Video: Ted Kennedy goes NUTS
posted at 9:15 am on July 20, 2007 by Bryan
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I could opine on context, take you down side roads and deliver all the nuanced commentary I can muster. Or I could just suggest that you watch the video, because Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy acts like an irate, incoherent buffoon on the floor of the Senate. It’s from yesterday.
On the one hand, Kennedy can serve as a warning: This is what several decades of hard living looks and sounds like, kids. On the other hand, at least he named the right war this time.
Credit to Beyond the News for catching this one.
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Retire already, will ya please?!!!!
pilamaye on July 20, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Why retire when the liberal tools that is Massachusetts will elect you for life?
DCJeff on July 20, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Give the man a break, it looks like he hasn’t had a drink yet!
abinitioadinfinitum on July 20, 2007 at 9:26 AM
AP,
For context of this meltdown, go read Hugh Hewitt.
swami on July 20, 2007 at 9:28 AM
Okay, I think he’s worn out his “elect me ’cause my brothers got shot” sympathy vote.
Time to retire … to rehab.
Tony737 on July 20, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Yeah, but if they DON’T elect him, he comes home and lives NEXT DOOR to somebody….and they might have a daughter…so it’s clearly the best plan to send him somewhere else. :)
landlines on July 20, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Perfect representative for the young communists workers party. Kennedy is narcissistic, elitist fool.
rplat on July 20, 2007 at 9:33 AM
This fat headed SOB has been in the Senate since I was a senior in high school. Do you think that’s long enough? Oh!! I’m 62 years old. Does that put it in perspective?
Jeff on July 20, 2007 at 9:35 AM
I wonder if putting cameras in the Senate encouraged this type of demagogic speech making. Kennedy and Byrd don’t seem to be particularly effective political theatre for the Democrats.
I couldn’t help but compare Kennedy to Byrd. Kennedy doesn’t even make substantial arguments like Byrd. He just engages in accusations and rage. And he is considered by some as a great orator?
thuja on July 20, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Wrong verb.
ted kennedy is nuts.
locomotivebreath1901 on July 20, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Kids, this is what happens to a Tedpole when it is out of its environment (water) for too long.
Remember this there will be a test on it later.
MSGTAS on July 20, 2007 at 9:39 AM
That was closer to comedy than comity.
Teddy’s getting close, but no cigar.
TunaTalon on July 20, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Perfect mouthpiece for the young communists workers party and Karl Marx University.
rplat on July 20, 2007 at 9:40 AM
Didn’t watch. Couldn’t.
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 9:43 AM
Does anyone truly believe that ‘young people in this country’ don’t have the opportunity to go to college?
Where I am, the local community college and the local university are just an extension of high school – it’s expected that everyone will attend.
TinMan13 on July 20, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Must be cranky from loosing sleep? Uncle Ted was up way past his bed time this week. He’s getting too old for those slumber parties I suppose. But what would we do without him? Please pass the gin and smoores and tell us another scary poor immigrant story Uncle Ted….
soulsirkus on July 20, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Speaking of Ted, an unfortunate anniversary passed this week.
flipflop on July 20, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Howie Carr is going to have some new material for the “Wizard of Uhhhs.”
Slublog on July 20, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Shamnesty is an insult to the workers, you dodo.
aengus on July 20, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Give the man a waitress sandwich. He’ll shut up.
The Therapist on July 20, 2007 at 9:51 AM
What a letch. What the heck is wrong with the people of Mass. Kerry and Kennedy? These are the same people that elected Mitt. What going on there?
Maybe St. Cindy and Michael Moore would be better than those two. I guess I know why Kennedy wants amnesty. He remembers when he got amnesty for Mary Jo Capechne.
Kerry married a perfect 10 trophy wife. (a 4 with 6 billion dollars = perfect 10)
saiga on July 20, 2007 at 9:52 AM
Fat Ted is the Geraldo Rivera of the Senate.
Frank Nitti on July 20, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Sorry for going OT, but Allah…will you put up a post about the French civil servant with the tiny brain, already?? You’ve run two headlines about it and there are so many jokes within jokes here, I can’t stand it!
flipflop on July 20, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Press 1 for English:
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
Press 2 for Shamnesty:
Mary Jo Kopechne era no disponible para el comentario
Wade on July 20, 2007 at 9:55 AM
A Kennedy, especially Ted “drink drown and run” Kennedy is the LAST person on the planet I want to lecture me on the law.
Go save your family, you frickin drunken killer.
Q-
Wasn’t yesterday the anniversary of Ms. Kopchne’s disappearance? Ted’s diving for dollars day?
10 HOURS TED? 10 HOURS LATER?
shooter on July 20, 2007 at 9:55 AM
And one of those young persons who might want to go to collage was not available for comment because the person that would have been her mother was not available for comment.
csdeven on July 20, 2007 at 9:55 AM
Harry Reid got Mitchslapped, McConnell 08
abinitioadinfinitum on July 20, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Alcohol is a helluva drug…
Dork B. on July 20, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Ted goes Nuts.
EEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Mazztek on July 20, 2007 at 9:58 AM
The context gives it it’s proper meaning.
Spirit of 1776 on July 20, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Good column. Not only for the Teddy context, but for why it’s important to go to the polls next November. Here’s the link.
BacaDog on July 20, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Makes you wonder what he drinks before breakfast…think he’ll retire to france with the wilsons…???…one can only hope…
areseaoh on July 20, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Geraldo is insulted.
BacaDog on July 20, 2007 at 10:03 AM
In all liklihood, he will keep getting re-elected until the day he dies.
WisCon on July 20, 2007 at 10:04 AM
This is an insult on the “Big Dig workers”.
They are not able to continue working on the big trench because of the Senate delaying these bills.
Somebody insert an energizer battery implant into all Bostonians so they can get fired up about raggedy doll Kennedy.
Mcguyver on July 20, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Fixed that for ya.
Kowboy on July 20, 2007 at 10:10 AM
I believe that the manuevering that led to Kennedy’s frustration has been airing under the description “our crap politics”. Maybe sometimes it needs to be crappy.
Jaibones on July 20, 2007 at 10:14 AM
If you look up “noise machine” you’ll see a picture of Teddy.
infidel4life on July 20, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Do Kennedys retire?
Valiant on July 20, 2007 at 10:20 AM
mess…
D2Boston on July 20, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Nope. Not going to watch it.
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 10:21 AM
What do you do when you’ve got only 1 minute, you’re hungry, and you STILL don’t have open borders? Rant like never before!
nottakingsides on July 20, 2007 at 10:23 AM
All of a sudden a red-faced Tedddy grabs his chest as he cries out in pain: ” AAAAGH! My livah! “
Dork B. on July 20, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Look closely at his actions before he begins to speek. He appears to be drunk.
davidcaskey on July 20, 2007 at 10:27 AM
I thought that too.
Kowboy on July 20, 2007 at 10:29 AM
This fat headed SOB has been in the Senate longer than I’ve been alive! I just turned 40 this year.
crazy_legs on July 20, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Given his habit of being perpetually drunk, wouldn’t that be how he acts when he’s sober?
James on July 20, 2007 at 10:32 AM
That was all a big act!! He turned on and shut off his “emotions” like a spigot. He didn’t care at all about any so called principles, just did it all for effect and political fall out. Seemed as if he was enjoying the moment as a chance to exercise his drama skills. Full of you know what as always.
jeanie on July 20, 2007 at 10:35 AM
I am the liberal lion. Hear me roar.
sonnyspats1 on July 20, 2007 at 10:37 AM
MAN I love slow government…
Mack08 on July 20, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Yep, I concur. He was bumbling at first, calmly waiting to launch into his well rehearsed tirade.
There’s a funny segemet on Howie Carr, called the Wizard of Uhs (you have to guess the number of uhhhs he uttered during a specific soundbite), when he is ad-libbing he drops in and uhhhh or ummmm every 3 or 4 seconds.
I love how my senator is so “vehement” in pandering to his corrupt union-thug supporters.
reaganaut on July 20, 2007 at 10:46 AM
I don’t know why he feels he has to scream to make a point. That simply makes him disgusting to watch and his point lost even if it were a good point, which would never be. The man must be deaf or think we are. I guess he is trying to make sure Mary Jo hears him in heaven!
doncow on July 20, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Drunks do tend to yell.
Kowboy on July 20, 2007 at 11:05 AM
What else did he say and how did he say it?
Nope.
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 11:07 AM
It’s the Kennedy curse – otherwise known as being born a spoiled buffoon.
foxforce91 on July 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM
He has never gotten out from the shadow of Jack and Bobby. It’s like Fredo running the family in the later decades because he didn’t feel like going fishing one day.
Doug on July 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Heh, when was he ever sober?
FireFly on July 20, 2007 at 11:17 AM
I agree. This a nothing but drama for drama’s sake.
Guardian on July 20, 2007 at 11:20 AM
A historical note for you kids who may not understand the fuss about Mary Jo Kopechne. I am so old I watched the live coverage of this event many years ago. I do not believe you will find this on the internet, but I will take a lie detector test anytime to what I saw on live broadcast from the scene the morning after.
I watched a scuba diver still in wet suit stating with absolute disgust and anger to the camera that there was a large air pocket in the submerged car. He stated Mary Jo might have been alive for severl hours with the air in that air pocket
Unlike the live coverage of Ruby shooting Osawald, which still exists for historical purposes, the diver interview has not surfaced on the history channel. Those who saw that interview can never lose the thought the girl might have been alive in the dark cold water while Kennedy took a night at the motel
entagor on July 20, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Maybe Kennedrunk was just a tad bit more moonbatty yesterday on account of it being the 38th anniversary of Chappaquiddick.
crushliberalism on July 20, 2007 at 11:35 AM
This is the best online exposition on Chappaquiddick that I’ve seen. The air pocket is addressed in Chapter 5.
http://www.ytedk.com/intro.htm
infidel4life on July 20, 2007 at 11:37 AM
The man embarrasses me. I think of all the people in other countries that catch clips of him on CNN or Fox and wonder if all Americans are that insane.
Ernest on July 20, 2007 at 11:41 AM
It’s an insult to the Workers
It amazes me that rich people can be ideologically sympathetic to socialism. Just as it amazes me that many Jews are sympathetic to islamists. Just as it amazes me that many feminists are sympathetic to islam. Just as it amazes me that many anarchists are sympathetic to stalinism. Just as it amazes me that leftists are sympathetic to totalitarianism
The left is so full of ideological ironies.
It also amazes me that a guy from rainy Massachussettes has a permanent tan.
jihadwatcher on July 20, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Doesn’t this guy live in Doug & Carrie’s basement?
fogw on July 20, 2007 at 11:44 AM
And for my next trick. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my a$$.
Never mind I just found where I hid my drink.
ChrisIansNana on July 20, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Are there any sanctions the rest of the United States can place of the state, I’m sorry, commonwealth of Massachusetts for making us suffer this blowhard for the last forty-five years? Can we get a no fly zone imposed because of John Kerry?
srhoades on July 20, 2007 at 11:51 AM
“Ted Kennedy goes NUTS”
Goes nuts? That implies a transitional change. I see no change, transitional or otherwise. He’s still the same bloviating, whore-mongering, drunken, cheating turd he always has been.
georgej on July 20, 2007 at 11:54 AM
srhoades asks: “Are there any sanctions the rest of the United States can place of the state, I’m sorry, commonwealth of Massachusetts….”
Well, the Civil War answered the question of whether or not a state can secede from the Union without permission of Congress. The answer is no.
BUT….the option of EJECTING Massachusetts from the Union is still on the table.
georgej on July 20, 2007 at 11:57 AM
No, they are just like the Clintons.
They never retire and they never just fade away.
Our only hope is that his liver certainly can’t last forever!
OBX Pete on July 20, 2007 at 11:58 AM
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SCOTCH AND BUTTERED PRIME RIB!!!
ER AH!
benrand on July 20, 2007 at 12:17 PM
He does not look and sound healthy. Looks like some sort of dementia or possibly alzheimer’s. Scary.
PRCalDude on July 20, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Whew! That poor guy has not been right since chappaquiddick.
Lennie on July 20, 2007 at 12:18 PM
This “senator of girth” needs to retire, but why? The people of Mass. love him.
right2bright on July 20, 2007 at 12:19 PM
It’s a wonder the Capitol dome didn’t melt with all that hot air. Anyone near him would be tipsy for sure!
SouthernGent on July 20, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice if he showed even half as much indignation and anger towards AQ and the jihadists! Maybe if he could be convinced that AQ was a Republican organization, he’d back the administration efforts to eliminate them from Iraq.
Mallard T. Drake on July 20, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Yeah that’s what I was thinking as soon as he brought up the part about workers.
Ryan Gandy on July 20, 2007 at 12:34 PM
BRYAN, thanks for the post.
RushBaby on July 20, 2007 at 12:36 PM
captivated_dem
We don’t often delay instant gratification around here, so I gotta hand it to you! You still holding out OK?
RushBaby on July 20, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Somebody needs to grab the still at 01:06, 01:15 or 01:39 and that sucker.
JM Hanes on July 20, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Happy hour out a little early, Teddy?
Talk about unhinged lunacy, wingnuttery, rage and hate!
Good Lt on July 20, 2007 at 12:45 PM
O.K., we’ll try it again, with tags:
Somebody needs to grab the still at 01:06, 01:15 or 01:39 and photoshop that sucker.
JM Hanes on July 20, 2007 at 12:47 PM
From Hugh Hewitt’s column on Townhall:
Mitch McConnell shows he has a pair of brass ones. Let’s hope he keeps out smarting Dinghy Harry.
Mallard T. Drake on July 20, 2007 at 12:48 PM
OT but only slightly;
On the radio this morning, the news coverage of the Michael Vicks (sp?) case (dog-fighting) included a sound bite of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), basically calling for Vicks’ head on a platter (probably to be served with fava beans and a nice chianti). From the ten seconds or so they played on the radio, he was even farther out in “screamer mode” than Ted was here.
Granted, he actually had something to scream about (dogfighting, IMHO, is even lower than cock-fighting, and I helped raid one of those OUAT), but still…..
Guys;
You control the Congress now.
Act like you’ve been to the end zone before
Or alternatively, retire.
I know, fat chance of that. Kennedy’s been in there since I was five, and Byrd’s been there longer than I’ve been alive.
Proof positive of the miracle of modern medicine. Today, they can keep you alive, upright, and gibbering incoherently in spite of your penchant for “chemical experimentation”.
cheers
eon
eon on July 20, 2007 at 12:51 PM
“Ted Kennedy goes NUTS”
My first thought was isn’t this old news. Ted has been nuts, insane, stupid, homocidial all his life, why is this now a new revelation? What would be real news if the voters of Massachusetts actually voted in a sane, sober, intelligent senator.
PrettyD_Vicious on July 20, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Whoopee freegin dooo.Ted
Another addition to Kennedy,s Greatest Hits.
canopfor on July 20, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Think this guy does not have balls? His dogs name is “Splash”
Wade on July 20, 2007 at 1:37 PM
thats nothing you should have seen the people going nuts when they found out ted was driving the bus to the pentagon.
Mojack420 on July 20, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Craaaaazzzzy.
congsan on July 20, 2007 at 2:53 PM
He mentioned the card check. Today a union must have over 50% of employees from a company to sign pledge cards so the labor board will make a company allow a vote to unionize with a secret ballot. With the new Bill they are trying to pass. All the unions will need is 50% +1 “pledge cards” then the labor board will impose a union on a company without a vote. If the company does not reach an agreement on a contract an arbitrator will tell the company what they will pay their employees. They are trying to ram this bill through because of the money the Unions have given the democrats. They probably have such a hold on Teddy that he is worried what they will do if he can’t get this bill through. Thinking about it, If they are losing patience with Teddy and he realizes it. That may explain his “Going Nuts” I’m sure age and Booze are contributing factors. Of course I could be wrong.
Guest1.1 on July 20, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Alan Colmes is insulted.
On-my-soap-box on July 20, 2007 at 3:00 PM
I truly pity the man. Pure unadulterated pity. That’s all I can muster anymore in response to this tired old coot.
Lawrence on July 20, 2007 at 3:05 PM
I remember years ago when my former spouse was a officer of the local ASFSME band o’ thieves and he drug me to their annual meetings in Chicago. Teddy was the keynote, and he looked very bad even then. It was when Reagan was running for term 2 as POTUS, and Ted roared into the microphone: “Do we want 4 more years of a republican administration?”
We screamed “Yessssss!!!”
We were the only ones, and people thought we were kidding.
Bob's Kid on July 20, 2007 at 3:17 PM
RushBaby on July 20, 2007 at 12:40 PM
That’s funny. While I was evolving/maturing in my ideological approach to life , I apparently assumed that my leaders were maturing at the same time. Now that I am paying closer attention and becoming more engaged as a citizen, I watch, with no little distress, that my leadership has devolved and no longer speak for me. I am a democrat on paper and never have been a lib. Well……not never. Anyway, Kennedy, Durbin, Reid, you know the ones, don’t legislate from the ideology which I once cherished. Problem being, neither do the Republicans; at a level that I can respect. Without really calling it conservatism, I have always strived to master conservative principles in my everyday life. Some are as easy as breathing, others, less so. Don’t want to be accused of being too chummy as a newbie, so I’ll just end this diatribe with another………..Nope, I’m not watching it. I can’t.
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 3:17 PM
an officer.
I can talk English real good, sure I can.
Bob's Kid on July 20, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Grab a cot and STFU fatboy!
Teddy on July 20, 2007 at 3:45 PM
captivated_dem on July 20, 2007 at 3:17 PM
I think I know what you mean. The Democratic party used to represent principles against discrimination, for civil rights, for womens and workers’ rights, among others. Conservatism is taking over these issues as more and more people come to understand that liberal solutions, because they are based on a utopian desire for equal outcome, result in unintended, and sometimes disastrous, consequences. One example would be the creation and expansion of massive welfare programs, that is continuously resulting in the destruction of two-parent households.
Am I close? I don’t want to put words in your mouth…I would love to know your thoughts.
I am awfully glad you’re here.
RushBaby on July 20, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Actually, what’s really amazing here is how short a time ago it was that everybody, including Democrats, thought Ted was an embarassment.
JM Hanes on July 20, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Ted Kennedy goes nuts???? Ted Kennedy IS NUTS!!!!!!!!!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 20, 2007 at 5:29 PM
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