I too have been saying for years (and heard Larry Kudlow say it this AM on the radio) that Kennedy was the true pioneer of the demagogic rhetoric that has come to define
the public face of the Far Left, ever since the extreme verbiage he used at the Bork hearings over twenty years ago. I guess his fellow Lefties heard it, saw how it went over, and built on it, OTSOG, as it were. It became the signature style for Clintonistas starting from the very beginning, as practiced and perfected by such luminaries as Paul Begala, James Carville, and countless “strategists” who’ve been fouling our airwaves for over two decades now.
They’ve become very adept as putting forth a certain
Master Thespian acting style in which (MOCK) moral outrage and gross overstatement go hand in hand, the search for truth and illumination gets thrown out the window, and Memorable Snarkiness is the high point of every appearance. Ultimately they are all ACTORS, and they’ve been building their audience very patiently. That audience is still there, but its ranks are already thinning. All that remains very soon will be the truly hard-core. Nobody has EVER called them on this entirely hollow “presentation of self”, so they’ve been enabled by their “enemies” every bit as much as their “friends”.
Steyn, you magnificent bastard! But sadly, I doubt the loss of 200 Kennedy sycophants would make much of a dent...
Fox news Cris Wallace and others kept wondering what the great ‘iconic moment’ of the ceromony would be, and I kept thinking “When it’s all over, and America wakes up fro mtheir comma, and realizes what a traitorous creep Teddy was- but alas, that moment may nev3r come
[[The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.]]
Precisely!
Watched a lot of the coverage waiting to see the part where the bury him in dirt...
...but they never show the good stuff at funerals.
Classic Mark Steyn!
That hurts because it's true.
“In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969”
More unmentionable to me is his father kissing @ss to Hitler and giving his own daughter a lobotomy. Oh yeah, and getting rich from being a bootlegger during prohibition. The Kennedy fame and fortune made off of us ‘small souls’.
Don’t let it be forgot,
That Teddy was a sot...
He was called the Lion of the Senate.
Not for his white mane or mighty roar,
but because he mated without limits and killed without remorse.
*JimTreacher via twitter.
Bump....
Just as he was about to be buried a thunderstorm started to roll in, lightening flaring. De Devil comin’ to claim his own.
As Teddy's biographer Adam Clymer wrote, Edward Kennedy's "achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne."
You can't make an omelet without breaking chicks, right? I don't know how many lives the senator changed – he certainly changed Mary Jo's – but you're struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy's Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been OK to leave a couple more broads down there? Hey, why not? At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo "would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history … Who knows – maybe she'd feel it was worth it." What true-believing liberal lass wouldn't be honored to be dispatched by that death panel?
Mr. Steyn, I'd be honored to fetch your coffee and sharpen your pencils (or vacuum your keyboard).
You just can NOT make this stuff up.
In fact, you can't even exaggerate it.
Edward Kennedy - the original Joran Vandersloot.
ML/NJ
Ordinary Steyn is Steyn at his best.
I wish they’d get the SOB buried, STFU about him and get his nauseating mug off of my TV screen.
I believe the Kennedy’s are awaiting true justice.... right about now. Every man and woman will stand before God to give account for themselves. No exception.....no excuses.