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.
The Republicans need to take that picture you posted and blow it up to life-sized and put it up in the Senate during the floor debate!!! LOL
```Instead, after a little digging the prof was pulled as a witness because everyone on the planet was able to figure out he was a lunatic.```
Except them.
fofl!
Thanks.... your wrist must be well on the mend or you've learned to type with it in a cast....
That is right...I forgot!!
Great catch...so Feinstein should be added to the "list"...
DOWN GO THE DEMS! DOWN GO THE DEMS!!
that's a keeper
Just when I think Kennedy couldn't look more like a fool than he already does, I'm pleasantly surprised to find he has much more stupidity to share with us.
Kennedy's handlers were well aware that the piece was a satire, and so were the Republicans. Therefore, so was Alito. I think that the Republicans were counting on the dying socialist "mainstream" liberal newsrooms to do a little research and report on this, but they should have known that that wasn't going to happen.
Loose Lips Sink . . .
Biden's Leadership Is Lost in All His Talk
By Richard Cohen
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Page A21
The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth. That, though, is no small matter. It is a Himalayan barrier, a Sahara of a handicap, a summer's day in Death Valley, a winter's night at the pole (either one) -- an endless list of metaphors intended to show you both the immensity of the problem and to illustrate it with the op-ed version of excess. This, alas, is Joe Biden.
The reviews for Biden's first crack at Samuel Alito, the humorless Supreme Court nominee, were murderous. The New York Times had Biden out on Page One -- normally a position to kill for -- only this time it was not a paean to his considerable merits, but an account of how it took him nearly three minutes of throat-clearing to ask his first question and then took the rest of his allocated 30 minutes just to get in four more. He concluded with about half a minute still left to him -- something of a personal best that even he had to acknowledge.
"I want to note that for maybe the first time in history, Biden is 40 seconds under his time," he told Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, no clipped speaker himself.
The Post had a similar account of Biden running off at the mouth. In that piece, Dana Milbank wrote that during Biden's round of questioning, he "spoke about his own Irish American roots, his 'Grandfather Finnegan,' his son's application to Princeton (he attended the University of Pennsylvania instead, Biden said), a speech the senator gave on the Princeton campus, the fact that Biden is 'not a Princeton fan,' and his views on the eyeglasses of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)."
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But his tendency, his compulsion, his manic-obsessive running of the mouth has become the functional equivalent of womanizing or some other character weakness that disqualifies a man for the presidency. It is his version of corruption, of alcoholism, of a fierce temper or vile views -- all the sorts of things that have crippled candidates in the past. It is, though, an innocent thing, as good-humored as the man and of no real policy consequence. It will merely stunt him politically.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102041.html
I read that probably over 45 years ago and still remember its powerful impact--but don't remember details about it, except the overall point. Can you imagine Ted Kennedy reading it and then calling for Jonathan Swift's (hope I've got the author right) trial before the world court for advocating not only genocide, but cannibalism?
pecking with a splint now
I checked DUmmieland...and one poster's take was the Alito hearing was the dems "Katrina"....LOL
NO one else posted on that remark...I think they are all running away from the hearings altogether.
Ouch..at least one "got it".
hehe....I hadn't read that...thanks.
Well...I am sure that article made Hillary's day...blech!
All that bloviation by Teddy over a satire! Leftwingers are so ideologically fixated they don't see humor, or see humor as reality. H'mm Twain's comment about Congress making a joke a law can be adapted for the leftwing.
Actually, Teddy is darn lucky that the Repbulicans are classy enough NOT to get up on the dais on Friday...and point out that Kennedy himself was a member of an all-male, (probably all WHITE male)club in college...
and that he and Biden both have clauses in their homes that forbids selling to a minority...
I disagree, at least in this context, it's HYSTERICAL!
Dontcha know, an article, book, film, show, or play is only satirical if the satire mocks conservatives and patriotism.
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