By Ben Stein on 4.11.07 @ 10:05AM
Plus Pelosi, Lantos, and other hard to take news -- except about John Coyne's new book.
Well, well, well. No one doubts that Don Imus made a horrible
mistake of morality and decency by referring to the gallant Rutgers
women's basketball squad as "nappy headed ho's." There was just no
excuse for such cruelty. But to watch Imus being grilled on TV by
the likes of Al Sharpton was truly beyond belief . Of course he was
a huge part of the Tawana Brawley charade which wrecked the lives
of perfectly innocent New York policemen. Of course he never made a
meaningful apology. But what you might now know is this: that in
years past, when the Central Park Jogger rape case was in court,
Sharpton picketed outside the office of the New York sex crimes
prosecutor, Linda Alice Fairstein, in Manhattan. "Day after day,"
Linda -- a dear friend -- told me, "he would shout out to me and
call me a 'Jew bitch.' He never even remotely apologized." For this
man to be sitting in moral judgment on anyone at all is
incomprehensible. For the media to take Sharpton seriously is
unbelievable.
And in the same sad vein, I see photos on TV of Tom Lantos
(D-Ca.), a Holocaust survivor, accompanying the pitifully
face-lifted Nancy Pelosi (I would bet a lot she's had a breast job,
too--can you imagine that we have a Speaker of the House, third in
line for the White House, so vain and superficial that at her age
she has her breasts done?) to Damascus and bowing-- yes, BOWING --
to Bashir Assad, sworn enemy of Israel, killer of Israelis and
Americans. Tom Lantos used to be my favorite Congressman for his
steadfast support of America and Israel. Now he is just an old pol,
doing anything to get in front of the cameras. Vanity, vanity, all
is vanity. But did he have to bow to one of the world's leading
anti-Semites?
And at the other end of the moral and intelligence spectrum,
run, don't walk, RUN, to Amazon to buy A Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the
American Conservative Movement. It is by my old pal John
R. Coyne Jr., and Linda Bridges, a long-time colleague of the great
Mr. B. Well-written, compelling, amusing, insightful,
comprehensive--you do not know Buckley and you do not know the
American conservative movement until you have read this book. It is
published this week and you're not a real conservative if you have
not read it.
topics:
Nancy Pelosi, Israel
