So, are there any Princeton Alumni or Alumnae out there who can check this out? Thanks in adavance!
Fair go! Lard Ass IS an April Fool's joke!
Watching and waiting
Ted Kennedy as a senator IS an April Fool's joke... and not a funny one.
How on Earth does he keep getting elected?!? Thank God I don't live in Mass.
My take was that they were just old-line alumni who didn't like to see things change and wanted to make sure that the changes didn't have a negative impact on their school. They were certainly never hostile to me, and as a girl in maybe the 2nd or 3rd co-ed class, you'd think I would have been a likely target.
The article that Kennedy read seemed to me to be completely out of character with the organization and the people as I knew them. What's more, even the most virulent racists at Princeton (and there were a few hanging around) were very circumspect about their feelings, even then. A Southern racist is very in your face about it; a Yankee racist will smile and smile and then stab you in the back when nobody's looking. It would not be in character for a Yankee racist to publish something blatant in a magazine.
It would certainly explain a lot if it were in an April Fool issue of Prospect.
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Since Kennedy wants to go back 20+ years to investigate preceived wrongdoings, how about we reopen the Mary Jo Kopeckni killing in ole sots car.
It's a hoot - Kennedy falls for the story about a student being visited by Homeland Security for ordering a copy of Mao's little red book, and now falls for a satirical column in a conservative paper?
You can ask WHY booze-brain is such a sucker for those tall tales.
confirmed, the article Kennedy was quoting from was satire. LMAO
http://blogs.abcnews.com/downanddirty/2006/01/cap_smear.html
/via Powerline:
"Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:
The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges, but Kennedy read from it as if it had been serious instead of an attempt at humor.
"I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them," D'Souza said. "It was a satire."
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012824.php
Maybe Kennedy really did endorse Volkswagen way back in the National Lampoon.
Excert from article:
For the left, Lawrence v. Texas was in the same category: part of the leftward march of history, and something to be applauded, not criticized. Liberals see the Court's decisions as subject to a one-way ratchet: non-liberal precedents can be overturned, but liberal ones cannot.
Wow! I have been thinking and saying this to folks for at least 10 years. Overturn precedents, but only in a more liberal direction. That is OK.
But the other direction....THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!
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