Fake but accurate. Again

American Thinker ^ | 12-24-05 | Thomas Lifson

[Bullish]

The irony of the statement is lost on you?

Of course no one knows if Mary Joe would still be alive, but she most probably would be. The fat, alcoholic bastard Kennedy still is. It's splitting hairs to object to the credibility of such an ironic, and most likely valid statement.

[Bullish]

Liver...do your duty!

Teddy would have been dead long ago if only the govt could find a safe place to bury his liver.

[stylin19a]

Teddy was in the Army 51-53

[tioga]

Kennedy has lied his entire life....why stop now? He has a college degree, stayed out of jail, a long career in the Senate........his name is known throughout the world. Being a liar has served him well.

if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.

- best line I have heard in years about this loser.

[Veto!]

There's a big movement among writers to master "creative nonfiction." They give classes at writers' workshops and now it's seeping down to classes at local libraries for amateurs to master.

Creative nonfiction in a few hands is fine--for example, one well-known teacher/writer of the "craft" did a compelling short story about how to navigate by the stars from Charlotte SC to Wilmington, NC. (He teaches at UNC). The story had accurate infomation embedded in his own experience one dark and windy night, which made navigating extremely interesting even to one who doesn't give a bleep. He educated the reader and also entertained. Perhaps he creatively embellished his own experience to make the story interesting. OK. But the navigation part was entirely factual. Great!

BUT----creative nonfiction is extremely dangerous in the hands of liberals, who basically don't know the difference between fact and fiction anyway.

Take, for example, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the biggest Seattle "news"paper, where opinions are regularly published as frontpage news. When opionions slide over into the region of alleged truth, we're all in trouble. Trouble is, creative nonfiction is becoming, I'll wager, the nonfiction of choice for professional writers. In other words, their own opinions and experiences will overshadow the factual material in anything they write for newspapers and magazines, not just essays and short stories.

I ought to develop a class for writers of "factual nonfiction." Imagine that.

[Mr. Mojo]

Because feelings matter more than facts, I suppose.

Feelings are not only more important than facts (to leftist ideologues), they're the only thing that matters. Pure emotion, no reason.

[savedbygrace]

The irony, no. It's the logic I'm questioning.

[Maceman]

Speaking of FAKE but Accurate, allow me to submit this photo as EXHIBIT A.

[BraveMan]

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[stylin19a]

FYI....From the book "Kennedy Men"

After his expulsion from Harvard, Teddy returned to Hyannis Port where he would sit brooding, sometimes for hours.

- Finally, he enlisted in the Army.
- Not surprisingly, he did not bother to read the enlistment papers and signed up for four years instead of two.
- Ted's father, the US Ambassador to England, was horrofied at the thought of his youngest son spending four years in the service, with a good chance of being sent into combat in Korea.
- "Don't you ever look at what you're signing?" he shouted.
- With one phone call Joe contacted a friend who managed to get hold of Teddy's enlistment papers.
- Ted's enlistment period was shortened to two years, a maneuver that was nearly impossible for the average enlistee.
- Furthermore, Ted would do his service in Europe, not Korea.
- Teddy never rose above the rank of private, and was discharged in 1952. - He returned to Harvard in the fall of 1953, as did his test-taking friend, and they graduated together.

Teddy only served 16 months.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

We have every right to question old Teddy boy on his sins. His "sins" show the kind of man he is and are the only way of telling what kind of person he is. If he repented, that's bloody wonderful. Maybe he won't burn in hell where he belongs.

When assessing a mans character (or in the Swimmer's case lack thereof) the only thing we can use as a guide is his past.

Saint or sinner, a man is what he does. And in this case, he's a lowlife who left a woman to die in a horrible way when it became politically expedient to do so. Would he do it again, his history shows that to be a definite yes.

[GladesGuru]

Give the poor man a break. Everyone knows drunks fear water - they are afraid swimming will increase the water titre in their alcohol stream.

[Lancey Howard]

Kennedy and the Democrats are such gullible scumbags....
Har!

[Ghengis]

I am of the belief that the passage you quote refers more to those who are boastful in their faith.

These are a couple of verses that immediately came to mind for me on the subject. There is another verse where Jesus states that those wanting to be public figures will not act in secret.

1 Timothy 5:20 Those who sin are to be rebuked publicly, so that the others may take warning.
Leviticus 5:5 5 " 'When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what way he has sinned.

[Ditter]

LOL! That is exactly what I was going to say.

[okie01]

But of course, if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.

Zinger of the Year.

Even, perhaps, #1 Zinger of All Time.

[FormerACLUmember]

Ted Kennedy has been lying his whole life. From expulsion from Harvard for cheating, to lying about his murder of Mary Jo Koplechne, to this current fraud. And everything in between.

[AmishDude]

Oh not even close. But if the NSA is targetting a specific individual, like Gingrich or Boehner, they can record all of their phone conversations.

[Dan Evans]

It's like thinking NSA has time to listen to peoples' pathetic phone conversations about their pathetic personal lives. GET OVER IT!! THEY AREN'T LISTENING TO YOU!!

The Americans who need to worry about this stuff are not college students, they are the Matt Drudges, the Jim Robinsons, the Rush Limbaughs, the Bill O'Reillys and all the other gadflies on the powers that be.

And if somehow this data is being collected and if you, years later, become in a position of influence like these people are, then you the information will come back to bite you.

If these people are intimidated and subjugated, God help the rest of us.

One of the very first things the Clintons did after they got into office was to go through about 900 FBI files.

They know the value of information.

[prairiebreeze]

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.

That's going to leave a mark.

Kennedy telling lies again ping.