Word: scapegoatism
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...usually the case when His Grandiloquence gets into trouble, Jackson has a scapegoat. According to friends, he privately accuses the same vast right-wing conspiracy that tried to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton of orchestrating a campaign to discredit him because he led protests against the alleged voting-rights abuses in Florida. So far, he has offered no evidence that the charge is true. But from Jackson's standpoint, the timing of last week's bombshell--right after the holiday named for his hero, Martin Luther King Jr.--could not have been worse...
...real question in Palm Beach is whether this scandal will be bad for the Jews. After spending months being concerned that Joe Lieberman would be blamed for a Gore loss, they now have to fear that they themselves will be the scapegoat. But Mama Ann saw a potentially positive aspect of the backlash. "Let them blame the Jews. It's about time they put some new machines in." Then after rethinking, she said, "There's enough trouble the Jews have. The blacks are up in arms too. I don't know why. Reverend Jacksy, Jacksy, what's his name...
...about me" culture, committed relationships are seen as a dangerous thing. Marriage becomes a scapegoat for our dysfunction, and everybody loses. Both genders are guilty of pretending this kind of uncommitted "freedom" constitutes the good life. We'll be much healthier when we realize that character does matter and that two are still better than one. TOM HOUG South Pasadena, Calif...
...teach anything, it's attitude; and the prevailing attitude is one of crudeness, cynicism and sass. Since these attitudes are endemic to pop culture, kids are likely to learn from them. And unaccustomed (and uncomfortable) as I am agreeing with politicians, especially when they are in righteous find-a-scapegoat campaign mode, I'm annoyed that this "adult" culture is aimed at the young - both because kids need a few years to be kids, without being burdened by having to understand the punch line of every dirty joke, and also because this culture debases the true definition of the phrase...
...against Lee isn't dead yet. Government witnesses have testified about Lee's "pattern of deceptive behavior," and there is still the very troubling matter of those missing tapes. But the cracks in this case have been wide enough to allow critics to call it racist and Lee a scapegoat, and to provoke nostalgia for the old days, when foreign enemies were foreign enemies and accused spies got nailed to the wall...