Posted on 01/14/2006 7:08:01 AM PST by Peach
You can read the full Prospect article on Kennedy's site. Its subject is a lawsuit by a female Princeton student who wanted to be admitted to an all-male eating club at the university. As the title suggests, it argues more broadly that elitism isn't a bad thing. The article is written in an arch style that doesn't do much for me, and I don't think it's very good. But there isn't anything especially offensive or even controversial in it.
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 bottom line is that if this is the most "offensive" article CAP was responsible for in its decade-plus of existence, the Democrats' whole guilt-by-association effort was much ado about nothing. If being associated, however remotely, with attempts at humor that don't turn out to be very funny is enough to place a public figure beyond the pale, the Democrats had better stay away from Al Franken.
Ooooops. Never mind.
I was thinking that yesterday. What a hoot it would be to be the guy in the strategy meetings pushing the looniest of the moonbat ideas while the staff just eats it up!
He does the best he can with his remaining brain cell. Having none of their own, his constituents rely heavily on that bourbon soaked fat laden cell. His eventual passing will leave them udderless.
Ted Kennedy is probably the best weapon the Republicans have. I'm not sure I want to see him gone. The alternate ending to "It's a Wonderful Life" is "Teacher says, every time a Kennedy talks, a Republican gets a House seat."
... What a hoot it would be to be the guy in the strategy meetings pushing the looniest of the moonbat ideas while the staff just eats it up!
Shhhhh. Rove went to a lot of trouble to put that guy there.
Did you see this?
This is so pathetic it's almost funny.
And, I thought about posting my idea about a mole here. And, yes, I thought if I did that, would I be blowing the guy's cover?
Take for instance this "Kennedy" statement on his website titled, "STATEMENT BY SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON OUTSOURCING AMERICAN JOBS"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa Wagoner (202) 224-2633
Globalization offers substantial opportunities and benefits for America and the rest of the world. Tens of millions of people across the globe have been lifted out of poverty. But globalization has a darker side — whoever is willing to work for the lowest wages will get the work. The Bush Administration has joined this race to the bottom, with short-sighted economic policies that undermine job creation and encourage companies to ship jobs overseas. Rather than conceding the inevitability of American job loss, I support higher labor standards, and giving American workers the tools they need to compete with workers around the world. With innovation and investment, we can make the American dream a reality in the global economy.
"The Bush Administration has joined the race to the bottom ..." NO Mr. Kennedy's staff, the reality is unions exist now (unlike in former centuries) to NOT help the American worker but instead out-price him/her from the global marketplace.
Kennedy's staff must be filled with ... oh never mind it is not worth my time contemplating or writing other than to say everything coming out of Kennedy's mouth (staff) is non-reality.
Delusional Dan Rather and Madwoman Mary Mapes still hold that the faked TANG documents are accurate.
Some people are literally insane, you know, and incapable of "getting it." And do you not agree it perfectly natural that they would tend to associate with like-"minded" people?
Cape Cod Orca....the gift that keeps on giving....
Part of Kennedy's "statements" against Alito were also newspaper clippings written by the Associated Press!
More satire and editorializing.............
I can only think of two 'DINOs' - Lieberman and McCain. Although McCain might be too far left to qualify. lol
I heard medved talk about this on Wed or Thur. He said it was a parody but no one else picked up on it.
(Is that a Bush Predator drone circling your house?)
Denial is a very, very powerful thing.
Folks in denial will go to any lengths to avoid being forced to see the truth.
Kennedy doesn't care what it was as long as it serves as a reference point for him to make slanderous accusations.
Facts are not important to Kennedy as long as he is successful in undermining the conservative agenda.
Thanks for finding and posting this.
Also, credit where credit it due, it was Jack Tapper, an ABC reporter who broke the story.
From another blog:
ABC's Tapper Blog: Oops! One Ted Kennedy CAP Quote Came From a Satire
Posted by Tim Graham on January 13, 2006 - 11:16.
Kudos to ABC reporter Jake Tapper, whose "Down and Dirty" blog carries an interview with Dinesh D'Souza, an editor for the magazine of Concerned Alumni of Princeton from 1983 to 1985, the time frame in which Sam Alito claimed membership in CAP when applying for a job in the Reagan Justice Department
http://newsbusters.org/node/3580
(they have a link to Tapper's blog)
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AND THE LINK TO JACK TAPPER'S BLOG WHICH BROKE THE STORY:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/downanddirty/2006/01/cap_smear.html
Probing the debate over Alito's having said he was a member of the conservative Concerned Alumni of Princeton on a 1985 job application with the Reagan Justice Department, I spoke to conservative intellectual Dinesh D'Souza of the Hoover Institution yesterday.
D'Souza worked for CAP from 1983 to 1985, editing CAP's controversial Prospect magazine. He said a number of the Democratic attacks on Samuel Alito were based on falsehoods.
First off, D'Souza says, one of the two stories from Prospect that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, read this week at the confirmation hearings was intended as a satire.
The 1983 essay "In Defense of Elitism" by Harry Crocker III included this line, read dramatically by Kennedy: "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic..."
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.
Tony Snow just brought this up on his show...with Bob Beckel and Rich Galen....and even Bob Beckel said that Teddy Kennedy needs to hang it up...
He said that Kennedy had become a "caricature of himself"...OUCH
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