Emmett Tyrrell
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R. (Robert) Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (1943- ) is founder of the conservative American Spectator magazine, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a contributing editor of the conservative New York Sun. Although Tyrrell has borne the title of "editor in chief" of the Spectator since its founding in 1967, for decades his long-time associate from Indiana University, Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, has done done the real work of putting out a monthly magazine, and more recently, its daily counterpart on the Internet.
Tyrrell is the author of "Public Nuisances" (1979), "The Liberal Crack-Up" (1984), "The Conservative Crack-Up" (1987), the best-seller "Boy Clinton: The Political Biography" (1997), co-author (with Anonymous) of "The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton: A Political Docu-drama" (1997), and most recently author (with Mark Davis) of "Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House" (2003), a book likening Hillary Clinton's tenure as First Lady to the reign of a pre-revolutionary French monarch. He is the editor of "The Future that Doesn't Work: Social Democracy's Failures in Britain" (1977) and "Orthodoxy: The American Spectator Anniversary Anthology" (1987).
Because of his frequent use of words like "flapdoodle," "hoosegow," and "fantastico," along with his faux-awarding of the "J. Gordon Coogler Award for Worst Book of the Year," Tyrrell's writing style has been compared to that of H. L. Mencken, a comparison which Tyrrell no doubt enjoys and encourages.
Opinion on US Democratic candidates
Tyrrell wrote:
- "John Kerry is an absurd figure. His campaign was dead in the water late in 2003 and only picked up steam when Democratic primary voters noted that their front-runner, Dr. Howard Dean of unhappy memory, was even more absurd." [1] (http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040401-090720-8681r.htm)
External link
- Healing the Poll Wounds (http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040401-090720-8681r.htm) - Commentary in Washington Times
- Recent syndicated columns found at Townhall.com. (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/archive.shtml)