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.
I rather enjoyed this quote:
"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."
That image acptures the essence of Jabba, er, Teddy.
This is just too,too funny for words! Senator drunk and stupid should fire his staff! LOL
LOL!!! Good one.
Troll!
2000 U.S. SENATE RESULTS - MA: Kennedy, Edward M. D 1,889,494 72.69% So he would be up again in 2006 - Kennedy in 2006
He's on hard drugs.
Perhaps we need to send Howard the list of ALL of the damned Dems, who took money from Abramoff. :-)
That was me!
I described Liberalism.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
This was long before Savage wrote a book with the same title
Hey Teddy, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
A Bridge Too Far
Is there anything funnier than watching fat old Ted bloviate??? BWAHAHAHAHA :-)
I don't think they knew. And I don't think they really expected that Senator Kennedy would actually do something like that. Senators don't expect their colleagues to lie or deceive them.
Specter was genuinely upset with Kennedy about Kennedy's charge about the letter.
You and me are in total agreement.
I'm starting to suspect Ted Kennedy might have once had a drinking problem. I sure hope he doesn't do anything risky, like drive a car with another passenger inside. ;)
I know someone who blames Ronald Reagan for killing his brother. While Reagan was governor of California, he supported releasing certain people from mental institutions; this guy was released and killed this person's brother. So it was Reagan's fault, even though this was a movement that began in the 20's as i recall.
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