[Peach]

The editor of Princeton's Prospect magazine says the piece that Kennedy read at Judge Alito's confirmation hearing was satire.

[ForGod'sSake]

[TigersEye]

"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."

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.

[maggief]

Did you see this?

This is so pathetic it's almost funny.

[zeaal]

Kennedy, or should we say his hateful staff (because I don't think Kennedy produces too much work of his own anymore) are ABSENT. Their HATERED for President Bush, Republicans and Conservatives EXCEEDS any hope, concern or optimism for America and Americans.

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.

[ConservativeGreek]

Part of Kennedy's "statements" against Alito were also newspaper clippings written by the Associated Press!
More satire and editorializing.............

[Mr Cobol]

I heard medved talk about this on Wed or Thur. He said it was a parody but no one else picked up on it.

[G Larry]

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.

[FairOpinion]

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.

[Txsleuth]

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

[Chi-townChief]

This is choice!!!!!

[NormsRevenge]

There are country miles and then there is a Kennedy country mile..

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

[cgk]

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

[VOA]

"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)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

These people are clearly out of control.

[Grampa Dave]

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

[Reagan is King]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

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.

[GreyFriar]

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.

[Fudd Fan]

"The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges..."

I disagree, at least in this context, it's HYSTERICAL!

[sully777]

Dontcha know, an article, book, film, show, or play is only satirical if the satire mocks conservatives and patriotism.