Posted on 01/16/2010 10:09:13 AM PST by John Semmens
Massachusetts’ largest newspaper, the Boston Globe, urged voters to elect Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) to the senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy last Fall.
The paper characterized the Republican candidate for the seat, state senator Scott Brown, as “an enemy of the Obama Administration and, by inference, an enemy of the hope and change themes of our newly elected President. The challenging times in which we live call for audacity, a quality possessed in great measure by the late Senator Kennedy.”
“While it is true that Attorney General Coakley, unlike like Senator Kennedy, hasn’t had to sacrifice anyone’s life, she has helped subject an innocent man to nearly two decades of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit,” the editors wrote. “This demonstrates a willingness and ability—the audacity, if we may say so—to do a difficult deed in order to attain the power necessary to promote a progressive agenda. Mr. Brown has nothing in his background indicating he would live up to this Kennedy legacy.”
Charles Pierce, writing for the Boston Globe Magazine, sought to remind voters that “the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne transformed Senator Kennedy from an irresponsible playboy into a champion for the underclasses. There is no doubt in my mind that Ms. Kopechne would be proud that the sacrifice of her life enabled Senator Kennedy to craft legislation that would have comforted her in her old age, had she lived.”
Cape Cod Today derided Brown as “an anti-candidate.” “We know what he’s against,” the editors wrote. “He’s against wasteful spending. He’s against higher taxes. He’s against the Islamic terrorists. He’s against social control of healthcare. But what is he for?”
“In contrast to Brown’s knee-jerk anti-government approach, Ms. Coakley keeps a more open mind on these same issues,” the editors pointed out. “She’s willing to consider whether deficit spending and high taxes may be needed to alleviate the maldistribution of society’s wealth. She’s willing to contemplate whether the focus on Islamic terrorists is a racist diversion from the much larger threat of right-wing terror from gun-nuts and anti-abortionists. And, perhaps most importantly, especially at this juncture, she stands with President Obama in his bid to wrest control over healthcare from an anarchic status quo and place it under social control.”
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“The challenging times in which we live call for audacity, a quality possessed in great measure by the late Senator Kennedy.” “
Yeah, Kennedy did have the audacity to leave a woman in a submerged car to suffocate, and he got away with it!
“Did you read the link under the heading? A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative.”
Ouch-they got me! ;)
Oops, sorry.
LOL
Judas Priest. The link even SAYS it's satire.
Whoop-de-frickin’-do.
On first reading, good satire is always hard to distinguish from the foolishness it's lampooning.
Funny stuff, just getting harder and harder to do Satire of the commies.
Pray for Scott Brown
This is a satirical scream. I love it.
My God! The MA papers put the old Pravda to shame.
McCarthy was absolutely right; Communists should be outlawed.
If we take over, the resident Commie in Chief and his thugs should be thrown IN JAIL, UNCONSTITUTIONALLY so, no free speech or any other “rights.”
If you shred the Constitution, you are not entitled to its protections.
Oh sheesh. I usually catch the satires but this one got me.
LOL
I fell for the satire! LOL
Why do you think that happened?
I wouldn’t put anything past them Commies.
We shouldn’t laugh too much, this is a window on the very near future if we let them.
So the Boston Globe admits to being nothing more than a mouthpeice for the administration. Brown is an enemy of hope n change? lol.
That just hits too close to the mark.
Good satire will do that. Have a good day.
Who can tell what is satire anymore?
John Semmens does a great job writing satire, but sometimes he is amazingly accurate at predicting what the democRats and the MSM are actually going to say.
Do you honestly believe the Globe would write (or any Democrat would say) “While it is true that Attorney General Coakley, unlike like Senator Kennedy, hasn’t had to sacrifice anyone’s life, she has helped subject an innocent man to nearly two decades of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit,”?
big yawn and little yawn
twiddle dee and tweedle dum ...
WHO CARES
(who cares what they think?)
Thanks John.
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