Taking Note of 2004
Bill Boyarsky
January 6, 2005
Last week, I pulled out a big, unsorted folder from my desk filled with material I had used for my Jewish Journal columns.
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Tough Job
Bill Boyarsky
December 9, 2004
The faint of heart should not apply for this job: Needed, a sensitive but thick-skinned person who can get along with a combative mixture
of Los Angeles\’ Jews, blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, students, retired people, lawyers, doctors, homeless and many, many more.
Kerry Needs Clarity
Bill Boyarsky
September 9, 2004
The \”swift boat \” attack on Sen. John Kerry, supporting the Republican effort to portray him as a weak liberal, has special resonance among those Jews who will base their vote on whether they think a candidate will be tough enough in standing up for Israel.
Bang the Press Slowly
Bill Boyarsky
August 5, 2004
\”I will concede that conservative Jewish Republicans like myself are in the minority, especially out here on the Left Coast,\” reader Gillee Sherman e-mailed me. \”But we are growing in numbers every day, and this election should see a huge improvement for Bush in the Jewish community.\”
Grass-Roots Level Campaign Coverage
Bill Boyarsky
July 15, 2004
The election analysis is all the same. For days, the political press was almost totally occupied with Sen. John Kerry\’s choice for the vice presidential candidate. When Sen. John Edwards was selected, everyone I saw or read had the same take: Terrific speaker; inexperienced; shady trial lawyer; fighter for the forgotten.
It was as if the journalists were afraid to stray off the beaten track or leave the reporting pack to have an original thought. Today\’s political reporting is a compendium of conventional wisdom. The motto of the press corps is: \”On one hand…. And on the other….\”
Simply Wrong
Bill Boyarsky
May 6, 2004
The Republicans are praying that President Bush\’s embrace of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\’s Gaza withdrawal plan will sway the Jewish vote.
Money Buys Control
Bill Boyarsky
April 1, 2004
The angry man in the back of the room at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana was shaking his fist and calling us crooks.
I made a big mistake — eye contact. With me in his range, he raised his hand, and I think his middle finger, and yelled, \”You!\” Being a city ethics commissioner, I didn\’t think I should be called a crook in public.
The Need for Reality
Bill Boyarsky
March 4, 2004
I set out to write about the presidential election, but I changed my mind when I ran into Eric Gordon, the director of Workmen\’s Circle.
Question of Ethics
Bill Boyarsky
February 5, 2004
As both a Los Angeles city ethics commissioner and a Jewish community journalist, I was in a skeptical mood as I took a seat in the audience of a discussion on \”Jewish Ethical Values in the Halls of Power: From the Board Room to the Council Chamber.\”
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