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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: "Crow-Jimism"

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 1:07 PM ET

But I wonder whether Rexroth would have been surprised by the latest antics of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, as reported in the papers today. Jackson--who has, perhaps appropriately, become one of Bill Clinton's spiritual advisers--compares Governor George Pataki of New York to two segregationist governors of the old South. They were "blocking schoolhouse doors in Alabama or Arkansas," just as Pataki, by allegedly cutting the budget, is "locking kids out of closed school doors in New York." In fact, however, New York in recent years has undergone the largest expansion of public-school funding in the state's history. Now, a white public figure would undoubtedly be damaged for such a lying slur, but Jackson, we can be sure, will by the grace of "Crow-Jimism" be absolved and allowed to lie another day.

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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: "Crow-Jimism"

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 1:07 PM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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