RFK Jr. for Rolling Stone: Bush stole the election (Update: Now posted at RS.com)
posted at 3:38 pm on June 1, 2006 by Allahpundit
Allegedly set to break this morning. It must be true. Would a Kennedy lie?
If nothing else good comes from it, it’s a comfort at least to know that Keith Olbermann’s got his next eight months worth of shows all laid out for him.
Anyway. So who’s the real president now, Gore or Kerry? Or do we have a runoff?
Thanks to PJ Comix for the tip.
Update: Here it is. Have at it, warbloggers.
Update: Dan Riehl googles around and discoveres snickering in unlikely quarters.
Update: Confederate Yankee knows who the real target of this article is, and it ain’t George Bush.
Update: Captain Ed agrees with Confederate Yankee and wonders how it is that exit polls can be more accurate than the actual vote.
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Guess what the subject of my DUmmie FUnnies tonight will be?
pjcomix on June 1, 2006 at 9:26 AM
Yup. When I think “hard-hitting journalism,” Rolling Stone is the first publication that comes to mind.
Blackwell must be gaining ground.
Slublog on June 1, 2006 at 9:33 AM
DNC electioneering at its finest. This article is designed to do nothing but 1) influence the mid-term Congressional elections, and 2) derail Ken Blackwell’s election in Ohio. Howard Dean and his ilk are scared to death that another conservative minority member will attain political power and prowess. Add to the list one more example of Dean’s blatant racist acts in the desparate effort to regain political power. RFK Jr. is a moonbat of the highest degree and shouldn’t be taken seriously on any topic; however, the DNC is running out of Kennedy’s to headline its race-baiting and scandalous rhetoric. We will likely come to find out that George Soros and MoveOn are behind the funding, timing, and placement of this new “scandal.” RFK Jr. is high on their list of national candidates. Can you imagine a Hillary/RFK Jr. ticket? This new “expose” is the first attempt to get RFK Jr. some national attention.
csjd on June 1, 2006 at 9:46 AM
What’s really scary is that American citizens keep electing the Kennedys.
Shmo on June 1, 2006 at 9:47 AM
The 20000 dead man voted for JFK in Chicago miraculously came out again for Bush, right?
Yea, that got to be it. Bush stole the election by 20000 votes that JFK won with.
Being a Kennedy, RFK Jr. should know. I guess Joseph taught them right.
Easy87us
easy87us on June 1, 2006 at 9:59 AM
RFK, Jr. would be pleased to know there is a nifty move afoot to ensure mob rule by circumventing the Electoral College. Testament to that is a bill in the Louisiana State Legislature (HB 927), co-authored by – ahem – Jalila Jefferson, oh-so-squeaky-clean Bill Jefferson’s daughter. Grab the Maalox before you check out the following link, ever mindful that Dems are the majority in the Louisiana Legislature and the bill is up for final passage today. Talk about watching boudin being made… That said, the only way to halt this madness is to stop it in other states. Watch your own legislatures!
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=390232
Aunt B on June 1, 2006 at 10:04 AM
Democrats can no longer win elections, so their only hope is to cast doubt on the validity of the elections they lose.
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower . . .
Labamigo on June 1, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Jalita Jefferson likely can’t even tell you what the Electoral College is, much less describe how and why it works.
Lucky she has her daddy’s $90,000 in cold cash to fall back on. Oh, wait, the FBI already got that. Hmmm
clyde on June 1, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Well, first of all a Kennedy ALWAYS tells the truth. Second, in the stack of stuff, what does it matter at this point if anyone stole the election….it is not so, but what does it matter?…I guess the matter is about reigniting the public frenzie for the next election…paving the way for her Highness, the Pig, so that the dems can start screaming “unfair” the minute the first ballot is cast. And when any democrat is not reelected or, heaven forbid-a republican IS elected, they are out in front yelling that they told us so. I am sick of the democrats and their whinning, smarmy ways. I will cast my votes early and avoid TV and radio…can’t stand all the posturing.
Sandys Beach on June 1, 2006 at 10:52 AM
SHMO “What’s really scary is that American citizens keep electing the Kennedys.”
It’s more frightening that anyone still listens to what they have to say, or gives their opinions a forum!!
Does anyone know the Vegas line on him getting caught DUI?
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 1, 2006 at 10:53 AM
Oh please.
Carvin Guitar Man on June 1, 2006 at 10:53 AM
So what will JFK jr expose next?
How his grandfather made millions out of bootlegging and graft?
Maffia ties of the Kennedy family?
Maybe he will explain some of the behind the scenes going on at the bay of Pigs?
How about Mary Jo? Or His cousin who failed the bar so many times that the local pub would not hire him to serve up pints?
Maybe his other cousin with the Ambnien dependency?
Four generations of Kennedies have been involved in graft, deceit, murder, cover ups, and shady dealings with criminals.
I can not accept the moral judgement of any Kennedy, they have proven throughout the generations that not a single one of them is worth a damn. true, some have had shining moments, but they are over shadowed by the cloud of darkness (and vodka fumes)that hangs over the rest of the family.
Wyrd on June 1, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Jacky Onassis did the right thing…got the hell out of that family.
She should know.
easy87us on June 1, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Since AirAmerica is going down the toilet, maybe RFK Jr. is auditioning as a writer :P
And if anybody would know about election fraud, it is a Kennedy.
Abigail Adams on June 1, 2006 at 11:17 AM
Kennedy family’s tradition is in liquor. No body know a Martini better than Pat Kennedy and Ted Kennedy now.
Their reputation in hard liquor was well known in the 30′s, especially in Canadian Mesh Whiskey.
In the field of Cocktails, the Kennedy’s deserve respect!
I salute them…
easy87us on June 1, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Let’s see, would a Kennedy lie? Tough question, given the family’s impeccable character.
Following are some of the ‘positive Kennedy contributions’ to America:
Bootlegging (Joe Kennedy)
Womanizing (Jack)
Womanizing (Ted)
Womanizing or much worse (William Kennedy Smith)
Nepotism (Jack)
Nepotism (Robert)
Incompetence (Robert)
Driving a car into the drink with a young woman in it and ‘forgetting’ to rescue her or inform anyone. (Ted)
Lying (Ted)
Drunkard (Ted, Patrick)
Substance abuser (Patrick)
Blowhard (Ted)
Claiming you are a lover of ecology but opposing windmills for energy because you don’t want them to spoil your view or your sailing. (Ted, Robert, and the rest of the clan)
Makes one wonder about those living in Massachusetts, doesn’t it?
ForYourEdification on June 1, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Yes, I too love the irony of a Kennedy lecturing the rest of us on stolen elections after his uncle won in 1960 by a stolen election.
It’s time for that whole family to have a nice, hot cup of STFU.
thirteen28 on June 1, 2006 at 12:00 PM
JFK was the last real man in that Family… it’s been Runts ever since…
venmax on June 1, 2006 at 12:02 PM
I guess the Kennedys are unsurpassed in being perfect reverse barometers on what is best for the U.S. That’s worth something.
Remember, Joe Kennedy was ambasador to England at the beginning of WWII. He insisted Germany would crush England and insisted we act accordingly. That was until Roosevelt got out his sheep hook and jerked him off the stage. The nuts don’t fall far from the tree.
Shmo on June 1, 2006 at 12:05 PM
ForYourEdification,
In addition to your great list, piloting a perfectly instrument-equipped plane into the bay, with two passengers on board (John Jr.)
This topic is not so much indicative of the Kennedy-clan significance (fading, fading, gone some day…); it is more telling about the liberals’ craze and inability to cope with political losses:
- sense of winning entitlement – just because they were in power for so long, at least in the Congress
- wishing their existence away for these 8 years – stickers with ‘is it ’08 yet?’ are increasing in numbers
- inability to accept close-losses (for them winning is everything only in the state of Washington, i.e. only when they win by a few numbers or by trickery)
- being ahead of the ‘bad’ news cycle – saying that, no matter what happens in the 50th Calif. district this coming Tuesday, “we won” – watch, if Busby loses, big or small, they will claim to have won to set the stage for Nov.
- claiming that corruption exists only on the right
- assuming that minorities will forever vote only for them
- pure elitism and sense of superiority
- not grasping how so many Americans don’t automatically vote for them and thus must be imbecils
Entelechy on June 1, 2006 at 1:08 PM
Is it not time to “retire” this family out of politics? (vote them out)
Good lord, why anyone thinks these goofballs have any business deciding US policy is beside me.
No more Clinton’s, Kennedy’s or Bush’s(after ’08)
~B
Brian on June 1, 2006 at 1:12 PM
Thanks Shmo I didn’t know that about JoeSr!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 1, 2006 at 1:13 PM
Don’t forget how JFK and RFK stabbed Frank Sanatra and his friends in the back after the “60″ election. Just about 100% of all the dead in the cemetarys in Chi-town, and West Virgina voted for JFK. To my understanding Peter Lawford was the bag man for the Kennedys, and the Mafia. Then there was JFK’s alleged affair with Sam Giaconna’s mistress. I belive in my heart that if Richard Nixon were elected Prez. in “60″ our country and the world would be better off today.
birdman on June 1, 2006 at 1:20 PM
Dead Pirate Roberts V1 I belive JoeSr. had something to do with Neville Chamberlan signing the Munich accord with Hitler. I also belive JoeSr. admired Hitler.
birdman on June 1, 2006 at 1:27 PM
Gee why would he admire Hitler! From what little I know, and that’s considerably little, Hilter never smuggled booze, didn’t drink, swim and he was impotent so he didn’t chase women or rape anyone! Certainly not a Kennedy role model??? Oh I get it, JoeSr admired these attributes and was hoping to see them reflected in his children.
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 1, 2006 at 2:55 PM
These Kennedy’s should spend more time learning how to drive while drunk or on drugs, before commenting on others elections. And I’d have to assume that half the people that vote for these Kennedy’s are just as much in the bag…. or dead for that matter.
Bob Mileti on June 1, 2006 at 2:55 PM
Birdman have you lost your mind????
I left Nam May 69….there were only 25k dead…
At that time 300 were getting killed weekly..
The jackass Nixon managed to get another 28k killed…just pulling out……….
I pray he is burning right now.
Bush is too dumb to steal an election!
LZVandy on June 1, 2006 at 4:04 PM
The article’s lead:
Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush — and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded.
Sorry, that was as far as I was able to get without gagging.
Slublog on June 1, 2006 at 4:26 PM
“Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush — and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded.”
That statement just shows what an idiot he truly is (or drunk), because anyone with an even marginally functional BS detector knew those exit poll numbers were fixed by Dem operatives hoping to depress Republican turnout.
thirteen28 on June 1, 2006 at 4:37 PM
LZVandy “Bush is too dumb to steal an election”. Talking points. Nixon did not start the war he ended it. RMN was handed a nightmare created by the libs, and the MSM. After Watergate the libs in congress stoped all support for South Vietnam, and a bloodbath insued with over a million killed in Cambodia alone. You say that you hope RN is burning in hell, how about the people who started the war like Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara and the like, do you hope that they are burning in hell also? I am also like Bush, “too dumb to steal an election”! May I also say I will always stay “dumb”. Of course the libs have told me that “I don’t have a mind to lose to begin with”, and need “other people too tell me right from wrong”. Do you remember who it was that said that he would never send American troops too do the job Asain troops should do? I will give you a hint it wasn’t Nixon.
birdman on June 1, 2006 at 4:44 PM
When asked if he had any proof to support his ludicrous claims Kennedy replied:
“we’ll cross that bridge after I drive off it.”
MaiDee on June 1, 2006 at 4:54 PM
Earth to Bobby, Jr.
Earth to Bobby, Jr.
Come in Bobby, Jr.
Bob-O here.
Rendezvous at 0800 with master ship. New mission: pick up new tinfoil hats. Do you copy Bobby, Jr.?
Roger that.
IrishEi on June 1, 2006 at 5:32 PM
MaiDee:
ROFL! LOL LOL LOL!!!
IrishEi on June 1, 2006 at 5:33 PM
The Brad Blog (where Kennedy’s article was announced) says:
One of the election integrity advocates involved in research and development with Kennedy on the story told us a number of weeks ago that “[Kennedy] essentially says everything that those of us who have been contending there was massive chicanery in the ’04 election were right, and the media and politicians who ignored it at the time were wrong.” [italics mine]
“election integrity advocates” = democratic party operatives. I seriously doubt Kennedy even wrote the piece. His Kennedy signature on it gives it more weight in certain quarters than it otherwise would have.
Kevin R on June 1, 2006 at 5:46 PM
oh….my…..stars…..i…..can’t…..take…..it……any……more…..
can we just kick massachusetts out of the union? pretty please????
pullingmyhairout on June 1, 2006 at 5:58 PM
Ahhh… You all need to give RFKjr a break.
After all, paranoia and the inability to process data accurately is a common symptom of constant drug use, and I have never seen RFKjr give a talk or an interview or a news spot when he WASN’T obviously totally stoned…
I mean the guy is ALWAYS trashed, baked, wasted, zonked or whatever term you prefer to use for being mentally incapacitated by consumption of illicit substances.
LegendHasIt on June 1, 2006 at 6:02 PM
Pretty amazing that someone named Kennedy would have the nerve to write about a stolen election.
If Old Joe the Rumrunner and Skirt Chaser, I, had not bought votes in Chicago and South Texas in 1960, RFK, Jr. would be nothing but a big toothed, vacuous, rich boy.
Oh, wait . . .
Labamigo on June 1, 2006 at 6:10 PM
The DUmmie FUnnies has now chronicled the JUBILANT reaction in the Democratic Underground at the news that RFK, Jr. is as NUttie as they are:
http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2006/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-dons-tinfoil-hat.html
pjcomix on June 1, 2006 at 6:11 PM
Do you want to know what really gets too me is how the MSM goes on about how the “Kennedy family is Americas Royal family”.
birdman on June 1, 2006 at 6:19 PM
Gee, I hate to post again so soon . . .
I started to read this tripe.
I got as far as the 3rd sentence under his Roman numeral One; “The Exit Polls” and I find this:
“. . .exit polling has evolved into an exact science.”
Wow. Exit polling is right up there with math and physics.
You remember Newton’s Fourth Law, don’t you? “Whosoever leads in the exit polls will win the election.”
I sure wasted a lot of paper printing this crap out.
Labamigo on June 1, 2006 at 6:22 PM
Clearly a biased piece…always blaming the vast right wing conspiracy.
A Kennedy bringing up stolen elections? HA! What about LBJ and Richard Daley stealing the 1960 election for Uncle JFK?
Substance abuse is the only thing this family has in common.
doingwhatican on June 1, 2006 at 6:25 PM
As is typical with those who still delude themselves Ohio was stolen, RFK ignores the way elections are run, county by county, in Ohio.
In each county, the election commission is made up of an equal number of Dems and Republicans, and is not subject to the grand scam the sore losers assert. As a representative sample, see this: http://www.lcounty.com/boe/
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats control the levers required to systematically disenfranchise anyone in Ohio. Which is good, but sadly doesn’t fit RFK’s narrative.
Patton on June 2, 2006 at 1:43 AM
Is RFK, Jr. going to be giving interviews about this article? If so, I would like just ONE reporter to ask him about the 1960 West Virginia presidential primary election that was STOLEN for his Uncle using his Grandfather’s money. Even democrats today concede that Joe Kennedy Sr. STOLE that election by paying off the West Virginia county sheriffs.
Kennedys are the LAST people to be complaining about stolen elections.
pjcomix on June 2, 2006 at 6:26 AM
Labamigo, unfortunately in their world this is what’s known as a “exact science”. If not they’d have nothing left to believe in. Hell it wasn’t to long ago we were having “Fitzmas” in May. Photo copies of “real but fake” documents is another favorite science of theirs as well.
In fact Kerry used this same science, when he voted for the war after he voted against it. By having a parallel universe at his disposal, he is able to be right all the time.
Should I go on?
Bob Mileti on June 2, 2006 at 9:04 AM
A free subscription to Rolling Stone magazine came with a guitar I recently purchased. No wonder they give it away. Who would pay for this? Article on the New York Dolls, rants against President Bush, and short articles on bands that hate President Bush. Yawn.
Hening on June 2, 2006 at 9:49 AM
Hening: What’s wrong with the New York Dolls?
I let my RS subscription run out because the music coverage was pathetic and every single issue was mostly “WHY BUSH SUCKS!!!” Jeez, Jann, is it our fault that airbrusing a “package” on Gore didn’t sway more voters?
The final issue had an article about the aftermath of The Station fire – the RI club that Great White burned down and killed 100 people a year before – and they attacked the Bush administration for not giving Federal disaster money to the victims (why is this a Federal case?) and said, I’m not making this up, that the reason was that because RI went for Gore, Bush was punishing them and withholding aid.
Insanity!!!
DirkBelig on June 2, 2006 at 12:59 PM
Let’s check ID at the polls, and dip voters’ fingers in ink. People living in glass houses shouldn’t throw Rolling Stones.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist that one!) :-)
dman on June 2, 2006 at 3:46 PM
Somebody, please give this guy a ride home.
gary on June 3, 2006 at 10:00 AM