RUSH READERSHIP
Re: The Washington Prowler’s Clinton
on the Dole:
Thank you for the opportunity of reading the important article,
“Clinton on the Dole,” through Rush’s website. The average citizen
is, now, getting the facts re: events of interest through groups
like you.
— Charlie Gilmore
Saugerties, NY
Someone needs to ask Bob Dole to please abdicate in favor
of Ann Coulter. I will start watching “60 Minutes” again to see
that confrontation, but certainly won’t tune in for Clinton vs.
Dole.
— Joe Huston
Rush a non-starter, yeah, right. Clinton would be blown away
against Rush! Besides Rush would never lower himself to appear with
Clinton. Clinton isn’t even fit to clean Rush’s shoes!
Also, from the couple of minutes I saw of this show, it was
pitiful.
— Joanne Sheldon
There is nothing provocative about a perjurious, classless fugitive
from justice named Clinton to debate or entertain. He just isn’t
worth it.
— Sid Marquis
Ann Coulter surely could hold her own intellectually with any
arguments that this dumb-ass could come up with, but, she would be
to busy watching where his hands were and fighting off sexual
advances. Obviously if he doesn’t know what the definition of is
is, then he sure as hell doesn’t know that NO means NO!
— Jeffrey W. Holloway
Murphysboro, IL
Limbaugh would eat Billy Baby alive! And so would Ann Coulter!
— Curtis Deen
There was definitely a joker in the group who was suggesting Rush
for the show. It was not serious, believe me. Clinton does not want
to stoop to that level. And if Ann Coulter had been the opponent, I
would clearly have vomited, ugh!!!
— unsigned
Loved the article but you should know that a million dollars is
seven figures and not six.
— Phil Kraker
Mpls, MN
I just clicked on a link to your site from Rush’s site. I love it,
but you should think about changing that Times Roman font — too
hard to read. Use something without the “curly serif” like Arial,
Verdana, Tahoma, or Helvetica.
Anyway, you have a nice looking site which is easy to navigate
—good colors and cute little “Prowler Birdie.”
— Carol Tullar
Cedar Hill, TX
THE SELF-SAME
Re: Enemy Central’s Fools
of the Trade:
Was it not the same Terry Moran who, with the help of his
neighborly sister, “kneecapped” Linda Chavez with the “illegal
alien/didn’t pay Social Security taxes rap during her appointment
process to be Sec. of Labor? A conservative Hispanic in a Cabinet
level position? Oh, the Horror! I guess we should have seen the
Estrada filibuster coming. Congratulations on a fine choice for the
Enemy of the Week.
— Lloyd Coffin
Peabody, MA
HILLARY CAN WAIT
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Hillary’s
Running and Reader Mail’s Madam
President:
The Tyrrell piece that sparked such a breathless discussion of
her chances to unseat Bush came across during my quick reading of
it as being satirical, if anything. How can she be taken seriously
as a presidential candidate? Consider the calculus she made to
engineer her Senate seat. In the year 2000, only CA and NY met the
two criteria she would require: a Democratic state with sex appeal.
Both CA and NY went Democratic by at least 60% in each of the two
previous presidential elections, ‘96 and ‘92, and both could be
expected to fall in line, as they did, for Al Gore, The Human
Dialtone. Thus, neither state was likely to have strong opposition
(remember, the pre-9/11 Giuliani was not an attractive candidate).
As candidates, Lazio hurt himself more than Hillary helped herself.
And only NY and CA are stages large enough to satisfy her. “The
Senator from Arkansas” just doesn’t leave you panting quite the
same way. Neither Feinstein nor Boxer was up in 2000, and Hillary
wouldn’t go after one of them in a primary anyway, so get Bill,
Daschle and others to lean on poor old Moynihan until he steps
aside, begrudgingly saying a few nice words before putting on his
slippers and easing gently into the long good night.
Nationally, I hope I am correct when I conclude that Hillary
does not have sufficiently high appeal, outside a handful of states
(some of which, to be fair, pull a lot of electoral votes) to
encourage her to run. The red and blue map of 2000 would likely cut
more deeply against in ‘04 in than it did against Gore in ‘00 (New
Mexico, Nevada, Missouri, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, about 72
votes in all, would be tough), and all the data I’ve seen suggest
her presence on the ticket would pull more of both money and votes
against her than for her. Thus, and this is the key with Hillary,
the probability of victory is not sufficiently high for her to risk
losing her seat in the Senate, where she will be nicely placed to
become minority leader after 2004 with a view toward running the
Senate, God help us, some number of years later. That is quite an
achievable scenario, and one we all must work diligently to ensure
never comes to pass.
Keep up the fine work.
— Daniel Burns
MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Re: Randy Nemko’s Are
White Males Getting Shortchanged?:
As a mother of four white males, ages 18, 20, 21, 23, I’d like
to thank you for publishing what I have seen over the last 20
years. From church league basketball to Little League to the Texas
Sailing Circuit, the white males have not been able to compete
without making allowances for females. However, without fail, the
girls have had in addition to the mixed competition “girls only”
competitions. Never has there ever been a “male only” competition
— they have all been invaded by girls.
Now, my sons are in much more important competitions, those for
colleges and jobs. What a travesty! My second son, a junior honor
student at UVA, was recently lucky enough to be interviewed for an
internship by several New York investment banking firms. For one
particular firm, he was one of 12 being interviewed — 7 women and
5 males. He was the only white male. The good news was that he was
offered the position. The sad news was that his white male friends
with equally good or better gradepoint averages than several of the
females did not receive even an interview. And, at this moment we
are awaiting news of college acceptances for my youngest son.
Here’s hoping that he is one of the white male minority accepted.
Thank you again for acknowledging the plight of a not-so-new
minority.
— Nancy Moncrief
FRANCE IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s How
Very French:
Just read your piece on French reluctance, in the war on
terror.
I lived in France during 1995 when the entire French nation was
focused on the Kelkal group of terrorists, to about the same degree
as Americans are currently focused on their own crop. The French
had a determination to root out these thugs (they called the
program “Vigipirate”) that went way beyond anything I’ve seen in
the USA, even since 9/11. One could see substantial security
everywhere — things like no trashcans, which cannot be implemented
here — and many people paying close attention, watching for
threats. Despite your claims about French anti-Semitism, such an
attitude, surely no worse than its American counterpart, did not
keep the nation from being appalled and disgusted when the Kelkal
group attacked a Hebrew primary school, in Lyon. The French police
finally cornered the Kelkal gang in Lyon, and dispatched them.
The French are tough on terror — Vichy was no worse than what
would happen here, under similar circumstances. The French are much
more realistic about how to be tough, against current styles of
terror, than we are. There is no reason to believe that France’s
reluctance to invade Iraq is conditioned by anti-Semitism, a
non-bellicosity hang-up, etc. For a discussion of contemporary
terror and how to fight it, see the paper “Three Can Keep A Secret
If Two Are Dead,” on my network site.
— M.A. Faia
Williamsburg, VA
LAST ROUND
Re: John Corry’s A
Sober Dissent and letters and replies in Reader Mail’s Sobriety
Tests, Madam
President and You
Never Can Tell:
I feel that your painting of the administration as “bully boys”
is misguided and oversimplified. What you seemingly fail to
recognize is that regardless of whether or not we forcibly remove
the regime in Iraq, the U.S. will still be targeted for terrorist
attacks. If we don’t run Saddam and his minions to ground, it will
be viewed as a major sign of weakness by our enemies, and enhearten
them to greater effort.
As we will remain Israel’s ally, we will continue to be
categorized as anti-Muslim and a holy target by those who would
eradicate us just as they would the Jews. Damned if we do — yes,
but as long as we are the preeminant power on earth, such will
always be the case.
This is the new world condition: eradication of the means of
nuclear weaponry and WMDs for the greater good, or face the
possibility of their turning up in our own backyard.
— Michael Schweitzer
Cleveland, OH
