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Princeton CAP magazine piece Kennedy read was satire
Powerline ^ | January 14, 2006

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.


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To: maggief

LOL

Love it! Tony Snow just brought this up on Fox. Even Bob Beckel saying Kennedy has become a parody of himself! ROFL


141 posted on 01/14/2006 9:26:36 AM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: Txsleuth

Ha! Wasn't that something! LOL


142 posted on 01/14/2006 9:27:41 AM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: maggief
No more Ben & Jerry's for Teddy.

143 posted on 01/14/2006 9:30:38 AM PST by TigersEye (The speed of spirit is instantaneous.)
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To: maggief

-bump-
ROTFLMAO

144 posted on 01/14/2006 9:31:21 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Peach

This is choice!!!!!


145 posted on 01/14/2006 9:33:38 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Jrabbit

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!


146 posted on 01/14/2006 9:34:44 AM PST by Txsleuth (Thank you to all that donated on the Freepathon...next time more monthlies!!)
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To: Peach
There are country miles and then there is a Kennedy country mile..

I'm figuring he gets about 3/5ths to a mile ..


147 posted on 01/14/2006 9:42:28 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: FairOpinion

Great!


148 posted on 01/14/2006 9:42:33 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Txsleuth

I heard it..Schumer is like chalk screeching on a blackboard to me..He was loathsome,too.


149 posted on 01/14/2006 9:45:40 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Peach

I heard Rich Lowry say this on Hannity & Colmes last night - I had no idea he was serious!


150 posted on 01/14/2006 9:48:30 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: MEG33

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


151 posted on 01/14/2006 9:52:21 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Peach

"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)


152 posted on 01/14/2006 9:52:57 AM PST by VOA
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To: Peach

These people are clearly out of control.


153 posted on 01/14/2006 9:56:09 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: Howlin

This is a hoot!


154 posted on 01/14/2006 9:56:51 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Blurblogger

155 posted on 01/14/2006 9:58:30 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: Peach

I missed this..Rush was who I was talking about.


156 posted on 01/14/2006 10:00:57 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: deport

http://kennedy.senate.gov/ALITO/1983%20Prospect%20-%20In%20Defense%20Of%20Elitism.pdf


157 posted on 01/14/2006 10:02:16 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Peach

Killer Kennedy has never had an original thought. He only mouths mantras provided for him by fellow rats and the left wing mediots.


158 posted on 01/14/2006 10:03:53 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The NY Slimes has been committing treason and sedition for decades.)
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To: TomGuy

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.


159 posted on 01/14/2006 10:04:16 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Txsleuth

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!!


160 posted on 01/14/2006 10:05:04 AM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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