Daschle on Defensive Over Kennedy's 'Neanderthal' Outburst

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/16/2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Mich0127]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said Sunday that his Democratic colleague Sen. Ted Kennedy didn't mean to use racially offensive language when he called President Bush's judicial nominees - including two minority candidates - "Neanderthals."

Asked about Kennedy's racially charged outburst, Daschle insisted to "Fox News Sunday" that he was talking about politics and not ethnicity.

[Mich0127]

This is what I love about the Dems...they can't EVER admit that one of their own is ever wrong...but if the Republicans did something like this, they would never hear the end of it. Love the double standard and hypocrisy of the Dems.

[Mich0127]

BUMP

[rs79bm]

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[jmstein7]

BUMP!

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[twntaipan]

Wow...Rush had to resign from ESPN for less. But liberals will always give other libs free passes.

[Buck W.]

As long as Kennedy didn't mean to say it...I guess I'm OK with that.

[Mich0127]

ha ha...copyrights ;)

[b4its2late]

but if the Republicans did something like this, they would never hear the end of it.

Not only that but it would be Republicans screaming for the Republican that said the comment to resign his post (of course after a couple of weeks of the liberal press trumping up the charges for the dems.....).

[Mich0127]

That is what gets me

[Mich0127]

That is what gets me

[Mich0127]

Good..others are just as pissed

[Congressman Billybob]

Now let's see. The Neanderthals were subhumans who were fat, hairy, ignorant, and treated their women like dirt. Come to think of it, other than not drinking like a fish, that sounds a lot like Teddy (the Swimmer) Kennedy.

And it's not a racial comment to accuse well-educated, accomplished women of being "Neanderthals"? Gimme a d*mned break.

Congressman Billybob

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[Paul Atreides]

I'll bet the little pris said it in that breathless, sensitive little girl voice that impresses only Dimocrat women.

[Mich0127]

I see that drinking alters your perception on everything, including common definitions of words
I was a historian in undergrad, and from what I remeber, a neanderthal is not a good thing

[Republicus2001]

Do you mean Kennedy HASN'T stepped down yet? Two black woman nominated for Federal Court and the good ol' boy calls them Neanderthals? Imagine that! Where's the outrage?

[Paul Atreides]

Well, Ted, not everyone can be a walking, gelatinous, murdering gin blossom.

[chiefqc]

Teddie is a fat sloppy drunk and dashole is a little miget lying runt.

[Jacquerie]

A squad of Marines were driving up the highway between Basra and Baghdad. They came upon an Iraqi soldier badly injured and unconscious.

Nearby, on the opposite side of the road, was an American
Marine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine was conscious and alert.

As first aid was given to both men, the Marine was asked what had happened. The Marine reported; "I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway. Coming south was a heavily armed Iraqi soldier."

"What happened then?" the corpsman asked.

"I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable a$$hole, and he yelled back: 'Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are miserable a$$holes'.

"We were standing there shaking hands when a truck hit us."

[Mich0127]

No, because we all know that when Dems make an off-collar remark, it is immature of us to perceive it in the obvious way...
Teddy should resign and go back to what he does best..throwing back whiskey and drowning innocent women and convieniently forgetting about it