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TNew York he bloom having gone off her ugliness, Barbra Streisand is suddenly a very unhappy female. She can no longer crash in the Lincoln Bedroom, the draft-dodging crook and bribe-taker is lying low in upstate No° Yawk, and George W. Bush is working, not getting Monica Lewinskys, in the Oval Office.
Such is the disgusting one's frustration, she is planning to organise a cabal of lefties to buy a cable TV news network. This I'd love to see. Socialist propaganda emanating from Streisand's meagre brain might be a good thing for capitalism. She recently sent a scorching three-page memo to top Democrats in Washington blasting President Bush, the Supreme Court and just about everyone who voted against Al Bore. The memo, lampooned by my buddy Christopher Buckley in the Wall Street Journal, at least got this power-hungry dame some publicity.
Babs was always a caricature. An Olive Oil cartoon. with Clinton as Popeye. Only a philistine like Marc Rich's pardoner could take such a persona seriously, and he sure did. Her spokesman, one Ken Sunshine, known as the man whose face looks like the place where the sun never shines, fumed at Buckley's satire. Sunshine, you see, has no sense of humour, nor does Barbra — she, according to Jeff Bernard, of the face that closed a thousand multiplexes.
The high priestess of solipsism had it easy for eight long years while the biggest liar ever to inhabit the White House was busy besmirching the presidency. The middle-aged has-been from Brooklyn had unlimited access to the perjurer. Mind you, although she did not write her memo — a team of hacks and publicists did — anything that keeps her from singing is a very good thing. What is truly amazing is the hypocrisy of Streisand and her Hollywood chums. She rails against those who condemned the pardons of crooks and drug lords. In other words, it is now acceptable to Hollywood types for one to become a crook and traitor, run away from the law, and use your ill-gotten gains to have a corrupt president grant you a pardon if you share some of the loot with him. These are the same people whose motion pictures depict priests as child molesters, soldiers as psychopathic murderers and small-town folk as rednecks and Nazis.
And of course they loathe George Bush. The difference between George W and Clinton — ethics, honesty and decency aside — is that Bush has a coherent idea of individual responsibility, whereas the draft dodger's ambition was and continues to be fuelled only by a longing for the trappings of the highest office of the land. Ditto for the political ethics of people like Streisand and those of God-fearing, law-abiding folk. The progressive (read limousine liberal) forces have placed most of their chips on the undermining of morality; those of conservative views on upholding morals. No wonder our entertainment is now so debased.
Not that Babs has a monopoly on silliness. It's a free country and all she did was exercise her right to free speech — a right that people such as Ted Kennedy, his fellow Democrats, and aided by 13 turncoat Republicans, hope to muzzle in future. During the last session these fine folk passed legislation that created new federal crimes that can be committed only by White Heterosexual Able-bodied Males, or, according to Paul Craig Roberts, Whams.
This legislation makes any violent act committed against a woman, a homosexual, or a disabled person a federal hate crime. It already is a hate crime to commit a violent act against a person of colour. The Kennedy bill is race profiling at its worst. Whams are targeted on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation. When homosexual Mathew Shepard was beaten and accidentally killed, the media proclaimed it a hate crime. But when two homosexuals sexually molested and intentionally murdered a young boy, it was not considered a hate crime, just as if a husband beats an unfaithful wife it is a hate crime, but if a woman castrates a husband it is not.
Inventing crimes that cannot be committed by protected groups makes equality before the law a joke. Just imagine what would have happened to a Wham had he left a black girl trapped in his car to drown while he went back to his hotel and pretended nothing had happened for the next ten hours. •The assault on white males reminds one of the assault on Jews by German intellectuals before the rise of Hitler. The difference is that the assault on white males is led primarily by white males like Kennedy and his cohorts. I think I'm going off to the Sudan for awhile.
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