[mewzilla]

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."

Ah, the CBS defense....

[new yorker 77]

My phrasing: Even if Ted Kennedy should have gone to prison for killing a woman, he still commands a great deal of respect for being returned to the Senate by the people of Massachusetts who respect both the Kennedy name and Kennedy Pork.

[Palladin]

>>>Ah, the CBS defense....<<<

The rallying cry of the terminally meretricious. Even though it was a lie, it was true.