Word: carsons
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Time, Newsweek and The New Republic insist on speaking of the election as if it were already over. David Letterman, Jay Leno and Johnny Carson resort to Democratic futility jokes whenever they hit a lull. In The Crimson, ("George Bush and the Seven Dwarves," Sept. 18), Michael R. Grunwald wrote: "Beat Bush/Quayle? The Dems couldn't beat Bush/Hitler...
Meanwhile, Black leaders shamelessly manipulated their constituents to incite hatred and violence. Al Sharpton, Sonny Carson and others have pandered to latent anti-Semitism in the Black community, producing what New York Mayor David Dinkins labeled an "absence of responsible leadership". Like Jeffries, Sharpton and his demagogic buddies sold the Black community short by leading them down the path of placing blame, espousing racism and provoking violence. Dinkins was pelted with bottles. Leaders of moderation were absent from the stage...
Each side also faces internal contradictions in its own position. The question the radicals must answer is, Why are they Christians at all? Many radicals argue that the way to religious empowerment was pioneered by Jesus as if he were a kind of Kit Carson of the soul. But who needs pioneers once the frontier is opened? It often seems that the radicals cling to Jesus for the sake of the name ID and some pretty 19th century buildings erected in his name...
SHOW BUSINESS Jay Leno takes over as the new sheriff of Carson city...
...hydrofoil-jawed host-in-waiting says. "I enjoy doing the political stuff" -- though his old stance of ironically outraged liberalism has been tempered as he segued from guest to host. Leno will also retain that charming anachronism, the studio orchestra. Bandleader Doc Severinsen will retire, though, as will Carson's faithful retainer, Ed McMahon...