The editor of the magazine Prospect, says the piece that Kennedy read was satire!
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012824.php
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Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:
The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges, but Kennedy read from it as if it had been serious instead of an attempt at humor.
"I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them," D'Souza said. "It was a satire."
The fat-faced leftist would read anything one of his many staffers would shove in front of his face.
He once read an entire menu before discovering what it actually was.
THIS is too funny!!