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The Political Party

Posted Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:21 PM ET

Hello, Bob:

So, Go Knicks, right? I'm kind of buggin' on how the whole Rudy/Hillary thing is getting played out in the Post and the Daily News. And I must say also this is the most I've checked out these papers since I've lived here. What's the deal with the politics? I mean, it's all a joke, right? They are the student council and we are the kids? And we all think we are too cool for their care-about-what's-going-on antics, they think we are slacky wish-we-could-be-thems who are satisfied to go along however crankily with whatever dance they provide the music for.

And regarding the sportswriter/black athlete thing, I think I just tune them out like I tune out the announcers during the game. Game Three I watch at Lot 61 with Hot 97-like music playing in the background. Busta, Ice Cube, 702, Puffy, Nas, Mase, Naughty by Nature, Missy. Interesting. I liked it like that. Gotta run! Closing still, and: I'm 34 today. Trying to pretend like I have a life. (But I'll write you back again today, of course.)

P.S.: Do they run those pictures of Bill Clinton actually touching people (see the Times' front page) because they know it makes people like me think he's a little bit human and a little bit courageous ... even though down deep I know the whole shot is totally set up?

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Robert Christgau is a senior editor and chief music critic of the Village Voice. His essay collection, Grown Up All Wrong (click here to buy the book), was published in 1998. Danyel Smith is the editor in chief of Vibe.
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