Robert F Kennedy, hypocrite (not breaking news)

10 November 2008 | vanity

[Lorianne]

Quoth Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on September 15, 2008 on the Huffington Post in criticism of Governor Sarah Palin:

Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/governor-palins-reading-l_b_126478.html?page=32&show_comment_id=15725640#comment_15725640

Yet the same Robert F Kennedy, to my knowledge, hasn't said boo about Bill Ayers' dedication of his book "Prairie Fire" to Sirhan Sirhan (and has publically called Sirhan a hero) .... the man who actually shot and killed his father!

Unbelievable!

More on Ayers and his book Prairie Fire:

http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-ayers-sirhan-sirhan-and-prairie.html

[Lorianne]

Interest in Pegler was revived when a line originally written by him appeared in Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.[6] "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity", she said, attributing it to "a writer."[11] The speech was written by Matthew Scully, a senior speech writer for George W. Bush.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_Pegler

[Bob]

...if his name wasn’t Kennedy he would be masturbating on his keyboard and posting vanities with 4-Letter words on DU.

Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

[Lorianne]

I doubt she ever knew who this “writer” was she quoted in her speech. If she were to vet every word of every speechwriter she’d never make it to the podium.

Yes, she was ‘naive’. She didn’t realize that in politics some on your side are cannibals, they’ll eat their own, for their own reasons.

I think she has realized that now, but it’s too late for 2008. Hopefully, if she plans a further national political career, she’ll be able to find loyal people and she’ll get tough on those who set her up or cause her to stumble, ‘cause those people will still be around next time.

In other words, she’ll have to become a ruthless, conniving old boot, a la Hilary Clinton and all the rest of them. Then she won’t be ‘Sarah from Wasilla’ anymore. But she just might get elected.

[realcleanguy]

now, a Marxist-Leninist is our president. How ironic

[j-damn]

*will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies*

I couldn’t help but snicker a little when reading this part. I guess I’m going straight to Hell.

But hey, Camelot Part II, here we come. Does Obama have a brother who could be AG? Oh, yeah, he does! And I hear he works cheap, too!

[VeniVidiVici]

The Kennedy clan suffers from severe inbreeding. That’s the only thing that can explain the entire family acting like retarded salamanders.

[nathanbedford]

Seems to me that the value of any quote is in the words themselves - what do they say?

Not necessarily in the reputation or fact of the person who originally uttered them:

I don't know about that, do you think we should be quoting a slave owner, and the sexual molester of his slaves just because he wrote, "all men are created equal..."?

[Arthur McGowan]

I think Sirhan Sirhan was a Christian.

[JimRed]

I don't know about that, do you think we should be quoting a slave owner, and the sexual molester of his slaves just because he wrote, "all men are created equal..."?

Or a married womanizer for expounding on content of character?

[4buttons]

“Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler”

Pegler was a rather racist, right-wing writer, which disqualifies him from fascism.

Most Kennedys, I fear, are swine.

[VlPu]

this Robert F Kennedy = a dishonor to his name.

[Doctor Raoul]

RFK Jr. is really a demented moonbat, if his name wasn’t Kennedy he would be masturbating on his keyboard and posting vanities with 4-Letter words on DU.

Prove that he's not...

[VlPu]

“I regret to say that a Leftist Separatist who was a racist named Sirhan shot and killed Robert Kennedy. “

Rather a palestinian who was easy to hypnotize to shoot RFK, using the support of RFK for military support of Israel.
By the way, of course he was not the only shooter.

[facedown]

...I think even Ted is embarrassed by him.

To be capable of embarrassment, one must have shame.

[supremedoctrine]

Sarah Palin has and had no bigger fan than me.
I never idealized her, or romanticized her, I just
took her for what he was, and the way she presented herself, from the moment of introduction onwards, was refreshingly cast in the mode of “this is who I am, this is what I’ve done, this is my family, take it or leave it.”
As straightforward as that was, it was something I have never seen before, except for Ronald Reagan, but Reagan was infinitely more familiar “as a commodity” by 1979 to Americans than Sarah was two-three months ago. It’s no big insight at this point to recognize that a huge number of votes gravitated to McCain because Sarah was on the ticket.
There was even a joke about worrying whether McCain was going to be a drag on the ticket. As it turned out, yes he was.For all I know, Matthew Scully, being an animal rights zealot, dropped this little stinkbomb in the speech just in order to cast doubt on Sarah and show her as a bigot once the source was revealed. Yep, coulda been a plot, and we could find Matthew Scully gaining employment as speechwriter for Team Obama in the future.He could be the new David Brock. OTOH, he could have sullied his reputation forever by using the Pegler quote. The fact that the McCain campaign used him, though he’s avowedly Republican, wrote for Bush, etc., shows just how sloppily they continue to reach across the aisle. I value independent thinking above all else, but isn’t there a little cognitive dissonance between the book DOMINION and giving a speech written by the author of that book to Sarah Palin, wellknown Moose hunter from Alaska? Just how naive and amateurish are these campaign honchos and deciders that they couldn’t see the negative possibilities there? Having said all that, given the tone of the past two months, I am surprised the MSM did not make more of this: the first I heard of it was yesterday, and that was here, on Free Republic. Turns out RK, Jr. brought it up the moment he heard it, on my birthday on 9-15.I am sure someone informed him of it and told him who Pegler was.
RFK is a true loose cannon himself,and a hyperzealot who will no doubt be put in the Obama Adminstration. (MONTHS AGO, he was apopletically calling for all those Global Warming Skeptics to be considered to be literal “traitors”.) Maybe too much else was going on for the MSM to have latched onto this little bit of arcana. I doubt if ANY of them except those well into their 60s would even recognize the name
Westbrook Pegler. He’s even fading fast in my memory, sort of like Father Coughlin, his counterpart in the Church.
Yes, I think Sarah has a real future in national politics.
Given what a normal person she is, or seems to be, I wouldn’t want to advise her or assume to know what’s in her heart. One of you mentioned that to re-enter she’s inevitably have to get more aggressive, become more like Hillary, and get elected that way. Maybe so. Would she still be Sarah? SHOULD she still be Sarah? The key to how this whole experience of the past months hit her may be revealed tonight in her interview w/ Greta vonSusteren on Fox. Either way, I think Sarah made an unprecedented kind of impression on the American people in the short time she had in the spotlight.I think tens of millions of us love her and respect her. And I think she was rather cynically manipulated by her “boss”, McCain, the RINO, not because he likes to exploit or manipulate, but because he wanted to revive a campaign he saw had so much stacked against it.
They made FATAL mistakes in how they handled her, almost sacrificing her on the altar of Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, but that just shows you what’s wrong with The Mind of McCain, for him to let that happen, or maybe encourage it.I wouldn’t expect Palin to say anything negative about him tonight, she’s too classy for that. For Sarah to win the Presidency in 2012, she 1 . Has to want it herself, first and foremost, 2. Has to do NOTHING BUT GO TO THE PEOPLE, the way she SHOULD have been allowed to in September and October, INSTEAD of being shredded by the MSM
who, as we know, think it’s “all about them”. I would hate to think that McCain has ruined it for her and for all time for Conservatism to ever regain its power and influence in AMerica. The answer to that almost depends on Sarah, and a handful of others, and , of course, US.

[word_warrior_bob]

I think Sirhan Sirhan was a Christian.

___________

He was a Palestinian Terrorist.

[word_warrior_bob]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1

______________

You’re buying the left wing spin.

Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian Terrorist and killed RFK alone. Marxist-Leninist Lee Harvey Oswald, who renounced his American Citizenship, tried to assassinate General Edwin A. Walker, and was a delusional attention whore assassinated JFK, ALONE.

Read Case Closed by Gerald Posner.

[norton]

thanks - I’d forgotten that bit.

[norton]

It's up to you.
But when the Constitution was written slavery was the norm around the world, LOTS of people disagreed with it but to address it in founding the country would have denied ratification.
Meanwhile, "all men are created equal..." was ground breaking at the time and part of the foundation for last week's election.

So which had the greatest impact, the words or two specific elements among a lifetime of actions?