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Birthday boy has overstayed his own party (Ted Kennedy)
The Boston Herald ^ | 2/24/2002 | Howie Carr

Posted on 02/23/2002 9:39:02 PM PST by BansheeBill

Birthday boy has overstayed his own party
by Howie Carr
Sunday, February 24, 2002

How old would Mary Jo Kopechne be this year?

After the interminable puff pieces of the last few days, we all know how old our bloated senior senator is - 70 as of Friday. He shares a birthday, but little else, with George Washington.

George Washington couldn't tell a lie. Ted Kennedy couldn't tell the truth.

When he first ran for the Senate in 1962, his slogan was ``He CAN do MORE for Massachusetts.''

Isn't that the truth? Massachusetts is truly Kennedy Country - a miasma of methadone clinics, abortion centers, drive-by shootings, illegal aliens, illiterate high school graduates and skyrocketing illegitimacy rates.

Ted Kennedy was a five-star general in the War on Poverty and, at least in Massachusetts, Poverty won. Our state now teems with Clarabel Venturas and John Geoghans.

Then there's Ted's personal life - Chappaquiddick, Au Bar, the waitress sandwich with Sen. Chris Dodd, the bar fights and the boozy incoherence. The short-term memory is always the first thing to go - just ask Andy, I mean, Marty Meehan.

Is there any more eloquent recent testimony to the utter desolation of his life than the statements filed in court in California by his drug-addled son, Rep. Patrick ``Patches'' Kennedy of Rhode Island?

Patches, you may recall, committed a triple hate crime two years ago at LAX, assaulting an elderly black female security guard who apparently . . . did not know who he was.

The runt's response was classic Kennedy. First he denied it. Then someone produced the videotape, and Patches said the old lady had it coming, bigtime.

Now she's suing, and Patches' defense is as predictable as it is pathetic. He says the woman ``voluntarily and unreasonably proceeded to encounter a danger which was known to her.''

In other words, he's Ted Kennedy's son, and she knew - or should have known - what Kennedys do to women.

Yet the mainstream press still worships these tongue-tied, beer-breathed bums. On Friday Judy Woodruff of CNN was swooning over him. Even Republicans now cut tubby Ted maximum slack. Ex-Sen. Alan Simpson, who lost his mind at Camelot High, is quoted as saying:

``When he tells you he's going to stick with you, he sticks with you through to the end.''

Tell that to Mary Jo.

Once the Kennedys were everywhere respected, or least feared - America's royal family. Now they are a laughingstock. When his niece Maria Shriver tells an interviewer that her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has a ``Kennedy-like mentality,'' everyone starts giggling.

A Kennedy-like mentality. That means sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. A triple Chivas on the rocks, hold the rocks. Vodka saunas and underage babysitters. Blondes bludgeoned with golf clubs and girls in wheelchairs.

And let's not forget Max Kennedy for Congress.

Say what you will about Richard M. Nixon, he pegged Ted Kennedy early on. After Chappaquiddick, H.R. Haldeman recorded that Tricky Dick's analysis was that Teddy ``was drunk, escaped from car, let her drown, said nothing until police got to him. Shows fatal flaw in his character, cheated at school, ran from accident.''

Still, this state is now a reflection of its senior senator, no doubt about it. The working classes have been supplanted by the non-working classes. This week, as a 70th birthday present, the Supreme Judicial Court basically legalized sodomy in public places, including beaches and rest stops. Sex alfresco has long been an obsession of Ted's - remember Sen. Heflin's crack about his support of ``off-shore drilling''?

Twenty years ago, a future governor made his mark by rooting out pension fraud at Boston City Hall. Now, the current governor participates in pension fraud at the State House. Ted's son went into rehab for cocaine abuse. The cardinal, who is not named Cushing, writes tender notes to serial pedophiles.

We are all Kennedys now, and in case you were wondering, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 61 years old today.

Howie Carr's radio show can be heard every weekday afternoon on WRKO-AM 680, WHYN-AM 560, WGAN-AM 560, WXTK-FM 95.1 or online at howiecarr.org.


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To: buzzcat
Give him a blasted break.

Rather; break his blasted _______!

61 posted on 02/24/2002 8:32:24 PM PST by higgmeister
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To: buzzcat
against him all the time), but an intelligent observer would conclude that his regular self-induced "problems" derive from the continual, unrelenting loss of his family members. Any mental health expert would tell you the same thing. 42 posted on 2/24/02 4:21 PM Pacific by buzzcat

Drowning Mary Jo probably didn't help his mental health much either..oppps sorry I forgot he doesn't possess a conscience!

62 posted on 02/24/2002 8:38:30 PM PST by arly
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To: BansheeBill
Can anybody link to the classic Rush Limbaugh tape of The Swimmer's utterly incoherent alcohol addled speech?
63 posted on 02/24/2002 8:48:27 PM PST by TheGoodDoc
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Two pennies a mile, two pennies..."

Pity contemporary commercials aren't what they could be.

64 posted on 02/24/2002 8:48:50 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: arly
Please. It was a car wreck. He didn't drown anyone. It was a tragedy, of course. But I don't think he intentionally drove the Olds over the bridge. He ran away in order to sober up. Then he went to the police station. Any lawyer or cop will tell you that this is not uncommon in these kinds of situations. Drunk drivers do all kinds of weird things. Like get into wrecks that result in loss of life. Then they run off, get sober, and report to the cops with the tired "I don't remember" story. If the subject, at that time, is not drunk, then the cops charge him with "leaving the scene" instead of "vehicular homicide." Not noble or the right thing to do. But it does happen.
65 posted on 02/24/2002 8:50:45 PM PST by buzzcat
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To: TheGoodDoc
Howie plays one occasionally. "We're here to investigate", aide: 'praise', "un praise, Watergate",
aide 'Whitewater',... or some such incoherent nonesense.
66 posted on 02/24/2002 8:54:06 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: BansheeBill
I missed this, thanks BTTT
67 posted on 02/24/2002 8:56:26 PM PST by Gothmog
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To: BansheeBill
Well, this explains a lot in my life... The day I was born was cursed! I was born on February 22, 1962, the same day as Teddy, and the same year he first ran for the Senate...

It explains a lot... :-(

Mark

68 posted on 02/24/2002 9:03:55 PM PST by MarkL
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To: airforce19811985; american; antiliberal; Aquinasfan; Arioch7; AStack75; awestk; bd56; betty boop...
FYI
69 posted on 02/24/2002 9:05:50 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: RaceBannon; firebrand; Dutchy; StarFan; OneidaM; evilC; ELS; BlackAgnes; stanz; Oschisms; dbwz...
Um... after reading this article, do you think Howie Carr isn't too fond of 'ol Teddy?
70 posted on 02/24/2002 9:09:11 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: MrSparkys; #1CTYankee; .303 Brit; 2nd amendment mama; 2Trievers; AGBRUHN; always vigilant...
ping
71 posted on 02/24/2002 9:09:56 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: buzzcat
I can't believe I found a special word for this Evil Troll!

                               Main Entry: brachy.ce.phal.ic
                               Pronunciation: "bra-ki-s&-'fa-lik
                               Function: adjective
                               Etymology: New Latin brachycephalus, from Greek brachy- + kephalE
                               head -- more at CEPHALIC
                               Date: circa 1852
                               : short-headed or broad-headed with a cephalic index of over 80
                               - brachy.ceph.a.ly /-'se-f&-lE/ noun  Brachycephalous

72 posted on 02/24/2002 9:13:02 PM PST by higgmeister
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To: BlackElk
Why did they need the waitress?
Best line so far
73 posted on 02/24/2002 9:23:04 PM PST by PieroC
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To: higgmeister
I live around 1200 miles away from Massachussetts so please excuse my ignorance but WHAT THE HECK DO DEMOCRATS SEE IN EDWARD KENNEDY? I mean...look at him! Obviously that state is going to perennially vote Democrat and I'm sure Boston is just crawling liberal lawyers and businessfolk who could easily beat this guy for the nomination. It's not 1962, being a "Kennedy" has lost its lustre. What gives? Nobody as unappealing as that man has all the liberal voters in that state tied around his finger based simply on his "personality" and last name.
74 posted on 02/24/2002 9:34:19 PM PST by Ipberg
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To: buzzcat
Yeah, people drive drunk, and people crash cars, and people wimp out and run away, if that's what really happened, but a man owns up to his mistakes and accepts the consequences. Ted Kennedy is not a man worthy of an ounce of respect. He deserves every bit of criticism and ridicule heaped upon his shameless, bloated carcass.
75 posted on 02/24/2002 10:13:47 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Ipberg
I don't have an answer.
They have believed the socialist lies.
Why I'll never understand.
76 posted on 02/24/2002 10:15:40 PM PST by higgmeister
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To: Ipberg
I live around 1200 miles away from Massachussetts so please excuse my ignorance but WHAT THE HECK DO DEMOCRATS SEE IN EDWARD KENNEDY?

I don't think you understand how many people have someone in their family on a government payroll or on some form of government assistance and they seem to feel that if fat ted is not there their jobs will go away and the checks will stop coming. Also the majority of everyone else (it seems) is in some union where the Union bosses tell them they better vote for Kennedy if they want their: jobs, pension, health benefits, social security, etc , etc, etc....and so as many of them no longer think for themselves, they just do as told and pull the lever for any Kennedy on the ballot.

New York State now is in the same position, but they get Chuckie and the Hildebeast.
77 posted on 02/24/2002 10:28:02 PM PST by BansheeBill
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To: Theodore R.
You might wonder about the genesis of the present population of Massachusetts. This will give you some insight as to why the likes of Kennedy, O’Neil, Dukakis and their ilk prevail.

As you well know, hundreds of millions of people came to America. This migration wasn’t for the most part organized and occurred over hundreds of years. Naturally there were a lot of ships and a lot of docks with a lot of people milling about. Quite often the stupider of the sorts would find themselves upon an American bound ship by accident. Naturally the captain wouldn’t return to port to drop off a few idiots. So they found themselves in America, and mostly in Boston. Very few were able to puzzle where they came from, nor earn any income to afford the return passage even if these halfwits should surprise one and all with the right answer. Furthermore there is no evidence they would be accepted back. Thus, the only way to provide for themselves would be to throw themselves at the feet of the local Lord and beg for shelter in return for mucking out animal stalls and such. America, having no Lords, the poor wretches turned to politics and inbreeding. Hence the Kennedys.

78 posted on 02/24/2002 11:58:12 PM PST by Leisler
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To: BansheeBill
Very Good Article. Of course he left out that Mass has the most liberal Judges in the world. Repeat Rapists and pedifiles get 10 day in house probation, and murders have to pay a fine. ** sigh **
79 posted on 02/25/2002 4:17:23 AM PST by vannrox
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To: buzzcat
Oh, give me a break! You stand guilty of self-demonstrated "rump-swabbery" of he first degree.

The only thing any of Teddy's brothers did was Joe who got himself blown-up in a flying bomb. The Kennedy's and their liberal enablers have done more to destroy this Representative Republic than all of its enemeies in all of our wars.

I once "rubbed elbows" with Ted Kennedy, actually two years ago at Logan in a bathroom. He had just poured himself off a flight from Reagan National Airport and was fumbling in a drunken stupor to find his member and get it out before he urinated. His breath was a cross between a toxic waste dump and a daisy cutter just before ignition.<p.Yeah, liberals, you can really be proud of your poster child.

80 posted on 02/25/2002 4:28:11 AM PST by Redleg Duke
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