Brian Camenker Given Award
One of the parents who exposed the Fistgate scandal, Brian Camenker, will be given an award on September 11 by Toward Tradition, the national organization founded by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. The award ceremony will be held in Washington, D.C. at a banquet at the Washington Hilton and Towers.

WGBH Continues to Defend Man/Boy Sex
WGBH continues to defend sex between men and teenage boys. There's no question that they aired a program about such sex, but they have informed us they did not air the show itself but a "magazine program" about the show. So we purchased a video of the "magazine" and discovered the following:

• The "magazine" was produced by the same homosexual group that produced the original show.
• It shows, in detail, the graphic, nude homosexual scenes that were in the original show.
• There was no analytical discussion in the "magazine" about the show. The entire piece consisted of long clips from the original show plus a discussion by the actors extolling the "fact" that the show had been acclaimed all over England. 

Since WGBH went to the effort to run the "magazine" and not the show, the only logical conclusion is that it is comfortable with the message in the "magazine."

In light of the recent publicity about a 28-year-old man in Middleton, Massachusetts, who had sex with over 100 male children, what should we believe is the WGBH position? Should the Massachusetts man be condemned or praised for his fascination with young boys? 

The people at WGBH have indicated that they are very comfortable with the actions of people like the man in Middleton, Massachusetts.

The Official Denial
The official denial from WGBH was given to us by Leah Hollenberger, Director of Media Relations. She said that what they aired "was a magazine on the controversy around the documentary you are referring to. WGBH has not aired and has no plans to air the documentary in question." The people at WGBH obviously believed there was nothing we could do after that statement from them. They were apparently not aware we would be able to purchase a copy of what they admitted to airing. 

This "magazine" program was shown, they say, on Channel 2 at 10 p.m. last March and re-run on Channel 44 in early April. A subscriber had told us last April 7 that he had seen a "romance" on WGBH at 10 p.m. between a 29-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy. A separate telephone check with the station revealed that they did run such a show as a repeat of a March 25 airdate. The website for the producers in New York indicated at the time that the show itself would be shown on Channels 2 and 44. (See www.inthelifetv.org)

If WGBH now says they chose not to run the show itself, we accept that; but it seems to have put them in a much worse position.

Globe Editor Doesn't Like Men
The new editor of the Editorial Page at the Globe, Renee Loth, has wasted no time in displaying her angry feelings about men. She wrote, "Giving women - or blacks or gays or the disabled - more rights doesn't take anything away from the straight, white, privileged, or pumped-up men cruising America's campuses." 

Hey, Renee, does that really mean you don't like us? Loth responded to an article in a men's magazine with her editorial titled "Unhealthy attitudes for men." She even advised us what to do or "you'll never get a date." 

Does this mean you're a bigot, Renee? Are all "women," "blacks," "gays" and the "disabled" good people? Are all "white men" bad people? That doesn't sound like a very tolerant attitude. That sounds more like what you did at your former job as political editor for the Boston Phoenix.

A History Lesson for Renee
One must wonder if Renee knows who wrote this in 1963. "In the last analysis, millions of able women [in the 1950s] in this free land chose, themselves, not to use the door education could have opened for them. The choice - and the responsibility - for the race back home was finally their own....The chains that bind her in her trap are chains in her own mind and spirit."

The person who wrote that was the founder of the modern feminist movement, Betty Friedan, in her watershed book, The Feminine Mystique. She said that professors exhausted themselves in the '50s trying to get girls to stay in college or go to graduate school. But the girls refused to do so. It had not been that way in the 1930's when many highly motivated women did go on to graduate school and successful careers.

This was the generation of our publisher that she was writing about, Renee. He says that many people still remember those days very well, even though you know very little about them. White (and black, red and yellow) men were sent all over the world to give their lives so that all the women and their children in America could remain free and strong. Would you rather live in China, Iran or where? Why aren't you on your knees every morning thanking God that you live in this country, instead of spreading such terrible bigotry and hate?

Any Sight of Elian?
We've heard from reliable sources that Elian has been separated from his father and sent to a re-education camp in Cuba. If anyone has seen anything in print about that, we would like to know. We must wonder when the Globe will send reporter Steve Fainaru back to Elian's desk at his school in Cardenas, Cuba, to see if the message is still "taped to the back of the tiny chair, 'Elian, your seat is untouchable.'" Hey, Steve, are all of Elian's relatives still "shattered" as you wrote when the boy first arrived here? Have you heard when Castro is going to allow Archer Daniels Midland to get its new processing plant in Cuba? Any pangs of conscience, Steve?

Wellesley College Like a Womb?
We have questioned the relevance of Wellesley College in today's world. And now they appear to agree. They printed a large article in their recent alumnae magazine by an alumna which says that Wellesley is an escape from the world. She wrote, "We knew we were living in a safe place for four years, and upon graduation we would get our faces slapped by the reality of the cold, cruel, capitalistic, patriarchal world." It was like living in a "womb," she wrote. "I attributed [this] to Wellesley's resemblance to a womb. Other students saw this, too. We even called our college the Wellesley womb."

That's quite an indictment of this one-sex school.

The article was about the visit by Barbara Bush to their commencement exercises in 1990. It said that Bush "was famous only because she married George." So why is Hillary famous? Because she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Review? Because she was even a member of the Yale Law Review? No, Hillary got her posh law jobs in Arkansas only because her husband was Attorney General and Governor of the state. Any lawyer knows that. Without him, we would never have heard of Hillary.

The education of these girls at Wellesley is sadly lacking at such an unbalanced school. 

Globe Editorial on Front Page
The Boston Globe is editorializing for Al Gore in "news" stories on its front page every day. Here's just one example. In a story by Anne E. Kornblut, she began with the following, "Governor George W. Bush, who has long pledged to rise above personal attacks in his presidential campaign, used some of his harshest language yet to ridicule his opponent's administration yesterday..."

The "harsh language" that Bush used was to say that Clinton was "desperate" for personally getting involved in the race.

In the second sentence of the story, Kornblut wrote: "Appearing amused by reports that Clinton had called him a rich kid whose 'daddy was president,' Bush said: 'You know something? I welcome President Clinton's criticism. It's amazing to me that the president of the United States would spend time trying to be a political pundit,' Bush said. 'He's so desperate to have his legacy intact by getting Al Gore elected, he'll say anything, just like Al Gore will.'"

This was the "harsh" language that Bush used in response to questions from reporters about the very personal attacks that Clinton had leveled against him the day before. Does anyone doubt who Kornblut will vote for?

Massachusetts Learns About 'Bilingual Education' and 'Phonics'
While we're in the midst of a debate over the best way to teach our immigrant children and the best way to teach all children to read, we're being surprised by what is happening in California.

"The California test scores are expected to influence... Massachusetts... where antibilingual forces are marshaling," reports The New York Times. Test scores in California show that English immersion is the best way to teach immigrant children. They also add powerful evidence that phonics is the best way to teach reading.

The people of Californian voted to end bilingual education two years ago (by "Proposition 227") and use English-immersion methods instead. The average reading scores of non-English-proficient second-graders have jumped 9% since then, and in math they have risen 14 points.

The leader of the movement against Proposition 227 says that the startling results caused a "religious conversion" for him.

And the most effective way to teach reading to any student, California has found, is by phonics, where students learn to associate letters with particular sounds. Immigrant students improved the most when phonics was substituted for "whole language," a "progressive" method that has students associate words with pictures.

Defenders of bilingual education claim that the results do not prove anything, or that they were due to the concurrent reduction of class sizes in California.
Connecticut has just passed a law requiring that parents must always approve before a child is placed in a bilingual program. It also limits all such programs to a maximum of thirty months.

Rich Lawyers Pushing for More Power
The Boston Bar Association and Harvard Law School have filed suit to stop the South Boston Waterfront Pact. The only problem is that this suit is by the BBA's "Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights" and by Harvard's "Legal Services Center," both of which get a lot of public money from many sources, all of which is totally untraceable and unaccountable. It is another example of these rich corporate lawyers using the "poverty lawyers" and our tax dollars to promote their personal agendas and to do unconstitutional lobbying. 

What should be done on the Boston Waterfront is the function of the legislative branch, not the lawyers and the courts. One would think that lawyers would know better, but you can't really blame them when the Supreme Judicial Court is giving its stamp of approval to this grab for power by the judges and lawyers - all under the name of the "poor."