Audio: Mark Levin goes nuclear on Ted “Iraq is Vietnam” Kennedy
posted at 3:44 pm on January 10, 2007 by Allahpundit
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This would have gotten the red-meat graphic — several of them, actually — if I hadn’t used it in the previous post. It’s long, but Kennedy-haters will find that the time simply flies by.
Levin’s point? The same one Kaus made last week when he took aim at another high-profile dove:
Andrew Sullivan says a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would
“doubtless lead to genocide and ethnic cleansing on a hideously cruel scale”
but he’s for it!
Thanks to Johnny Dollar for sending it along.
Update: Good lord. Having no plan and campaigning actively for surrender doesn’t make Kennedy a “hostile enemy.” Let’s reserve a few distinguishing pejoratives for the jihadis.
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Mark Levin for President!
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 3:49 PM
At least Attorney General.
DoctorDentons on January 10, 2007 at 4:00 PM
I like Mark Levin. He is indeed on of the great voices on the radio today. I enjoy listening to his show whenever I can.
Scorched_Earth on January 10, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Wow.
there it is. Cut and dried.
There are people who lament the deaths of innocents, and there are people who actually work to stop the killing of the innocent.
Ted Kennedy. and his ilk. What do they stand for? Death? Evil? it’s frightening to think that so many believe that Kennedy cares about anyone or anything other than himself.
Jones Zemkophill on January 10, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Mark Levin is spot on. My continuing question is that these facts have been known for thirty years, and not a single Repulican politician has called him out on it. Not even today. It takes the new media to stand on the mountain top and shout it for all to hear, but due to the MSM, it falls on deaf ears……….. What a Foxtrot Shame!
PinkyBigglesworth on January 10, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Steak? Gooooood. Mushroom cloud? Gooooooood.
Kid from Brooklyn on January 10, 2007 at 4:19 PM
There you go again AP. Rattling the cages of some of your readers.
The comments that follow your update will be um, … forceful.
EFG on January 10, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Levin has a voice only a chipmunk could love. I just cringe whenever I hear him on the radio.
A plan is needed before withdrawing, a plan is needed right now. Thousands of Iraqi’s are dying right now and Levin isn’t upset, but when Ted Kennedy supports a political solution Levin is up in arms. Thousands of Iraqi’s will die and it won’t be the fault of people like Ted Kennedy, we’re just waiting to see how many Americans die with them.
I’ve seen no solution proposed on either side to minimize Iraqi civilians’ deaths. If Levin truly cared he’d be campaigning for one all day instead of criticizing another Kennedy for supporting something that may or may not happen.
Nonfactor on January 10, 2007 at 4:25 PM
WOW!! Nonfactor, is the sky blue in your world?
Rick on January 10, 2007 at 4:33 PM
the literal, real-world definition of “social justice” has always been, “genocide, for the correct reasons.”
they want the worst to happen.
jummy on January 10, 2007 at 4:33 PM
And the lib and Donk plan that Senator Bloviate is pushing is………(whisper the Sounds of Silence)
Since you don’t know your history, you should listen to the whole clip. If we leave now, as Senator Blowhard is advocating, the number of civilian deaths will finally match and exceed the fictious “six-figure” numbers the libs have been promoting.
Mallard T. Drake on January 10, 2007 at 4:36 PM
EFG,
Loathe him as we may, the man is still an American.
budorob on January 10, 2007 at 4:37 PM
That’s not a political solution, its surrender.
How do you know he’s not? Or is that a leftard talking point?
Andy in Agoura Hills on January 10, 2007 at 4:38 PM
There are those who would argue that Sen. Kennedy had “blood on his hands” long before Cambodia. Of course, maybe the water washed it off.
Blaise on January 10, 2007 at 4:38 PM
hundreds of thousands will die and progressives ranging from ramsey clark to the sorority ditz with the obama sticker on her jetta will be marked with their blood.
jummy on January 10, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Abso-frickin-lutely outstanding. I think I’m in love,and I’m not even ghey.
bdfaith on January 10, 2007 at 4:44 PM
america is based on ideals not blood. he is owed nothing by the citizens he’s been at war against during his entire carreer. based on his established soviet collaboration alone, he should be tried for treason. he is fat, he is an alchoholic, he is old money, he is lots of things. ted kennedy is not an american.
jummy on January 10, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Well said.
EFG on January 10, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Ah yes, the “political solution”: asking nicely if Iran wouldn’t mind playing nice since James Baker assured us that Iran isn’t doing what we caught them red-handed doing. Kennedy isn’t proposing any “solution” to Iraq any more than he was proposing a “solution” to Soviet expansion during Reagan’s time. He’s a shallow, opportunistic hypocrite trying to argue US foreign policy through a sympathetic media instead of actually finding a “political solution” with the one person he needs to: President Bush. It’s far easier to be filled with righteous ire on TV while CNN plays its violin than it is to develop any substantive agenda for Iraq.
Kennedy and his ilk will twist into a pretzel trying to reason out political solutions with communist butchers, banana republic dictators, and Islamist lunatics, but it never seems to occur to them to find a political solution in the one place where it would actually be meaningful: the White House.
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
Lehosh on January 10, 2007 at 4:51 PM
If we could post the false prophecies and failed policies of the libs for the past sixty-odd years, perhaps normal, thinking Americans would begin to take notice and begin to vote these losers out of office?
windbag on January 10, 2007 at 4:52 PM
I’m saying both ideas (withdrawal and surge/stay the course) are lackluster and a plan needs to be put forth.
I regularly listen to his show. The substance of every show of his is: “Liberals are destroying America!!”
Nonfactor on January 10, 2007 at 4:55 PM
And that means what to me?
If he’s an American, then he cheapens the value of the term. The average Illegal Immigrant is more American than Ted Kennedy.
My grandparents on one side were from Poland, and my Grandparents from the other side were from Ireland. (all of them legal.)
They worked and fought for what’s right.
THEY were far more American than Kennedy, who is American only in the most technical fashion.
Really, in his heart, Kennedy is more of a Soviet.
An anachronism from a past that never really existed.
Jones Zemkophill on January 10, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Did The Swimmer support a political solution in Kosovo? Bosnia? Anywhere else BillyJeff wagged the dog by dropping American Iron? Take your dKos talking points where they will be accpted as though credible.
Birth of a new troll. Do you have any historical clue about the Iraqi civilian deaths during Saddam’s reign? Do you know that even given the current bloodshed from insurgency, fewer Iraqi civilians are dying per month than did ON AVERAGE under Saddam’s tyranny? Don’t come here talking about body counts until you know what you’re talking about. As if body counts were the most important factor in helping a nation establish freedom. Compare to the body counts during the American Revolution, and learn something.
Freelancer on January 10, 2007 at 5:05 PM
Nonfactor sez:
I’ll take it over Al Franken and Randi Rhodes anytime.
Translation: A plan for surrender is needed before withdrawing, a plan that only cheese-eating surrender monkeys would love is needed right now.
Which Iraqis? The ones trying to kill other Iraqis or the foreign Muslim terrorists you want to hand the country to?
Yes it will. You and people like you will get to share the blame, too. And it won’t be thousands who die. It’ll be tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands who will die because of people like Ted Kennedy and his whiny ilk who don’t believe that freedom isn’t worth fighting for.
Yet, its those same Americans who volunteered and see it as something worth fighting for.
That’s only because you haven’t been paying attention. If you want to minimize civilian deaths, kill the enemy. Are you so naive, so ignorant of what will happen to the civilian population if we leave prematurely?
Levin has been campaigning for a solution. You just haven’t been listening to his program. Its called “kill the enemy”. You’re more interested in turning a deaf ear and looking for something to criticize.
Pay attention. You are not going to save civilian lives by running away. You do not save lives by giving up. You save lives by hunting and killing as many of the enemy as you can until he gives up and doesn’t want to fight anymore.
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 5:09 PM
Huh?
So how about negotiating with the Russians during Reagan’s administration? Should we have just chocked that up to a difference of opinion also?
The man would sell out his grandmother.
Gregor on January 10, 2007 at 5:17 PM
GT, how dare you debate Nonfactor with the facts! (sarcasim)
PinkyBigglesworth on January 10, 2007 at 5:18 PM
For crying out loud, the lush named his dog “Splash”. SPLASH!! What a sick bastard. As far as I’m concerned, he deserves all the harsh criticism he gets.
Rick on January 10, 2007 at 5:32 PM
I would normally say that the over-the-top pejoratives about Kennedy’s loyalty to the country were in bad taste, but treason doesn’t exactly have a statute of limitations.
spmat on January 10, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Levin, and most of the other commentators on this warblog, are just talking out of your collective hats (as usual).
Senator Edward Kennedy, as opposed to Bush, has experience in these matters, and knows an effective exit strategy, if only the neo-cons would be willing to listen.
billy on January 10, 2007 at 5:42 PM
Senator Kennedy’s expertise in effective exit strategy is getting out of Poucha Pond and calling his lawyer before calling the police.
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Wow, it’s a surprise the Department of Defense doesn’t have you on speed-dial. This war isn’t as easy as “kill all ze Germans and go home.”
Keep up with the assumptions. Hopefully, it’ll make you look less ignorant.
Nonfactor on January 10, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Man, he’s attacking Kennedy? I love that guy…
Oh, the other Kennedy. Nevermind then, I don’t like him as much. He doesn’t seem on the same side as the good one.
gekkobear on January 10, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Nonfactor…Thankfully you are just that.
DoctorDentons on January 10, 2007 at 6:04 PM
billy, did you listen to the 3 million slaughtered because Kennedy and his friends cut funding? That was Kennedy’s strategy, let millions of men, women, and children die. A typical response from a liberal, let others die for my cause.
right2bright on January 10, 2007 at 6:08 PM
right2bright,
Do you know how to follow links? Or are you too just afraid of cold hard facts? Because I don’t care what Big New York Money Men like Levin say, Bush didn’t listen to statesmen like Kennedy and others in the Democratic Party who have experience and wisdom to offer.
If Bush had taken their advise, the poor, wretched dregs of our society wouldn’t be stuck in Iraq right now.
billy on January 10, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Mark Levin is an American Hero.
Vincenzo on January 10, 2007 at 6:26 PM
While I think there is easily a case made that Kennedy is a “hostile enemy”, don’t put this NewsHounds propaganda out there without qualifying it with the obvious fact that Gretchen (who is arguably the worst “speaker” on Fox News, very inarticulate) means “political enemy”, as she’s talking to Dan Bartlett. She clearly fumbled a segway from terrorist/physical fighting enemy to political enemy for the President. Please tell me you at least accept the obviousness of this… I mean, you bought the “botched joke” excuse which was clearly bull… can you not accept that Gretchen Carlson doesn’t actually consider Ted Kennedy a “hostile enemy”, rather a “hostile political enemy” of the Bush administration?
RightWinged on January 10, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
Neither were millions of Cambodians
Wade on January 10, 2007 at 6:48 PM
Seems Mr Kennedy hasn’t learned anything from history….except maybe to not drive drunk with a young coed.
Kingrhino. Out!
kingrhino on January 10, 2007 at 6:50 PM
OK, now we know your opinion is worthless.
fogw on January 10, 2007 at 6:52 PM
Oh really fogw?
Kennedy- has an exit plan
Bush- just doesn’t
That’s point, set,and match in the game of statesmanship.
billy on January 10, 2007 at 6:59 PM
fogw and right2bright, billy is f***ing with you.
Rick on January 10, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Kennedy is already braindead. When we left Vietnam, which had already been won, the VC came in and murdered over a million souls in that country and a couple million in Cambodia. Leaving is not a strategy, it’s genocide for the cradle of civiliztion.
Mojave Mark on January 10, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Geee….what was your first clue? Have you contacted Ted Kennedy and let him know about your revelation?
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Cut and run isn’t much of an exit plan.
Good for him! I don’t believe in Cut’n'Run either.
Looks more like a game of Tiddliwinks to me. But hey, if that makes you proud, be my guest.
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 7:46 PM
GT, GT, GT.
Sure I was all for Bush to begin with, but now well, we just have to give the Dems a chance. Just follow the links…
billy on January 10, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Kennedupe’s exit plan: Cut and run.
President Bush’s exit plan: Victory against islamist terrorists.
Let’s see, which plan is better for the country, and for the world…
rmgraha on January 10, 2007 at 8:15 PM
This from a guy who refers to Ted Kennedy as a statesman? Ha!
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 8:19 PM
You guys are just typical of the war-blogging, neo-con, New York Money men Christianists of the Right. Kennedy has an exit wth honor plan, one that has worked in the past (and you would know that if you knew your history) yet you just respond with schoolyard taunts.
Now, Mother and Grandmother, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a new, winning strategy for Iraq, but I doubt you’ll even bother
billy on January 10, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Here’s an idea.
READ THE FRIGGIN’ LINK HE KEEPS POSTING BEFORE REPLYING.
Reaps on January 10, 2007 at 8:41 PM
Sorry, bad connection to Granny Pelosi’s plan
Try this
billy on January 10, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Wow, normally I hate Ted Kennedy the way cirrhosis hates a healthy liver, but even I see the wisdom of his plan. Thank you, billy, for helping me achieve enlightenment.
ReubenJCogburn on January 10, 2007 at 9:18 PM
billy, I know what you are feeling right now. It sucks when you have a dry sense of humor and people don’t get it.
Iowahawk brings the funny like no other.
EFG on January 10, 2007 at 9:37 PM
OK. My bad. Apologies all around. I didn’t see the colored links.
Sorry Billy. You really had me going there.
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Well, let’s just hope the Iraqi people can find independence and self-determination in the air pockets of their own national Oldsmobile.
billy on January 10, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Ok, ha, ha, very funny billy. But here’s a hint: If someone sounds like a leftard, they shouldn’t be surprised when they get treated like a leftard. I’ve stopped clicking on links posted by leftards; I’ve seen enough truther BS web sites, and don’t even bother any more.
Next time, you may want to click on the tag to make things a little easier. I’ve had a rough day today, and the sun was in my eyes. My shoes were too tight, and my dog was barking. Please forgive my ignorance. And if you need any more excuses, I’ve got a thousand of them.
rmgraha on January 10, 2007 at 10:00 PM
rmgraha, the key is to point your cursor at the link, and look at the bottom of the window to see where it will take you.
When you see that it’s an Iowahawk classic like that, you go ahead and click. Even if it’s one you’ve seen before, you just know it’ll be worth a re-read.
Classic bumper-sticker material:
I’d rather hunt with Cheney
than ride with Kennedy.
The Monster on January 10, 2007 at 10:35 PM
I tried to tell them, really - however, it started to get funnier as it went on. Nothing gets a conservative’s blood boiling like a lib sticking up for their ol’ drunk uncle Teddy.
Rick on January 11, 2007 at 1:00 AM
Well, Mr. Levin, we heard you here and I can only wish that somehow Ted Kennedy or one of his aids get to hear it.
Brilliant summation of who they are. And he didn’t even get to Dharfur…brilliant, just brilliant.
Entelechy on January 11, 2007 at 1:14 AM
GT, mgraha, et.al.,
I really didn’t start out to mess with you, but I just couldn’t resist.
It got me to thinking though, I really don’t hate Teddy so much; he is, after all, just a washed up drunk.
It’s the people of Massachusetts who vote this sot into office election after election for the LAST FORTY YEARS.
Anyone from Mass, What is wrong with you?
billy on January 11, 2007 at 1:41 AM
As Levin says, all we need to know about Kennedy is that his policies led to the genocide of millions in Cambodia, and if he gets his way again, more millions will die in the middle east.
Kennedy is an enemy of HUMANITY.
Anybody who agrees with Kennedy, including our resident liberals like Honora and n=Nonfactor, supports genocide and will have the blood of millions on their hands.
And there won’t be a day when we won’t let you ever forget it, either.
georgej on January 11, 2007 at 3:39 AM
True, true. Tempting as it was to get in on the act, it was beginning to all look rather embarrassing. You remember that Protestwarrior fiasco down at ‘Camp Casey’ or whatever it was called? mm. mmm. Proof positive that your political affiliation doesn’t necessarily guarantee an intellectual advantage, that’s for sure..
Reaps on January 11, 2007 at 3:51 AM
I don’t blame ya. I should have known better. We have a guy over at RonaldReagan.Com who pops in once in a while and does the samething. He’s hilarious.
Someone slap me before I embarrass myself like that again, please.
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GT on January 11, 2007 at 7:11 AM
I have never heard Mark Levin’s show before (I live in Europe and I’m in the Air Force), but wow, he’s got great insight!
Black Adam on January 11, 2007 at 9:00 AM
I see you have an = next to your backspace key I have an \ :)
Gwillie on January 11, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Teddy has a long history of undermining our presidents and has actively promoted policy that will, IMHO, lead us to disaster. I don’t think hostile enemy is too strong a term for him.
conservativecaveman on January 11, 2007 at 4:44 PM
This just in: <b><i> Kennedy: Kopechne death was honor killing</b></i> In a stunning new <ahref=”book, Senator from Massachusetts Teddy Kennedy again denies responsiblity for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, and reasserts that he did everything he could to save her, when he returned eight hours later, but that if he had killed her, it would have been based on the Islamic custom of honor killing a young woman who has disgraced her family with infidelity; by either promiscuity or any form of pre-marital sex, including rape, and gang rape. When asked how he was certain of Ms. Kopechne’s promiscuity, he quickly replied, “Trust me, I and others had first hand evidence of Ms. Kopechne’s sexual misconduct. Islamic law requires the testemony of only four men to get a finding of guilt: the case was a ’slam dunk’ “. Asked why he didn’t cite this as reason for Ms. Kopechne’s untimely death, Kennedy replied “Well, as I’ve said, I didn’t kill her, I’m merely pointing out that in the puritanical days of the draconian sixties, admitting to an honor killing to restore a family’s honor would be met with a warrant, charges of either manslaughter or murder, a trial before a jury, presentation of evidence, cross examination of that evidence, and quite possibly a guilty conviction”… “not to mention condemnation by the family and society of the very person struggling to restore that familiy’s honor! All these things characterized the fundamentalist, morally driven nature of western jurisprudence at that time. So it was, uh, it would have been advisable to wait until the new revelation of justice, a recitation, if you will, that would liberate law enforcement of its primative western biases to reveal the truth. He added “Truth has always been the first casualty of Christianity. That’s what attracted me to Islam, initially. I needed to know it would have been the right thing to do”.
Jen the Neocon on January 11, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my guns.
Wade on January 11, 2007 at 7:44 PM