Ted Kennedy goes nuts

Various public domain and web sources ^ | 01.22.04 | Rexarino

[alisasny]

Show me a picture where he gave the finger like your ORIGINAL TITLE said before it was changed .......

[newgeezer]

There's a difference. Significant? I don't know. But, if Kennedy's is a gesture, it's clearly a different gesture than the usual Italian 'bird.'

[rexarino]

 This was the original title:

Ted Kennedy goes nuts - gives the "finger" to President Bush

Certainly, if I am correct that the hand signals a) were intentional and b) are equivalent to "giving the finger", then c) the term "finger" in the original title is correct and should not have been cropped by the sysop.

[weegee]

He's Irish, whaduz'eknow?

I haven't downloaded the videos to see it "real time". I know that the footage of Oswald being shot has been printed "frame by frame" to indicate that he looks and recognizes Jack Ruby but that just doesn't happen.

I was just trying to clarrify the gesture in question. Notice that Ted is not shaking his head "no", he's moving his hand back and forth and leaving his head still.

I really haven't come to a conclusion on this. Ted and Hillary were rude to the president during the State of the Union speech, however. I say we just "Censure and move on".

[weegee]

"I got banned from the Ed Sullivan Show for less!"

[socal_parrot]

So thousands of Cagliese are having a belly laugh at the expense of our President. Boy Ted sure thought that one through.

[weegee]

Jackie Mason's Finger Gesture

On the October 18, 1964 installment of THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW, as comedian Jackie Mason concluded his comedy routine he noticed some off-stage finger gestures from Ed Sullivan's indicating that his time was winding down. According to Mason, he jokingly took the moment to comment on the signs by saying "and here's a finger for you, and one for you..." Ed Sullivan thought that the glib finger joke reference was actually a case of Jackie Mason giving him the "finger" on-the-air. Outraged, Ed Sullivan barred Jackie Mason from any further appearances on his program. The controversy over the "finger" damaged Mason's career. He retaliated with a libel suit in the New York Supreme Court and won. They had viewed his performance and found "nothing offensive." However, the influence that Sullivan possessed relegated Jackie Mason to "show-business-limbo" forcing him to work in outlying Catskill mountain resorts and related second-hand entertainment establishment. Years later, Jackie Mason resurfaced in a successful Broadway Tony Award winning one-man show and in the short-lived sitcom CHICKEN SOUP/ABC/1989.

[rexarino]

The "hand signals" Ted Kennedy used are also an insult in many Arab and other countries. And it was precisly those persons who dislike USA that Teddy K. was making gestures for.

You don't think that our overseas enemies fail to watch the State of the Union address do you?

Of course not!

Don't you know that Teddy K. has at times in the past, injected himself so deeply into foreign policy matters by taking ill-advised overseas trips, that he has essentially tried to usurp Presidential power from time to time?

Those "hand signals" were carefully chosen and intentionally used so as to give the USA hating mockers that love Teddy K. (because Teddy K. hates USA) some grist for the mill.

It amazes me that even many so-called thinking people are unable to grasp the fact that Ted Kennedy is utterly vile and is also very well practiced at working the camera.

Those "hand gestures" were not just accidentally caught on tape. Rather, Teddy K. knew the camera was on him and did it on purpose.

[freekitty]

Will you guys just chill? You are developing tunnel vision and that's narrow.