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.
Now, that is not news. Could have been written any day in the last 40 years.
Teddy probably has Mao's Little Red Book in his personal LIEbrary, autographed by Mao himself. Of course the Skipper would be upset!
From Kennedy,of course! After all,he is a "legend in his own mind."
Neck Brace ! Any story with Ted Kennedy deserves the MANDATORY "Ted in Neck Brace" photo, lest we forget...
Tim Russert needs to get Teddy the Hutt back on MTP, asnd let him pontificate about this, live. Better TV than the Super Bowl...
Not if my Pittsburgh Steelers get there! :^)
Whatever it is, it's losing.
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I have always thought that someone somewhere should erect a memorial statue to Mary Jo for sacrificing her life to save America from a second President Kennedy.
I think you're on to something.
A public sin requires public repentance. The only change in behavior for Ted Kennedy post Chappaquiddick.
A couple of nice quotes:
" Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? "
~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
The mysteries of the case continue to haunt Ted Kennedy as well as the authorities who investigated them. Charges of ineptitude and lack of diligence abounded, as did insinuations that the machinery of justice crumbled beneath the power and prestige of the Kennedy family. George Killen, former State Police Detective-Lieutenant, and chief of a never-revealed investigation, lamented that the failure to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion was "the biggest mistake" of a long and distinguished police career. Senator Kennedy, he said, "killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger."
~ Senatorial Privilege by Leo Damore
>>Senator Ted Kennedy looks ridiculous today
So it's a normal day.
Meanwhile, Boston's mayor, mumblin' Tom Menino, recently
introduced the Swimmer on stage as "Senator Cun-ne-dy"...
Ted's "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment:
http://fatboy.cc/Audio/John%20Kerry%20Won%20Presidency.mp3
Beatles expected to use Ted in a remix of a famed song from
Magical Mystery Tour. You say goodbye, and I say...
http://fatboy.cc/Audio/Hello.wav
Howie Carr, Boston-based talk host, does a regular "Wizard
of uhs" contest where listeners have to guess how many times Ted says "uh" in a sound clip. The segment is introduced
by "We're Off To See The Wizard"; right after "Because of
the wonderful things he does", the sound of a car
splashing into the water is heard.
And if the voters of Mass weren't such kool-aide addicts, Kennedy would have been retired from politics back in the 70s.
Isn't that an official plank in their party platform?
I thought those quotes were nice enough as well...
Ted Kennedy...who enlisted in the army for 4 years to go to
Korea during the Korean war, only to have his daddy get his enlistment cut to two years and get him sent to serve in Europe...THAT Ted kennedy ?
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