Michelle Malkin links to a story wherein we read that Norman Mailer, a man who stabbed one of his wives, if you didn’t know, refers to NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani as an “Asiatic, feminist . . . two-fer . . . token.”
This reminds me of an incident in the newsrooms of Newsday, about a dozen years ago, when Jimmy Breslin had a temper tantrum and referred to a female student intern, who happened to be Asian-American, as “a slant-eyed, yellow cur!”
Breslin was permitted to apologize and remain on the Newsday staff, where he still vomits up a column once or twice a week and is afforded both a paycheck and some credibility. Mailer - did I mention that he stabbed one of his wives - will in all probability, be permitted to continue his career with only a mild bump, for his bigoted and woman-hating remarks.
Imagine for a moment what sort of hellfire and damnation would be raining down upon a Brit Hume or a William F. Buckley if they’d behaved like this. But…if you’re in the “kool kids klub” of the liberal establishment, you can say or do almost anything, with impunity.
As author Candice Jackson asserts in her new book, here.
July 1st, 2005 at 2:16 am
For those unfamiliar with Breslin:
njdittos at L.com once said:
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The man is, always was, and always will be a total fake. The Professional Irishman, The Colorful Journalist, Street Smart Pencil Pusher, Confidante of The Disaffected, A Total Fraud. This stuff stopped selling with the repeal of Prohibition, and it was bootleg even then. Give us all a break, Jimmy, go wheeze into your beer in some quiet place where you won’t be upsetting the women, children and horses.
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mikem at Tim Blair’s spleenville site said:
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Jimmy Breslin picked up a large following in the New York area decades ago with his “Our Neighbors” style writing on the various mafia families that infest NY. He reported on murderers, extortionists, and drug dealers as if they were the goofy dysfunctional family down the block. To be fair, he did have an entertaining style but I don’t think news journalists consider him a serious reporter. He was suspended for two weeks in 1990 for making a racist (anti-Asian) remark to a colleague and THEN joking about it on a radio show, so he obviously lacks judgment at times and presumably this episode is another example.
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Used to be stupid TV ads pushing Jimmy Breslin’s column, showed him standing by the girders beneath the elevated train tracks, at night, damp street, the atmo, you get it. Man of the people, reporter of the people. Totally phony.
Jimmy Breslin is one of those who many years ago said that draft evaders who fled to Canada were braver than draftees who went to Vietnam.
Breslin, I am told, showed up one night here in Woodside, Queens, & went to a Spanish bar. (Or “Hispanic” or “Latino” bar.) Vietnam vet inside recognized him. Breslin soon hotfooted it out of there, soon onto Roosevelt Avenue & running past the girders of the elevated tracks.
July 1st, 2005 at 7:45 am
And to think –the “awful” Michael Bolton” wagged his finger!!! Bolton must be stopped—Breslin & Mailer can go on as usual.
The lesson here, boys and girls, is that conservatives must be held to impossibly high standards—liberals get a pass.
July 1st, 2005 at 12:29 pm
When Breslin wrote for the old NY Herald Tribune, he lived in Baldwin, Long Island and used to sit on his front lawn in his undershirt drinking beer and throwing the cans on the lawn. His neighbors were not pleased!:-)
(My dad worked with him and was appalled by him.)