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<OOULD THERE BE a HIDDEN AGENDA HERE?* THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THE FORUM • SUNDAY. APRIL 29.2001 READERS' FORUM Praise for A1 Cross mands in exchange for millions self-promotion. We just don't another of his demands. McConnell has long enough of dollars of contributions like it. For example, Jefferson McConnell demands that sum- hadhisway through bully tac Thank goodness for report raised by Ku.i. This is a recipe County Fiscal Court adopted mer-study foreign travel by tics and intimidation. We citi ers like A1 Cross. How else for bad ethics. It's common an ordinance a fewyears ago McConnell scholars take place zensof Kentuclty andthe USA would average citizens like sense that mixing academics, that prohibited the naming of in China and nowhere else— all have the right to know myselfever know what is real pattisan politics and business county parks and works in In response, McConnell has what is going on in a state uni lygoing on in Washington? mon^ is v ;iy likely to produce honor of people still living— accused Judis of bad journal versity program. There may be It seems as though Sen. a rotten-tasting stew. But that demand wasn't ism. Let the readers decide for absolutely no improprieties in Mitch McConnell's scorn to The most obvious of McCon-'. enough for McConnell. There themselves, I say. volved here, in which case we ward Cross should have been neil's demands was that the , are more. Ifs pretty clear that Eveiyone gives in to money, will ail be wiser for knowing directed more toward The university hone the academic ' he also demands that the uni some of my friends have been the McConnell Center for Po New Republic, since it first re center, supported laigely byhis versity keep the names of his telling me. It's the way of the litical Leadership enjoys a ported Elaine Chao's Chinese fund-raising, for himself, hence, contributors a secret. And, on worid. Perhaps so. But I'm sure clean bill of health. But, clean involvements. thu McConnell Center. It's his top of that, it's pretty clear thatwehave a right to expect or otherwise, we citizens and As a University ofLouisville money, sc •/hy shouldn't he that McConnell demands sig much higher ethical behavior tajoMyers deserve to know. alumnus, I find it disappoint milk the university's good repu nificant authority over the I'm glad to see The C-J from our universities. If not standing up for what is right! I ing that the university allows tation for career-enhancing McConnell'sCenter's program from them, then from ^om? such a secretive entity as the publicity, he must have figured. and its activities. would ^ addthat it is going McConnell Center. If not for It sounds -jretty tacky, to say Now, New Republic senior TOM LOUDERBACK to take a lot of explaining and ' reporters'like Cross, we might theleast, but the unhrersity ai^'- ..editorJohn Judis has written a ;; Louisville 40205 convincing for me to believe be singing "My Old Beijing parently reasoned that the pos" . provocative article that sug that Elaine Chao "inadvertent ly" omitted disclosure of her Home" Saturday instead of sibility of embarrassment was gests McConnell is in all like i- Bravo, C-J "My Old KeptucltyHome." worth McC'trnell'smonqr. • hood funneling contributions service as director of a com ;; Ironically, there are some t from political- supporters of Bfavo to' The Courier-Jour pany with close ties to the Chi JOHN C. GARRETT MFN (most favored nation) nal for its editorial position nese government. • Louisville 40205 significant indicationsthat the citizens of Kentucky do not status for China to the McCon vis-'a-vis the Chao-McConnell MATTDAILEY approve rf such shameless nell Center in exchange for controversy. Sen. 'Mitch Louisville 40241 Attack 'deplorable' Regarding your April 25 edi torial, 'Time to come clean," I <OOULD THERE BEA HIDDEN AGENDA HERE?* believe when I was in the me dia, we referred to this kind of John Judis' 6,700-word dia of poliQT papers and hosted nu years of senior-level military state-owned enterprises, and attack as "yellowjournalism." tribe against The Heritage merous conferences and panel e^erience, a Ph.D., and spe not from private businesses. McConnell and I do not al Foundation and Elaine Chao, discussions to make that point. cial expertise in the area of ex-, To suggest that our policies ways read from the same pag^ published ly The Courier-Jour The Courier-Journal editorial port controls to China. are swayed by corporate con but faime^ and being responsi nal on April 22, is an extraor- board has received copies of ev 4. Judis also suggestswe tributions is ludicrous. Last ble on the part of the press dinaiy combination of fabrica eiyoneof those papers. were all but silent during the year, for example, corporate should bewritten in stone. tion, rumor and innuendo. 2. We have always favored recent EP-3 incident We were contributions from all sources I think the attack on McCon Even the arithor admits be has trade with China, but have anything but silent —- and any amounted to just 4 percent of nell and Elaine Chao is deplor consistently pointed out that thing but soft. No, we didn't "no evidence" to support his our total income. We would no able and you should apologia thesis. Yet The Courier-Journal America's relationship with suggest dropping a 100,000 considers it worthy of publica China is not one-dimensional, megaton letter of apology on more jeopardize our independ WILUAM 0. GORMAN ence and reputation for these Mayor tion. Coulc there be a hidden based on trade alone. China's downtown Beijing. But we did Cityof Hazard agenda here? military modernization, expan suggest a hard line U.S. posi contributions than The Couri- Hazard. Ky.41701 For the record, here are the sion and belligerence, Tai tion. And our people were sell er-Joumal would sell its soul facts: wan's security, and human ing our views virtually around to its advertisers. 1.The H.»itage Foundation's and political rights are also the clock, in studies, op-ed The Judis article was short *Self-promoting demands' )osition on Communist China key parts of the equation. Our page articles, on talk-radio on fact and documentation About one year ago, The s unchanged, as The Courier- position is unchanged, as The . programs around the countiy, and long on convoluted con Courier-Journal printed a letter Journal's editors surely must Courier-Journal is fully aware. and on network television. spiracy theories. Is this the from me in which I uiiged the know. Ye , we have toned 3. Judis suggests we re This is some of the evidence new standard of journalistic University of Louisville to clean down our vhetoric a bit. But placed the "hard-line" director Judis missed and The Courier- excellence Courier-Journal up its act with regard to the that doesn't mean we're any of the Heritage Foundation's Journal Ignores. readers can look forward to? McConnellCenter. It was pretty less concerned about China's Asian Studies Center with 5. The Heritage Foundation obvious that the universi^ was continued *)pllicosity and bad' someone more accommodat has never knowingly accepted HERB B. BERKOWITZ (and still is today)givingin to a behavior : or any less con ing to the PRC.Wrong, we re any money from the People's Vice President number of U.S. Sen. Mitch cerned about Taiwan's security, placed one hard-line director Republic of China — not from, The HeritageFoundation McConnell'sself-promoting de we have published dozens with another: this one with the government, not from Washington,D.C.20002.
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