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Subject: Alan Keyes Fingers Servile Press
Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 5:56 PM
The following column from Slate that I just caught up to is truly astonishing for what
it baldly says. Note that Alan
Keyes content (if not his temperament at the time) was radical libertarian. To
actually say that (notice that the truth
of his statements are not disputed, just the fact that he would utter that in a
national political debate; notice, too,
that he said nothing that was peculiar to pure libertarianism, like selling the
streets or privatizing capital
punishment) in public brands one as insane.
Remind me again of how the LP is going to achieve or even present anything Libertarian
by using the mass media (the old
Clark Campaign justification for the LP's existence)?
The Higher Circles media and the "constitutional" political mechanisms will have to be
bypassed. Thanks, Jacob Weisberg,
for your fresh confirmation.
Freely as ever, SEK3
Keyes Loses It
By: Jacob Weisberg
Posted Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999, at 8:11 p.m.
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HANOVER, N.H.--The second Republican debate was
enlivened
by the presence of two hecklers who got inside the
Dartmouth
auditorium where the town hall-style forum was
taking place. One,
a young woman, shouted that military spending should
be cut to
provide better health care until she was ejected
from the hall. The
other, Alan Keyes, ranted and raved about a variety
of topics but
was allowed to remain.
Keyes is an intelligent man, but tonight he seemed
truly deranged.
In response to a question put to all the candidates
about whether
they supported a flat tax, Keyes declared that the
income tax was
both socialism and slavery. "The income tax is a
form of tax that
was advocated by Marx and Lenin because it cedes in
principle to
the government control of EVERY LAST DOLLAR that is
made or
earned in income," he bellowed, walking to the edge
of the stage.
"THINK ABOUT IT," he shouted at the audience. "If I
have to
give you a percentage of my income and you get to
determine the
percentage, how much are you in control of? HOW MUCH?
ANSWER IT!!! ALL OF IT, EVERY LAST BIT OF IT."
This assault left everyone a bit stunned, but it was
just a warm-up
for his answer to a polite and intelligent question
about whether the
United States ought to pay its back U.N. dues. "If
you want to
blame somebody for that billion-dollar deficit,
blame me!" he
shrieked. "I was one of the people in the Reagan
administration
who helped to put together and foster the policy
that withheld our
contributions from the United Nations. The United
Nations that
takes our money--tosses it down the RATHOLE!" During
these
screeds, someone in the CNN editing room kept
cutting to audience
members who were rolling their eyes, giggling, or
trying to
suppress gales of laugher.
I'd say Keyes was one step away from being hauled
away in a
straitjacket. He, on the other hand, thought he was
the hands-down
winner. As soon as the debate ended, he came
upstairs to the hall
where the press was watching on a big-screen TV and
offered to
take questions. Reporters, pecking out their stories
on deadline,
didn't immediately respond with any. At that point,
Keyes truly lost
it, accusing the press of racism for ignoring him. I
think his tirade
is worth recording in full:
You know what's fascinating? Can I make a
statement here?
The New Hampshire debate that was held in the
'96 race,
they did the polling afterward. I actually won
the debate in
the eyes of the people polled. I OFTEN win
these debates,
and every time I stand before you press folks,
you have no
questions. I find it kind of amazing. At some
point, you
know, one has to start to wonder. The people of
this country
have gotten over their racial sickness. I don't
know that you
folks have. I think that merit means nothing to
you because
you can't look past race. And I think I'm
deadly SICK of it.
Every time I get in front of audiences in this
country, they
respond, just as it was tonight, to the answers
THAT I
GIVE. But your response is nothing because you
don't
represent those people. You apparently
represent the same
money powers that are seeking to destroy the
representative
nature of our government. I frankly think you
all ought to be
ashamed of yourselves. At some point you ought
to wake up
to your responsibility not to let vice take
place in darkness
and not to let virtue languish unnoticed.
That's your job, but
you don't do it, DO YOU? Instead you PANDER to
the
money. But if you were doing your job, we
wouldn't have
to worry about campaign-finance reform, because
there
would be sufficient attention paid to every
candidate in the
race that the American people would know who
they are and
what they stand for without the expenditure of
billions of
dollars. But they don't know, because you won't
do your
job. That's SAD! And it's DESTROYING our
democracy.
With that, Keyes stormed off the stage and departed
the room,
leaving reporters somewhat stunned. In fact, I think
the racial factor
works mildly in Keyes' favor. If he were a white
Republican, and
thus less of a novelty, the press would portray him
more directly as
a fanatic. Ignoring Keyes is the kindest thing the
press can do for
him.
The rest of the evening was less exciting. If there
was a theme, it
was turning up the heat on George W. Bush for not
showing. A
New Hampshire television reporter who interviewed
Bush before
the debate asked if he wasn't trying to get the job
of president
without the job interview. Bush took umbrage, saying
he had to
attend a dinner held in honor of his wife, Laura,
and that his family
came first. The excuse is, of course, bogus, as was
Bush's last one
about having to attend a fund-raiser in Vermont.
Several candidates
took shots at Bush for his absence. Steve Forbes had
the best line
about how to get Bush to participate in the next
debate. "If you call
it a fund-raiser, he might show up," Forbes quipped.
Gary Bauer launched the only direct attack on a
fellow candidate,
when he once again hit Forbes, this time on Forbes's
flat-tax
proposal, which exempts inheritance and capital
gains. Bauer said
that his father was a janitor and that this wasn't
fair. Forbes
responded that people should be "allowed to leave
the world
unmolested by the IRS." He even got off a good line
about "no
taxation without respiration" before dissolving into
his trademark
crooked-grin guffaw. Forbes also took credit for the
fact that all of
the candidates present (with the exception of Keyes)
now support a
flat tax. This is indeed amazing.
Perhaps the best answer of the evening was John
McCain's
response to a question about whether the armed
forces could be
rebuilt without restoring the draft. After
explaining that he thought
the Army didn't need volunteers, he turned to the
issue of his
temper, recently displayed in response to a negative
New York
Times story that he claimed was leaked by the Bush
campaign.
"People say that perhaps John McCain is angry. My
friends, I get
angry when we spend $350 million on carriers the
Navy doesn't
want or need. ... And meanwhile, my dear friends, we
have
12,000 enlisted families, brave young men and women,
on food
stamps. That's a disgrace. That's an outrage. I'm
going to fix it as
president of the United States." To my ear, the
applause meter
topped out on that one.
Unlike last night's performance, which ended
abruptly, tonight's
format allowed for 20-second-long conclusions,
speed-speeches
that recalled the great Monty Python "summarize
Proust" contest.
This was the most interesting part of the event.
Forbes declared that
he supported a "New Birth of Freedom," beginning
with "the
freedom to be born." Bauer decried what he called
the "virtue
deficit." Keyes said the nation was in "the worst
moral crisis it's
ever faced." McCain said he wanted to clean up
government and
inspire young people. Orrin Hatch, concluding the
show, said that
several Supreme Court justices were getting old and
that he wanted
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