Posted on 12/24/2005 9:50:46 AM PST by smoothsailing
Fake but accurate. Again
By Thomas Lifson
December 24,2005
Senator Ted Kennedy looks ridiculous today, in the wake of his foolish reliance on a bogus story of "repression" under the Bush administration's anti-terror efforts. As we noted last Thursday, the Senator took to the pages of the Boston Globe and wrote this whopper:
"Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto."
Leave aside for the moment that Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (Kennedy is so careless with details that he went to print with this howler; the student actually alleged it was the Thoughts of Chairman Mao that got him into alleged trouble), the story of the government agents showing up has been found to be an utter hoax, credulously accepted and amplified by Kednnedy.
But Kennedy isn't apologizing. Far from it, his spokesman is adopted a variant of the Dan Rather fake-but-accurate line:
Laura Capps, a Kennedy spokeswoman, said last night that the senator cited ''public reports" in his opinion piece. Even if the assertion was a hoax, she said, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance.
So the Senator's negative opinion, based on fiction, somehow is still real. Because feelings matter more than facts, I suppose.
If Kennedy were a man, he would publicly apologize to President Bush for repeating a vicious lie about him and giving it credence. But of course, if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.
Sammy Souser, Osamma Obamma, etc.
How true.
"But of course, if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive."
Indeed. Deep down ol teddy boy knows this and its eating him alive. When he is dead it will still be eating him...ooooh boy...yikes...repent Teddy the pain now will be a lot less than then.
What an ASS!
The new perfect couple; Teddy Boy and Mary Mapes. She can do the investigation work and he can recite it on the Senate floor.
Born slightly retarded, Rosemary Kennedy learned to read and write, and through her early 20s friends described her as bubbly and personable.
Her famous family, however, feared that Rosemary might get pregnant, catch a venereal disease, or otherwise embarrass the Kennedys. To prevent this, she became one of the first Americans to undergo a prefrontal lobotomy, having the frontal lobes of her brain surgically scraped off in 1942.
What Would Mary Jo Do?
if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.
Ouch!
Kennedy is a liar and a fool, facts long in evidence.
But of course, if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.
Nobody can know that Kopechne would be alive today if Kennedy hadn't done what he did way back then. Maybe she'd have died from natural causes, or a drive-by shooting. We don't know.
She MIGHT be alive today, but who knows that she WOULD be alive today.
LLLLLLLLLLLLosers!
isn't it called slander?
Gone too far?
If a single terrorist still draws the breath of life, they haven't gone far enough.
Ping. And the one to King requested by Darkchylde. :)
Just how did Kennedy pass a driving test?
Can he hit a 10 foot wide bridge with a 6 foot wide car?
World gone MAD.
'scuse...State gone MAD!
A keeper.
AV
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