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.
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.
Teddy would have been dead long ago if only the govt could find a safe place to bury his liver.
Teddy was in the Army 51-53
if Kennedy were a man, Mary Joe Kopechne would be alive.
- best line I have heard in years about this loser.
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.
Feelings are not only more important than facts (to leftist ideologues), they're the only thing that matters. Pure emotion, no reason.
The irony, no. It's the logic I'm questioning.
Speaking of FAKE but Accurate, allow me to submit this photo as EXHIBIT A.
Give the poor man a break. Everyone knows drunks fear water - they are afraid swimming will increase the water titre in their alcohol stream.
Kennedy and the Democrats are such gullible scumbags....
Har!
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.
LOL! That is exactly what I was going to say.
Zinger of the Year.
Even, perhaps, #1 Zinger of All Time.
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.
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.
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.
That's going to leave a mark.
Kennedy telling lies again ping.
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