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I have been monitoring the liberal media coverage of Ted Kennedy's recent crisis of conscience which resulted in his decision to, as Spike Lee would put it, "Do The Right Thing" and resign from 'The Owl'. Ted's very active, virtually daily participation in 'The Owl' occured in the early/mid 1950s. Are we to believe that an organization that would not admit white women during that era would NOT discriminate against minority males? Lacking "journalistic standards", you or I would ask Senator Kennedy if there were any minority male members of 'The Owl' during his college years. So far, the liberal...

Discussing the character-assassination techniques of Democrats like Ted Kennedy yesterday, CNN's Jeff Greenfield said: The temptation for some of these witnesses must be enormous, particularly if it’s a more hostile situation, to just lean over the table and just let some of the senators know what you’re really thinking about their intellectual capacity, their hypocrisy. If they attack him for, I don’t know, being the member of a club, to say “Well really? Where’d you spend your time? How many restrictive clubs have you...?” They can’t do that. It’s not part of the ethic. : Conservative activists, meanwhile, were eager...

January 13, 2006 -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Kennedy's office yesterday defended his membership in an elitist, all-male club when he was at Harvard — insisting it had no bearing on his bid to portray Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as linked to bigots. Some Republicans pointed out Kennedy's membership in the Owl Club, saying it makes him a hypocrite for trying to slam Alito for belonging to a group that opposed affirmative action for women and blacks when he was at Princeton. Kennedy press secretary Laura Capps said the Owl Club "is a social club, and many senators on...

Conservative activists aree eager to point out that Sen Ted Kennedy was on shaky ground accusing the Judge Alito of associating with people opposed to the inclusion of women in private institutions, the WASHINGTON TIMES is fronting on Thursday. The eight-term senator belonged to an all-male social club -- the Owl -- at Harvard University. The Owl refused to admit women until it was forced to do so during the 1980s, according to records kept by the HARVARD CRIMSON, the student newspaper. A Kennedy spokeswoman said it was an entirely different matter. "No one can question Senator Kennedy's commitment to...