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The editor of Princeton's Prospect magazine says the piece that Kennedy read at Judge Alito's confirmation hearing was satire.
1 posted on 01/14/2006 7:08:03 AM PST by Peach
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To: Peach
This is the smoking gun proving Alito's racism?

Here is the only sentence in Crocker's CAP piece that mentions race: "Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics (sic) are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic (sic), the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children."

Is anyone really so dim that they don't recognize this as (bad) humor?

How about this: "A world without Maxim's, Britain's Special Air Services Regiment, and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders would be well nigh intolerable for any people of discernment and taste."

The piece may not be particularly funny, but it is obviously an attempt at some variety of humor, perhaps parody. Whatever the piece is, it is not racist. I'm sure that Kennedy and the MSM will continue to pretend otherwise.

321 posted on 01/14/2006 10:47:35 PM PST by TChad
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Ted Kennedy is a monkey.


323 posted on 01/14/2006 11:46:53 PM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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To: Old Sarge

This is funny..now.


329 posted on 01/15/2006 5:28:15 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/markalexander/2006/01/13/182315.html

"Well, it's not as if Judge Alito is a spoiled trust baby who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating. Nor is he a United States senator who got drunk, drove a young female campaign worker to her death, then chose not report it to authorities until the next day, and then, only after calling his lawyer, concocting an alibi and developing a
strategy to contain the political fallout."


330 posted on 01/15/2006 6:08:35 AM PST by cowtowney
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Michael Medved said this the day Kennedy threw a hissy about the CAP piece.


334 posted on 01/15/2006 7:56:41 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl (OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
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I knew it immediately. That last line reminded me of "A Modest Proposal".


338 posted on 01/15/2006 1:11:31 PM PST by CharlieOK1 (Ideally pacifism would be great, but only if you've got an army of non-pacifists to protect you)
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Instant mental image:

"Senator Kennedy - you're an eediot! You stupid bloated sack of protoplasm!"

Thanks for posting this truly heart-warming item.

342 posted on 01/16/2006 8:12:14 AM PST by headsonpikes (The Liberal Party of Canada are not b*stards - b*stards have mothers!)
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Send it to Snopes and watch them spin...


344 posted on 01/16/2006 1:59:47 PM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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Friends don't let friends read drunk.


349 posted on 01/17/2006 8:44:03 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Guns don't kill people, Chuck Norris kills people.)
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The PDF is crooked and undersized on the Kennedy site.

I straightened it and put it on my own space:

"In Defense of Elitism" article
353 posted on 01/18/2006 9:10:52 AM PST by sittnick (There is no salvation in politics.)
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