Shuster: Kennedy 'Didn't Dabble In Small Personal Attacks'

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[linn37]

Thats a large personal attack not a small one.

[reagan_fanatic]

Kennedy "didn't dabble in small personal attacks."

Michael Jackson never did drugs.

Barack Obama is a firm believer in free enterprise

Katie Couric is an unbiased journalist

Nancy Pelosi abhors Botox

Meghan McCain has an IQ well over 70

[AmericanVictory]

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.

[toddausauras]

Out of all the Olbermanns, Courics, Matthews, etc I despise Shooster the most.

[headstamp 2]

Shuster is a pimp.

[popdonnelly]

Shuster has no idea what he’s talking about. Not unusual for the “journalist” class in these times.

[prairiebreeze]

'Didn't Dabble In Small Personal Attacks'

Tell that to Clarence Thomas and Judge Alito as well.

[Carley]

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.

[Don Corleone]

didn't dabble in small personal attacks

I don't know. Mary Jo wasn't really that big a gal.....

[Don Corleone]

didn't dabble in small personal attacks

I don't know. Mary Jo wasn't really that big a gal.....

[layman]

Kennedy "didn't dabble in small personal attacks."

Mary Joe would certainly agree with this one.

[Missouri gal]

Let us never forget his key role in the “Winter Soldier” investigation which smeared every single person who served in the military during Vietnam era. Without Kennedy’s help, John Kerry would never have been anybody.

[Wardenclyffe]

[Gritty]

Is the undertaker going to be able to successfully separate Shuster's lips from Saint Kennedy's posterior before his viewing and final canonization?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[y6162]

“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.

[Wardenclyffe]

[Moby Grape]

“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.”

[Michael.SF.]

he claimed that Kennedy "didn't dabble in small personal attacks."

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.

[Darkwolf377]

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, an elder statesman among liberal Democrats, slammed President Bush and his administration for going to war in Iraq based on political considerations. In a speech Wednesday, Kennedy said the decision to invade Iraq was grounded in the "gross abuse of intelligence," an "arrogant disrespect for the United Nations" and the GOP's desire to seize control of both houses of Congress in 2002."

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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.

[BerryDingle]

"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.