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."
ANOTHER LIBERAL HOAX
"The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried."
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Yeah, it tell me the red states better set up immigration requirements to keep the riff-raff out of their states.
Here's more about the Kennedys.
Can't provide a link, but during the past week posted on FR, someone was quoting from the best selling book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do), Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy", by Peter Schweizer, that the Kennedy family has five hundred million dollars in Carribean and Fiji banks, (set up in trusts so they pay no taxes.)
"Kennedys own some oil companies themselves: once called Kenn Oil, is now named The Arctic Oil Royalty Trust, despite the name, drilling in five states including Texas and Oklahoma.
"Kenoil and Mokeen Oil. In 1985, Kennedy converted these two companies to Royalty Trusts, thus avoiding paying any corporate taxes, windfall or otherwise (see p. 92 of Do As I Say (Not As I Do)).
"The Kennedys also have oil deposits in Louisiana, as well as mineral rights on properties in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.....
"Much of the land was accumulated by convincing poor rural black farmers to give away their mineral rights, not knowing what it meant. The Kennedys set the operation up as a Royalty Trust to avoid paying income and corporate taxes on the profits. Family members including Ted Kennedy, environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Joe Kennedy, Jr. receive checks every year."
It would be my guess Caroline and the Missus Schwarzenegger receive tax-free checks also.
Fat Boy is a slime bucket....full of whiskey and anything else he can find..he's not worth the salt it takes to say his name....
I'm sorry, but expecting that Pant-Load, waste of human space and oxygen, disgusting pig of a Senator from Massachusetts to apologize for anything is expecting way too much. After MJK and Chappaquidick, he should have been jailed, disbarred, and retired from public life. But NO! Massachusetts has decided that he should be the Lion of the Senate -- oh, please!!!!!
The facts are fake, but the story is true.
I think I see a pattern here!
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Becki
Da, comrade. The truth is that which we wish to be true. Factuality has nothing to do with truth.
That is too funny! Tutu funny!!
Why won't you hateful right-wing fanatics ever accept the fact that Ted Kennedy was the designated driver. Nothing he has ever done in his life would indicate he has a drinking problem. This is nothing more than innuendo couched as fat. I mean fact.
Thank you for your thorough account. "Lest we forget..."
I'm sorry but is this a trick question that I'm too dimwitted to understand? They send Kennedy, Kerry and Franks to the Congress without fail.
Oooh! Was that intentional?
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