One of the funniest quotes about Ted Kennedy was done by North Carolina’s own Jesse Helms. O’l Jesse and O’l Teddy were polar opposites but this is still funny. In 1993, during a hearing on whether to allow immigrants with AIDS to settle in this country, Helms had trouble hearing Kennedy. “Let me adjust my hearing aid. I can’t match him in decibels or Jezebels.”
There was a time during the push for the ERA that feminists were embarrassed to discover that anti-ERA Helms had more female staffers in high SA and LA positions than did the pro-ERA Kennedy.