Video: Teddy “slips,” refers to Iraq as Vietnam
posted at 2:35 pm on July 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Via the C-SPAN-recordin’ madmen of BTN. It’s an honest slip, I think. Years of “spirited living” have done strange things to Teddy’s mind, and besides, he’s off-message: the party line is that Iraq is much, much, much worse than Vietnam no matter what Peter Pace might tell you. It has to be. The VC can’t win you a presidential election anymore but jihadis good for plenty of Senate seats.
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I’m amazed he is still alive.
Blake on July 17, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Teddy, dude, stay away from the extreme closeup. ACK!
KelliD on July 17, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Rush Limbaugh will be held responsible for this.
RushBaby on July 17, 2007 at 2:40 PM
har har har!
The loony left is soooooooo transparent! I think every time someone talks to that fat disgusting slob, they should find a way to slip in Mary Jo’s name.
csdeven on July 17, 2007 at 2:43 PM
And his fat liver perhaps!
OBX Pete on July 17, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Who’s the fat guy in the testical suit?
unamused on July 17, 2007 at 2:49 PM
Are we sure it was a “slip?” Jack Murtha thought you could stage rapid deployment forces for Iraq at Okinawa. John Kerry can’t identify which country he was in for Christmas during his four-month tour of duty in VN. Maybe Democrats are just bad at geography.
highhopes on July 17, 2007 at 2:49 PM
He looks like he’s got a major circulation problem.
PRCalDude on July 17, 2007 at 2:50 PM
Teddy either has a superliver, or he’s had had enough transplants done in secret to make Larry Hagman blush.
Bad Candy on July 17, 2007 at 2:51 PM
If Iraq is Vietnam, then we’ve defeated the NVA and the VC, captured HoChiMin and the courts found him guilty and hung his ass. We’ve had three elections and the people have elected an new govt. Wake up from your drunken stupor, Ted.
Tony737 on July 17, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Thank you Massachusetts.
The entire state must be drunk on every election day.
fogw on July 17, 2007 at 2:57 PM
I just can’t get enough of Teddy. When I begin to lose my political compass, I only need to hear one blast from the windbag to re-comfirm my political beliefs.
Thanks again Teddy, the drinks are on me.
swami on July 17, 2007 at 3:01 PM
He called Obama, Osama and that didn’t seem to make headlines, why should this?
Howie Carr has radio contests to see who can count all the times he says “errrr” in a diatribe.
The exit question should be, “What type of people would elect this specimen as their senator for life?”
Answer – “The same idiots that elect the Jr. senator from the same glorious State of Oz”
Hening on July 17, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Is that really the first time he’s done this? I could have sworn I’d heard someone say it before now.
Esthier on July 17, 2007 at 3:07 PM
Aired? Certainly. Debated? Sure.
But protected?
C’mon, dude.
Citizen Duck on July 17, 2007 at 3:07 PM
Teddy Kennedy is the Original Renaissance Dinosaur, not to mention the Official Poster Child for Congressional Term Limitation. Oh, did I mention he may also share the same spotlight with O.J. as far as getting away with murder?
pilamaye on July 17, 2007 at 3:07 PM
I saw that slip and it made me smile. Old People I thought. Then at the end of his speech he advocated the same ending for Iraq as Viet Nam. I repeat advocated not predicted.
Teddy recalled how many of our friends were killed after the Viet Nam war and that we need to avoid that in Iraq by accepting millions of refugees after the Iraq war ends. So much for a better way to win.
It was not a just a slip. He sees Iraq and Viet Nam as one and the same. All that was missing from his speech was the image of choppers leaving the Embassy roof.
TunaTalon on July 17, 2007 at 3:08 PM
So who would you rather go with…A hunting trip with Dick Cheny or a late night drive with Ted Kennedy?? Mary Jo suggests hunting with Dick…
doriangrey on July 17, 2007 at 3:08 PM
Umm Teddy you voted FOR the Gulf of Tolkin resolution. Id say you must have a guilty consceince
William Amos on July 17, 2007 at 3:08 PM
He’s 300 lbs and runs around in a bathing suit. Can you imagine being married to that?
Blake on July 17, 2007 at 3:09 PM
Irony of ironies.. let the people express themselves?
The Fairness doctrine?
Talk radio needs to be balanced?
Ted K. has been in power way.. way tooo long.
Mcguyver on July 17, 2007 at 3:10 PM
So very sad.
Griz on July 17, 2007 at 3:11 PM
His brain is pickled… and his liver is made of cast iron.
Jalisco Jalisco JaliscoOoOOoOO *burp*
SilverStar830 on July 17, 2007 at 3:11 PM
“Spirited living” huh? My, my, how nice you’ve become Allah..;-)
Rightwingsparkle on July 17, 2007 at 3:16 PM
You know what I think about when I see Ted?
A beautiful, succulent, pineapple ring cover with cherries, Christmas ham.
Anyone else see that?
natesnake on July 17, 2007 at 3:16 PM
Yeah.. but you have to understand {{{speak softly and tenderly here}} “Boston is the most wonderful place to live. Everywhere else is just a vacation”. (actual quote from a Bostonian heard by me. Swear to God)
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who votes for this rag dragged out of a river?
Answer: IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mcguyver on July 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Actually I see Sing Sing and Levenworth.
Limerick on July 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Michelle should apologize.
My stoopid comment of the day.
Thank you, thank you very much.
On-my-soap-box on July 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
“The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” – Plato
Corky on July 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Teddy flashback:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200312/ai_n9318614
On-my-soap-box on July 17, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Like every other Socialist puke mascarading as a US citizen under the label Liberal Democrat, Teddy has been wringing his hands since 1973, waiting for the next time we use military force so he can put on his sandals, rose-colored-shades and strike up the tamborine to recall the swinging days of the 60’s revolution.
Well let me give you some insight to what his socialist/liberal policies of No Accountability have spawned in Massachusetts.
Here in the sweltering humidity and stagnant summer time air that hangs on the rows of rotting triple deckers in the sprawling neighborhoods of Boston we had a 7 year old who shot his 9 year old cousin just before midnight a few weeks ago. He was playing with a 9MM while hanging out in a room filled with his aunts, step brothers, cousins and mother.
The gun was the property of their 15 year old step brother who is an “impact player” in the notoriously violent MIC gang. MIC is a local gang that killed 10-year-old Trina Persad with a shotgun blast in June 2002 as she played in Goffigan Park, (a local park named after Jermaine Goffigan, who was killed at age 9 when he was caught in the cross fire of a gang firefight in 1994).
The 15 year old began his criminal career two years ago and is currently on probation while waiting to go to trial on an illegal firearm charge – this, just one year after he and his aunt were shot while walking down Columbia Road. One of his other aunts was also recently murdered.
The father/ sperm donor that sired this 15 year old, in an ironic coincidence, is also a gang member and is currently in jail serving an 11-year gun related federal sentence. His street cred peaked at age 17 for his connection to the infamous Halloween 1990 rape and murder of a 26-year-old woman who they stabbed 132 times after they gang raped her in Franklin Field.
The 30 year old unmarried mother of the dead boy who has six other children from six other fathers,(most are local gangbangers and at least two of whom are now in jail for murder and armed robbery), lied to police and said 3 rival gang bangers kicked down their front door and shot the boy. After the shooting she had the 15 year old hide the gun, called the police and, as her screaming child held his intestines in, she ordered a pizza.
The positive ending to this sad story is that the 16 year old, (16!!!!!) pregnant, unmarried aunt of the dead boy is going to name her child after him. To date no one, NO ONE, has been charged with anything. Not the mother, the older brother, or any of the other adults who were there.
You need someone whacked? Come do it here, only one in 5 murders get solved in Boston. Liberal laws, courts, judges, advocacy groups etc, will all defend you if you screw up and somehow get caught. Don’t worry you were actually the victim, it’s society’s fault in Boston. Thanks Uncle Ted.
Alden Pyle on July 17, 2007 at 3:22 PM
He is.
His liver is dead, however.
N. O'Brain on July 17, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Hmmmm….
If it was a Viet Nam flashback, maybe he has choppered liver.
N. O'Brain on July 17, 2007 at 3:24 PM
The supermajority of our population lives inside the rte. 495 belt,about 1/3 of the state. Those of us outside it try to avoid going there at all costs!!
Funny thing though,I’ve never actually met anyone who liked the Swimmer OR Mr. Theresa….
Blitz on July 17, 2007 at 3:26 PM
If this is a quotation of one of Plato’s thirteen letters, the attribution to Plato is defensible. Otherwise, the remark was made by one of Plato’s characters, to another character, on some dramatic occasion. I don’t like sounding quite so pedantic, but participating in the recovery of Platonic interpretation is important to me.
Kralizec on July 17, 2007 at 3:27 PM
The only reason the man wears a tie is to keep the foreskin from creeping over his face…
rbb on July 17, 2007 at 3:29 PM
But my original purpose for logging in was to say that I was nauseated by Senator Kennedy’s appearance, and appalled by the implications. It’s hard to imagine that the flesh inside his head is any healthier than the flesh on the surface.
Kralizec on July 17, 2007 at 3:30 PM
He certainly is a testament to the marvel of modern medicine.
frreal on July 17, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Michelle should apologize.
My stoopid comment of the day.
Thank you, thank you very much.
On-my-soap-box on July 17, 2007 at 3:18 PM
What are you talking about, soap-box?
RushBaby on July 17, 2007 at 3:33 PM
This fat, bloviating, drunken, whore-mongering, murdering piece of sh*t ought to be in jail, not in the US Senate. The People of MA have brownstuff for brains for repeatedly electing this turd and his buddy, Traitor Johnny Kerry to the Senate.
It was after Kennedy killed Mary Jo, and he told his father, Old Joe Kennedy, that Joe, who saw one son die in WWII, another achieve the Presidency only to be assassinated in Dallas before finishing his first term, a third get assassinated in LA trying to run for President, now had to face the fact that his fourth son was not only a cheat who was kicked out of college, but a drunken, wife-cheating, murderer.
Joe, after being told the story of Mary Jo’s killing, voluntary stopped eating and drinking liquids and willed himself to death. He died within a month of Mary Jo.
Teddy never spent a day in jail for the killing of Mary Jo.
And as we all know, his son is a drunken POS — just like him — who got away with crashing his car in DC while DUI.
georgej on July 17, 2007 at 3:34 PM
Pedantic? That’s not the adjective I would use…
By all accounts (I can find, anyway), this is a Platonic quote and wasn’t uttered by one of his characters.
Corky on July 17, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Don’t forget to give big thanks to, Senator Uncle Johnny, Boston Mayor Mumbles Menino, and our new Governator, 8-Ball Deval! /sarc
kiakjones on July 17, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Maybe he’s tripping from his FLOWER POWER days!
canopfor on July 17, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Teddy should stay away from swim trunks, boats, and pretty much anything to do with water. I only brings up his legacy.
Questions to Mass voters – Has anything up there gotten any better in the past eternity since he’s been there?
TinMan13 on July 17, 2007 at 3:49 PM
People on a diet should watch this anytime they’re about to cheat on the plan. Admiral Chappaquiddick Kennedy could play the role of rubber ducky in a whale aquarium.
Annar on July 17, 2007 at 3:58 PM
As he get closer to the the end of his rant, notice how the tone in his voice increases to a pitch likened to a raving lunatic. Or maybe I’m just pointing out the obvious.
Kini on July 17, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Even Kennedy’s skin is getting tired of his liberal nonsense.
VolMagic on July 17, 2007 at 4:06 PM
And to think it’s us righties that get accused of having a mentality “left over from the cold war”.
Bigfoot on July 17, 2007 at 4:13 PM
My GOD, that shot is horrible. Allah, how do you keep your lunch down?
MadisonConservative on July 17, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Vietnam 4eva!
Seixon on July 17, 2007 at 4:13 PM
but, but… “Whatever happened to little Billy??” (Every time I see Teddy’s picture, I hear that in my head…)
lan astaslem on July 17, 2007 at 4:18 PM
That’s because the unions have such a stranglehold on the votes in Mass that it’s rediculous. I had to work hand-in-hand with a bunch of union electricians who were some of the most conservitive people I’d ever met but they all voted liberal Dem because basically the union told them to.
Add that to the moonbats who live along the 128 corridor and you get Senators for life like the Swimmer and JF’nK, and a so-called governor like Coupe De’Val. I thank God every day that I got out.
crazy_legs on July 17, 2007 at 4:20 PM
As long as there is even one enemy of the United States smuggling weapons across the “Cambodian” border, Ted Kennedy will NEVER quit supporting the “freedom fighters.”
logis on July 17, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable to comment on Swimmer’s reliving of the 1960s.
steveegg on July 17, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne era no disponible para el comentario
Wade on July 17, 2007 at 4:49 PM
This is what I do not understand. How the heck does the union know how you voted? I’m sure the NEA and CTA would love for me to vote dem, but I don’t. I mean yeah, they take my money to try to elect dems, but they can’t dictate how I chose in the voting booth…can they?
/genuinely confused here
Bob's Kid on July 17, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Teddy looks like he ate Vietnam.
It’s worth remembering that it was Teddy who drove the nail in Vietnam’s coffin by reneging on the promise of air support America promised our allies. When the North Vietnamese army was driving south, it was Ted who led Congress against the B-52 air strikes which would have saved the South.
It’s also worth remembering that the South was lost by logistics. The North was amply supplied by the Soviet Union and China with war supplies. Teddy and his crew in Congress cut off the supplies that the South needed to defend themselves against the North Vietnamese invasion. The South simply ran out of the beans, bullets, and bandages they needed to fight while the North had plenty.
The result of Ted’s duplicity with respect to our promises to our ally was to cause tens of thousands to be murdered outright by the victorious communists, hundreds of thousands to be sent to reeducation camps, and a million dead in attempts to flee by sea.
And Ted wants to do it all again in Iraq.
Tantor on July 17, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Teddy took the brown acid.
infidel4life on July 17, 2007 at 5:38 PM
That’s the problem, he has no business holding high office.
RightWinged on July 17, 2007 at 5:53 PM
It shows you how really horrible you have to be to lose a senate seat.
Once a senator, always a senator.
right2bright on July 17, 2007 at 5:58 PM
*paging the Grim Reaper*
CODE
BLUEYELLOW!SouthernGent on July 17, 2007 at 6:08 PM
He looks like Rose Kennedy–and she’s been dead for how long?
ahem on July 17, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Wow what a whale of a man !!! He can stand to loose some weight.
Just a bit of exercise and healthy eating can do a lot.
SIJ6141 on July 17, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Yeah, tomorrow is an anniversary FRK (Fat Rich Kid) would rather everyone forget.
http://www.ytedk.com/
Kalapana on July 17, 2007 at 7:22 PM
Why don’t you tell us what you REALLY think georgej?
OBX Pete on July 17, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Alden Pyle on July 17, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Yes I can relate. My home town in NJ went to number one in 05 for most major crimes in the US. I moved thirty years ago. New Orleans is another example of the end results of The Great Society. It was initiated by LBJ and the guy from PBS commie bastard as its developer. LBJ made a deal with the devil to eliminate JFK. A side bar to this information, is that Rush L. is asking people to take pics of poverty areas because he is debunking John Edwards Poor of America tour that had three obese women in New Orleans wearing ACORN T-shirts. Where is the MSM on THIS issue? They should be asking the Senators from these districts how is your way working. We need to show the Democratic ideology in a labratory setting. Village my ass! Here in FL we just keep building more prisons. No problem do the crime do the time.
sonnyspats1 on July 17, 2007 at 8:05 PM
What sweeter irony could it be for Uncle Teddy to pull an **all nighter** at the senate exactly 33 years to the day after he murdered Mary Jo after an **all-nighter** on the Vineyard.
You can’t make this crap up.
Alden Pyle on July 17, 2007 at 8:26 PM
This meathead should be sent to the outback, with no food or water, just the fat in his head would allow him to survive forever.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 17, 2007 at 8:26 PM
I want to give this man a Cleveland steamer. He deserves it…..
liquidflorian on July 17, 2007 at 9:54 PM
I must confess. I too live in Mass. I meet people on a daily basis that have voted for this guy, Kerry, D-Pat and the like. I’ve never been a Dim, can never see it happening. Fotunately most of my friends and family have not voted for these people. Or if they have they haven’t told me. But I just have never got the Kennedy mystique thing. Unless by mystique you mean getting away with crimes anyone else would go to prison for.
Maybe St. Cindy’s Summer of Love thing confused him. Had a flasback or something.
PowWow on July 17, 2007 at 11:38 PM
There’s a large and growing contingency of Mass residents on this board.
We need to form a political militia and delouse Beacon Hill, put Uncle Teddy out to pasture in Hyannis and set about re-establishing the reputation of this state in a manner more agreeable with the forefathers who once strolled these cobblestoned streets.
Alden Pyle on July 18, 2007 at 10:14 AM
I chalenged one of them on that. It was during the Governor’s race that elected Mitt. All of them, each one, said they were voting Dem because the Dem was “Labor Friendly.” At that point I decided it was useless to argue. Brain washing like that is what put Mass in such a sorry state.
crazy_legs on July 18, 2007 at 11:04 AM
After all of this bashing someone needs to defend Teddy.
Emmm?
Ahhh?
Duhhh?
…..
So, did anyone catch Senator Byrd’s speech?
TunaTalon on July 18, 2007 at 11:15 AM
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