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 ignoringand denyinghistory. 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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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.
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