Kennedy Calls Bush Minority Nominees 'Neanderthals'

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/14/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Sen. Ted Kennedy called President Bush's judicial nominees "Neanderthals" on Friday, a group that includes Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and African-American Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Boasting of his party's resolve in the face of GOP attempts to stop their filibuster, Kennedy told the Senate, "What has not ended is the resolution and the determination of the members of the United States Senate to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by this president of the United States for any court, federal court in the United States."

Kennedy's overtly racist language stunned even liberal CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl, who reported, "Strong words from Ted Kennedy suggesting that some of these nominees are Neanderthals."

Karl said Kennedy's harsh tone was "exactly what Republicans point to when they say it is the Democrats that have been the extremists on this."

[facedown]

I'd like to think that he'll pay for this but he probably won't. Just like Byrd.

[rdb3]

This may qualify as a two-fer, Mike.

[Freemeorkillme]

I was a tinsy bit shocked to hear him say this.....NOT.

Respect for human life on display. You go, Ted!

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess that's one evolutionary step above monkeys, another popular pejorative.

-PJ

[mhking]

Two-fer ping, indeed.

I guess we're all knuckle-draggers now.

Well, at least we didn't leave a woman to die in a submerged car, eh, Teddy?

[friendly]

Hey Teddy, why don't you just call the blacks and hispanics "monkeys" in your nauseating hate speech. I would point out that these are brilliant nominees who didn't cheat or pay people to take their exams like you did at college, you murdering SwimmerBoy Laed*ss Socialist cockroach!

[isthisnickcool]

"Well, at least we didn't leave a woman to die in a submerged car, eh, Teddy?"

[The_Victor]

I'd love to see Teddy's IQ compared to the judges he is filibustering, and subsequently called Neaderthals. If he is more intelligent than any of them, I'll eat a sh!t sandwich.

[dead]

Kennedy's overtly racist language

I never realized that Neanderthals were a race.

[friendly]

Laed*ss = lard*ss

[buffyt]

Yikes! what a HORRIBLE racist thing to say! He has totally lost his grip on reality and manners!

[Argus]

Better a Neanderthal than a gaseous, drunken fraud who's a disgrace to the entire Celtic race.

[buffyt]

You got THAT RIGHT!

[MattAMiller]

Kennedy's overtly racist language

Calling it racist is ridiculous, but it was totally uncalled for.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - Has this man no shame???

[wimpycat]

Go to C-Span:

http://www.c-span.org/

and click on the "Senate GOP News Conference on Judicial Nominations Debate (11/14/2003)"

About 30 minutes into the press conference, Lindsey Graham GOES OFF on Kennedy's comments about these judges being Neanderthals, and Orrin Hatch says that he and Ted Kennedy have been friends for a long time, but wonders what has happened to Ted Kennedy in the past couple of years, that his comments have become exceedingly volatile.

On my version of Real Player, I can fast forward through to the part I want to see, but the whole news conference is well worth watching.

[Argus]

Kennedy's overtly racist language

I never realized that Neanderthals were a race.

I think they're a completely separate species, so he's really a species-ist.

[lormand]

What did it get Ted Kennedy? Re-election every 6 years.

[Joe Boucher]

What a resume:Senator, killer,drunk, utter ass.

[Cicero]

Isn't this actually a racist remark? What would happen if a Republican politician labeled a black and a Hispanic neanderthals? I know one thing. The press wouldn't let him get away with saying that that wasn't what he meant.

[Old Sarge]

Big deal. He'll get a pass, like always.

Let's put our umbrage where it truly belongs - ON OUR WUSSY GOP LEADERSHIP, RIGHT, DR. FRIST?

[MegaSilver]

I'd like to think that he'll pay for this but he probably won't. Just like Byrd.

You never know. Sure, he's gotten away with murder, but then again... to hear some, you might think racism was a worse crime than murder.

[airstrike]

Teddy, Teddy, Teddy. Not nice words from the swim coach.

[KEVLAR]

I think Teddy is projecting. He should get help.

[Vigilanteman]

Orin ought to get his friend a bottle of cheap whiskey and a hooker with the clap.

[Jackson Brown]

""He has totally lost his grip on reality and manners! ""

A lifetime of excessive drinking does kill brain cells...until one day --> more brain cells are dead than alive.

An alcoholic's reality is "different".

[conservativeammom]

Well it is obvious that Sen. Kennedy has managed to pickle what functioning brain cells he may have had with alcohol. Wonder when the Democrats are going to shove a sock in this mans mouth???? Good grief what a racist snob he is.

[swany]

It seems obvious to me he means backward thinking or out of date. I don't believe he was being racist. NewsMax is being overtly over offended, they are the ones who point to a hispanic and african american and making this a racist statement.

That said. It is just this kind of rude and unnecessary name calling and rhetoric that the republicans and the public (hopefully) are getting fed up with.

[cricket]

"I would point out that these are brilliant nominees who didn't cheat or pay people to take their exams like you did at college, you murdering SwimmerBoy Laed*ss Socialist cockroach!"

. . .this and this entire thread, deserve a huge bump.

Listening to FoxNews as I write;and hope this is recounted; over and over; to have the rest of the Media do a glossover on this cannot be tolerated.

oh, they just reported it. . .great!

[JackRyanCIA]

Ted, the same guy that was expelled from Harvard for cheating on his exam?

[swany]

LOL!

[cyborg]

Wow jealousy is an awful thing because I think the nominees have more qualifications to be senator in one pinky fingers than in his whole fata$$.

[Spok]

The man needs an intervention.

[Dog]

They have Kennedys comments on tape..

He stepped in it this time..

[metalboy]

I'd like to think that he'll pay for this but he probably won't. Just like Byrd.

When has drunko ever paid for anything? He`s a Kennedy and that means you`re an untouchable. It`s the demon-rat mafia code. Godfather Drunko shows up bombed half the time, doesn`t even know what he`s voting on, which he demonstrated a few weeks back, but let`s give him another drink, prop him up, and let him rant away.

"errr...My complexion?? Errrr...I err *hic* have that "Rosea" thing...Err..Yeah, errr that`s the ticket! *hic*"

[wimpycat]

I know what you're saying, but crying "racism" is no less than what the Dems would have done if one of our Senators called their judges Neanderthals.

[Recovering_Democrat]

TED KENNEDY CALLED THESE WOMEN "NEANDERTHALS"?

If anyone can give me an exact quote, I'd love it. And let me know if Dan Rather mentioned this tonight. I can't stomach watching him anymore.

[Dan from Michigan]

Ted Kennedy belongs in JAIL.

[hellinahandcart]

Time to play the race card and the sex card, Janice Brown. You're the only one who can do it.

Get your face in front of a camera TODAY and say "'Neanderthal'? I thought that term was reserved for rich white male Senators from Massachusetts who think their elite private-school education qualifies them read a black woman's mind. Why didn't he just call me a monkey and get it over with?"

Fat drunken Troglodyte pisses me off...

[SF Republican]

Ted reminds me of that line in Chinatown when John Huston is talking to Jack Nicholson over lunch and says "old buildings, whores, and politicians all gain respect if they live long enough" - Ted is the exception that proves the rule.

[Vermonter]

Kennedy's a lost cause.

What I don't understand is, after all he's done and said, the voters in Mass who keep him i noffice, can look at themselves in the mirror and not be ashamed.

[tsmith130]

The exact quote is in the article.

"What has not ended is the resolution and the determination of the members of the United States Senate to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by this president of the United States for any court, federal court in the United States."

[NonValueAdded]

To twist an old phrase "... if that isn't the reprobate calling the black neanderthal."

[quark]

And this from a mudering, pro-abort drunk who is two slots to the left of Piltdown Man on the evolutionary scale.

[quark]

mudering = murdering (RATS)

[cricket]

"I never realized that Neanderthals were a race."

Well, monkeys are not a race either; but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. . .

[dep]

judge brown got off easy -- usually he kills women.

i figure he thinks he's entitled to do and say whatever he wants, in that he'll be spending eternity in hell anyway.

[M Kehoe]

Let's review some of Ted Kennedy's history...

His parents made their money on booze (illegally).
His papa bought elections. (OK, he couldn't control who his parents were).
He's done more coke and drank more booze than anyone I know. (OK, I've led a sheltered life. hehehe).
He got kicked out of Harvard for cheating (on an exam).
He killed his mistress (and gets away with it).
And now he calls my wife, relatives, friends, etc. "Neanderthals."

Stellar performance for a caring liberal.

5.56mm

[FITZ]

It probably wasn't really racist since you can call whites neaderthals just as easily --- but he sounds like he may be heading into end-stage alcoholism.