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."

[F.J. Mitchell]

Those who vote for Ted Kennedy don't look in mirrors, they have no reflection and they vote after the sun goes down.

[Radix]

What did it get Ted Kennedy? Re-election every 6 years.

I will never understand my neighbors. Ted Kennedy is one of the most unprincipled persons that I have ever seen get elected to a political office. That is some pretty low company.

[friendly]

Can anyone post a very recent closeup of Teddy? It is worth a look, because he has changed and has become very, very scary, far worse than you would expect.. a real degenerate.

The murderous, adulterous, lying, cheating Swimmer has also become a wet brain: suffering a form of paranoia and dementia seen in chronic alcoholics.

[quark]

Think he'll keel over naked on top of his mistresss, then be dressed & placed in a chair by his horseholders with his shoes on backwards, a la Rockefeller?

[TexanToTheCore]

"--- but he sounds like he may be heading into end-stage alcoholism."

That is what struck me. I think he is not long for this world, but I would expect more and more wild statements that bear no relationship to reality.

[blam]

He may not be to far off:

Redheads 'Are Neanderthals'

[MrTed]

Sen. Kennedy must be censured and removed . . .

Ditto, my thoughts exactly.

[Big Horn]

Watching Ted waddle down the hall on t.v. he is not the picture of health. He may be in hell soon.

[swany]

My point exactly. It belittles our concerns about the dems throwing out the race card at every unintentional statement when we start doing the same thing. I am noticing that democratic voters are noticing this dem tactic in my little circle of life, and they are losing patience also.

This statement warrants disgust, not the cry foul "Racist!" accusation.

[muleskinner]

a gaseous, drunken fraud...

LOL

[WaterDragon]

The Democrats are again becoming BLATANT about their racism! There's only one word for them -- arrogance. Calling minority judges 'neanderthals' reminds me of what Democrats used to feel free to say about Blacks -- that they 'weren't quite human.' I remember very well hearing those words.

[mombonn]

Lindsey Graham GOES OFF on Kennedy's comments about these judges being Neanderthals . . .

Fox just played a clip of Lindsey declaring the whole filibuster thing is surely unconstitutional, and pledging to take it to court.

The look on his face was one of deep resolve.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I took it to be LEAD*SS
Of course lead sinks so it had to be lard.

[mollynme]

but who was it that said a ball player was like a 'little monkey'; and that was his last day at work. .

Howard Cosell in 1983 referring to Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett.

[John Valentine]

No one can be really sure, but I do believe that there are a large number of anthropologists that would say that neanderthals are not really a separate species from humans. They were really not so different, probably not outside the range of differences we see among humans around the world today.

Take a look at this:

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/zolli/CAP/Gib2.htm

Also, it is a fact that many anthropologists believe that the population in which the neanderthal genes run strongest today is- the Irish! Now that is not a slur on the Irish at all.

There was a thread on this subject here on FR not so long ago: do a search on "neanderthal" and "redhead".

I'd far rather be known as realted to the sweet girl in the reconstruction photo than to that true caveman, Ted Kennedy.

By the way, did the George H.W. Bush actually give Teddy boy hat award the Bush Foundation was planning on giving him? If not, they ought to cancel it. He is unworthy.

[swany]

But if he called the whole interracial team little monkeys, would he have lost his job?

[MeekOneGOP]

FOX News just said something about Lindsey Graham stating that he is going to take this to court. He said the filibustering of judicial nominations is unconstitutional and he wants to take it up !

Did anybody else see that ?? GO LINDSEY ! GO GOP !!!! ...

[Dolphy]

I think you have the makings of a great Bush campaign ad. The Dems had no problem attaching Newt to all things Republican and now Kennedy has provided the perfect sound bite.

The ad starts with a brief summary of each judge, maybe even just their election results, shows their pictures and then Kennedy's quote (hopefully it's on tape). Seems perfect to me.

[AmericaUnited]

Teddy's been talking under the influence a lot lately.