[rlmorel]

I know there have been some threads on this, but I cannot find any that dwell on this particular facet of ignorance on the part of the Senior Balloon from Massachusetts (Sadly, my home state)

The thing that I find MOST delicious about this is that there can be only a few explanations for this particularly tasty error:

1.) The error was not noticed by the Boston Globe staff when they reviewed it. This reason is most entertaining, because it shows them to be complete idiots, particularly since communism is the ideology they seem to be most sympathetic to. Additionally, the liberals like to paint themselves as more refined and educated. Yeah, right.

2.) The error was noticed, but they did not contact Swimmer Ted. For what reason, I don't know...maybe they thought he would get pissed at them, or maybe someone wanted to stab him in the back.

3.) The error was noticed, and they couldn't find Fat Teddy to let him know, and due to deadlines, posted it anyway so they didn't get scooped or something.

4.) Op-ed pieces are never screened for gross errors of spelling or factuality.

[Bullitt]

He was just drunk again, nothing more.

[AmishDude]

Didn't the kid involved break down and confess that it was a hoax?

[TCats]

Why is the fact that Ted Kennedy is an ignorant A$$hole news? This belongs more in proven facts of history. /sarc

[jazusamo]

Teddie the life guard doesn't know much of anything exept how to get a cork out of a bottle of gin.

[359Henrie]

He also doesn't know who wrote the drivers manual for that there Oldsmobile of his.

[USNBandit]

Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto.

This has since turned out to be a lie by the student in question.

[Allan]

Wasn't the Communist Manifesto was written by Osama Obama?

[Panerai]

Use the article's headline, do not make up your own, this will prevent double posting.

[nuconvert]

He always has the excuse: I wrote this during cocktail hour.

[RedRover]

I read somewhere that a majority of Harvard graduates believed that the phrase "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was from the US Constitution!
On another aspect of this, did the Globe run any kind of correction / retraction about the phony college-kid-visited-by-government-agents story?

[A.A. Cunningham]

Editors allow op-ed writers to freely flap their gums.

[keithtoo]

Lets show Teddy and his minions some love:

URL for site input: http://www.tedkennedy.com/journal/548/getting-answers-from-the-white-house-on-domestic-spying

[doug from upland]

[Palladin]

This was a big fat hoax that hornswoggled the big fat Senator from Massachusetts

[satchmodog9]

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Everyone knows Tom Harkin wrote it.

[smith288]

5) Ted Kennedy is a dipshit (pardon my french)

Hoax

[Radix]

Sadly we share a home state.

Sometimes I wonder why assholes such as Fat Teddy even bother to write editorial type articles. The people who vote for him largely do not read such things, and the people who read such things would never vote for the fat blowhard.

[LegendHasIt]

[Semi Civil Servant]

Teddy is the rather dull son of of a very wealthy bootlegger.

Without his trust fund, Teddy would probably be passed out in a doorway tonight clutching a 40 oz. bottle of Colt 45.