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Human Events, Jul 15, 2002
CLINTON'S FAULT: Although for some reason Republican politicians rarely make the point, according to a Gallup Poll released on July 8, 51% of Americans think that President Clinton's "moral failings in office" helped create the climate that led to the current accounting scandals. In fact, 26% "strongly agreed" that Clinton contributed to the lax climate while 25% "moderately agreed." The figures for current President Bush were 15% and 31% respectively, for a total of 46% who thought Bush somewhat responsible for the rank atmosphere in the accounting departments of some of America's large corporations. The poll also found that the scandals are not hurting the President's numbers. Bush's job approval rating is at 76%, up six points from a month before.
AFRICAN DISASTER: Another manmade famine is about to strike a sub-Saharan African nation, and as usual, the causes are as clear as day. Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, continues his racist campaign against white farmers in his country by prohibiting them from growing food. Almost 3,000 farms owned by whites, who hold much of Zimbabwe's most fertile land, were forbidden as of June 24 to produce any more food, and in August the government plans to confiscate all the white-owned farms. Although such a proposal was earlier voted down by the country's overwhelmingly black population in a referendum, Zimbabwe's legislature passed a bill, signed by Mugabe last month, expropriating all the farms. Food supplies are already running short in the African nation, reported the Washington Times. "Once known as southern Africa's breadbasket, Zimbabwe's agricultural output has plummeted 40% in the past year, as Mr. Mugabe's government has clashed with the mostly white farmers over his redistribution plans," said the paper. "The violence and intimidation of farmers, coupled with the worst regional drought in two decades, has put as many as six million mostly poor, rural, and black Zimbabweans-half of the population-at risk of starvation by the end of the year, according to the United Nation's World Food Program."
WE COULD GO: Whatever the wisdom of such a course of action-and the Bush Administration has not committed itself, although plans are being developed at the Defense Department-the American people still support the use of American troops to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Gallup reported June 21 that it found "47% of Americans saying that removing Hussein from power should be a very important U.S. foreign policy goal, with an additional 36% saying this is a somewhat important goal. Fewer than one in six Americans say replacing Hussein should not be an important goal of the United States." Moreover, "59% of Americans favor sending American troops back to the Persian Gulf in order to remove Hussein from power." Gallup says that this is "a decrease compared with last November, at which time 74% favored the use of U.S. troops for this purpose. That high number may have reflected the general level of support for military action observed after September 11." In February 2001, Gallup found 52% in favor of using U.S. troops for this purpose.
SELECTED LABELS: A study from the Media Research Center (MRC) "has found that network reporters label conservatives four times more often than they label liberals." MRC looked at all the big-- three evening newscasts-those on ABC, NBC, and CBS-for five years, from Jan. 1, 1997, through Dec. 31, 2002. "The study found 992 instances in which conservatives were labeled, compared to only 247 instances in which liberals were assigned an ideological tag," said MRC. The group's president, Brent Bozell, observed, "No network labeled Vice President Al Gore as a liberal during the entire 1999-2000 election cycle, yet they labeled George W. Bush as a conservative 19 times. Bernard Goldberg is absolutely right." Goldberg wrote Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (Regnery).
EU'S INFLUENCE: On July 3, the Europe an Parliament voted 280 to 240 to set standards for "reproductive and sexual rights," including the statement that "abortion should be made legal, safe, and accessible to all," reported the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute. The approved report, written by Socialist Anne Van Lancker, also calls for sex education and "emergency contraception," or so-called morning-after pills, which are not contraception since they are taken after conception and thus kill an unborn child. The parliament's vote is not binding on member states but merely outlines preferred European Union social policy.
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