec, wel, nat parks and forests, gi bill, farm price supports, sch lunches, su loans, civ rights, colelctive bargaining, environ…/lib excuses insult? the working poor.
/guy who just got the chair, bonin, got $75k in disability [as mi?]. p wilson said outrageous. 96
/if 93% consider selves mc, where are class wars.
/canadians of the squishy left – meaning media, diplomats, culture wallahs, unions, teachers, churchmen. the palladins of pink. sorry history of licking the feet of leftist dictators. trudeau liked castro, blk african despots, and marxist nicaragua
/libs, like christians, want to save you.
/what the big lib ma did to me. her lib, heart, compassion, bible courses, pp, copes, ed, ed, ed./aud: judicial sys lib? sup crt?
/poor don’t need your help – LOUD block parties by outsiders who would never allow it in THEIR neighborhoods./43% of media raised in jewish home.
/85% of pol cartoonists [are lib]/never what the pri sector did BEFORE gov got involved./libs like keeping it a mystery – roots of pov. sig./libs are sure life is a picnic for those with more [flaw] and those with less can and should have same – picnic. fatal conceit./europeans thinks it bad that our older people work [at menial tasks]. source?/all help sheriff search for fugitives but the wel off who knows where they are. ty. tv 96. dateline? privacy act. wel can’t even ask em if they are wanted. diff laws by diff agencies.
/biz is not a soc experiment. tv
/lib gov most disc biz
/lib – seach but don’t find [pov]
/how lib contributes to pity.
/libs get you in debt. then wants debts forgiven. amnesty too?
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/all looked to sweden. then it went down. same with japan.
the us is the most econ.. stratified of indus nations.
/richest 5th have 40-48 % of inc in g, f swis and us. in 93.
/income vs wealth. wealth is what people own -hms, stocks, +.
/hi taxes, regs, strong unions discourage job creation & risk taking. in eur they routinely complain they can’t dup our entrepreneurial climate.
/is it gov’s role to reduce income diffs. yes said 80% of italians, 66% of g’s, and 53% of swedes/
/gov should guar min income said 34% of ams, 58% g’s, 66% brits, 69% italians. samuelson w post may l- 95
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/libs get you in debt. then wants debts forgiven. amnesty too?
/libs hate spread here and ABROAD !!!/libs want the poor dependent on them. play god.
/guy doesn’t work – our resp. once he wks, then HE is resp.
/rush says emotion wins out.
/libs tear down and take the tools out of your hand. iq tests, profile, my b&c rules.
/level the field – emerg rms.
/mono soc is a lot easier to grasp and to run than pluralistic cap. sig?
/aud: profits to charity = nice. to new jobs – no one cares. skip
also spoiled kids and self-sufficient kids. [somalia] skip/their compassion got us to the wel. st.
/pols don’t have that much control over the econ, but like to sound like they do. r. samuelson. b wat.. agreed.
/lib: every problem is new.
/good news doesn’t agree with libs? what’s good news to them?
/chance to play god/soc makes em DEpendent; cap make em INdependent. ag
/slums. con way: take care of it. lib way: study it to death, feel good, ed, meeting, pos, cul, no
/child labor vs reach mid 20s never having worked./my mother’s the great loving compassionate LIBERAL, saving the world, and look what she did to me./hollywood lib as on cutting edge – lolita, /mw is cheap virtue.
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/elia kazan was a commie. heston.
/lib vocab is sig.
/gibbon: wrote of the decline of the greek civ: in the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security; when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from resp, then athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
/mono soc is a lot easier to grasp and to run than pluralistic cap. sig?
/mono soc is a lot easier to grasp and to run than pluralistic cap. sig?
/bwb: quake insur. tied? with can’t get hmowners insur now ‑ tv. toss out low crime of saudi arabia, singapore,
/lib ‑ my rules ‑ prison.
/lot came from civil rights.
/cent planning, one size fits all, broad strokes of the brush,
/most texts are soc. novak
/i feel sorry for gas meter reader‑ espec when i think of libs./later sep anti pri and anti biz in lib. sig
/no bottom line, no spine,
/libs want to save, rescue – just like in religion. jews too?/no resp or debts/cart before horse/permissive and enabling [g mcgovern]
/permissive and enabling [g mcgovern]
/after 25 yrs of lib efforts to get to the root of crime in nyc, the rates dropped due to more cops, squeegie men, panhandlers, – quality of life crimes. safest since ’70.
/lib: cart before horse=============================
/all looked to sweden. then it declined. same with japan. samuelson 95
/the us is the most econ.. stratified of indus nations. [=?] samuelson 95
/richest 5th have 40‑48 % of inc in g, f swis and us. in 93.
/income vs wealth. wealth is what people own ‑hms, stocks, +.
/hi taxes, regs, strong unions discourage job creation & risk taking. in eur they routinely complain they can’t dup our entrepreneurial climate. samuelson 95
/is it gov’s role to reduce income diffs. yes said 80% of italians, 66% of g’s, and 53% of swedes 95
/gov should guar min income said 34% of ams, 58% g’s, 66% brits, 69% italians. w post may l‑ 95 samuelson .
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/sw ers and libs always worried bout someone’s dignity./eur think we’re mean as few soc. benefits. 96 SIG. tv/pc: all vals, ideas, lifestyles are equally valid. and pref is prejudice,
/libs would think we were too tough on germ after wwi and would tend toward appeasement./iq’s hate market cause it’s always smarter than them. you can never outguess it. they want cent planning as THEY will do the planning. there is no general will or public good, no majority, said michel weeden? tv 96. sig./reports of low test scores don’t mention the folks.
/if libs can’t get tuff with criminals, they can’t with kids.
/lib: we have to be all to all thus: somalia, haiti, bosnia, iraq, kurds, [extends to mil. action?] be cop of the world?/they cherish lib’s largess and compassion and wind up smoldering at it perceived elitism. la/cheri – now NO one gets the room/30s – stalinists, 50s – progressives, 60s 70s – libs. 90s – hip demos. hollywoods lib are left on all but israel. then right. eric margolis/now disabled includes: overweight, always late. can’t ask em if they’ve been addicted, if they’re disabled.
/ny has highest no that depend on gov. [wel?] jim sleeper 96
/ny iq’s are brain dead, still worship the new deal and see ny as its vanguard. t tank [great to hear it]
/wc doesn’t like beggars. ny. tank. sig
/lib: search but don’t find; try but don’t fix.
/libs crave a medical explanation for crime, mh,
/they made over hippy slob husbands on tv – you wouldn’t believe the diff. They have gifted, highly active minds and can’t stand menial work./galbraith is a big lib. tv 96. sees cons as manic?, reckless, cruel. say mw, like unions, is protection.
/w-gate gave the hse of reps a leftward tilt that is only NOW dissipating. it boosted invest reporting. us news 6/92
/libs want to be your parent.
/ever hear that being tuff on someone HELPED em?
/hillary says there is a right wing press and no counterpart. l/97/lib = activist = more gov.
/libs think man is perfectable? i?
/libs in trying to save wc look down on em.
/cons don’t get literary awards, said d horowitz- thus dumped on by harpers, atlantic, ny t bk rev/did libs here kick ian smith out of rhodesia? with what results? vs so africa/idealists feel you’re idealistic or cynical. no middle ground.
/gov can’t give anything free as more want whatever than there is, so they bid thru lobbies, and compete away the ….
/libs envious of bizmen.
From my experience, the liberal view is: an ideal world is
possible, old is bad, new is good, anti-establishment, anti-
capitalism, pro-union, security, socialism, redistribute the
wealth, and level the classes. The conservative view is the
opposite.
/limo libs
/NY parole workers were swers, but now they are tuff. tv 96.
/libs anti smart bomb. l vs 9k bombs. and death wish was hidious.
/walter wrinston: all the early mints of $ were privately owned, in u.s. no cent bank till before wwii. it was free banking, which is portrayed as a disaster, but wasn’t. fed reserve act in wwi. capital goes where it’s wanted and where it’s well treated. all is better today as it’s ir, monitored by a zillion customers, gov doesn’t have the control it used to. 3 times as many banks in u.s. as we need. thus consol. tv 96?
/libs believe they were anointed – armey/phil gramm didnt’ go to dc to be loved and wasn’t disappointed. /frivolous lawsuits in prison.
/libs are tour guide for guilt trips/the left controls the c’s and get a lot of f $. horowitz. cons f’s are l/l0th the siz. left hates this country.
/left say society is the root of all evil. horowitz
/john stossel’s Freeloading: tons of food, churches even deliver it to hmless under bridges, one tuff shelter made em work and trad val, run by ex hmless. job bank next to one shelter and not used. best report on this ever. 2/97 will wrk for food is a scam. to coddle em is to hurt em as they keep drinking. repeated 7/2l/97 lib’s love gov as it legitimizes the power they have and seek. t
/ choice has been traditionally a lib position/if we can’t talk about an issue thru eyes of ny, where we are, we won’t talk about it./got away with renting shed + for l7 yrs, but sheri and nk cost me all that income ever since./h. fonda was lib, but found his kids too much.
/globilization – no one’s in charge. sig?/better to give to him than receive./think pub so pub schs, pub peace corps, etc./more lib in gov, c, where you don’t have to face reality. vs mil/managing the biz cycle. cap had failed, said employment act of 46 straighted it out. monihan.
/rich poor gap in china beCAUSE they let the coast modernize, but not the interior. says ag. 97
/knock greed, never jewish greed/neg as glass is half empty – and thus we need change. sig/libs don’t want to understand profit, pri, spread, cap/any one under 30 not lib has no heart, anyone over 30 who’s not cons has no brains – churchill.
/a lib has both feet planted firmly in the air.
/libs more anti tobacco?
/rebel in sw means diff. from what rest of us call rebel
/bias: obsess, lib, big cities, east, ny, planes – sig/’32-’94 was lib, said fred barnes.
/consumerism, capitalism, materialism, greed, selfishness/work way ahead and apologize, build panama canal – give it away, beat japan with bomb – then apologize. marshall plan?
/guy panhandling right outside courthse
/no one researches EX social workers/econ justice, we all share in the abundance.
lib’s love gov as it legitimizes the power they have and seek, said thatcher. /critics saw pres ike as bumbler, bubble head, do nothing, [we didn’t need a pres]. was the quintessential am, said andy rooney. schlesinger didn’t think much of him.
/they want to control gap – rich poor . it might by affected by seasons, or changes in economy.
/20s, 50s, 80s – materialistic, selfish, prosperous – dallas comm col.
/chas grodin’s show got cancelled on TV. no wonder, he was full of rancor. /schlesinger 97 [t introduced him]: tech and cap are unchecked and debilitating. hen adams – top am historian. computer rev. thus class diffs. [oh boy] just because stalin was wrong, doesn’t mean m friedman was right.
/libs are rev as a lack in their lives.
/sales tax is regressive. i have a problem with that.
/weak: jewish liberal love to suffer because jews love to suffer period./Liberal-conservative debate at Bard College on TV. William Buckley and co. against the ACLU. Conservatives appeared hung up, narrow; liberals appeared more sensible. Both had a way of never resolving anything, but ….. twice some students disrupted the debate for 5 minutes. Far be it from the liberals to eject them from the room. /in ad for rm can’t put gender, wk, or age – so wastes their time and yours./hiroshima vs anti jap feeling in asia.
/gephart: every child is our child.
/guilt, etc. as the search can never be over. sig?/6-7 times as much f money spent on lib causes as cons./the distribution of work/lib: forgiving, non-judgmental, tolerant, ad nauseum
/$ is dirty, brit upper class
/libs don’t want to understand the pri sector/control, predict, reg – cap/libs have to have solutions.
/3rd way: clinton wants to moderate the boom bust cycle. safety net, more equality. alliance between progress and justice. a.
and it’s new. reinventing gov. t blair there. 3rd way. vs when w. williams was a kid. poor had more hope.
/redistribution of wealth from … to …. is 0 compared to that of workers to retirees.
/every worthy cause is not nec. a needy cause.
/libs and jews suffer/crime rate steady till 60s, then went up.
/where is their compassion for animals? if a guest gets injured he can sue me and all in hse. /why knock columbus and not marx, margolis
/margolis blew one bout ussr, but said left keep wanting to hide that stalin was hist’s greatest single murderer./libs care and create burs which don’t care. and caring isn’t the reason pri sector works well: growers don’t care bout nyers.
/irving howe – left
/people for =, etc. should rent rms. sig
/75% of the left is funded by the gov. g n, pres of am for tax reform. [what is the left?] heritage today 95
/no? of f’s has doubled. cons starts but become lib.
/we’ll rebuild after riot. will rebuild kosovo too.
/hist is written by libs – nixon/their negative outlook pushes for change./ny state’s liberal tradition
/should grow out of lib and religion. sig/zukerman saying lot of things wrong about who’s lib, cons. 98
/no libs come from ghetto?
/forgiveness freaks.
/no left left on the s.c. said well known gal on tv 4/99.
/libs think it’s their $.
/one size fits all: rich get ss – don’t need it.
/william kristol: reps always underpolled. they always do better. cris mathews is a dem. 98?/we would do the fighting for so viets. a lib idea?
/thatchrite economics did not lead to dissent, unrest etc. t tank. [when gap grows]
/lib nurtured by nyc. al smith, la guardia, lindsey, javits,
/jim sleeper wrote bout the deline of lib. liberal racism was title of his bk.
/know it all liberalism
/rising payroll taxes have helped erode living standards for those at the bottom. w post. 2/98.
/the hi church libs, the party? libs, know it all lib..ism. jim sleeper wrote liberal racism,
/the high church liberals, the party liberals, know it all liberalism, lib racism by jim sleeper
/4l mil can’t afford health insur. m cuomo 98
/fdr used gov to save cap from itself and not turn into what marx predicted. scheslinger? 98 tv
/terrible fights on sch bus. and mention that driver couldn’t do a thing. 98 tv.
/ridiculous laws in calif. As somone can jump your fence, drown? In your pool and rels can sue you. Also burglar who hurts self on your sliding glass door can. Like burglar who fell thru skylight of bd of ed bldg, sued, and won.
/terrible that cops can’t order someone off your prop. You have to have him arrested, which means what. Same as music. So people at each others throats. Dogs too. SIG.
/calif power crisis l/0l. bias: pri caused it, due to reg, so dereg and tripled in s.d., but it supply wasn’t dereged. Now rolling blkouts. So here comes gov. calif will buy elec and sell it to ……
/the silliness of the guard tower warning the surfers time after time in 77?
/cronkite was lib. Tv 0l said cris mathews. Radio is cons. Media is pro choice, pro gay. Libs would never cross a picket line. Media is lib and tolerant. He was raised cath.
/stupidity over trade deficit http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-002.html
– When the free trade pact with Canada brought benefits, the media stressed the problems; the same in ’91 when talking about free trade with Mexico.
When treatment programs (only 25% successful) are not immediately available, it’s society’s fault that addicts continue to take drugs.
the liberal bias? an ideal world is possible, old is bad – new is good, anti-establishment, anti-business, pro-union, less defense, more social programs, and level the classes for “equality.” (Conservatives disagree.)
– Former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill said on TV all he and his colleagues “ever wanted was to provide a chance for the average guy to make a decent living for his family ….” Sounded good, but what did it mean – medicaid, unemployment insurance, job training, affordable housing, rent subsidies, rent control, heat subsidies, food stamps, counseling for substance abuse, gambling, mental illness ….
– They reported the breakup of communism in Eastern Europe without explaining the reason – central planning (which liberals like). They said those countries were not “ready” for capitalism; they should try socialism. (J.K. Galbraith).
/forgiveness and guilt and introspection/progressive are hero’s never cons
/lani guienier – rad
/which lib programs have failed , which not? Wel, food stamps, hug, rent control, spread the work,
/Usually well‑educated and bright, the liberal loves new ideas. Old ideas and old values put him to sleep.
/provide is a second income for those who get paid under the table, while collecting unemployment insurance
lib 3 hypocracies? pitfalls?
/meaningful employment.
/slums are colorful, unprentious, dynamic, challenging….. nonsense, they are mean, dangerous, dirty, crude, miserable? and house some of the worst citizens./love etc. is PART of life. libs make it 24 hr.
Summary
Liberals don’t understand the spread in society [of rich, middle class, and poor] and don’t want to understand it. Since capitalism is part of this, they don’t want to understand it either – their two basic mistakes. They want more government – to regulate the economy, redistribute the wealth, and provide cradle to grave security.
Wrong on spread, cap, old,
And cons say wrong on soc. But right on the changing vals above which are … and on helping underdog up to a pt.
However they are more open-minded than conservatives and sometimes their ideas turn out to be right.
/telling voter big gov will do all is like telling an l8 yr old that the big mil will do all for em. Andrew? Said great equip, but run by idiots.
the older generation, the establishment, the upper classes. They have more because of greed or capitalism and become mean ‘conservatives’ to preserve it.
/bad lib programs: soc. Wop, ed, tva?, wel vs pri, food stamps, agr, boeing, pri all, mil, ss, medicare, hud, ssi, mh?,
/85% of pol cartoonists
/ny wiped subways clean of graffiti, kept em clean, banned panhandling and made it stick. also got on smokers and fare beaters. subway crime dropped 36% twix l990-93. order created a climate where less crime occurs. they stopped squeegeemen. now going after truants. us news j leo 4/25/94.
/9/24/0l – ny times: Democratic Leaders Say They Back a Government Takeover of Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24SECU.html?todaysheadlines
/anyone besides robin hood? Poncho villa, dillinger +?, al capone?, union leaders
/The failures of the Philadelphia school system is a reason
some parents are supporting a takeover by the state. Ll/0l ny times
/Some Wonder Where Pataki Has Been During Uphill Fight for Billions
Gov. George E. Pataki remained curiously silent while New
York politicians spoke up as the White House and Congress
tried to clamp down on federal aid for New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22AID.html?todaysheadlines – another reason to be out of NY. Still another is the cost there in overtime for fire and police – since sep llth
/Is Government the Good Guy?
By JOHN D. DONAHUE
After 50 years of market ascendancy, government may be
poised to reclaim its role as an integral and admirable
part of American life. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/opinion/13DONA.html?todaysheadlines
/ ty lib? – Top Secret Memo
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Somalia’s greatest problem is that it has been forgotten
by the West. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/02/opinion/02KRIS.html?todaysheadlines
/they have no use for success, apologize for it, attack it in others.
/libs and me: pub ed, cg, c, vista, sw, nyc, dc, b&c – 2 lists, zoning, dmv, jury, voting, eviction,
/insur said a person can sue everyone is the family for wrongful death in car accident. she said nothing fair about insur 92
/if a guest gets injured he can sue me and all in hse. Ridiculous laws in calif said ins gal.
/m. kingley – lib. Cronkite too. Top of media didn’t like bk BIAS – took it personally and lashed out. Some op-ed piece of his in wsj in 96 created a stir. By Bernard Goldberg http://pages.prodigy.net/geoffc/bookreviewBias.htm
http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/reality/2001/Fax20011206.html
/not anti lib, just anti bias
http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/2001/cyb20011205.asp#7
/friends or acquaintances I’ve lost over this: suzie, chella?, carol abbott?, would I do the same?
/gas sta at haz and 39: calif law: this sta must provide free air and water to customers of fuel. 2/02.
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/add recs to list
/create wealth vs redistribute it.
/libs don’t want to understand profit, pri, spread, cap
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Realize liberals can only be Robin Hood if it’s a bad world. (One reason the news is negative.) when in fact, it’s a good world
/guilt, spread, gap, free = dem, cap, eur
/libs don’t want to understand the pri sector
/libs won’t forgive cap for creating the highest standard of living, great products, life saving drugs and procedures, winning the wars,
/so good to have two assholes out of my house and a very nice deserving guy in. whole new world. The way my house USED to be.
/boo hoo over eviction with never getting the ll’s view. Given every chance before stuff put on st. show this.
/Negotiators Agree on Bill to Rewrite Bankruptcy Laws
Congressional negotiators announced agreement Thursday on a bill that would make it harder for people to escape their debts when they declare bankruptcy. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/business/26BANK.html?todaysheadlines
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The Private Interest
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Now more than ever, privatizing Social Security is a bad
idea. So why does President Bush keep pushing the
proposition? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26KRUG.html?todaysheadlines
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/compassion turns out to be enabling [suz]
/lib dem, lib soc
/sent list to ted millard 9/02
/only back east could you have the big dig, serpico, the mob, such cynicsm,
/Helen keller.
/profit in war is bad? – http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=1
/d sen said estate tax so we don’t build an aristocracy
/what if libs gave a crisis and no one came?
/bias, graphs – http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/welcome.asp
/hollywood more sensitive and cr thus lib. Ah ha
/my timeline in this pub sch, cg, c, sw, vista, phil, hutch.
/all in sw was backward.
/lib in NY was tolerance of project return, a lib’s walk to work, stepping over beggers, all free, all on alblany any dc, all equal – roll up sleeves, limo libs, crocodile tears compassion, slums kids to linc cent [tho never saw it]. the subway. Anti wall st? feel sorry for the mugger, big shrug on crime – it’s a big city, mayo Lindsay, hard hats pounding students,
mixed with cynicism? Ccny, eth?
end of lib party in ny. 2/03.
Afghan Gives Rosy Report on U.S. Role at War’s End
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The White House avidly promoted Hamid Karzai on Thursday as
a reminder that the administration rebuilds the nations it bombs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/international/asia/28KARZ.html?th
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City Pursuing Right to Evict From Shelters
By SUSAN SAULNY
The city asked an appellate panel in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to allow 30-day evictions of troublemaking single adults from homeless shelters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/nyregion/01HOME.html?th [only in ny]
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/why are dems often ref to as ‘lib dems’. Never hear of a cons dem.
/the old slander that a liberal is someone who has never been mugged
/the growth of homeowners asscs. Why, since when?
/the lib media never compares pri justice, pri sch
/Norman mailer saw potential in prisoner who wrote ‘in the belly of the beast’. Did he help him get out? and didn’t the guy commit another awful crime? Norman Mailer helped convicted killer Jack Henry Abbott win .. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/04/1014705022447.html
/Intellectuals burdened with liberal guilt were prepared to romanticize criminals as quasi-political prisoners and accept the metaphor of the world as a prison, with convicts merely the most oppressed people in an oppressed society.
/can’t put wking nor age in r ads. What if pref is in there. or is that only for gender.
/media favor p.c., WestPoint,
/ted koppel saying he was bit taken with monster cody +
/all the idealistic pieces in the paper: criminals and animals, music, mr’s, art,
/the more kids you have the more the boss should pay you. he’s paying your what your work is worth, not how many kids you have.
/libs just say love. It sells; they don’t need a program
/lib more idealistic as young are lib and become more cons with age
/l0/3l/03 la: united way study: ‘crisis’ ‘necessities’ too much work now, but less pre sch, they drop out more. SO they make less, per household made worse by large families. So can’t buy hms as easily as whites [what about others]. More violent, report it less. 40% of their households have 2 parents vs 20% of rest [which the report calls strong families] [thus less reporting of crime? As well as other cul factors?]
[better friends, enjoy life more] I guess you can’t sep this from il. Some of whom couldn’t be happier here. All this affected by il which study didn’t focus on. the ‘grades’ are 0.
/can be robin hood with pub things, not pri….
/if I have this right ……………… the poor want walmart. It’s one of the few who will take on the ghettos. But l.a. county? And others rule to keep wal-mart out. wow. 2/04
/easy to be robin hood when it doesn’t affect you directly – develop
/lw: guilt, noise, dress, tattoos, workers with radios, wind chimes, youth, all free, regulated?, run by the gov, environ,
/accountability means asking LL, credit agencies, ed, etc about pov and lc.
/winona ryder’s shoplifting was described as mental condition. Well, I bet since she’s been caught that condition has somehow been cured.
/german mechanics, french chefs, Italian shoemakers,
/head start got all the pub…; the pri pre sch programs that have been around for yrs didn’t.
/eur vs u.s. cons outnumber libs 2-l in us. la 6/04 cons far more orged here than in eur. Size of gov, rol of cap, defense sp;ending, crime and punish, view of ir orgs. Am more cons than any developed country. More inequality in am, more locked up, brings rel into pol more, am spends far more on defense than eur. Only western country to retain the death penalty.
/7/l8/04 ny times: Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises
By EDUARDO PORTER
The economy has added jobs almost every month this year, but stagnant wages could hinder prospects for economic growth.
/the heart of the left is the w.c. la
/lcd thus no iq test, racial profiling, ratings, grades,
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INTERNATIONAL
Captured Qaeda Figure Led Way to Information Behind Warning
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID ROHDE
The capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan led the C.I.A. to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert.
Fire Kills 283 at Supermarket in Paraguay
By TODD BENSON
The fire swept through a crowded supermarket on the outskirts of Asunción that kept its doors locked as an antitheft measure.
Palestinian Militants Face Off as Rifts Between Factions Grow
By GREG MYRE
Gunmen loyal to Yasir Arafat fired into the air to disrupt a political conference arranged by members of the Fatah movement.
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NATIONAL
Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery
By JOHN MARKOFF
Steven P. Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple Computer, underwent emergency cancer surgery on Saturday.
Computer Failure Grounds and Delays Flights on 2 Airlines
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A computer problem grounded American Airlines and US Airways flights from coast to coast, causing delays that lasted all day.
Convictions Intact, Nader Soldiers On
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Ralph Nader said that the Democratic convention gave him no reason to drop out of the race, even if he costs John Kerry the election in November.
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EDITORIALS
TODAY’S EDITORIALS
Last Chance for Inclusion in Iraq
Postponing a crucial national conference in Iraq this week represents a second chance to bring alienated Sunni and Shiite factions into the government.
Mutiny in the House
The backlash against House Republicans on housing is a sign of progress, and the issue deserves attention in the fall campaign.
Nature Besieged
The new regulations proposed by the Forest Service for off-road vehicles are a big step worthy of emulation by other agencies.
Taking Back the Prisons
The situation in California demonstrates that the states must take direct control if they intend to carry out effective prison reform.
/so hard to evict you screen more, but are you given flack for that? I haven’t heard of much.
/”Is the press elitist? Yes! Liberal? Largely!” says Auletta. “But the media’s real business is to be provocative, to get ratings and headlines.”
/radical chic of black panthers to Leonard berstein’s [but his group didn’t meet them in the ghetto]
Working for a Pittance
By BOB HERBERT
The problem for millions of families is that they have jobs that pay very low wages and provide no benefits.
/search liberal guilt
/searched sorry for mugger but 0
/david brooks: : hate to be the bearer of good news, because only pessimists are regarded as intellectually serious, As free trade improves the lives of people in poor countries, it is viewed with suspicion by more people in rich countries. Ty ty ty
/l2/l6/04, w post: mass – the bluest state of all. – 34 of 40 senators and 139 of 160 House members are Democrats?
/ads for rm can’t have age, gender or working. I feared on hazard that some mr would sue me for not renting to him or some ma with kids.
Assault on Social Security
Tonight the president of the United States will come before Congress and call for the repeal of the New Deal.
/money grows on trees
/haven’t heard anyone complain about permissiveness in yrs. 3/05
/Captains of Piracy
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
In Russia, those who manipulate capitalism for personal gain are called oligarchs. Here they have a different name: C.E.O.’s.
/semi-looker at wel said she thot I was lib, after a discussion. Jim in our unit marched in parade. Carolyn in same unit was lib in dc.
/Giving and Taking Away
While it’s hard to overstate the importance of private wealth for institutions like the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art, what creates their audience is public wealth.
Growth and the Poor
Growth will not reduce poverty unless Latin American governments redirect it to the poor.
/this in the ny times? 5/05. could they be catching on: A New Battle Over Free Trade The Central American Free Trade Agreement is far from a perfect trade pact. But Cafta still deserves to be approved.
/Crushing Upward Mobility
Until the country renews its commitment to making college affordable for everyone, the American dream of success through education will die.
/abuse of any kind when young makes one do that later. Others feel the opposite.
/libs don’t mind lumping the far right and cons together. ag
Newly Bankrupt Raking In Piles of Credit Offers
By TIMOTHY EGAN
Credit card companies are soliciting the more than two million Americans who rushed to file for bankruptcy this year before a tough new law took effect.
/bill moyers caught himself and said bush needed, …. Desired a war.
/dropping 2 a bombs killed 200k jap… Not dropping the bombs and invading would have killed l mil ams and 8? Mil jap… So which is better to kill 200k or 9 mil? Which is 36 times as many as 200k.
/libs want you to have a therapist to wake you up ever so gently, another to help you shower, breakfast, commute, ….
Taking Sides
Review by JONATHAN ALTER
Anthony DePalma examines the role of a New York Times reporter in the making of Fidel Castro.
/appeasement is lib
Bolivia’s Energy Takeover: Populism Rules in the Andes
By SIMON ROMERO and JUAN FORERO
Bolivia’s nationalization of its energy industry shows that populist policies, championed most prominently by Venezuela, are spreading.
A Positive In Going Negative?
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith died this year, but he left behind the conventional wisdom. Galbraith coined the phrase in 1958 to denote those comfortable ideas “which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability.”
(By Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post)
In Search Of a New New Deal
There is no sturdier liberal or Democratic slogan than “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” But liberals have a problem: The old capitalist job-production machine is not working the way it used to. The venerable promise that new (progressive) leadership will create masses of well-paying jobs is harder to make and…
(By E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post) 6/06
/being spoiled when young lends itself to becoming a lib
Back to Basics
The school board would do well to get out of the chartering business.
(The Washington Post)
/they feel anyone can and will get better: aa, mh, bums, criminals, hmless,
The Rise of the Super-Rich
Teresa Tritch writes that while the wealthiest Americans are reaping the benefits of the Bush administration’s economic policies, the rest of the nation is being left behind.
/bring back the hookers. Jimmy breslin
/guilt shows they care
A Distant Mirror
By THOMAS FRANK
Again Americans thrill to the exploits of the great tycoons, and gradually we are becoming reacquainted with pervasive inequality.
A Wrong Turn Led to the ‘L-Word’
(By E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post)
Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and DAVID LEONHARDT
Wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation’s economy since the U.S. began recording the data in 1947.
/ag: libs would criticize cr for value judgments, hurting feelings, promoting cutthroat comp…, favoring,
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Reported crime, especially murder, has been dropping sharply for last five years, and no one really knows why; conventional wisdom has been that there could be no decline in crime without profound changes in society, ty ty but latest crime statistics have turned this wisdom on its head; experts now suggest that law enforcement may make critical difference after all, through innovative and concerted police strategies on guns, teen-agers and petty crimes; William J Bratton, former New York City Police Commissioner, is credited with introducing successful new law enforcement strategy of heading off more serious crimes by cracking down on minor ones; strategy has been adopted by police departments around country; Bratton also made his subordinates responsible for reaching crime-reduction goals, the way businessmen demand increased profits; photo; chart
January 19, 1997 Week in Review News
/ag: lib kids haVe to apoligize for their cap… folks.
/only folksingers have wisdom – bob dylan
/i wonder if guiliani cut the crime as much in harlem.
/hands off report on TV bout low pants with underwear showing.
The Struggle Within
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
The Democratic Party can secure its 2006 gains, but to do so will require abandoning a decades-long willingness to indulge pressure groups on the left.
/ Rethinking the Death Penalty nyt l/07
We applaud a legislative commission in New Jersey for having the courage to recommend that the state become the first to abolish the death penalty since states began reinstating it 35 years ago.
/Riverside Church, the shrine of liberalism, said dick morris
/Number of People Stopped by Police Soars in New York By AL BAKER and EMILY VASQUEZ New data shows that police officers forcibly stopped 508,540 individuals last year, and in many cases searched them for illegal weapons.
/foreign aid. [Dependence] do their fighting for them.
/Judge Limits New York Police Taping
By JIM DWYER
A federal judge ruled that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings.
Smile, You’re on N.Y.P.D. Camera
The New York Police Department has more and more overstepped its bounds by routinely and indiscriminately videotaping demonstrations of every kind, even peaceful ones.
/one comment on net : The liberals in the upper west side of Manhattan never forgave him [Giuliani] for making NYC safer and disabusing all their cherished illusions about how NYC could never be governed.
/all the leftists of NY – radical, elite, far, newyorkintellectual
/gated comm….s are the fastest-growing form of housing in the u.s. …. Cesus data. Due to reduced crim and traffic, safer for kids, prestige. Higher prices for hms there. 5-7% more
/Manufacturing Misdemeanors
The New York Police Department has been planting unattended bags in subway stations to see who might take them. It is clearly a poor use of resources.
The Vanishing Neoliberal By DAVID BROOKS
The era of neoliberalism, which began in the 1980s, remade the Democratic Party, redefined American journalism and didn’t really die until now.
/bob scheer http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=938
/ Make college admissions a crapshoot By Barry Schwartz Top schools are already too selective, so why not draw names from a hat?
/Don’t Cry for Reagan By PAUL KRUGMAN There’s no need to reclaim the Reagan legacy: President Bush is what Mr. Reagan would have been given the opportunity.
/ 
The Plot Against Medicare By PAUL KRUGMAN Even as we talk about guaranteeing insurance to all, privatization is undermining Medicare.
/93% of scientists are democrats said tv
/ Another Economic Disconnect By PAUL KRUGMAN In the Bush years high profits haven’t led to high investment, and rising productivity hasn’t led to rising wages.
Divided Over Trade By PAUL KRUGMAN There is a dark side to globalization. The question, however, is what to do about it.
/we were too harsh on g after wwii. How does that fit with appeasement?
/they have to be against ratings and other ‘judgmental’ things
/trying to bash guiliani. About him in ny. Said he kept saying ‘disc’, taking forever to get to the pt of harshness, if they ever get there. round and round. Said he would Snarl, curl the whip or lip. Said 0. ungrateful for his miracle. Amazing. Him vs rosi and trump. 5/07
/young libs haven’t had enuff resp or real life exp.
/roy Goodman campained as a lib rep…
/o’reilly or someone said there is no rep party in ny 6/07
/brochure of pri sch with jr hi kid sitting on top of desk with his overcoat on
/Amnesty International issued a report critical of the treatment of inmates in Maricopa County facilities [3].
/Art Critic or Vandal? ‘The Splasher’ Leaves Clues
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Street artists have speculated for months about the identity of a mysterious figure who has become known as “the Splasher.”
Harassed in the Classroom By BOB HERBERT What unfolded at Bronx Guild High School was another episode of bizarrely excessive police activity inside a New York City public school.
/blks don’t give guilliani credit for rebirth of harlem
/new solutions to old problems, new patch on old clothing?
/beat the enemy in war, then apologize ????
/libs more prone to forgive
/Giuliani proved they don’t know when to be happy. Called him nasty too
Debate Swirls Around 2 Men on a Ferry By WILLIAM YARDLEY
A federal effort to identify two men whose behavior raised suspicion in Washington State has sparked a debate over alleged racial profiling.
/a million swers in a million yr could do that Giuliani did.
/ The Socialists Are Coming! The Socialists Are Coming!
By PHILIP M. BOFFEY Our political discourse is so debased that the “s-word” is typically applied where it is least appropriate and never applied where it most fits.
The Entitlements People By DAVID BROOKS Deficits, obfuscations and trickeries that were once unthinkable are now the norm.
/if you ad in p saver rm rental sec, gov won’t let you put ‘pri, age, working or not, nor cg.
When at has, I couldn’t put, wk, age, gender, and had to rent to kids, mr’s, but not pets.
/self-medicating with drugs, alc = rh
/Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
By KATIE HAFNER
Several major libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft, instead signing on with a nonprofit effort.
A Dearth of Taxes America’s meager tax take puts its economic prospects at risk and leaves the government ill equipped to face the challenges of globalization.
/rare credit for cap: Poland, Untwinned All Americans should be pleased that Poland has voted to embrace Europe, modern capitalism and its own best political traditions.
/more cars stolen over xmas
/G.O.P. is still controlled by a conservative movement that does not tolerate deviations from tax-cutting, free-market, greed-is-good orthodoxy – paul krugman l2/07
/as robin hoods they worship change
/ Lawmakers must come up with a stimulus package that addresses the country’s clear and present threat of recession. Nyt. l/08
/they must have led way with women’s sports – title 9
/ The Candidates Discover the Economy nyt l/08 The presidential candidates are only beginning to recognize that the economy is in trouble and unlikely to improve without some sensible government response.
/no credit for present health care sys. Or anything pri
/ On a day when stocks were pushed down another 3 percent, all major players in Washington agreed on the need for putting extra money into people’s hands quickly. Nyt l/08
/Pump-Priming the Economy An economic stimulus plan that excludes the 45 million families who need relief the most is an inadequate relief plan.
/ Sticks ’n’ Stones and Allies Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s public faulting of NATO for what it is not doing well enough in Afghanistan is risky.
/ Confronting panic about a possible recession, the Federal Reserve announced the biggest one-day reduction of interest rates on record. [which will only delay the inevitable recession, says ag l/08
/ One way to prevent or shorten a recession would be to repeal the Bush tax cuts two years early, in 2009. nyt
/ The optimal package would contain one fast-acting measure along with others that could lead to increased spending if the economy goes into a steep downturn. Nyt
/all tend to lump cons with far, and libs have more reason to.
/on police vids: guy t-bones a car, flipping it and only get a ticket
/sam porter’s wife worked at Joplin ranch. Had hmless on land 7 yrs. Said not till you experience it personally [like weather, ag]. Turned l80 sig sig
/A Hopeful Year for Unions It is good news that the percentage of American workers who belong to a union rose for the first time in three decades. Nyt 2/08
/ Op-Ed: You Are What You Spend Household consumption statistics indicate that the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume.
Hope Later
The White House has yet to inspire confidence in the administration’s ability to tackle the foreclosure crisis in a meaningful way.
Op-Ed: Totally Spent The only way to keep the economy going over the long run is to increase the wages of the bottom two-thirds of Americans. nyt 2/08 by robert reich
/ Deliverance or Diversion? By PAUL KRUGMAN Some progressives wanted another F.D.R., yet feel that they’re getting an oratorically upgraded version of Michael Bloomberg instead.
/cop in texas complaining that jd’s only get one slap on the wrist after another
/scatter-site housing plan of lindsay’s
/spoiled kids youth have more chance of being lib
/ Charge More, Merge Less, Fly Better By ROBERT CRANDALL Only government can save the airlines.
/really stupid. 4/08 Tax Rebates in $168 Billion Stimulus Plan Begin Arriving in Bank Accounts By JOHN SULLIVAN The federal government began issuing electronic tax rebates under a $168 billion program to bolster the economy.
/mike farrel – honest, but overindulgent in personal stuff, emotion, caring, posturing in who can care the most, self-righteous?, schmaltz?, sensitivity,
/ty: Out of Sight By BOB HERBERT The flip side of the American dream is when the economy leaves some youngsters below the bottom of the employment ladder.
The Massachusetts Model The state’s plan to provide universal health coverage is heartening evidence that national health care reform may be possible if a political consensus can be forged.
/cap has done wonders for china, but has created big diffs. [so has to be wrong]
/youth worship vs duties
/non-profit = care. Profit = exploitation
/worst job ops for teens since wwii. 6/08 dems want to create jobs for em.
/bob Herbert blames the econ: we don’t have good enuff jobs to support fams. Re Lot of ow births.
/during primaries, hillary and …. Proposed a gas tax holiday over the summer 6/08
/now congress is about to help those being foreclosed
/ Liberals led the way with these because they challenge old ideas, are open to new ones, and look out for the underdog.
/hillary and one other proposed the gimmick of gas tax holiday over the summer of 08. only puts off the inevitable.
/me to liberal arts college
/don’t talk bout pri – that merchant marine took a higher % of casualties in wwii
/love is not enuff with pets
/ The Censors Lose in Court The Federal Communications Commission’s imposed fine on CBS for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” was a serious setback to freedom of expression.
/la times ed said don’t enforce anti-baggy pants ordinance in flint? Mich? 7/08
/putting all on gov is passing the buck, ag
/ /this has to be incredibly stupid: The Banks and Private Equity The Federal Reserve should say no to the private equity firms that say they are ready to invest huge amounts in ailing banks. 8/08 worst thing I’ve ever heard.
/hippies wanted freedom, but not resp. why didn’t I think of that
No End in Sight Before the economic crisis gets any worse, Congress must take several steps. The country cannot afford any more delay and posturing.
/stimulus checks, mort relief?, = foreclosure relief?, freddy mac,
/gas tax holiday would have only put off the inevitable. They all condition us
/libs can’t be happy as they wouldn’t be saving the world ???
Media’s Balancing Act By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The job of the news media is supposed to be to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Instead, I managed to afflict the afflicted.
/ No One Lives There Anymore The number of vacant homes continues to rise. If the hardest-hit communities do not get help soon, the damage may be irreparable. 08
/amnesty for all. Forgive debts of poor countries
/Hold Your Heads Up By BOB HERBERT Without the contribution of liberals, the United States would be a much, much worse place than it is today.
/police chief dicks of flint [Michigan] – one of the most violent cities in am. Those with underwear showing. La times wrote against it. aclu too. [mostly black?] newsweek? 7?/08? crass
/ Where Are the Grown-Ups? By PAUL KRUGMAN The grown-up thing to do is to rescue the financial system. If Henry Paulson isn’t the grown-up we need, are Congressional leaders able to fill the role?
/everything bout the bailout was that it HAD to pass. 10/08
/Health Care Destruction By PAUL KRUGMAN Republicans still hate Medicare and have not been able to kill it. Since that is out, John McCain is going after insurance of nonelderly Americans instead.
/all about new deal, little or nothing about how pri charity worked
/wild police chase on TV. got off due to insanity.
/Guy that killed judge + took that gal hostage. She [had had problems with drugs]. She had read the purpose driven life. His defense: insanity.
/48 liberal lies about am by larry scheikart? On tv said every time you cut taxes, the gov gets more $.
/nyt l0/08 Scrimping on Medical Care Evidence of Americans cutting back on medical care in order to pay bills underscores the need to provide affordable health insurance for all.
/l2/08: obama not even in and the nyt has huge agenda for him. He to solve all dom and ir problems. Makes me look dumb
/never listen to ins cos
/Bleeding Heart Tightwads By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for government spending to help the needy, but when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, they are cheapskates.
/probably never has been so much expected of a pres who won’t be in office for another mo. l2/26. dreamers
/your right to own a hm
/ Dinosaur at the Gate By MAUREEN DOWD Does Google have the right to profit so profligately from newspaper content at a time when journalism is in such jeopardy?
/only am’s had slaves
/kids revolted at Columbia then wanted amnesty
/Nixon: academics like soc, look down on biz, say we aren’t worthy to lead, but no one else can. Libs go into gov
/only small % of ivy league profs thot rr was any good – when? Said cris mathews
/they want class struggle so they can be heros
/tom hayden goes after bratton re blacks and leaves out Hispanics
/dialectic: all = [vs lc], pri = 0 thus gov
/irving Kristal said the bad ones get the atten
/msnbc is on the left
/never fails: Imprisoning a Child for Life Sentencing children to life without the possibility of parole for a nonhomicide violates the Eighth Amendment.
/The Trouble With ‘Zero Tolerance’ Schools should not be criminalizing students for what are essentially normal childhood behaviors.
/glorifies the ccc, never a word how pri could have done it better
Shovel-leaning
/ Yes, You Owe That Tax Contrary to what opponents say, sales tax must be collected from all online retailers to level the competitive playing field and distribute the tax burden more progressively.
/Roosevelt Understood the Power of a Public Option By ADAM COHEN
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s argument that public programs can make private ones deliver applies to the current push for a public option for health care.
/A Good Fight President Obama’s proposed package to reduce unemployment could work, but only if it gets sufficient money from Congress.
/Is There a Real McCain? By MAUREEN DOWD Once a constructive independent, John McCain now is such a predictable obstructionist that he’s in the just-say-no vanguard with the same conservatives who used to despise him.
/those that lost during bankruptcy – anyone ever feel bad for him?
/crap l/l0: nyt This Year’s Housing Crisis
To prevent further declines in the housing market, the White House should focus on job creation and loan modifications that reduce a mortgage’s principal balance.
/ George McGovern – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On January 6, 2008, McGovern wrote an op-ed published in the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern – Cached – Similar
/it’s always us – Haiti Washington must make sure that the upswelling of generosity to Haiti turns into sustained action — first to rescue, then to rebuild. l/l0
/why black out the faces of thugs in gangs as they make their signs
/After Dubai Unless the world’s richest nations come to the rescue of weakened states, the financial crisis might sprout another leg and stop the nascent recovery in its tracks.
/Michael medved [ob] knocked howard zinn
/how libs mislead us
/ who ever gave walmart credit !!!!
/Lingering Questions About ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ The New York Police Department needs to address the complaints that the number of stops — disproportionately of black or Hispanics — is growing as crime falls.
/Norman mailer helped criminal who wrote in the belly of the beast get out of prison. Pretty sure he committed another terrible crime
/ Cops vs. Kids By BOB HERBERT It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
/Rachel maddoux as almost petty as those on the right
/ A Ruinous Meltdown
By BOB HERBERT
As the states face fiscal ruin, severe budget cuts across the country are undermining economic recovery.
Is Any Illness Covered? By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF It’s in the interest of insurance companies to exclude people who are sick, while it’s in our national interest to see them covered. Plus, it’s the right thing to do.
New York Minorities More Likely to Be Frisked
By AL BAKER
The rise in street stops by the New York City police has fueled an intense debate about the propriety of the tactic.
/like obesity = irresp
/searched feel sorry for mugger. 0. Try feel sorry for criminal, delinquent
/project return
/U.S. Cracks Down on Farmers Who Hire Children By ERIK ECKHOLM
The government is hiring investigators and raising fines on farmers who hire children and underpay workers.
/hi uib and la t… wants time and a half for overtime
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/”Training was fruitless. I’m not seeing the benefits. Training for what? No one’s hiring.” ISRAEL VALLE, who has been unemployed for over a year, despite enrolling in a federally financed training program.
/rent control bougainvillea
/idiotic: How to End the Great Recession By ROBERT B. REICH To fix the U.S. economy, we must finally deal with wage inequality.
/the nyt puts its opinions in the titles of many of its articles. They belong on the ed…. Page
/bad at Statesville prison, no chance for reforms, then tapes of richard speck, public outraged then reforms: no more than 50 in a grp, uniform clothing – as other was status, no more prop than 2 boxes, anything wrong means complete lockdown. Speck killed 8 stu nurses
/norman mailer helped get author of in the belly of the beast out, who committed another bad crime
/seek to justify their existence
/America’s cities, whose liberal-leaning residents have for years seemed to snub Wal-Mart, which has been criticized over wage and personnel policies
Why Look Down on a Business Degree? What’s the problem with the most popular college major in America?
/grapes of wrath. L0 cents for bread l cent for candy
/need to visit Singapore
/nyt: Cruel Isolation A California prison protest spotlighted widespread use of torturous solitary confinement. 8/ll
/la: 
State seeks to educate food-stamp recipients about fast food August 2, 2011
…Angeles County eligible to use their food stamps at local restaurants under a state…said the state needs to educate food–stamp recipients about selecting healthful…Sacramento. Of the 3.7 million food–stamp recipients in California, only… By Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times
[those who aren’t able to prep own meals are allowed to use their benefits at restaurants !!!] = my exp in sw !
/ End the Debt Limit The debt limit is not necessary, or good for the economy, and is now a political hand grenade. [ag: incredible ! nyt 8/5/ll]
/ The Wrong Idea An insistence on austerity is threatening economic growth in Europe and the United States. Voters on both sides of the Atlantic need to demand more from their leaders.
Ag: unbelievable during these times 8/ll
/60 min: congo gold. conflict minerals like gold from the e. congo. It finances war and exploitation. So not buying that gold is supposed to help? Same with blood diamonds. Responsible jewelry council. Furs, ivory? Seal pup firs? Scot
/Michael moore says cap is evil
/billions behind bars – program on tv about making em work etc. biased? 2.6 billion $ in sales from prison labor. Colorado correctional industries is one
/Rachel maddow had a fit over ‘forced’ drug testing of wel clients in 3 states. Turned up 2% of abusers. = rich humiliating the poor.
/search feel sorry for the mugger, the criminal ……. Project return
/midnight basketball
/profit nursing hms get to choose their patients? Pri schs do.
/ramsey clark sat right next to serpico during a hearing
/ W post. Matt Patterson 8/ll Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
/ People for the American Way
/searched feel sorry for mugger, same for criminal. Not much. Geo wallace’s comment. Also project return.
Give Guantánamo Back to Cuba By JONATHAN M. HANSEN Few gestures would improve American-Cuban relations as much as handing over the coveted piece of land that houses the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
/the ed show is anti scot walker
/liberals resent success. Source
/Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy Rights By ADAM LIPTAK The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that putting a tracking device on a suspect’s car violated his rights, although they differed on why.
/l/l2 nyt: GPS and the Right to Privacy The Supreme Court was correct to rule that placing an electronic surveillance on a suspect’s car violates privacy rights, but it left too many questions unanswered. 0000
/never hear bout those who LOST money during a bankruptcy
/search feel sorry for the mugger, criminal
/search blame the victim
/daily kos – supposed to be lib pbs too
/don’t ever ask which is more efficient:
1 socialized med or pri med other countries have nat health ins; our is thru our employers
/nafta cut down on no of ils? Hard to know or prove
/On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation’s capital.
/little or no thot about having calif’s st parks managed by PRIVATE cos, in stead of closing them. 5/l2 but they might raise the fees which might keep out the poor, make a profit, restrict use, impose their values?
/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577404083592261456.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read = nation of whiners
/80 yr old Romanian man delivering med with shaking hds and we can’t get our people out of bed. Paper guy at 3 am, k woman – tailor. They can be extorted. Their taxes wasted.
/I imagine libs don’t give arb much credit
/bad are: stop and frisk, live in gar, paddled, stand in line for uib, food stamps, – I did all – 0 to it. guess I should have called the aclu
/ http://liberallogic101.com/ – stupid
/a no-fault society
/libs say you get a 2nd chance. Cons say you do AFTER you’ve made restitution or what…
/what happened to restitution
/dk if Maureen dowd is lib. Wrote super nasty one about paul ryan 8/l2
/never show how many got off wel or why, nor interview them. Same with ims
/those left behind
/norman mailer saved some guy who wrote in the belly of the beast who later reverted. Same with johnny cash and guy named glen?
/mike? Gallager? Wrote 50 things the libs hate: success, the south. All must be equal, so all of little league get trophies. Libs hate comp,
/search liberal guilt
/punish success
/grp 2 is jealous
/castro got his job thru the NY times
/watch safety net on tv and ask if they work. prisons too. Then when they do, they are of course exploited – billions behind bars
/all kinds of $ crises here and in eur and paul krugman + are against austerity. Wow
/if libs run lwv, it’d be like mother’s market
/how many people has walmart kept OFF welfare
/why Singapore is so clean – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSR9TVC6OY – refreshing!
Tourists have to be instructed.
/migrant farm labor – saints. Soon as one becomes a supervisor, overseer, he’s a bad guy
/surveillance cams are big bro vs eng and vs las vegas casinos.
/search punish success, no good deed goes unpunished
/guy puts a baby in a dryer. Cops file no charges
/tv: jane fonda said she hated the 80s
/tv why are profs lib nyu
/I think in NY they’d put the race of the criminal, but not in d.c. same here
/alc and drugs are self-medication of untreated emotional pain
/say so many cams hurt privacy ; not how many criminals they catch for law [and for ins?]
/deficit going up but can’t have austerity or sequester
/nyt 9/l6/l3 New York should create a special court for children under 18 charged with nonviolent crimes.
/ramsey clark next to frank serpico when latter testified
/if Hollywood is so liberal and crusading? Why don’t they apologize for the smoking in their movies, condemn it and stop it
/brainwashed is a bk by ben Shapiro who’s a bit much. Said c is lib
/tv said after every crash we have an increase in progressive leg….. progressive leg…crash we have an increas ff till election. wowe,
/ 1/l4 news I find depressing: more housing for hm, want to double mw, e-rm should be doing more, should be virtual soc agencies?, il has no access to health ins, 569 variations of the f word in wolf of wall st., more uib ext, horrors at thot of cutting back food stamps, hospitals can’t dump patients but have to do tons – which could mean fewer e-rms – ag/
/I hate to see the new mayor de blasio going against so much of what Bloomberg did. 2/l4 lousy
/see pd2
/blame am. First said jeane Kirkpatrick – https://www.google.com/#q=blame+am.+First+++said+jeane+kirkpatrick in hitting libs
/cover only slavery here
/malpractice?
/the small kids that could deter gratification grew up to be more successful. Study on this. Tv
/ unskilled work is not ‘menial’ work. Was market research?
/profit is bad in ed, prison, nursing hm, c,
/have to rent to people I can’t understand? Or to a woman with kids?
/when did filing for bankruptcy start – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bankruptcy_law_in_the_United_States#Twentieth_century or search when it was made easier
/nat serv, but don’t ask anyone to give anything back for handouts
/search lib guilt
/if you bail out the big boys and not the small, you cheat em
/Chinese life savings to send son to usc. Beaten to death by some latinos. juxtapose
/search liberal guilt
/l.a. times fighting in sch is a minor offense. Wow
/if not directly resp for all the world’s problems, then resp due to wall st
/self-medicate with drugs and alc
/ag: lib failures: wop, aa, bussing, soc promotion, open classrm, new deal, soc,
/tv said Hillary said gov creates jobs, corps don’t.
/if Hollywood was so noble, they wouldn’t have smoking in all
/back to your hm town and no lockers at sch, a killing there, closed campus, graffiti, hmless sleeping in the library, sub teach at brea, see swn?
/john Hinckley was sane enuff to fly all over the country stalking Jodie foster and presidents, yet was insane when he shot president Reagan. Oh boy.
/piece in nyt said most lawyers are lib
/trying to rescue the wc leads em to disillusionment, despair, a complex
/flynt , Michigan and john hinkley search what he had to say
/hinkley got better [but not good enuff to serve time? as was acquitted.
Couldn’t find any comments of his. Odd
/3/l5 jobs are up but wages are same. Oooohhh noooo
/we’re beginning to repair rel… with cuba but this could lead to inequality
/surprise announcement re opening to cuba l2/l4 and 3 mos later an article about this will create inequality. Ag: so where would most Cubans there prefer to be – cuba with = or the u.s. with inequality
/coddling criminals
Vocab
Self-medicating on drugs and alc
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Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action.
/esl stu, ‘hippies are dumping on what we want’
/
Liberals – Border Fence Too High for Illegals’ Safety
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/insisting Greece make reforms for loan is close to surrender of their sovereignty
/spec Olympics started by Eunice shriver?
/dup: project return
/libs worry about punishment being cruel and unusual, not about the crimes that were cruel and unusual.
/persecution of crimes is getting to be as complicated at setting up a new biz – all the regs.
/which are the helping professions: sw, psych, counseling, ed, law?,
/they can’t accept the lc – that botches up everything. As they have to rescue
/guys walk alongside a girl in nyc – catcalls etc. and they blur out the GUYS faces.
/what do libs want for fp
/I couldn’t find feel sorry for the mugger.
But that related to project return
/ag: they don’t believe in shame
/menial – https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=menial+definition
/Lawrence o donnel like socialism 2/l6
/libs have to give all to show love and earn dependence which is ‘love’
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Alternative+Shoppers++++Looters dup on riotsn
/they analyze things to death: criminals, islam
/for some jobs drug testing, for wel – 0. Fl, Kentucky, mo, are first to require testing of wel applicants.
/search politically correct terms –
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=justice+involved+people
/a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality, said irving kristol
/if you had to give away the panama canal, give it to the un or some pri ir firm.
/if you were one of the guys who raised the flag on iwo, you wouldn’t appreciate it being given back
/stupid Anthony lewis [of nyt?] said rr helped win the cold war but by putting us in great debt. Wow
/Rachel maddow
/they never stopped dumping on carl rove when bush was in, but he’s been around and done well?
/geo skelton thinks tom hayden was ok
/mark shields thot trump’s saving l000 jobs in carrier was a master stroke. Bias l2/l6
/rarely if ever hear of what ll’s lose to lc, or merchants, etc like that st. paul survey
/l.a. said liberal manhattan
/believe all is rel….
/scatter site housing, open enrollment at ccny, diversity
/riverside church – lib
/heather mcdonals war on cops
/Cuomo wants free c in ny. Ny wants free pre sch for 3 yr olds. 4/l7 shakespere in the park was free
/cons can’t talk on campus: al cap, will….benett, …..anpolis, heather mcdonald, ann coulter
/free in nyc: lib, shakespere, museums, st is ferry only a nickel for yrs
/appeased hitler – sig
/ud is the only u.s. univ sys to give free legal aid to students here illegally. [aid the working poor can’t afford.] and why free
/ https://www.bing.com/search?q=feel+sorry+for+the+mugger&FORM=AWRE = 0
/ Democrats Should Embrace an Open Economy By TERRY McAULIFFE
The left should welcome an America that confidently competes around the world. 3/l8
/we returned a number of islands to japan. Iwo in 68 to promote trust
/some article said the press liked sds during the 60s.
/50b bailout of wall st in 80s.
/ https://www.bing.com/search?q=liberal+guilt&FORM=HDRSC1
/ /amazing the activities where d goes – http://www.wellnesscenterwest.org/ click on their weekly actitivies. is it patterned after team? I wonder if wanda goes
/dershowitz said the libs want to do away with due process l0/l8 but wouldn’t if it was them. Wow. He put off by his lib friends at? Martha’s vineyard.
/nyc cop – you must be from outta town
/feel sorry for poor who live in motels
/big elephants stopped young ones from goring hippos
/ nyt – de Blasio has plan to eliminate entrance exams at top public hi schs. Wow 6/24/l9 looks like Asians oppose it
/Self-med on alc and drugs
/nyt pro ussr before h invaded it.
/the left cheered the start of hugo Chavez said …… castro too. and nyt duranty praised ussr when?
/neither side interviews ins cos.
/grow up without a shred of resp.
/smile = fear. Emotional problems
/pov causes crime
/cop on live pd said easier sentencing of misdeminor for car theft for juveniles has in creased their stealing cars.
/ 4/29/20 – nyt – https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-debt-africa.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Contributors
/ wsj – stronger job-retention programs in g and jap… 4/20
/gills: like to share? meaning stir things up, pontificates,
/nyt: ice cream trucks are essential for some neighborhoods 5/l2?/20
/some see la using gang based data as being racially biased
/what is racial profiling
/libs love to tear down
/ lunacy of the liberal community
/can curse a cop. Assault on one is a misdemeanor now in some place? 7/20 vs assault on a blk
/blk men could vote before white women. Libs fot for women….
/ 7/20 – Federal agents in Portland continue crackdown; protesters and local leaders shout, ‘Go home’
/ search permissiveness
—- – portland + 7/20
vs
/anarchists more active at nite?
/ nyt – ‘ In the race to release juvenile detainees to combat the virus’s spread, Black children are being left behind. ‘
/ – social justice warriors – Bing
/ – cancel culture
/ – paid to not work
/ Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the Capitol rioters (msn.com) l/2l
/ the border……children some as young at l3 3/2l
/they hate auth……, punitive
/g Floyd trial ends and all are righteous
/some foreigners can’t believe what am kids get away with
/4/21 portland’s mayor got mugged by reality
/biggest transformation since the 50s? said kudlow
/5/2l Record Number of Seattle Police Have Left Department, ‘Morale Is Not Good’ (msn.com)
/ “ Joe Biden Is Electrifying America Like F.D.R.
/give iwo back, give Guantanamo back, p canal, a bomb
/police have been quitting in droves in the last yr. 6/2l nyt
/search nYC has it backwards
/ bleeding heart liberals – Bing
/close quantanamo,
/ dominican car culture – Bing
/ This Liberal City Defunded the Police. Now It’s Paying Cops to Stay. (msn.com)
/ de blasio to phase out nyc gifted and talented program
/cops drag paraplegic by his hair
/ More California colleges remove SAT, ACT requirements during application process won’t click l0/2l
/eur owes syrian refu…. We owe those crossing from mex. calif owes all more housing, sf too – hmless etc. owe them housing, not jobs. Hmless in venice. Same with nat debt? No wonder the rich hide. No resp all along the way. Same with b & c. tear down, tear down. Gentrification
/as long as you talk about the negs, [and not the difficult solutions] you can appear to yourself and others to be righteous
/they hate success. Soon as you get it right or best, they go after it – nyt punish it
/ McEnany says BLM leader Newsome ‘has a history’ of threatening riots (msn.com)
/ deblasio’s mistakes – Search (bing.com)
/they let juvenile car thieves go home and car jackings increased
/they don’t like good news as then they couldn’t be crusaders. Thus I never heard of – wisconsin’s welfare miracle – Search (bing.com)
/ Progressive criminal justice reforms will spark backlash as repeat criminals roam free (msn.com)
/aclu hurting self with: reparations, using choppers or drones to ‘spy’ on protesters, saggy pants in flint, shut down Guantanamo,
/ crime goes up over xmas – Bing
/guy who killed student in m… park was l4. Got l4-life. His lawyer said- Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Weaver’s father and other adult role models had been imprisoned, calling his client a “symptom” of a broken system of repeated incarceration. “It does not absolve him but it does explain,” Lichtman said.
/
California school officials could mandate searches of backpacks, lockers under shooting threat well, of course !! 2/22
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/idiot d.a. in nyc – the d.a. of nyd – Search (bing.com)
alvin bragg manhattan da – Search (bing.com)
crime up due to alvin bragg manhattan da – Search (bing.com)
nyc d.a. alvin bragg vs mayor adams – Search (bing.com) glad I’m not there
/guiliani: james q wilson’s broken window theory. [only cs!]
Housing put all the bads together. Became crime centers. Plan to put cams all ove – elevators and stairwells. Middle income condo had em. Aclu and blk civil rights orgs fot the plan. Re spy, plantation owner wants to see what his slaves are doing. 85% of res wanted em? Put in and crime dropped 80% in 5 wks
/when whites kill blks – terrible. when blks kill blks, well….
/nyc – everything was albany’s fault or dc’s
/nyt 2/l722 –
Two Teens Were Fighting. Only the Black Teenager Was Handcuffed.
Same day la:
Smith: To stop Leimert Park’s gentrification, Black folks need to own more than just homes A group of Black entrepreneurs trying to buy a commercial property reflects new thinking about what it’ll take to build wealth and save neighborhoods. [but I’m less sure of this one]
/ Seattle Bike Helmet Rule Is Dropped Amid Racial Justice Concerns – The New York Times (nytimes.com) 2/l8/22 nyt
/
/
As Eric Adams Toughens on Crime, Some Fear a Return to ’90s Era Policin
[gosh we sure wouldn’t want that]
patriot front misdemeanor – Search (bing.com) in Idaho conspiracy to riot is only a misdeanor. Can you believe it?
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drug traffickers skip bail – Search (bing.com)
/’access’ to health care, shade, a/c. food deserts
/Portland defunded one of their crime units and incidents shot up 8/22 – portland defunding police mistake – Search (bing.com)
/count the no. of times vids are anti cop.
/count how many blks in ea, browns
/what happened to defund the police
/sec guard at la plata and louisa said hmless sleep behind that bush. He knows the one I saw. Cops know them all. they get gen relief and sos and won’t go to shelters due to the rules. Said his bro is one. won’t accept help. 0 you can do. wow straight from the horses mouth.
/in store decective? holds woman’s purse, shoplifter. she got off.
/ Op-Ed: Free food for all? Absolutely. In this age of abundance, it should be a human right
/ 3/23 –
/libs avoid considering failure
/ ‘Hazmat killer’ walked out of NYPD precinct hours after arrest for killing deli worker (msn.com)
/ 4/l6/23: chi ‘Teen Takeover’ terrorizes Chicago as hundreds of children destroy property, attack tourists. Fox news. Must have been last nite – sat
/value judgement, m.c. vals, 0 on paper.
/ Illinois state senator defends Chicago teens’ rioting, looting: ‘It’s a mass protest’ (msn.com) 4/23
Officers Struggle To Arrest Extremely Uncooperative Man – YouTube it went on and on. extremely spoiled brat. All charges dropped !!! 2 of aggravated battery, resisting, trespass. What a joke
/ Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. / California retail head slams Prop 47 for rise in thefts after Target store locks down entire inventory (msn.com)
/ This ancient atrocity | Sunday on 60 Minutes – CBS News
/ farm kids begin working at age – Search (bing.com)
/ kids on family farms begin working at age – Search (bing.com)
/ many family owned farms start their own children working part time at age – Search (bing.com)
10, 11, even 7 part time
/ Map of downtown San Francisco shows every empty office space (sfchronicle.com)
/ty, nyt – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/realestate/hamptons-affordable-housing.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Real%20Estate – so what! that’s free market
/ liberal fads that flopped – Search (bing.com)
/we gave iwo back. Any others?
/ biden won’t accept work requirements – Search (bing.com) 7?/23
/ did they later excuse vietnam era draft dodgers that went to Canada? – Search (bing.com)
/7/23 –
New York to Pay $13 Million Over Police Actions at George Floyd Protests
/ Violence and ‘crisis’: How hundreds of L.A. County’s abused children ended up in hotels
May 28, 2023
/ 7/23 fox: Companies are worried about getting sued by the criminal: Alicia Acuna | Watch (msn.com)
/
cenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl
/do ins cos and biz hate libs
/ Police arrested a total of 13 children between the ages of 12 and 17
/ teen kills retired cop on bike – Yahoo Search Results
excuses for teen who intentionally killed retired cop on bike – Yahoo Search Results
2 teens, child, stolen car laughed, posted tape of it, expected slap on wrist. I couldn’t find bit about ‘trauma’
/
/ newsom willful defiance – Search (bing.com) exact opposite. Try w…..defiance in the marines. Doing it to lower dropouts. [vs suspensions – ty]
/ How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices
/ l0/23 – Writers Guild Faces Backlash for Not Condemning Hamas Attack – The New York Times (nytimes.com) – so smart, they’re dumb
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/ How chicken processed using child labor ended up at Ralphs, Aldi – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) – probably ty
/ i couldn’t find it – free money on trial, addis ababa, economist – Search (bing.com)
/universal basic income
/ $750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (msn.com) vs what if they earned it
/ Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option? (msn.com) l2/23
/ The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming (msn.com)
/ l/24 – The growing lunacy of free health insurance for migrants (msn.com)
/ Migrants Get Up to Two Years Free Rent for New Apartments (msn.com)
/ NYC to Give Migrant Families Pre-Paid Credit Cards Under $53 Million Pilot Program: Report (msn.com)
/ do food stamps pay for fast food – Search (bing.com) yes. And for casual dining establishments But not for upscale restaurants
/ Food Stamps – Latest News & Stories – The US Sun | The US Sun (the-sun.com)
/ Opinion: Guaranteed income is the ‘solution to poverty’ we need across America (msn.com)
/ eating at home is cheaper than fast food – Search (bing.com)
/ Migrants Given Apartments for Free as New Yorkers Pay Thousands (msn.com)
/ Workers Suspected of Housing Migrants in Arizona Refuse Questioning (msn.com)
/ The numbers prove it: Bail reform drove a 66% recidivism rate for repeat crooks (msn.com)
/ Liberalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
/ Democrats Push Basic Income Program For Illegal Immigrants (msn.com)
/ 3/24 Migrants Given Free Apartments While New Yorkers Struggle (msn.com)
/ Squatters have more rights than property owners: NY State Sen. Mario Mattera | Watch (msn.com)
20 U.S. States Where Squatters Are Able To Legally Claim Your Property (msn.com)
/ Thanks to liberal pols, New York’s apartments are quickly falling apart (msn.com)
/a tax if you leave calidi
/ It’s Getting Worse: San Francisco Considers Bill Making It Illegal For Stores To Close (msn.com)
/ Gov. Newsom and California show why liberals can’t be trusted with the economy (msn.com)
/gov shouldn’t have the power to raise mw !
/ San Francisco Is Considering A Bill That Will Make It Illegal For Stores To Close (msn.com)
/ New York City Gives ‘Squatters’ Free Lawyers (msn.com)
/ California’s Wealth and “Exit” Tax Squeezes Rich Americans Trying to Leave the State (msn.com)
/ Basic income could house thousands of homeless people, researchers say – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) And don’t mention how this would affect those who WORK for the same amounts.
/ liberal euphemisms – Search (bing.com)
/Hundreds of cops flee California to Texas (msn.com)
/
N.Y.C. Hotel Rooms Are More Expensive Than Ever Before
/ Critics Blast California City’s $5.5 Million “Free” Food Market for the Homeless (msn.com)
/ Opinion | What Have Progressives Done to the West Coast? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
/ 21 Ways America Has Had Enough of ‘Woke’ (msn.com)
/ Outrage as California opens up $300M home loan scheme to migrants (msn.com) 8/24
/all has to be: free, feel good, meaningful, equal outcome, break from the past, easy, magical relationships, from the gov, positive,
/ panama canal should never have been given to panama – Search
/ carter and panama canal – Search
/ libs spoil kids more
/ iwo jima returned to japan – Search
/ liberals love criminals – Search the only think new…
/ The Medicaid calculus behind Donald Trump’s tax cuts wk requirements
/ what liberals have given away – Search thus 10 Essential Economic Truths Liberals Need to Learn nor the best writing
/mamdani of ny is zohran mamdani a communist? – Search
/ Trump Depicted Youth Crime in D.C. as Rampant. Here’s What the Data Shows. – The New York Times ‘children….’
= = = = =
libs. see bkl
/dead liberals – fdr, truman, jfk – are good; live liberals are not: mcgovern, carter, mondale
aclu, cbs? , ny times +, ma jones,
lesser knowns
bell, j
berman, rep of panorama city is lib.
bernstein, leonard
bradley, tom – mayor, more than duke
brady, r
cockburn, alexandar
cronkite,
goodwin, richard
hollings,
hunt, al of wsj. is a lib
jackson, jessie, bond, julian – semi radical,
mcnamara, bob,
reigel, don
wicker, tom
== ? =======
young, andy?
nader?
solarz, ?
thurow?,
jennings too talky, eurodite?, professorial, long winded
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chomsky, noam
schell, johnathan
dershowitz
styron, william
terkel, studs
vonnegut, kurt
misc ===
chancellor, jon increasingly petty,
brokow has an agenda, op, rude once
goodman, ellen is a lib. pol r.
jackson, jessie radical platform, not bright, a fading symbol,
moderates?
brinkley
duke
/alan cranston, birch bayh, john culver, frank church = lib heros la
/a schesingler knocking hoover and praising fdr.
Santa Monica, CA. j.m. keynes
/libs: abe rosenthal [ny times], zbiigneiw brzenzinski
cesar chavez
/david broder is a lib and two of w. post staff are stupidly so
/chris dodd, howard metzenbaum, peter rodino, ron dellums, jim wright new dealer teddy white
/william pfaff must be lib
/jess marlow – lib?
/con dig. sam donaldson is a reflexive lib said p buchanan
/the am prospect = a lib pub by paul starr & robert kuttner
/cardenas is far left
/alistare cook – big over fdr and lib.
/dick strout – the original trb
/monihan is a lib
/berkeley – one of the most lib cities in us. la l2/90
. richard goodwin dup?
/the nation
/paul taylor
/robert kuttner, w post ty
/richard cohen w post. ike was 0 due civil rights [on & on]
/alistair cook called fdr a savior.
/steve mosher [clarmont] said teddy white went to china looking for new ideal world and found it. confirm what nr said
/fred barnes with new rep. ???? fred barns said he’s on right
/r. simon a lib?
/lib : cris matthews
/vermont and oregon are lib
/morin of w post [polling]
/martin sheen = lib
/coleman mccarthy
/communes = far left
/cuban prisoners didn’t like am clergymen visiting cuba and praising the regime.
/28% lib. 5% very lib in us w post 2/9l
/harry bernstein – labor freak in la times.
/libs want to love and be loved – aud reach out, care, hug, compassion
/tim wicker -a leading lib columnist wrote bk praising nixonpolarization
/irag-immediatly the press divides the arabs twix haves and nots. same in ussr l2/90
/air bag party due to nader
/chalmer johnson of sd? favors indus pol
/new lib mag: am prospect: paul starr, r. reich.
/barney frank – an outspoken lib from mass
/nix a centrist cons. said burs tend left – sig.
/mark sheilds a lib says novack
/am the 2nd cent.
/lot of marxists on harvard faculty said g will.
/sf has anti war image
/harold ickes – a classic liberal under fdr
/nat j is very lib, elitist, distainful. said j kemp
/tunney – i thot he was going to be another jfk
/most scientists, said tv, are lib
/ historians are lib – us news
/labor gave 4 mil to reps and 45 mil to dem twix 85-88 ll times as much.
/publishing is lib, I read
-/t.h. white pro jfk.
/campus pubs are by nature lib.
/cons pubs say higher ed is highly lib. sig
-/h.k. smith. liked fdr’s keynsianism
/schelesinger became the darling of the kennedy’s said sid hook.
/pol cartoonists – killer instinct. contemp for bur. 85% are left = soc activists – want to change -more knowledgable bout issues.
/univ are lib p 63 us news 2/8/88
/bob mcnamara said cbs = lib.
/w post guy said a free press is always anti estab.
/to get to dc, go to harvard and turn left
/us bishops went to the left of the dems
/alistair cook called fdr a savior.
/julian bond=semi radical said morton kondrake.
/cuomo said rr was pres of the rich.
/a schlesinger – dean of am lib..sm. pub purpose vs pri int. 30 yr swings. l90l l933, [’66, ’96] vs l890’s, l920’s 50s 80s
/c. murray said wife’s dept of eng was lib as it’s chic
/ma jones: networks [libs] notorius for finger pointing. [= judging]
-/ny would be lst to have discuss on whether to give to panhandlers
/lillian hellman sympathized with ussr – buckley
/st dept libs are anti cap. for aid has hurt. buckley l0/l0/86
[but are there st dept cons?]
/ed asner
/dc press corps is lib & dc is lib – g. will
r. reich is lib. [2nd confirmation].
/hershenson: all commentators were lib for yrs.
/w post guy said a free press is always anti estab.
/cronkite talking soc l2/8?/89
/trad lib thriving in ny, minneapolis, & seattle.
/mark green – trad lib
/some columnist on tv said anyone who’s grown up inside beltway has NO idea of pri ent. sig
/biden sounded lib with his drug article
/cranston a total lib said tv
/martin sheen 49, a model lib, lets introspect.
/buckley slams sen mitchell
/brinkeley: libs go into media or univ
/here comes bobby kennedy jr – same line
/new lib mag: am prospect: paul starr, r. reich.
/rep waxman of ca? is lib.
/nix said historians are left – beck said academia is.
/nixon said burs tend left – sig.
/don reigel – lib cranston too. glen?
/nixon said historians on left
/minn and sf = 2 of most lib.
/r. strout says he didn’t know what country would have done w/o fdr
/born on 4th of july bout ron kovic who turned out to be an ass
/g. peck praising a. stevenson being lib.
/a. schles saying 50’s didn’t care.
/carlos fuentes on left.
/the lib ed.. establishment. new rep.
/santa monica = lib tv – & la times mag-
/alistare cooke going after sweat shops, robber barrons, etc.
/lib morin of w post.
/us: one party rule in ints of rich and corp. cockburn 90 .
/biased programs: am the 2nd cent with bill shaw.
-/supreme crt – lib for 30 yrs. tv 9l?
-/big city papers are lib said yen do
/the intellects who create and police our pol vocab are libs. what they don’t like they call cons, said krauthammer 2/90
-/archbishop in brazil says don’t pay debt
/l2/90 what was once called the left = the progressive, populist part of pol – is gone. richard goodwin
/clark gifford worked for truman. worshipped jfk. said rr econ was bad. /biased programs: am the 2nd cent with bill shaw?
/grapes of wrath was exagerrated said someone.
/s.f. got black eye from gulf war.
/alquist is leading lib in st. leg…- he’s proud calif is 2nd highest in wel payments
/derrek bell – harvard. lib am prospect [pub]
/galbraith is a moderate lib.- la
/cavett, -elenor roosevelt?
/guy on nightwatch said cronkite left of center l0/9l
-/p. samuelson and galbraith are keynesians. [are they libs?]
/brokaw anti bush on civil rights. thus lib
/dan rather told of getting mugged once. he grinned, shrugged it off and kept saying that’s life. tv l0/9l
/adlai stevenson was lib. tv
/bill moyer for the wpa, etc. son of new deal. lbj’s boy.
/michners: rr’s “lib” seen an unpatriotic. anyone who wouldn’t pledge to the flag was false to the country. spending time on a right wing radio nut. [ty of libs]. m is a secular humanist as he thinks we can create resnable decent societies. the young can profit from quinas, more, jeff, kant, linc, fdr. johyn dewey, will james. he’s anti restrictive religious doctrine. he’s learned to be suspicous of who were big libs in youth and now are big cons. he’s a knee jerk liberal: re % for those left pennyless, $ for libraries, health care, [getting emotional, self-right. – getting sickening. trickle down is allow the rich to make max, and their largess [generousity] trickles down. laws should bring wealth back into circulation. [bit self-serving] campained for fjk. also ran for congress. mitchner says hist will judge ted kennedy as an admirable senator.
/to get to dc, go to harvard and turn left.
/dc is lib said g. will & gingrich.
/a number of today’s profs were protest kids of the 60s
/mcglaulin saying moyers is lib, m wallace said same.
/jap feel dems will restrict exports.
/moyers = super lib. [from watching him on tv]
/w.r. mead = lib and full of it! la.
/the philadephia Inguirer is liberal
/santa monica is lib. leo
/eleanor cliff – of newsweek is a lib.
-/donahue bashes rich. soak em
/sen don reigle wants indust policy.
/bruce morton: selfishness today. we have to work together. l/92. crap.
as libs have wrecked it.
-/gary hart wants an activist gov.
/libs: mondale, hhh, j. jackson, [every problem is fed]
/william kunstler says cubans are better off now than they were under batista. 2/ll/92 tv
/harkin wants a wpa. 92
/eugene mccarthy said l0% own 70% of the wealth. take it from them and apply it to the debt. tv 92
/r. reich
/gingrich is anti jerry brown. and geo mitchel – killed cap gains.
/peter h king
/tim wicker, mary mcgrory
liberal opinion week listed these as featured columnists. are they all libs? mary mcgrory, richard cohen, j. jackson, calvin trillin, will pfaff, d broder, correta king, r. nader, les payne,
e goodman, linda ellerbee, mark shields, dave barry, c. trillin. james hoagland, colman mccarthy, anthony lewis, mike royko, cris matthews, carl rowan, roger simon, w. rspberry, hobar rowen, breslin, didn’t finish.
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-t. rutin – haves vs nots.
/alex cockburn on tv. longish hair. no tie. white shirt open 3 buttons. sport coat. 4/92
/t. rutin – haves vs nots.
/elenor cliff – lib
/cry for econ equality. flanagan
/wilson’s proposed wel cuts are war against the poor said archbishops of la and sf. la 5/8
/past l2 yrs, reps pursued now failed econ and soc policies. juan williams w. post. 5/92
-/brokaw so lib, I can’t keep up: pref hiring, nat housing.
/brokow: do voters share the blame.
/rep joe kennedy.
/in recovery but pace is too slow. brokaw 4/92
/could you say cal is lib because of: berkeley, riots, mw, wel, wkmn’s comp.
/ny and mass have the worst credit ratings
/robert beckel – mondale’s cmpaign mang.
/moynihan’s lib garf. us news
/cris matthews votes dem
/thurow worked for dems. w. simon said
left are: rock, ford, brook, counc on for rel
/greg easterbrook is lib said postrel.
/ginrich says dc is a lib city. sig
/atlantic looks lib. r. reich is.
/r kutner wrote THE END OF LAIZZE FAIRE
/mike wallace said moyers is predictably liberal.
/cuomo – lib ch 4 nightly? news. 7/92
/dems have rep of tax and spend. b. jordan.
/someone will get ahead, will end up with more.
/gore’s a lib, says dole. dc is too?
-/aba is lib said quayle in la sig
/j. castañeda – anti free trade.
/stevenson was the darling of the libs.
/robert reich, said postrel +
-/galbraith, said modern maturity
/derek shearer
/fr. couglin turned to communism. upton sinclair was a visionary communes. /hollywood is lib; most actors are lib as they’re on the cutting edge, expression, innovation?
/morgan fairchild. lib
/robert kutner = lib
/leo, a dem. jessie j and t kenney still very lib.
/dems – theirs is the party of gov. us news. 92
/rob heilbroner
/econ policy inst
/jerry brown and pat buchanan against free trade. also lester thurow,
/fallows wrote speeches for j. carter.
-/uc berkeley is more lib than other parts of cal or us, said the chancellor.
/ira reiner was a lib, said la
/Diego rivera, muralist, devout commie. tv
/most filmakers are lib, said c. heston. send him lists.
/econ policy inst. is lib w post
/inst for policy studies – left
/j. chancellor sure is for nat health insur. 92?
/nation’s mayors are one fo the most insisten lib lobbies. us news 92
/common cause
/eugene debs was a socialist.
/r. kutner = lib
/inside the beltway sen chris dodd
/alliance for justice
/cuomo is lib. w mo sep 9l
/steve cohen on 28. on ussr. lib? emotional.
/r. reigh is now a mod. said kondrake. ll/92
/gringrich said la times prides self on being lib.
/liberal sweden. w post
/sharon pratt dixon’s a lib. and a bitch.
/jerry brown –
/shalala and reich seen as libs said the lib corn on c span.
/wash st. said rush
/shalala, former chr of org that was anti workfare. us new 2/93
/alistare cook liked fdr. lots.
/bork says the aba is lib. sig
/people for the am way
/linc steffens praised comm..sm l9l9.
/ny – one of the most progressive states on soc. wel issues.
/thurow big on gov training. blew pts. soc. 2/93 said not soc but 2lst cent econ. as eur unites its econs, we’ll be left behind. indust policy. he has a bad attitude.
/conrad has to be a lib.
/w. bennet: dc moves to the left no matter who’s in power.
/tom snyder says this country is terribly confused? about morality, where they are going, etc. ty 93
/next am f – founded by m harrington
/m. kingsley is a prick
/shalala is full of it.. implies that cap is not fair. r. samuelson. ll/27/89 newswk..
/heilbrenner said keynes bk explains the depression. bias
/thurow prior to rr’s boom. the engines of econ growth have shut down. media watch.
/katherine graham, owner of w post is jewish. w post 93. her ma was lib.
-/a schlesinger, quintessential lib, an adlai stevenson lib.
/lewis lapham, ed of harpers. 93
/ceasar chavez had trouble with one man working another man’s land.
/a.. cockburn of the nation
/cris matthews was top insider of tip o’neil’s.
/NY is one of our most lib cities. la?
/w raspberry
/nat pub radio
/w. pfaff
/michael jackson on radio is lib.
/ada is lib.
/anthony lewis, ny times, is a lib.
/m. kingsley said cons have closed minds and are biased.
/enterprise found
/eleanor cliff is lib.
/paul samuelson is a keynesian. fee. 89
/mark sheilds likes clinton’s budget program. what a lib.
-/us bishops are lib – pushed fam leave & child care, said sen dodd. [paternalism]
/the nation is lib.
/walter reuther raised in fam of socialists.
-/b. boxer’s a lib.
/is g. steinem anti capitalism?
/congress continually votes left of the am pub. kemp. 93.
/barry lind, ira glasser on left beat the right on buckley debate.
/cdf = child.. defense fund – lib.
/e dionne sounds lib
/carlos fuentes is lib?
/rober heilboner is a soc, said wfb
/antioch – one of the most lib c’s. stus look ragged.
/jon dewey, ed, said dump cap.
/white liberal upper west side of manhattan. 93 mac/lehrer
/galbraith praised herblock as a lib. 93
/fdr attacking pri ent. in sp. he sure went after union vote. maybe that’s why he gave em power.
/nader is against nafta.
/lib dem mike woo
/william l shirer
/left wing econ.. r. kuttner. said nr 93
/c page disagrees with r. novack.
/paul samuelson – dean of am’s lib econ.. nr
/nader and jerry brown, sadi us news
/hoding carter is lib. w mo.
/laski, an eng lib. influenced nehru
/broder actually said CUT entitlements. 94
/gloria steinem
-/d feinstein is big lib said p gramm.
/ed asner – super lib.
/al hunt and sam donaldson said l. nofsiger.
/leo bernstein.
/hillary’s conversion to 60s radicalism while at wellesley. had role as militant protest leader at yale law sch. am spec..
/harold ickes – lib. said am spec
/laski. jewish lib.
/sen paul simon is a lib.
/packwood – a lib rep. said tyrrel.
/pete stark = lib. remember his garrish office.
/fr. hesberg said ike was no flaming lib.
/t kennedy and j jackson are far out libs said ed koch, who calls himself a mod.
/murray kempton – lib. saw us as sick after king’s death.
/media sees berkeley as super lib. [remember granny’s warning?]
/conally praised jfk and ran down rr and bush.
/murray kempton – lib. saw us as sick after king’s death.
/dionne is lib, says rush. 94
/t kennedy – one of the most lib sen. 94 tv.
/mass in the most lib dem st. 94 tv 3-l dem.
/galbraith is 80% keynes, l0% marx, l0% misc. he was in new deal, when “no one could look on cap and think it was a success. thus repair or revolt”.
n mailer a leftist if not a rad. said it himself. span civil war. hemingway defended the commies.
/liberal upper west side. us news
/b. boxer’s a lib.
/atlantic mo.
/sf and seattle are lib. 94
/brian gumble
/hobart rowen
/gingrich says dc is a lib city. sig
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/clinton, cuomo, mcgovern, dukakis, jerry brown, tip o neil, lbj, gary hart,
/donaldson, sam too much nerve, rude,
/safer, morley
/press, bill
/lbj = extreme lib. tv d. l. wolper
/cuomo another fdr = wel st. said m kondrake.
/mondale, dukakis
/rob reich=lib
/moyers called himself a son of new deal,
== places ======
/santa monica is lib. venice
/eastern seabd is lib.
/cambridge, manhattan, g-town,
/mass and ny have worst credit ratings. 92
/dumbed down texts. defining deviancy down
/stokley carmichael is a yr younger. known as … toure. is for soc.
/dionne dumped on bell curve/how rosenberg is a lib.
/us bishops long known as a funding source for leftist causes. nat r. ’93/bay area was anti l87/aba is lib said quayle in la sig
/dana parsons/nom chomsky – nothing but poison, prof at mit. radical, hippy rh.
/minn is lib. waxman too.
/c on budget & policy priorities./barney frank/tom foley – a lib.
/the nation – some BAD articles. immature.
/gephart/ny – one of the nation’s most lib cities. la
/crouthammer worked for new rep and w post, & time. 94
/econ policy inst/world council of churches. anti cap. sig. in fee
/neal gabler/p. samuelson sounding lib. didn’t want tax cuts.
/a schlesinger – dean of am lib..sm. /ny – one of the nation’s most lib cities. la 93
/g easterbrook missing pt on mw. and sounds lib/gephart/gehpart saying free market didn’t work in the past.
/d broder/flaming libs ramsey clark, william knunstler
/richard morin of w post. – flaming lib mark green./rep gephart. 95
/larry king’s a lib
/adlai stevenson tv
/r. samuelson is lib said rush.
/KRAUTHAMMER how can he be a cons after his jones beach one./rose bird
/anthony lewis won puliz prize twice.
/martin sheen – self-indulgent, absorbed lib.
/b bradley said richard cohen is a top columnist. 95
/germond said barnes is a right winger. [but writes for nr?]
germond did not like reagan.
/some in oil club said blacks they had to hire couldn’t do job, defensive, couldn’t fire em.
/chas grodin knocking dereg. /wel burs are leftists. heritage. 95
/susan dentzer/noam chomsky’s poison on c span few mos bac. just like 60s c brat.
/o wilde – socialist/gore vidal – lib.
/d brinkley and sen helms never got along.
/nat council of sf citizens is left says newt.
/easterbrook – lib
/rush’s program saying larry king in a big lib.
85% of pol cartoonists/noam chomsky – true left winger, said w post/hillary wants redistrib… higher mw, and against free trade. on c span 3/96/sac bee is lib rag said rush.
/studs turkel is a lib
/cronkite – has to be lib as wants “some marvelous middle between cap and comm…” he’s disallusioned & cynical. ’96 said contract with am was overly harsh. rich poor gap disgusts him. la t mag/nader’s pub citizen was anti nafta 95
/thurow = lib. w post. map is mercantilist./garrick utley must be lib. health care in eur.
/thurow is pessimistic bout cap. and all. [wants to be a hero]
/thurow knocked soc. [how bot that]
/wash monthly
/above is ╨╧αí▒
/kokie roberts ‑ lib
/sac bee said rush
/no one on manhattan voted for pataki. /aauw is lib, said a member/robert kutner looks little weird. anti rr
/galbraith is a big lib. /tom jerrel – bleeding heart.
/truman sounded like total socialist. to me on tv .
/dan bornstein must be/am bar assoc, said cons on t tank/labor party in brit sounds just like our libs/wilson brot in the ftc, fed reserve, inc tax. – an icon for libs said geo will. l9l4?
/cr comes flat out for gov providing long term care 97/strongest bastion of rent control is nyc 97
/k graham’s hub – a new dealer.
/gov should provide most. lippman. 0000/cris mathews worked for tip o neal?/anthony lewis: we ended cold war but ran up big deficits. dumb logic/morely safer on 60 min. many in russia doing well last 8 yrs due to greed. 2/98.
/lester thurow has some screwy ideas.
/geogia ann geyer. ford f went left in 70s./upper west side of NYC is lib
/ ray brady – doomsayer. liberal
walter cronkite – liberal
brian gumble – brusk, liberal.
tom jerrel – bleeding heart.
bill moyers – in the clouds, liberal.
rscheer@aol.com sent list.
/ronal brownstein must be a lib
Dup?:
The far left
Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden in the 60s.
Jessie Jackson
Julian Bond
Liberals
ed asner
hodding carter
john chancellor
ramsey clark
barry commoner
alan cranston
mario cuomo
phil donahue
barney frank
j.k. galbraith
ellen goodman
mark green
michael harrington
gary hart
the kennedys
the clintons
michael kingsley
john lindsay
mcgovern
howard metzenbaum, senator
fritz mondale
daniel monihan
bill moyers
tip o’neil
robert reich
arthur schelsinger
pat schroeder
martin sheen
donna shalala
sargent shriver
paul simon, senator
dr. spock
dennis weaver
tom wicker
ray brady
walter cronkite
brian gumble
tom jerrel
bill moyers – liberal journalist said tv
/amy Goodman, but impressive.
/Cronkite was a liberal said pinkerton
/neal gabler wrote t kennedy was am’s conscience
/Rachel maddow has to enormously complicate everything to show how right she is. Hannity too
/Alexander Cockburn, Left-Wing Writer, Is Dead at 71 By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Mr. Cockburn took pleasure in condemning what he saw as the outrages of the right and what he often considered the tepidness and timidity of the American liberal establishment.
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