Kennedy Calls Bush Minority Nominees 'Neanderthals'

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/14/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Sen. Ted Kennedy called President Bush's judicial nominees "Neanderthals" on Friday, a group that includes Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and African-American Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Boasting of his party's resolve in the face of GOP attempts to stop their filibuster, Kennedy told the Senate, "What has not ended is the resolution and the determination of the members of the United States Senate to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by this president of the United States for any court, federal court in the United States."

Kennedy's overtly racist language stunned even liberal CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl, who reported, "Strong words from Ted Kennedy suggesting that some of these nominees are Neanderthals."

Karl said Kennedy's harsh tone was "exactly what Republicans point to when they say it is the Democrats that have been the extremists on this."

[pgkdan]

The man needs an intervention.

Yeah. With handcuffs, by the Massachusettes State Police. There's no statute of limitations on murder, is there?

[Pagey]

Demoncrats can do no wrong you know, hell, this selfish and murdering SOB is still a senator after all these years. It's just like Don King, The Boxing Promoter says" In America anything is possible". Calling someone a neanderthal---does that mean he thinks their monkeys? I'd like to have this scum state his definition, as it's wide open at this point in the proceedings.Ponder the reaction if a Repub had uttered this "out there" comment.Nahhhhh, there's no double standard in America what-so-ever, and I'm awfully tired of GWB not using the office as a bully pulpit. Karl Rove where are your brains NOW??? For gosh sake!

[Wombat101]

The pot calls the kettle black, so to speak....

[zook]

The point is that we need to turn this *into* a racist remark. We need ads with Kennedy's quote and the faces of the men and women he referred to. Perception and symbolism are everything.

[Sender]

Ted just wants to woo voters with Confederate flags on their mammoths. They need fire and sharp rocks too.

[zook]

Go choke on a hamsteak you HYPOCRITICAL PARASITIC COMMUNIST!!

And the beauty part would be that Massachusetts has a Republican governor to pick this sociopath's replacement!

[friendly]

Kennedy is at the top of the Senate hierarchy for the same reason that gaseous fecal masses float to the top of the toilet bowl.

And just as similarly need to be FLUSHED!!!

[pgkdan]

His parents made their money on booze (illegally).

Joe Kennedy was a rum runner during prohibition. Were he a member of my generation he'd probably be smuggling cocaine across our borders today. I don't know that I'd ever be able to plumb the depths of my loathing for this family and for this lard ass in particular.

[dead]

No - if a conservative called a bunch of people (of various races) a bunch of neanderthals, and a liberal claimed that he just called the blacks and hispanics neanderthals, I would then conclude that the liberal was the one making a racist statement.

I am consistent.

[dep]

I would then conclude that the liberal was the one making a racist statement.

with all due respect, your conclusions are not the problem.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Neanderthals"

So, if you believe in the U.S. Constitution and value life, you're a "Neanderthal"?

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Sen. Kennedy meets the Lord face to face. He's gonna have some 'splaining to do.

[chainsaw]

Kennedy is a brain dead alcoholic, and he should be talking about 'Neanderthals'? He doesn't know what he is voting for most of the time and has to have other make excuses for him so he can change his vote.

[swany]

"The point is that we need to turn this *into* a racist remark. We need ads with Kennedy's quote and the faces of the men and women he referred to. Perception and symbolism are everything."

But in this instance, it would be wrong. JMO

[gov_bean_ counter]

Mort was on Fox defending Kennedy.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I know. But, Bill did a good job putting Mort in his place.

[dead]

with all due respect, your conclusions are not the problem.

With all due respect, I have zero desire to sink down to the levels occupied by the likes of Tom Daschle, Jesse Jackson and Terry McAuliffe.

Kennedy made a disgusting and asinine statement. But it was not in any way racist.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"And just as similarly need to be FLUSHED!!!"

And a few uses of a plumbers helper followed by
a good cleaning.

[NYC GOP Chick]

[Red Boots]

Get your face in front of a camera TODAY and say "'Neanderthal'? I thought that term was reserved for rich white male Senators from Massachusetts who think their elite private-school education qualifies them read a black woman's mind. Why didn't he just call me a monkey and get it over with?" YOU should be in politics !!! Great Comeback !

[FITZ]

It's not going to be a pretty sight when it happens.