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.
LOL
Love it! Tony Snow just brought this up on Fox. Even Bob Beckel saying Kennedy has become a parody of himself! ROFL
Ha! Wasn't that something! LOL
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ROTFLMAO
This is choice!!!!!
LOL....Bob Beckel was actually (almost) reasonable today...I think he is getting to the point that it is just TOO hard being on the dem buffoon's side...
I heard on MSNBC today...Buchanan and Peter Fenn BOTH said that Joe Biden just won't shut up ....and no one can tell him what a fool he makes of himself...
That is 2 down...now we have to get Schmuckie, Leahy, and Durbin...although Durbin, with his Gitmo speech, and Reid with the Abramoff thing....MIGHT be in danger.
WHO---OOO...I think 2006 is gonna be a very good year for the GOP!
I'm figuring he gets about 3/5ths to a mile ..
Great!
I heard it..Schumer is like chalk screeching on a blackboard to me..He was loathsome,too.
I heard Rich Lowry say this on Hannity & Colmes last night - I had no idea he was serious!
though later I learned about the non-Princetonians who succeeded me at the magazine--among them David Asman, Bob Royal, Dinesh D'Souza, and Laura Ingraham. Asman, along with Andrew Napolitano, a CAP board member, is now with Fox News.
heh
"Princeton CAP magazine piece Kennedy read was satire"
Thanks for giving us the news that went right into "the round file" at all
the MSM outlets (but maybe FOX will get ahold of it)
These people are clearly out of control.
This is a hoot!
I missed this..Rush was who I was talking about.
Killer Kennedy has never had an original thought. He only mouths mantras provided for him by fellow rats and the left wing mediots.
Bush is just proving that he's better than they are.
And why does HE need to smack them -- they do enough damage to themselves without him lifting a finger.
Remember when the swimmer was reading this and Fineswine interupted him? She wanted to be sure he read the last line about "women"? ROFL
Shameless!!
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