Posted on 01/01/2006 11:45:46 AM PST by wagglebee
More than a week after the story was exposed as a hoax, Sen. Ted Kennedy has yet to apologize for touting false claims from a University of Massachusetts student who said officials from the Department of Homeland Security visited his home and repeatedly interrogated him after he tried to obtain a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book."
In mid-December, the unidentified student instigated the hoax by describing the phony grilling to reporters for the New Bedford Standard-Times. The story appeared on Dec. 17, the day after the New York Times reported that the Bush administration was monitoring the phone calls of U.S. residents suspected of communicating with terrorists abroad.
In a Dec. 22 op-ed piece for the Boston Globe, however, Kennedy conflated the Times report along with the U. Mass student's bogus allegation to blast the Bush administration for what he insisted was an illegal invasion of privacy.
"Just this past week," Kennedy wrote, "there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list."
"Incredibly," the top Democrat fumed, "we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists." He demanded "a thorough and independent investigation of these activities."
However, on Dec. 24 the Times-Standard reported:
"The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for 'The Little Red Book' by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story."
The revelation left Sen. Kennedy uncharacteristically silent.
Asked if he shouldn't have verified the incendiary account before citing it in print, Kennedy spokeswoman Laura Capps insisted to the Boston Globe: "Even if the assertion was a hoax, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance."
Beat me to it. If the Swimmer hasn't apologized for Mary Jo, then why does anyone expect him to apologize for anything. He's a Kennedy, for gosh sakes!
Alcohol dulls the faculties and impairs the memory. What claim?
Ahh, yes. Fake but accurate.
Kennedy is such a slave that shame is unknown to him. He defines degenerate liberalism.
Oh groan.......pull my hair out....Agggggghhhh! I'm so sick of this..."It matters not whether it's true or not, it's the seriousness of the charge," stuff. How DO they get away with it?
Ah, the CBS defense....
Ted Kennedy is a both a Democrat piece of vermin and a hopeless drunk. He is also one of the reasons why good folks in Massachusetts are deserting the state in droves, heading to the red states enmasse. If fact, all the states losing folks are blue. Tells you something, doesn't it.
Vince
The DemocRATs just keep killing!
Teddy is just a sock puppet for a bunch of young Leftwing staffers. He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about most of the time. He just regurgitates whatever it is they write down for him to say.
Rosemary his lobotomized sister died in January 2005. I'll find the exact date so that I can send the whale a note about woman's rights.
Fascinating that the real face of the Democrat Party is a fat hypocritical lying reprobate.
This is what the rotund Senator actually said in his op-ed:
"...Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list..."
See the discusson of this paragraph at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549641/posts
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