Posted on 08/26/2009 2:13:59 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit in segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of million of citizens." -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, floor of the U.S. Senate, 1987.
I'm all for remembering a man's good qualities upon his death. But not at the price of ignoring—and denying—history. Yet that's just what David Shuster did during today's 4 PM hour on MSNBC when he claimed that Kennedy "didn't dabble in small personal attacks." This of the man who invented the dark political art form of "borking."
View video here.
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Man who invented borking “didn’t dabble in petty personal attacks” ping to Today show list.
EL-OH-EL
amazing how much being a c**ksucker and battyman changes one’s perspective about the truth
Bull.
1988 Democrat Convention, where he led the mass audience in chanting, "Where Was George?"
The result was at the GOP Convention, Reagan repled after listing all his accomplishments, "AND GEORGE BUSH WAS THERE!"
Nope, not at all. Just ask Bork!
“AND GEORGE BUSH WAS THERE” And he was home with his wife.
No indeed. His personal attacks were large.
I though we won't supposed to post materials from the Onion.
Tell Robert Bork that.
It was a huge, outrageous slander ... and Fat Drunk Ted didn't dabble in it ... he dove in headfirst!
I agree. Kennedy went for the really big personal attacks.
It was Kennedy who came up with the current strategy of filibustering judicial nominees. All the filibustering was based on personal attacks.
-PJ
Thankfully someone is speaking the truth in this Ted Kennedy love fest.
When I heard the news last night, I’ll admit my thoughts weren’t of sympathy or condolence. God can and will judge him as He wishes of course, but for me, I hope that he goes to wherever is reserved for murderers. Wonder how Mary Jo’s family must feel?
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
True.
Not small attacks.
And it wasn’t merely “dabbling”...
Tell that to Judge Bork.
Thats a large personal attack not a small one.
No, he had his squads get people fired, bribe offiicals and pesons in key positions, have editors shut down reporters trying to write the truth, sent in judges that the Kennedies owned and other such tactics. There was nothing small about the attacks; they were grand schemes of lying, bribing and coercing.
Out of all the Olbermanns, Courics, Matthews, etc I despise Shooster the most.
Shuster is a pimp.
Shuster has no idea what he’s talking about. Not unusual for the “journalist” class in these times.
Tell that to Clarence Thomas and Judge Alito as well.
Ask Bork, Thomas, Alito, Ashcroft.
Kennedy was the master of the vile personal attack.
He knew no bounds when it came to attacking those with whom he disagreed.
America hating,just like his daddy the nazi sympathizer.
And how he loved the IRA terrorists.
I don't know. Mary Jo wasn't really that big a gal.....
I don't know. Mary Jo wasn't really that big a gal.....
Mary Joe would certainly agree with this one.
Inquiring minds want to know...
“Shuster: Kennedy ‘Didn’t Dabble In Small Personal Attacks’”
Teddy invented Daily Kos, MSNBC, Huff Po.
Personal destruction worked so well on his first wife, he just made it political.
Teddy Kennedy injected hatred into the blood stream of American politics.
Today he is answering for Mary Jo.
“Shuster: Kennedy ‘Didn’t Dabble In Small Personal Attacks’”
No. He dabbled in HUGE personal attacks...such as Bork as you note.
Lewis Grizzard, the late Atlanta Jounal contributor and author of a number of humorus books once said:
“I don’t care if Clarence Thomas stood naked on his desk and read Penthouse forums to Anita Hill he is STILL A BETTER MAN than TED KENNEDY.”
That is a technically factual statement.
So is this one:
He leaped feet first into major character assasinations (can I use that word?) of people w/o regard to the truth.
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"He was flanked by Brian and Alma Hart, whose son John was killed in Iraq, and Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both arms serving in Iraq."
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" The senator insisted the Bush administration built the case for war as a distraction from the failed search for Osama bin Laden and the failure to roust al Qaeda in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks."
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"The election cannot come too soon," he said.
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"In a September interview, the senator called the war "a fraud" that had been cooked up in Texas."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/kennedy.iraq/
Saying the president invented a war, and using wounded soldiers for his political campaigning (>"The election cannot come too soon,")?
Yeah, he was all class, Davey.
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit in segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of million of citizens." -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, floor of the U.S. Senate, 1987.
So called Lion of the Senate.
The Bork attack, of course, gets its appropriate amount of attention, but MA and the USA is strewn with small, no-names whose lives the Kennedy machine has destroyed to advance Teddy and his career. Sorry, I can’t even think of one good thing to say about the man, except he helped take down Carter.
Evil man, Kennedy. His greatness is liberal mythology. His evil is sadly, fact.
They really are in mourning mode over there at MSNBC...it is something to take in for 30 seconds...you literally feel ill watching it all. They have no shame and are indeed state run media.
Shuster the Self-Hating Jew
He spent too much time meddling with waitresses to bother with actual politics.
One thing to remember, Ks’ handlers and staff pretty much controlled what he said and seemed to be pretty knowlegable about when in reality he was a borderline retard. Chk. it out.
“...schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution...”
Riiight, as if anyone needed more proof the indoctrination of evolution is the liberal position!
And that's the truth!
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