Kennedys respond to Palin barbs

boston.com ^ | December 4, 2010 | Michael J. Bailey, Globe Staff

[ColdOne]

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[ColdOne]

Palin ping

[x]

Just who are these "Kennedys" of whom you speak?

The name vaguely rings a bell.

Do you mean the MTV girl from the 90s?

[FrankR]

[Gaffer]

No, I think they were a ‘dream’ family conjured up by the liberal media of the 60s and carried on until the murderer Teddy croaked. Kinda like the “Dallas” fiasco....

[Dr. Sivana]

No ... she must mean Jayne Kennedy, who used to read the scores backwards on "The NFL Today" after she took Phyllis George's spot.

[x]

No, I think they were a ‘dream’ family conjured up by the liberal media of the 60s and carried on until the murderer Teddy croaked.

Like the Brady Bunch and Robert Reed?

Kinda like the “Dallas” fiasco....

Where Bobby turned out not to be dead after all? Just a bad dream?

[shalom aleichem]

Wow. That is a brutal riposte! And I’d bet my life that KKT did not write it. Probably a team of vicious Dem speechwriters got together on it (with Tokyo Rove sitting in).

[dfwgator]

Or Kennedy the Republican MTV VJ.

[ReneeLynn]

Are those the same Kennedy’s with the adulterers, murderer and the rapist in the family and the guy who loves Hugo Chavez?

[Dick Vomer]

[Steve_Seattle]

I might not be remembering correctly, but I don't think JFK was a particularly religious person. He uttered the necessary pro-God platitudes required of a president in those days, but was not personally devout.

And Palin was not denying the need for freedom of religion, nor saying that a president should somehow try to impose his religious beliefs on the country. She was saying that a president should not have to pretend that his/her religious beliefs and values are irrelevent to their style of leadership. Even JFK said, in his inaugural address, "Here on earth God's work must truly be our own." Can you image the uproar if Bush or Palin said that?

[KarlInOhio]

I think that January will be the first time in over 60 years that there hasn't been a Kennedy in an elected office in DC.

Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!

[Doc Savage]

Look, enough of saying bad things about the Kennedy’s like the father was an Anti-Semite and booze runner; the son stole a national election; they can’t drive over bridges very well; Teddy’s middle name was Chivas; rapes aren’t rapes in Palm Beach; sure they don’t know how to fly; yes they kill women in the ocean; sure they f**** Marilyn Monroe and had her killed; sure they’re lousy skiers!! You know all those nasty untruths people say about them!

[al baby]

She was so frickin hot

[allmendream]

What a bunch of blue bloods! ;)

What hyperbolic feigned outrage on a rather tenuous stretch of an interpretation of Sarah Palin’s meaning.

[al baby]

Quick kick it back in the water

[reefdiver]

More kennedy crap. JFK left people to be slaughtered on the beaches of Cuba, If that is the white knight the democrats point to they ought to be ashamed of them selves. Talk about lying and dying. No one holds a candle to getting away with murder like a kennedy. Ask Mary Joe

[Steve_Seattle]

"What hyperbolic feigned outrage on a rather tenuous stretch of an interpretation of Sarah Palin’s meaning."

It was a classic straw-man setup. Kennedy was putting words in Palin's mouth and drawing inferences that did not represent Palin's actual views.