Kennedy Calls Bush Minority Nominees 'Neanderthals'

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/14/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Sen. Ted Kennedy called President Bush's judicial nominees "Neanderthals" on Friday, a group that includes Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and African-American Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Boasting of his party's resolve in the face of GOP attempts to stop their filibuster, Kennedy told the Senate, "What has not ended is the resolution and the determination of the members of the United States Senate to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by this president of the United States for any court, federal court in the United States."

Kennedy's overtly racist language stunned even liberal CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl, who reported, "Strong words from Ted Kennedy suggesting that some of these nominees are Neanderthals."

Karl said Kennedy's harsh tone was "exactly what Republicans point to when they say it is the Democrats that have been the extremists on this."

[Cagey]

By the way, did the George H.W. Bush actually give Teddy boy hat award the Bush Foundation was planning on giving him? If not, they ought to cancel it. He is unworthy.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 - The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced that United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy would receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus on November 7. Former President Bush will present the award to the Massachusetts Democrat, who will join former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Bush Award recipients. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the Library Center following a 5 p.m. address by the Senator at Rudder Auditorium.

[Mo1]

Sen. Ted Kennedy called President Bush's judicial nominees "Neanderthals" on Friday, a group that includes Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and African-American Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

He also called them Turkeys

[Let's Roll]

It was Howard Cosell: "Look at that little monkey run".

Jimmy the Greek's pc faux pas was "explaining" how slaves had been bred to be bigger, stronger etc.

[N3WBI3]

I can also be thought of as two steps higher than Kennedy..

[DoctorMichael]

...........and don't forget his THREE DUI's while attending school here in Charlottesville, VA, after he was kicked out of Hah-vhad.

[tapatio]

Now here is a true story of a Neanderthal

Detective Bernie Flynn's Accident Scenario -

"I figure,we've got a drunk driver, Ted Kennedy. He's with this girl, and he has it in his mind to go down to the beach and make love to her. He's probably driving too fast and he misses the curve and goes into Cemetery Road. He's backing up when he sees this guy in uniform coming toward him. That's panic for the average driver who's been drinking; but here's a United States Senator about to get tagged for driving under. He doesn't want to get caught with a girl in his car, on a deserted road late at night, with no license and driving drunk on top of it. In his mind, the most important thing is to get away from the situation.

- He doesn't wait around. He takes off down the road. He's probably looking in the rear-view mirror to see if the cop is following him. He doesn't even see the f---ing bridge and bingo! He goes off. He gets out of the car; she doesn't. The poor son of a bitch doesn't know what to do. He's thinking: "I want to get back to my house, to my friends" - which is a common reaction.

- There are houses on Dike Road he could have gone to report the accident, but he doesn't want to. Because it's the same situation he was trying to get away from at the corner - which turned out to be minor compared to what happened later. Now there's been an accident; and the girl's probably dead. All the more reason not to go banging on somebody's door in the middle of the night and admit what he was doing. He doesn't want to reveal himself."

"And the funny part about it was, 'Huck' was only trying to give his directions."

[HIDEK6]

Hey, let's give The Swimmer a break, OK? I mean, the guy was probably drunk.

They didn't give Fuzzy Zoeller the same break!

[tapatio]

Okay,so which of the descriptions do the nominee's fit?

2 : suggesting a caveman in appearance, mentality, or behavior
- Neanderthal noun

[Theodore R.]

Orrin Hatch is always touting his "friendship" with EMK. Sometimes I think keeping EMK means more to OGH than just about anything else. Too bad the people of UT can't figure that out.

[Theodore R.]

Why do the Bushes still so loathe Pat Buchanan and blame him for the defeat of the first Bush -- even though Pat worked hard to elect BushQuayle92 after the convention? Yet, they give awards to EMK and fete him regularly at the White House or Camp David? EMK openly defies the Bushes the more they do for him. One would think that the Bushes play favorites there, but why? Doesn't EMK say that "No Child Left Behind Act" is his bill? And the bill is already proving to be a failure, right?

[Theodore R.]

Almost as persona non grata to the Bushes as Pat Buchanan is poor Dan Quayle. He now lives in AZ and had to get out of politics -- he was ridiculed mercilessly by the media though he came from a media background himself. Quayle voted for the MLK holiday, but Democrats constantly claimed he had a "racist" past. Another irony that makes politics so fascinating! Some Republicans spend their whole careers trying to pacify Democrats, only to see too late that they could never pacify such people.

[xzins]

Kennedy is a pro-slavery style democrat (Massachusetts was McClellan territory) who probably sees minorities as lower on the evolutionary scale.

Kennedy just uses welfare to keep minorities downtrodden and enslaved.

[facedown]

EEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

[Theodore R.]

MA voted for Lincoln-Johnson in 1864. McClellan won only three states: DE, KY, and NJ (his native state, which then had only seven electoral votes and which later opposed the 14th Amendment). However, several large states were very close in popular votes. Most southern states did not cast ballots that year.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Mind-boggling, isn't it? The whole thing is beyond words.

Well.....printable words allowed on FR that is.

[mrobison]

Time for Teddy to get the Trent Lott treatment.

[Libertina]

He won't pay because the republicans won't and don't know how to make it happen. :(

[dr_who_2]

At least they're warm blooded, have more developed nervous system and a backbone. Ted is still a bit myopic when he calls them Neanderthals when you consider how close to extinction his species is.

[MarkL]

Kennedy's overtly racist language stunned even liberal CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl, who reported, "Strong words from Ted Kennedy suggesting that some of these nominees are Neanderthals."

Talk about having the press in your hip pocket! Did "Ol Water Wings" Teddy call them "neanderthals" or not... If he did, then how is it that Jonathan Karl is reporting that "Kennedy (was) SUGGESTING that some of these nominees are Neanderthals." Why wasn't it reported that "Kennedy said that the nominees are Neanderthals."

Either he said it, or he didn't. Which is it, CNN? Well, we know that CNN would DID cover up mass murders in Iraq, so this is really no big deal.

Mark

[Stultis]

Neanderthals have been characterised as migrant hunters and violent cannibals who probably ate most of their meat raw.

Er, no, on the "migrant" part. Neanderthals were home bodies. The raw materials for their stone tools seldom orginated from more than a few miles away (contrasting to often dozens and sometimes hundreds of miles away for Homo sapiens sapiens) and studies of their leg bones suggest they did not walk long distances (no evidence of the anterior/posterior stresses associated with extendeded striding paces, but lots of evidence of lateral stresses associated with slow paces over uneven terrain. Sapiens of the time wondered all over the place and traded extensively. Neanderthals seem to have found themselves a nice little valley and stayed there.