13 FEBRUARY 1993, Page 40

High life

Court circular

Taki

In a recent interview with Dan Rather, Mrs Pamela Harriman, the Queen Mother of the Clinton Court, as she is now known,' as well as the natural mother of Winst Churchill, MP, was asked if the dial dodger and non-inhaler reminded her f Sir Winston Churchill. Ms Pamela Dig",; Churchill Hayward Harriman did not bitty. `He certainly does', she answered, 'in his resilience and inner strength.' Now that's what I call debasing the lea- guage. Dan Rather, for any of you NI° may not be familiar with this particular Jerk, is a blow-dry type who reads the CBS news nightly, a man who was constantly very rude to Republican candidates while obsequious and embarrassingly gushing to those who like to take your money and 'nine and hand it out to non-workers. Oh I almost forgot. Dan Rather is also an knot, so much so in fact that he's been beaten up a couple of times by persons unknown who simply couldn't take his stu- Pidity any longer. The Queen Mother of the war hero's u°,1111 is another matter altogether. An obviously intelligent woman where money concerned, she must surely know that Vinton is among the great liars of our Fnte, yet she chose to compare him favourably with old Winnie, a man whose gteat mistake was not to let the two bad- dies e: Light it out until they were both exhausted, and then pounce. But his mis- take was a romantic one, and he made up fr. it by seeing what a monster Stalin was wink Roosevelt was still trying to figure out how to turn over most of Europe to Uncle Joe. What amazes me are the goings-on in Washington at the moment. My spies tell show that Hillary Clinton is running the ":'nnt. Two secret service agents have because asked to be relieved of their duties cause of her constant shouting at them and the fact that she treats her security boards as servants — of the 13th century. Yet the Queen Mother stays mum, and we should be thankful she didn't compare the ghastly Hillary to Clementine. What is happening to America when one h4 to pretend that there is no moral dm- tniction between life-styles, and when the more immoral the style the more vocifer- ous its backers and the bigger the govern- ment subsidy? This is all Hillary's doing, and the great war hero is going along the ay he went back in the Sixties. In the meantime, such is the ignorance in America that a panhandler accosted me in the nation's capital and asked me for Loney, telling me he was a Vietnam vet.

Was 25, I asked him his age he told me he 25, which means he must have done as 'Itch fighting as our President. Otherwise, I had a great time at the "atonal Review conference. There were wonderful speeches and spirited debates, at,11,,in good humour, conservatives being "'u in no uncertain terms that the domi- ,u,ant media culture had won the war and that it was time we did something about it. as, my only contribution was to bring to the conference two young French exchange ii`u_lents of the female persuasion whom I n picked up in a night-club, neither of :nom spoke a word of English although eY had been in Washington for six months. Perhaps they weren't students after all. And yes, I did get a laugh when I rtked the band to strike up 'Inhale to the "met', and a very good rendition of it they Played too.