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		<title>When Israel Had a Champion at the UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirkpatrick defended Israel with unyielding critique of UN, charging anti-Israel diplomacy "has nothing to do with peace."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/collier11.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135151" title="collier1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/collier11.jpg" alt="" width="279" height="433" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.jpost.com/">Jerusalem Post</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong> <em>Editor&#8217;s note: Peter Collier is the author of the recently published, <em>&#8220;Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick</em>&#8221; (<a id="Y7243283S5">Encounter</a> Books, 2012). To order it,<a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productattribute.html?productId=6329"> click here</a>.</em></p>
<p>Jeane Kirkpatrick experienced an epiphany shortly after Ronald Reagan appointed her America’s permanent representative at the UN in 1981 when Israel’s ambassador Yehuda Blum came to her office for his first official visit.</p>
<p>She had been appalled during the previous four years by what she regarded as the Carter administration’s contemptuous attitude toward the Jewish state, and particularly by the way that preceding UN ambassadors Andrew <a id="Y7243283S6">Young</a> and Donald McHenry had, respectively, criticized the Jewish state as “stubborn and intransigent” (and met secretly with the PLO representative), and voted for Resolution 465 condemning Israel’s occupation of “Arab territories including Jerusalem.”</p>
<p>But she didn’t realize how deeply these attitudes had penetrated the US mission until she saw the way the <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=271929#">career</a> foreign service officers she inherited from the previous administration dismissively referred to Blum by his first name and rudely interrupted him on this first visit. She sternly pointed out to them that Blum was a Holocaust <a id="Y7243283S1">survivor</a> who spoke nine languages, and angrily ordered them out of the room.</p>
<p>“You can see what it has been like for Israel here,” Blum told her after they sat down. Kirkpatrick replied, “It will be different now. No one will be treated better in this mission than Israel.”</p>
<p>And this was true. She and Blum cooperated on several initiatives and often escaped with key <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_staff" name="AdBriteInlineAd_staff" target="_top"></a>staff members for private strategy dinners at a small restaurant in Brooklyn they both favored. The personal relationship was political for Kirkpatrick. Seeing the hatred of Israel in her first days at the UN, she told her colleague Richard Schifter with a stricken look on her <a id="Y7243283S8">face</a>, “I think the Holocaust is possible again. I didn’t think so before I came to the UN, but I think so now.”</p>
<p>She brought this feeling to president Reagan who agreed with her that the US had to stand against “the obsessive vilification of Israel.” Along with preventing the spread of Marxism-Leninism in Central America and driving a stake through the heart of the Soviet Union, this became Kirkpatrick’s chief objective during her time at the UN.</p>
<p>After the bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, she argued strenuously that the US should simply abstain from the resolution advanced by Iraq after the attack <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_calling" name="AdBriteInlineAd_calling" target="_top"></a>calling for sanctions against Israel but was overruled by the State Department.</p>
<p>She then worked behind the scenes to get the resolution watered down to a condemnation and made her feelings known when even this question was called by raising her <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_hand" name="AdBriteInlineAd_hand" target="_top"></a>hand reluctantly to half mast and allowing a look to cross her face of someone who has just detected a fecal odor in the room.</p>
<p>Kirkpatrick defended Israel by her unyielding critique of what it faced at the UN. Charging that diplomacy regarding the “Arab- Israeli conflict” at the world body “has nothing to do with peace, but is quite simply a continuation of war against Israel by other means,” she said that the UN, as a result, had become a place where “moral outrage was distributed like violence in a protection racket”; a place where Israel is regularly and routinely attacked for manufactured crimes amidst deafening silence “when 3 <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=271929#">million</a> Cambodians died in Pol Pot’s murderous utopia&#8230; when a quarter million Ugandans died at the <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_hands" name="AdBriteInlineAd_hands" target="_top"></a>hands of Idi Amin&#8230; and when thousand of Soviet citizens are denied equal rights, equal protection of the law; denied the right to think, write, publish, work freely or emigrate.”</p>
<p>She pointed out repeatedly that hatred of Israel deformed all aspects of UN operations: “A women’s conference is suddenly transformed into a forum for the denunciation of Israel” because of assertions that “the biggest obstacle to the realizations of women’s full enjoyment of equal rights in the world is Zionism&#8230;.A meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency becomes so absorbed in negotiations and debate over a resolution to expel Israel that it almost forgets to worry about nuclear <a id="Y7243283S7">non</a> proliferation.”</p>
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		<title>The New Attack on Palin? Associate Her with John Edwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obsessive attacks on Palin take yet another morbid turn. ]]></description>
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<p>Wednesday, February 3, 2010, marked a new turn in the obsessive attacks on Sarah Palin: associating  her with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=631" target="_blank">John Edwards</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/grifters-tale/" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em></a> Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar “grifters” using populism to con the American voter–“playing to outrage while taking care of themselves.” In Egan’s view, both ginned up and profited from fears among a broad segment of the public who increasingly resent the success and power of the elites and feel that “America is passing them by.”</p>
<p>Edwards did this an arrant fashion by tearing the labels off his Armani suits and driving someone else’s clunker to rallies where he preached his blow-dried version of class warfare.  Now Palin is doing the same thing, Egan believes, by “charging Tea Partiers $100,000 to stoke their fears.”  (Yes, she has promised to plow her take back into “the cause,” but Egan assumes that she is a cynic whose only cause is herself.)</p>
<p>The comparison between the pair is asymmetrical and tendentious.  Egan doesn’t consider Edwards’ banality of evil—notably the lying treachery committed against wife and family, and friends and supporters.  But while  Palin’s failings, notably her “incoherence” and her lack of response to Glenn Beck when he asked about her favorite founding father, are not in any way equivalent to Edwards’ evil, they are more fully explored. It’s clear by the end of his piece that Egan isn’t really comparing the two at all, but using Edwards’ nastiness to make Palin seem sleazy by association.</p>
<p>Andrew Sullivan posted a nuttier but more interesting piece on Palin   and Edwards on his blog on thursday   titled <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/my-john-edwards-failure.html" target="_blank">“My John Edwards Failure.”</a></p>
<p>He begins by acknowledging that he committed a double standard treating Palin harshly and giving a pass to Edwards.  But then he immediately reassures the reader that this doesn’t mean he is “backtracking” on Palin.  In fact, says Sullivan,</p>
<blockquote><p>“All I regret is not being  able to expose her for real yet.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A surprising admission of failure by someone who has spent the last year and a half obsessing on her private parts, producing sick innuendoes about her family, and licking his chops over the dull normal baby daddy, Levi Johnston, and the big revelation he’s supposedly getting ready to deliver. Hasn’t he run her to ground yet? What more could Sullivan have done to her after months of subjecting her to the blog equivalent of waterboarding?</p>
<p>In the rest of his post—about his deficiencies is not getting  the Edwards story—he cultivates a weepy tone while making a very big deal out of an inessential disclosure.  He ignored the Edwards story, he says, because of his “leeriness of investigating people’s sex lives” (obviously he made an exception in Palin’s case).  Then he grandiosely struts his “sensitivity” by saying that he also “felt protective toward Elizabeth” whom he didn’t want to hurt at a time when she was “faced with mortality” and that he grieved over her loss of a child.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that he made a mistake “in making an assumption of a baseline of decency in public officials” and won’t do it again. Of course this assumption never did apply to Palin whom Sullivan has been lighting up—especially on the circumstances of Trig’s birth–during all those months when he was studiously ignoring Edwards.</p>
<p>What we can take away from this jive confession is that Sullivan will feel it his duty to concentrate his fire even more fiercely on Palin now that he has “learned” from his kid glove treatment of Edwards.</p>
<p>As if he needed a justification to continue this loony quest.</p>
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		<title>Unholy Alliance: Zinn, Chomsky, Bin Laden</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ties that bind two leftist ideologues and an arch terrorist.]]></description>
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<p>Every so often we experience what Jung called synchronicity—the sudden perception of a possibly meaningful pattern in apparently unrelated events. I had one of these moments myself last week.</p>
<p>The first element was the passing of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" target="_blank">Howard Zinn</a>.  I believe as much as the next guy that every man’s death diminishes me, but to be honest, in this case I was hard pressed to feel a sense of loss.  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Matt%20Damon%20Rewords%20US%20History.html" target="_blank">Matt Damon</a> might regard him as Parkman’s equal, but in truth Zinn was <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" target="_blank">a savage parody of a historian</a>, one of those radical hacks whose every word subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge.The best and worst that can be said of his <em>People’s History of the United States</em> is that it has benumbed the faculties of many young people over the last couple of decades. It is perhaps the best example in recent years of the way in which some of the fecal matter thrown onto the wall of our intellectual culture not only sticks but becomes a lasting act of defacement.</p>
<p>In checking out the obits on the internet, I ran into <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1692" target="_blank">Amy Goodman’s</a> tribute to Zinn at <a href="http://democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a>.  She interviewed by telephone <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2001" target="_blank">Alice Walker</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2131" target="_blank">Naomi Klein</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky</a>. Predictably, all three remembered Zinn as a rebel truth teller to the end, someone whose passing embodied the kitschy defiance of Joe Hill’s last words: “Don’t mourn, organize.”  But the Chomsky’s interview appeared to have a little something more.</p>
<p>To digress for a moment, I should say that while <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Chomsky-Reader-Peter-Collier/dp/189355497X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265065908&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">many of my friends have tried to deconstruct the complex intellectual pathology</a> behind Chomsky’s<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" target="_blank"> lifelong effort to affirm the transcendent evil of America</a>, I’ve always thought of him simply as someone with a truth problem—not only in what he says but even more in what he says about what he has said.  He associated himself with a rancid group of French Holocaust deniers, for instance, but when called on it claimed he was only defending their rights to free speech. Long after the fact, he continued to supply backup for <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1998" target="_blank">Pol Pot’</a>s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1998" target="_blank">genocide in Cambodia</a>, but when called on this, he said that his detractors were just a bunch of neo-Nazis out to get him (a compartmentalized response that ignores his support for exactly such neo-Nazis in the Holocaust denial matter.)</p>
<p>When it comes to the truth, in other words, Noam Chomsky is slipperier than a whole school of fish.  Lying for him is an art form, a squid’s ink which he emits and then uses as cover to escape from responsibility for what he has just said.</p>
<p>Even so, it was a shock to see Chomsky’s response when Goodman asked him about Zinn’s 1967 book <em>The Logic of Withdrawal</em>. Chomsky replied that it was brilliant and that Zinn, because the reviewing establishment was ignoring it, asked him to write about it in <em>Ramparts</em>, which he did. According to the transcript of the interview on Goodman’s website, Chomsky went on to describe Ramparts as “a left wing journal I was running then.”  (<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute" target="_blank">See here.</a>)</p>
<p>Chomsky never “ran” Ramparts. He was a distant voice in the years I was an editor at this premier magazine of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=118" target="_blank">New Left</a>–someone a coast away who tended to repeat over and over again criticisms he initially made in the New York Review of Books of the intellectual elite that ran the Vietnam War. My strongest memory of him is from 1967. I solicited an article more or less on what had become his standard topic.  It arrived poorly written and requiring considerable work. Because he didn’t like the changes I made, Chomsky told me that he would never again write for <em>Ramparts</em> and in fact did not for several years. (I recently reviewed the <em>Ramparts</em> experience <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Life-along-the--Ramparts--4371" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p>
<p>Claiming to have run a publication that kept him at arm’s length would have been an odd lie, even for a mendacity addict like Chomsky. My colleague David Swindle found a <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/dn2010-0128" target="_blank">link to the audio of the Goodman show</a>.<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/dn2010-0128" target="_blank"></a> I listened to it and Chomsky appears actually to have said “a left wing magazine that was running then,” without the “I.”  Vile phrasing for someone who is accounted to be an expert in language, but not the bald faced lie that the printed transcript suggests and not the synecdoche that it first appeared for the body of lies which comprises Chomsky’s oeuvre since the ’60s.</p>
<p>But back to the rush of synchronicity I alluded to above. It came a day after the Goodman interview, when <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690" target="_blank">Osama bin Laden</a> spoke up from whatever dreary cave in which he is presently immured.  After attacking the Great Satan for causing climate change in a diatribe that called up a possible <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1939" target="_blank">Jon Stewart</a> monologue (“…the arch terrorist provided a kiss of death for global warming theory today by offering his unqualified support for it just as <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/?s=climategate" target="_blank">the East Anglia Climategate</a> was calling the whole deal into question…”), bin Laden got down to the business of blackguarding America as a global terror state.  And who did he cite as proof for this theorem? None other than Chomsky himself.  Bin Laden had praised him two years earlier for showing how public opinion is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Noam-Chomsky-Media/dp/B00005Y726/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1265066608&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">“manufactured”</a> by decadent democracies; now he gave it up again for his hero: “Noam Chomsky was correct when he compared the U.S. polices to those of the Mafia.”</p>
<p>Bin Laden, Zinn, and Chomsky. How synchronous their harmonies.  How collaborative the ideas in their weave.  How much they deserve each other.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blogger as slavish Obama apologist.]]></description>
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<p>Andrew Sullivan seems increasingly unhinged these days. The creepy, Torquemada-like obsession with Sarah Palin continues as he rummages through her book in a deranged act of <em>explication de texte</em>, functions as a one man birther movement laying out loony speculations about the owners of the orifices out of which Trig and Tripp slid, and continues to worship the sleazy dudeitude of Levi Johnson.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Sullivan slavishly justifies Obama on every count, including his administration’s sneaky efforts to smuggle “progressives” into policy making positions under the radar of Congressional scrutiny. Recently it was support for his appointment of Hannah Rosenthal as head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Because she seems to share some part of his own fanged venom for Israel, Sullivan sees her as a Promethean truth teller being shut down by what his soul mate Pat Buchanan once called “the amen corner.”</p>
<p>After my old friend Ron Radosh rightly criticized her for attacking Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren as a result of critical remarks he made about the egregious organization J Street, Sullivan hit him as a “neo con likudnik.” But when Sullivan tuned in to his own esteemed <em>Atlantic</em> colleague Jeffrey Goldberg for an opinion, Goldberg instead confirmed Radosh’s position, indicating that he was absolutely baffled that Rosenthal should make someone like Oren the first target of what is supposed to be a campaign against anti-Semitism. (Doesn’t she find a crusade worth undertaking in the way that the new addiction to Jew hatred has migrated from the Middle East to Europe and is presently getting established in our own country, where people like Sullivan can experiment with Walt-Mearshemerism as a no fault gateway drug?)</p>
<p>Even when Sullivan is good he’s bad. Today he gives good coverage to cell phone images of the bloody street action in Teheran. (And indeed, he has been good on Iran in all the months since the election was stolen.) But even here, his pro-Obama contextualizing of events neutralizes his support of the protestors. What moral does he draw from their incredible bravery in defying the regime’s street thug murderers? That the world is lucky to have “Obama’s reticence” at this critical moment because by not criticizing the obscene Iranian regime, our President “removes from Ahmadinejad the convenient weapon of demonizing the protests as pawns of the Great Satan.”</p>
<p>Take a moment to get this straight: it’s a good thing we have a president who, to keep himself pure for that ultimate negotiation on nukes that will never come, refrains from using some of that synthetic eloquence of his to put us on the side of people who are getting cut down in the streets. By such scurvy logic, it was wrong of Ronald Reagan to go to Moscow and speak to and about the dissidents and their heroic struggle against totalitarianism because it might have given ammunition to wardens of the gulag. And wrong to have been unequivocally on the side of Solidarity. And so on.</p>
<p>Word smuggled out of Teheran has told us that the protestors themselves would like a little U.S. affirmation so they won’t feel they are dying in the dark. And the citizens of our own country could certainly use the reassurance about the values we stand for, via a word or two in behalf of the demonstrators, especially after being subjected to a punishing year-long Presidential apology tour for American exceptionalism. But from Obama we get only beseeching admonitions that are far too little and always too late and always undermined by the reluctance with which they are delivered. This has become a vain, small-minded and morally anemic presidency that only someone like Andrew Sullivan could love.</p>
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		<title>Presumed Guilty &#8211; by Peter Collier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why KSM must be licking his chops and praising Allah.]]></description>
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<p>On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace gave Jack Reed, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, an opportunity to defend the decision to give KSM a civilian trial in New York. After enumerating the many injuries this could cause the country, Wallace asked Reed for one advantage Attorney General Holder’s decision might bring. Reed, well known as a talking head for the White House, said that such a trial will “stand as a symbol in the world of something different than what the terrorists represent.”</p>
<p>That this comment comes shortly after the President bowed deeply to the Japanese emperor (an obeisance even more groveling than the one he lied about having offered Saudi King Abdullah this past spring) is, as my former Marxist friends used to say, no accident. This administration is obsessed with American guilt–so ambivalent about our country’s intrinsic meaning that it feels it must invent a new symbolism to convince the rest of the world that we are a good and decent nation. Other countries may be on the fence about whether we’re all that different from the terrorists, the logic of Reed’s comment seemed to suggest, so we must have a show trial to convince them that we are.</p>
<p>But while Reed smugly congratulates the administration for setting up a global civics lesson, KSM must be licking his chops and thanking Allah that nobody listened to him when he demanded to be put to death. Here he has an opportunity, courtesy of the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S., no less, to further the destruction he caused on 9/11. That attack hit buildings and bodies; the one he will soon be able to launch from a New York courtroom could affect American security even more profoundly since it will be directed at all the safeguards put into effect in the eight years since the first attack. In this regard, Holder has given KSM the opportunity to use one of the time honored techniques of the homicide bomber: set off one explosion, and then, when responders rush in to deal with the carnage, set off another that will claim an even larger number of victims.</p>
<p>Sen. Reed, one of those for whom 9/10 appears to be Groundhog Day, blithely dismissed the downside, but it will surely be America, as much or more than KSM himself, that will be on trial when this legal circus opens its big tent. Sources and methods of intelligence gathering, cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies, rendition, cruel and unusual incarceration, and most of all TORTURE  will dominate the proceedings. The rest of the world will not get a lesson about America’s constitutional glories, but a confirmation of its worst suspicions that we are and always have been a black ops nation.</p>
<p>KSM will get a chance to show the blood on the Great Satan’s hands. And Eric Holder and his President will get the Truth Commission they have wanted since the election but were afraid to seek through the normal political process. In this regard, at least, the trial will be win/win.</p>
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		<title>The Spin Starts Here &#8211; by Peter Collier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left springs to action to protect St. Obama from blame.]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214">Dems</a> are spinning so hard after Tuesday&#8217;s elections that the earth may be in danger of flying off its axis.  Some of the intellectual chaos they have generated was on display Wednesday afternoon on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1759">Chris Matthews’</a> “Hardball.”</p>
<p>Admittedly, being on the Matthews’ show is a challenge for guests, who have to struggle to get a word in edgewise as the hyperkinetic host asks questions and immediately answers them himself and generally acts less like an interviewer than someone on sodium pentatol.</p>
<p>But a few attempts at explaining last night’s Democratic debacle got past Matthews’ logorrhea and all of them were calculated to protect St. Obama from blame. Democratic Party  hack Steve McMahon contradicted himself at least twice every sentence when he said the lesson of the election was that the Republicans who won in Virginia and New Jersey were non-ideological but also that Republicans were becoming a “white male Southern party” taken over by the “far right”; that the voters were concerned about the economy and other problems but also that the Republican sweep was “anti-incumbent rather than anti-Obama.”</p>
<p>Next came Chuck Todd, more knowledgeable than Matthews, although allowed to speak fewer words.  His message was that the White House knew that it was implicated in the vote.  In fact it had acted admirably in deciding to “own” the results in Virginia and New Jersey.  And, as David Axelrod had told Todd, it couldn’t let politics continue to be local in 2010 but rather had to move quickly to “nationalize” next year’s elections—that is, make them about Obama with Obama as the central player.  Then people would presumably respond as they had in 2008—with an outpouring of robotic adulation and the Dems would be okay.  But can the President go back to the well with a message of “change,” when the changes he has made so far have been so disastrous?  Can he really re-use last year’s hope-a-dope strategy again when the people are so much sadder and wiser?  Matthews didn’t ask and Todd didn’t say.  No one wants to disturb the white noise of vanity inside the Obama cocoon.</p>
<p>The New York Observer’s Chuck Kornacki even offered a “silver lining” from last night’s louring clouds.  The results really represented a potential failure for Republicans, he suggested, because they would now be lulled into a false sense of well being and fail to deal with internal conflicts that will prevent them from redefining their tarnished identify.  The results in Virginia and New Jersey were caused by a poor economy, not a poor president, and if/when the economy comes “roaring back” in 2012 the Repubicans would still be taboo and Democrats still sitting pretty.</p>
<p>Matthews should have handed each of his guests Occam’s Razor.  Instead, he ended the show by putting  on a Phillies cap and endorsing Pedro Martinez for tonight’s game, even though “Petey” has admitted that the Yankees are his Daddy,  just as — for one election evening any how–the Republicans are clearly the Daddies of the Dems.  No other explanation required.</p>
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		<title>The Right&#8217;s Resurrection &#8211; by Peter Collier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media prepares to spin today's elections' conservative comeback. ]]></description>
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<p>MSNBC correspondents David Schuster and Tamron Hall spent some time trying to shape the battlefield for today&#8217;s elections in their afternoon news show yesterday. They featured DNC Chairman (and outgoing Virginia governor) Tim Kaine, an oddly implausible fellow who tried to test run the narrative by which <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214">his Party</a> plans to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat after all the hanging chads are examined.</p>
<p>Kaine actually claimed that things looked good in Virginia, where his would-be successor Creigh Deeds will not only be defeated in a landslide, but punished after the fact by a dizzying White House spin insisting that the defeat came because he was a lousy candidate, not because the people of his state despair at the way the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">Obama administration</a> has mishandled every crisis within reach on the national level.</p>
<p>Kaine also tried to be blithely reassuring about New Jersey, where the bungling cesspit administration of Jon Corzine is on the ropes in a reliably Democratic state and where the biggest unreported story of the campaign is why challenger Chris Christie hasn’t fought back against Corzine’s ongoing subliminal ridicule of him as fat by pointing out that Corzine is really bald and in addition has a very bad resting face that makes him always appear to be wondering who, in the immediate crowd around him, he has decided to have for dinner. (Christie wisely decided to bring the fat issue into the open at the end of the campaign, thus making himself part of America’s most maligned minority, victims of a nasty “weightist” attack orchestrated in a Democratic White House as willing to use a soda tax as its predecessors in Democratic state houses throughout the South once were the poll tax.)</p>
<p>But the race for which Kaine summoned up the most enthusiasm was, oddly enough, New York’s 23<sup>rd</sup> Congressional District, where the official Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava, who had been hand picked for the nomination by a handful of party bosses, recently pulled out because of a mass migration of Republican voters into the camp of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.</p>
<p>Preparing for a possible but far from certain Hoffman victory (and echoing the old <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue">Communist</a> principle of “maximizing the contradictions,”) Kaine had a new story line ready for such an outcome.  It wouldn’t be so bad because it would represent a further purge of the moderates from the Republican Party, which soon will definitively have been taken over by the dread Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Lynn Cheney, and other extremist mullahs.  A Hoffman victory would foreshadow, Kaine grimly chortled, other conservative/moderate bloodlettings in next year’s Republican primaries for the Florida Senate and Texas Governor nominations. It would mean that a brutal cell division promoted by the Palinites was shrinking the Republican Party to such insignificance that in 2012 it would face a Goldwater-like catastrophe.</p>
<p>Pollster Scott Rasmussen has shown how shallow this analysis is and how vain the hopes behind it.  Republican voters do indeed overwhelmingly regard themselves as conservative (which is why in NY-23 they rejected the emotionally moist and politically limp Scozzafava, who was for abortion, Obamacare, the Obama stimulus, and the scurvy card check legislation promoted by anti democratic union moguls, and who, immediately after pulling out of the race, embraced her Democratic soul mate Owens and began recording robocalls for his candidacy.) But only slightly more than half of conservative voters see themselves as Republican.  This means that to broaden their outreach, Rasmussen points out, Republicans should look to the right.  “The sweet spot for Republicans,” Rasmussen concludes, “are core issues that unify conservatives while dividing more moderate voters.” One such issue is obviously <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=615">Obamacare</a>, which conservatives are united in opposing, and a Republican who supports it, as did the hapless Scozzafava, will drive away more voters than he or she attracts.</p>
<p>Appealing to conservatives, therefore, may be more a growth industry than a death sentence for Republicans, if it is accomplished pragmatically and without creating the death squad mentality that characterizes the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue">left wing</a> of the Democrat Party.  There are twice as many conservatives in the country as liberals, Gallup told us last week.  And this trend appears to be growing in an era marked by a fetid combination of weakness, narcissim, and unbridled power hunger in the White House.  Conservatives, to paraphrase the late Irving Kristol, are liberals and moderates who have been mugged by Obama.  And those like Tim Kaine and his MSNBC enablers now trying to create a narrative that will make today&#8217;s electoral results look good may ultimately be sorry that they were not more careful in what they wished for.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l967&#8211;Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l977-83&#8211;Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">EDITORIAL</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1967-73&#8211;Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ramparts </span>Magazine</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l982-85&#8211;Consulting Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">California Magazine</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-2000—Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">ADMINISTRATIVE</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts Project, Washington D.C. (Organized a movement of former New Leftists who had “second thoughts” after a decade and a half of commitment to the “revolution” of the 60s; set up campus appearances across the county for this group; debated spokesmen for the Left before university audiences; published a newsletter, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts</span>; traveled to Nicaragua for the State Department to inspire the “civic resistance” to defy the Sandinistas; organized “Second Thoughts Conference” in Washington D.C in 1987, followed by “Second Thoughts about Race” in the same city, and “Second Thoughts about the 60s and Totalitarianism” in Poland in 1989.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-97—Vice President, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Los Angeles, California.  (Did corporate planning; designed, edited and published a monthly magazine,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy</span>, and two quarterlies, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Defender</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Report Card</span>; edited a series of books and pamphlets, including <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deconstructing the Left</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stranger than Fact</span>; set up subscription, sales and distribution systems; wrote direct mail and did personal fund raising; organized two conferences on the role of Hollywood and Hollywood politics in American life; appeared in speaking engagements at campuses across the country.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1998-2006&#8211;Publisher and President, Encounter Books.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">WRITINGS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Articles</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Times</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Washington Post</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reader’s Digest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Public Interest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Commentary</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Weekly Standard</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The National Review</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The American Spectator</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vanity Fair</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rolling Stone</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esquire</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Playboy</span>, Wall Street Journal, etc. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Short fiction</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Triquarterly</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canto</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Seattle Review</span>, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (fictio</strong>n)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver: A Novel </span>(Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1978)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The King’s Giraffe </span>with Mary Collier (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1995).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (nonfiction):</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">When Shall They Rest: A History of the Cherokee People</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1972)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;l976)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys: An American Drama </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1984)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fords: An American Epic </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1987)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1989)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty</span> (G.P Putnam’s&#8211;1990)\</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties</span> (Madison&#8211;1991)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts: An American Saga</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1994);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Medal of Honor</span> (Workman Publishers&#8211;2004)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Film Scripts</strong>:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Shades of Gray: the Life and Death of Fay Stender” (1990);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Cowboy Days,” the story of Theodore Roosevelt in the West (1997).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> <strong>Television Documentaries</strong></span></p>
<ul><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong> Executive Producer for “Campus Battleground,” funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of its “America at the Crossroads” and shown nationally on PBS in 2007.</span></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">PUBLISHING HIGHLIGHTS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Three books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts</span>) main selections Book of the Month Club. Two books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas</span>) featured alternates. Nominated for the National Book Award (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>) and the Pulitzer (The Kennedys).  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span> on the NYT best seller list for 16 weeks.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span> on the NYT best seller list for 22 weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Called by the New York Times, &#8220;America&#8217;s premier biographer of dynastic tragedy.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Books translated into 13 languages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">HONORS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1979&#8211;Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1980&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Scandinavia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1987&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Nicaragua</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> 1998&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Italy</span></p>
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