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.
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