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David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.
A number of excellent suggestions to help people avoid the inadvertent expression of prejudice are offered, albeit interspersed among excoriating, castigatory comments that are entirely irrelevant to The Cause, hence diminish the impact and strength of purpose of both.
Excellent reviews for the Miami Herald columnist's latest thriller excoriating the excesses of his home state.
In Canada, the Toronto Globe and Mail ran an op-ed piece by the New York publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, excoriating Howell Raines, the editorial page editor of the New York Times , for setting "some kind of record for sanctimonious nonsense" in his paper's comments on Flytrap.
Today's palaver palette offers Frank Rich excoriating Beltway pundits, Gene McCarthy arguing that special prosecutors are inherently anti-democratic, Maureen Dowd mitigating the presidential prurience with a sexual ineptness defense and an Alabama reporter's discussing what a nice scandal break folks down his way got by being clobbered by Hurricane Georges.