RE: Betsy Hart article & CRRA

Gary Liss (gary@garyliss.com)
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:55:49


>From: "Lacaze, Skip" <Skip.Lacaze@ci.sj.ca.us>
>To: CRRA@ucsd.edu
>Subject: RE: Betsy Hart article & CRRA

>Here's what I found today on the referenced subject:
>
>NANDO
>
>I think that the Nando Times is the on-line operation of the corporation
>that owns the News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina
>http://www.news-observer.com/ ["N" and "O," get it?]. They identify the
>McClatchy papers (the Bees) and the Orange County Register as partners in
>California.
>
>
>BETSY HART
>
>Betsy Hart's current syndicate, Scripps Howard News Service, says the
>following, at http://www.shns.com/pages/columns.html
>
>>HART - Conservative commentator Betsy
>>Hart writes bold opinion pieces about
>>national and family affairs.
>
>
>The following is from a speakers bureau, touting Ms. Hart as well as experts
>on UFOs and former members of Heaven's Gate, at
>http://www.apb-speakers.com/millenialmadness.html
>
>>Betsy Hart
>>A political commentator for CNN, Betsy Hart is a die-hard Republican who
>served in
>>the Reagan Administration. She offers a conservative's view on a wide range
>of
>>issues, from affirmative action to welfare, polarizing our nation.
>
>
>Before Bob Dole won the Republican nomination in 1996, Ms. Hart wrote
>favorably of Steve Forbes flat tax proposal [see
>http://www.s-t.com/daily/02-96/02-09-96/2forbes.htm]
>
>>Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes is heading toward big showings
>-- if not upsets -- in the upcoming Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. ...
>Steve Forbes with his flat tax has dared to declare what any honest person
>must admit is true: a progressive tax system is inherently unjust.
>... Because simply put, unjust, confiscatory income taxes are what the
>governmental beast thrives on, what gives credence to its moral pretensions,
>and it will consume any and all to eat.
>>Kill the present illegitimate system and you kill the voracious beast.
>
>
>In 1995, Ms. Hart co-hosted a show with Ralph Reed--see
>http://www.ifas.org/fw/9504/update.html
>
>>Christian Coalition Live is hosted by Christian Coalition executive
>director Ralph Reed and Betsy Hart of the Scripps-Howard News Service.
>Calling itself "the nation's leading pro-family organization," the
>Coalition's immediate objective is to pass Newt Gingrich's Contract with
>America.
>
>
>Salon says of her work as a "Contributor" at MSNBC, at
>http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/media/media970411.html
>
>>Betsy Hart is blessed with a head full of facts and a wonderfully
>>dismissive air of presumption.
>
>Her picture is on the above two pages if you are interested. Several
>postings of her op-ed pieces identify her as a former White House spokesman.
>
>
>
>She is also the former "Director of Lectures and Seminars" of the Heritage
>Foundation. See http://www.heritage25.org/heritagetoday/p20.html
>
>
>National Review ran an interview (probably NOP) with several conservative
>women regarding President Clinton's behavior, posted at
>http://www.nationalreview.com/03aug98/obeirne080398.html
>
>>Hart: For three thousand years we knew that women use sex to get power, and
>men use power to get sex. Everybody seemed pretty happy with that
>arrangement until the feminists came along thirty years ago. And now all of
>a sudden they're saying, ``Guess what? There was something to be said for
>that.''
>
>
>For a response to her column attacking public breast feeding, see
>http://www.townonline.com/newton/speak/opinion/columns/029180_2_the_081997_1
>0b25b28b3.html
>
>
>American Atheists posted the following item on April 30, 1999, at
>http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/colo7.htm
>
>>There is no evidence that the flood of letters to newspaper
>>opinions columns, calls to afternoon radio talk shows, or op-ed
>>pieces by columnists is generating any momentum for a school
>>prayer amendment on capitol hill -- at least yet. But there is a
>>significant outcry for school prayer, not just from the country's
>>religious right, but commentators such as Betsy Hart, a
>>contributor to CNN and the Fox News Channel. In her current
>>column, "The need for prayer in schools," Hart criticizes "the
>>ACLU's best attempts in recent decades to ban religion-specific
>>prayer and other similar religious references and activities from
>>the public classrooms." Hart likewise repeats the Christian
>>"horror stories" about students not being permitted for wear tee
>>shirts with Christian slogans, or the case of a youngster
>>ostensibly prohibited from mentioning Jesus in an essay -- tales
>>which have been called into question for their accuracy before
>>-- and describes this as part of a "successful crusade" to thwart
>>religious expression by students.
>
>
>CEI
>
>The Competitive Enterprise Institute, identified by Roger Guttentag as home
>to a source for Hart's story, has a document, "Issue Brief: Solid Waste &
>Recycling" at http://www.cei.org/EBBReader.asp?ID=743 that clearly
>demonstrates their ideological position.
>
>
>To see how this organization fits in with other "Conservative, Libertarian,
>Patriotic, and Family Organizations" listed by RightGuide.com, see
>http://www.rightguide.com/links-subject.htm
>
>
>Skip Lacaze
>Integrated Waste Management Division
>Environmental Services Department, City of San Jose
>mailto:skip.lacaze@ci.sj.ca.us
>www.recycleatwork.org
>
>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Krista Henkels [mailto:khenkels@ucsd.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 12:33 PM
>To: Gary Liss; modemo@earthlink.net
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>Subject: Re: Betsy Hart article & CRRA
>
>
>ok I give- who is this woman & what or where is the nando times?
>
>I do agree that we (that's the big collective WE) develop some articles on
>the benefits of recycling and a campaign to continue to brainwash the media
>& the public. I also think that it's key that we do not become or be
>viewed as reactionary- responsive yes, but not reactionary.
>
>Krista
>At 12:15 PM 11/09/1999, Gary Liss wrote:
>>John,
>>
>>Is CRRA developing a response to this attack?
>>
>>Gary
>>

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