Word: dicks
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...real importance of the Morris scandal is that it crystallizes a struggle that has been going on for years in the American cultural-political conscience. The dispute occurs at the point where the mess of personal character and ambition and expedient need runs into history, principle or public ridicule. Dick Morris' adventures at the Jefferson Hotel--though meaningless in themselves, and pretty funny, if you are feeling savage--are damaging because they connect in the American mind to larger questions of public trust. Doing so, they ensure that the manipulative cynicism of politicians has produced an ultimately more dangerous cynicism...
...foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With more mental channels to choose from than cable TV, Dick Morris could argue the case round or square or Rosicrucian or vegetarian, as long, one suspects, as the money was consistently green. Or maybe Morris was just beguiled by his own genius for spinning like a Sufi to whatever moral music the customer wished to play...
...newly footloose Elena flies to Florida to visit her father Dick, who may or may not have been in the CIA at one point--he tells his daughter he knows someone who "was involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick...
Until the Dick Morris story turned the press into a gaggle of schoolchildren hearing the bells of the ice cream truck, the talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much...
Aboard the Swing State Choochoo, Clinton nears. Then, finally, a juicy scoop appears: Dick Morris may have frolicked with a hooker. The press explodes. The talk shows try to book her. Although the story hardly overwhelms (Can this be worse than what he did for Helms?), The critics say it shows that sleaze pervades The Friends of Bill. Surviving White House aides Who loathe our Dick in varying degrees'll Confide, "We told you so: the man's a weasel." The Prez won't choke; for him this is routine. He'll smoothly give the longest speech we've seen...