IN MEMORIAM: EDWARD WALTER ZEHR, PATRIOT 1936-2001

Wednesday on the Web ^ | 12/19/01 | Phil Brennan

[Jean S]

I will miss him.

[Jean S]

FYI

[Jean S]

His last article, written just before he died:

ELITIST ENNUI: The Media Elite Tire Of The War (Edward Zehr)

[Maven]

In memorium bump.

Maven

[Luis Gonzalez]

BUMP!

[HAL9000]

He was also a highly-regarded participant on the CS (Clinton Scandals) and CAS (Clinton Administration Scandals) mailing lists.

[an amused spectator]

Mr. Zehr, you were one of the best. Rest In Peace.

[Bonaparte]

Goodbye, Ed. I know I'm not the only one who read that you had left us, and just sat there stunned, thinking, "How could you? Get back here right now!"

[Mad-Margaret]

He was also a highly-regarded participant on the CS (Clinton Scandals) and CAS (Clinton Administration Scandals) mailing lists.

Omigosh! The CS list! It was always a treat to get a private reply from Ed Zehr.

[Deckard]

Zehr was great. He will be missed.

(And thank you, JeanS, for regularly posting his work for the past few years).

[Mia T]

A great loss. I will always treasure this CAS exchange...

On Neutered and Neutering

 

by Mia T and Edward Zehr (EZ)

 

With all the neutered talk of late

I thought y'all would appreciate

a relevant Shakespearean conversation

with EZ, a clinton chronicler Elizabethan.

 

[I had just asked the playwright if he had writer's block.]

 

 

EZ:

Think that thy bard hath now MacJeff forsaken?

In that would'st thou be verily mistaken.

Mayhap thou hast impatiently forgot

That facts comprise the essence of the plot.

 

 

MIA T:

Methinks thy bard hath schemes forsaken.

Mayhap thou art verily mistaken.

Plots comprise the essence of the facts.

Forsake the contrariwise artifacts.

 

 

EZ:

Gadzooks, could'st be thy bard is put to rout?

'Twould seem his veriest words are turned about.

Could'st show whereby effect doth flow from cause,

Would'st then be due a round of brisk applause.

 

Perhaps I could this point of view adopt,

For was not Bill by Hillary thus bopped

In like wise as MacJeff, upon the head,

And with a lamp, just as thy bard hath said?

 

Thus are the facts revealed for all to see:

Thy bard did make good use of ESP.

Contrariwise, the White House read my serial,

And sought to make good use of the material.

 

 

MIA T:

Thy bard's "effect doth flow from cause" linearity

And 'twould seem thy veriest good use of oracularity

'Twere not the nature of the plots I pricked thy bard to adopt

Withal Bill, like wise as MacJeff, upon the head was bopped.

 

Methought the plots thou would'st use sprung not o' telepathy.

Didst thou never hear the most traitorously corrupted conspiracy?

Brutus's heart wrapp'd in Hillaryous hide.

Interns and China suckling the impotent fool Cheapside.

 

What more paying play than a corrupted plot untainted

With thrice times two naked villains feinted?

Thou art arm'd that hath thy crook'd schemers straight.

Cudgel thy brains no more, the clinton plots are great.

 

 

EZ:

A point well made, experience vicarious

Was grounded in events utmost Hillaryous.

Betruth, the president sustained concussion

Ere I had even started the discussion.

 

But, lest thy bard be seen to make retreat,

The second bop was truly a repeat.

In consequence, I need no psychic hotline

To reconstruct an oft repeated plotline.

 

Now, as regards the wretched Cheapside brat,

And turmoil his concupiscence begat,

Need'st have no fear regards unfolding strife

O'er these events, for Art must copy Life.

 

 

MIA T:

Eureka! (Not Gadzooks!)

Though I have neither wit, nor words, nor playbooks

Thy bard this simpleminded poster avoidth plagiarize.

(Withal thy bard's own baseborn tendency contrariwise.)

 

Now, as regards the wretched Cheapside brat,

And turmoil his concupiscence begat,

Methinks MacJeff's crook'd feelpolitik, the lasix death, his solipsistic sex

Thou must put in cold blood'd cardiovascular context.

 

The brain deviseth laws for the blood,

but the brain 'tself is ne'er understood.

The King's crook'dness flows from limp circulation.

Methinks the solution is swift amputation.

 

 

EZ:

Thou place thy versifier in a quandary,

Redoubling thy most sharp-edged entendre.

The gist of they intent can I but gape on.

Dost thou propose the prez be made a capon?

 

In blood caught up these wretches play their role,

But this must not become Le Grand Guignol.

Lest those of delicate mien be made to faint,

'Twere better I should exercise restraint.

 

Mind you, Act I, scene 4 drips the odd bit of gore here and there.

 

 

MIA T:

Thy bard's excessive predilection metaphorical

confuseth redoubled sharp-edged entendre with one blunt oracle.

 

Forsooth, thy bard surely knowth,

Phallus on eunuch can't growth.

Plucking capon from hen's an impossibility,

Unless the cluck's hermaphroditic Hillary.

[Oschisms]

Like all great writers, Ed edited. and edited again. And then edited once more. What takes you ten or fifteen minutes to read, took the author hours to write and edit.

And it showed. He nailed his subjects, backing his assertations with multiple examples. You know, the way a commentator is supposed to write. With 3 Ed Zehrs, one could topple the liberal media without firing a shot. I'll miss his writing dearly.

[Jean S]

Thanks for your replies. Zehr was the best.

[Mia T]

You're welcome. Ed Zehr will be missed.

[Registered]

Thanks Mia.

[blackbag]

bump

[headsonpikes]

Bump!

[DallasMike]

Thank you, Mia -- I remember that exchange fondly as well. The CS List and the CAS List were wonderful and gave me the opportunity to meet and correspond with talented people like Ed, Hugh Sprunt, Michael Rivero, and yourself. Very few on Free Republic know how much we owe to the CS and CAS Lists.

[FryingPan101]

But that everyone who passes could have such grand words spoken of them. It speaks volumes of both of you. Thank you for sharing.

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the heads up! };^D)