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MPs' fury as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets honorary knighthood for Northern Ireland role
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 4th March 2009 | Ian Drury

Posted on 03/04/2009 4:03:45 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick

Gordon Brown sparked fury today by awarding an honorary knighthood to U.S. senator Edward Kennedy, who has been accused in the past of being an IRA sympathiser.

Conservative MPs and Peers condemned as 'inappropriate' the decision to make a man closely linked to the Irish nationalist movement a 'Sir'.

Senior British politicians also expressed unease at honouring the Democrat who was embroiled in controversy when he was involved in an infamous car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in which a young woman was killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; tedkennedy
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Seems the Brits are no more happy about this than posters on FR are. Some of the comments are priceless.
1 posted on 03/04/2009 4:03:45 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
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To: PotatoHeadMick

As long as it doesn’t include an automobile.


2 posted on 03/04/2009 4:05:29 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Next thing you know Obama will be giving the Medal of Freedom to Bill Ayers.


3 posted on 03/04/2009 4:06:20 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Be grateful he isn’t driving your young women around.


4 posted on 03/04/2009 4:07:04 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If Liberals would pay their taxes, there would be no deficit..)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Heard about this travesty on the noon news today. Nearly lost my lunch. A Knight? Really. What the hell for?


5 posted on 03/04/2009 4:07:30 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (Democrats are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Sir Ted Carlyle of Crash.


6 posted on 03/04/2009 4:09:45 PM PST by Rocko (Mymindisaragingtorrentfloodedwithrivuletsofthoughtcascadingintoawaterfallofcreativealternatives)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Hence my new tagline.


7 posted on 03/04/2009 4:10:41 PM PST by JennysCool (Ted Kennedy has a Knighthood. Patrick Macnee does not. Go figure.)
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To: He Rides A White Horse

he’ll be the first knight to turn a car into a submarine.


8 posted on 03/04/2009 4:12:33 PM PST by max americana
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To: PotatoHeadMick
A sitting senator may NOT hold a title in bestowed by a foreign government... but who gives a s*1t about the constitution.
9 posted on 03/04/2009 4:12:55 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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Sir Ted Carlyle of Crash.

Sir Elton John. Nobel Peace Prize recipient Yasser Arafat. It's all becoming meaningless.

10 posted on 03/04/2009 4:13:35 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: Cementjungle
That is closer to the truth than I think you wanted to be.

Notice in the Kennedy thing, the MPs object to his knighthood based on his close linkage to Irish Nationalism. No mention of all of the other legal and moral flaws that surround this mess of a human being. It is as if the past ceased to exist for this scumbag.

11 posted on 03/04/2009 4:14:38 PM PST by TCats
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To: TheConservativeParty
A Knight? Really. What the hell for?

All I can guess is that Ted's consumption of Chivas Regal, a U.K. product, is so voluminous that it probably makes up a significant portion of British GDP every year.

When does the high falooting award arrive at Hyannisport from Mexico for Ted's contribution to the destruction of America's borders back in the 60s with his toxic immigration bill?
12 posted on 03/04/2009 4:15:48 PM PST by LostInBayport (When more than 98% of the Republicans on Capitol Hill vote against a bill, it is not bipartisan.)
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To: He Rides A White Horse

I prefer the one I read earlier today “Sir Hossis of Liver”


13 posted on 03/04/2009 4:17:26 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: PotatoHeadMick

This makes me so proud to be a Scotsman.


14 posted on 03/04/2009 4:18:15 PM PST by Gator113 (For America to survive, Obama must fail.....)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Let’s put Sir Ted in some armor, give him a horse and lance, point him at a windmill and see what he does.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 4:19:34 PM PST by kamikaze2000
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To: PotatoHeadMick
Brits don't like a murderer either... they should of honored Mary Jo
16 posted on 03/04/2009 4:20:31 PM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Ugg.... spit...


17 posted on 03/04/2009 4:22:21 PM PST by allmost
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he’ll be the first knight to turn a car into a submarine

I'll never understand the American (some) attitude regarding the Kennedys as being some kind of royalty. It's really quite sickening. Camelot indeed. Everytime I hear that term, I feel like I'm going to vomit.

18 posted on 03/04/2009 4:24:20 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

A “knighthood’ in British slang is a condom. Fitting!


19 posted on 03/04/2009 4:24:22 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: MagUSNRET

“Sir Hossis of Liver; Regent of Chivas”


20 posted on 03/04/2009 4:28:06 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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