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...earshot, some California vintners complain that Parker is unfair to their state's wines. That's a canard when you consider his consistent raves for Kistler Chards, say, or Ravenswood Zinfandels. Still, wine buyers in need of a different perspective may cotton to The New Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines (Knopf; $24) by Norman S. Roby and Charles E. Olken. Their judgments are more muted than Parker's, but they appraise some competent producers -- Stags' Leap Winery in Napa County, for instance -- that he ignores...
...canard that Said supports Arab terrorism goes back to the '70s, and it is supported, his critics say, by the fact that from 1977 until 1991 he was a member of the Palestine National Council, a Palestinian parliament-in-exile consisting of some 400 members worldwide, which serves as an umbrella for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary and nonterrorist organizations. Never mind that Said has always urged the P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right...
...second kind of Jews, in Muhammad's view, are those who have endorsed the book. That's because Muhammad subscribes to the canard that Jews are automatically experts on Jewish history...
Besides, hardly anyone believes the old Reagan-era canard that it's the poor who are dragging us down. When a TIME/Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll asked which groups are getting "too much" and "too little" from the Federal Government, 79% said the lower class, home of the fabled deadbeats and welfare cheats, is getting too little, and a startling 75% blamed the upper class for hogging more than its share. Out of deference to popular sentiment then, the candidates ought to start addressing themselves in a more ecumenical fashion, to "the poor and the middle class...
...Kuwait. Buchanan charged that there were "only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the U.S." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal accused Buchanan of anti-Semitism and "blood libel" (a reference to the canard leveled by bigots since the Middle Ages that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood in making Passover matzo). Rosenthal's attack was so outrageous that Buchanan survived the storm...