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...protests. They were right-and the storm went beyond black leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination as "insensitive, willful, stubborn and even selfish." The Wall Street Journal found it "all too reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon tradition of choosing an Attorney General...
Once the world of Washington pundits included a few giants, ranging from the Olympian sage, Walter Lippmann, and James Reston, the best informed of Washington reporters, to the feared scandalmonger, Drew Pearson-and that was it. Now so many syndicated Washington columnists exist that it is hard to keep track of them, keep up with them, or tell one from another...
When Carter, moving at last into a more familiar Washington orbit, got the speechwriting help of such O.K. types as Columbia University Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Lawyer Cyrus Vance for a Chicago foreign policy address, Reston was strangely censorious: "He has made great progress by being dead honest, but in Chicago he was pretending, and if he pretends he may lose everything." Reston is usually more generous about politicians and notes that Lincoln, too, "did not argue the particular issues that divided the American people, but avoided these divisions and appealed to their common ideals...
After once arguing that outsiders cannot possibly know and front runners usually disappear, capital gurus are now taking seriously the idea that Jimmy Carter may get the nomination. Their reservations to date are proper. Yet their swiftly changing attitude toward "Wee Jimmy" (Reston's phrase) recalls at least the first phase of how Parisian journalists treated Napoleon in the 20 days after he escaped from Elba and landed in France: "The monster has escaped from his place of exile." "The Corsican werewolf has landed at Cannes." "The tyrant has reached Lyon." "The usurper has dared to advance within...
Kraft and Reston, in fact, are two of Cockburn's pet peeves. He may have started by seriously criticizing these men--and he still does--but now, in the best gonzo tradition, they have gotten to him. He is positively obsessed with them, and also with Jerry Brown (whom he feels represents a new fascist politics of scarcity), and Jimmy Carter (totally bogus), and C.L. Sulzberger, the major foreign policy voice for Cockburn's "Center Right Coalition," an auspicious group including the likes of Daniel P. Moynihan, Marty Peretz, and half the Harvard faculty...