jf noonan wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, James Devine wrote: > >> from SLATE magazine: >If you think conservative fiscal theorists are on >> drugs, the WP's [Washington POST's] front page is a reminder that you are >> at least sometimes right: It details how Lawrence Kudlow, a former Reagan >> White House budget official and economics writer for the National Review, >> is easing back into the policy life three years after hitting bottom as a >> cocaine binger. < >> >> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & >> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html > >Yes and he has a moralizing new tome called _American Abundance: The >New Economic & Moral Prosperity_ that I saw him hawking on Bill >Buckley's show a few months back. Bill couldn't have gotten his lips >afixed more tightly to his butt if he tried. The guy is truly >revolting. Oh, Kudlow. I was on a TV show with him about 5 years ago - WNYC, then New York City's municipal station before Il Duce privatized it. The studios were in the Manhattan municipal building, a rather prominent government office at the east end of Chambers St. As we were riding up the elevator, Kudlow asked the assistant who was leading us around, "What building is this?" He told him, and Kudlow said it was the first he'd heard or seen of it. The assistant told Kudlow that they'd just removed the scaffolding outside after some major renovations. Kudlow's response was, "Too bad. They should have just let the thing fall down." On the show, Kudlow was going on & on about the wasteful spending in the NYC government. I asked him for specifics, and he couldn't name a one - it was obvious he knew as much about the city budget as he did about the building we were in. Later in the show, we took questions and comments from several people around the city who'd had video cameras installed at home, as a kind of institutionalized vox pop angle for the show. After Kudlow went into one of his classic paens to Reagan and Reaganism, a guy from East New York, one of the poorest neighbhorhoods in Brooklyn, asked Kudlow what his program had to offer Africn Americans. Kudlow responded by saying that there was an "explosion" of black entrepreneurship in the 1980s that we could revive only if we embraced Reaganism once again (as if we'd ever let go!). The fellow from East New York thought that was pretty funny, and we went on. After the show was over, Kudlow asked us, "East New York? Where's that? Long Island somehwere?" Doug
