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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.