Awesomely awesome: NOW NYS calls Teddy’s endorsement of Obama “the ultimate betrayal”; Update: “Psychological gang bang”?
posted at 4:10 pm on January 28, 2008 by Allahpundit
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So packed with identity politics irony I’m almost misty over it. After weeks of hand-wringing by the commentariat over the race card, here comes the gender card taped to the end of a two-by-four and delivered upside Teddy’s head. The only thing missing is the magic phrase “Mary Jo,” and reading it you wonder if they didn’t consider tossing that in there too. Stay strong, sisters.
Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few…
And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one)…
This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who “know what’s best for us.”
Exit question one: On a scale of one to ten, just how ironic is it that the guy who’s campaigning against dynastic politics is being championed by a Kennedy? Exit question two: Why does Teddy hate women?
Update: Dude.
In short, gang raping of women is commonplace in our culture both physically and metaphorically.
This past week, we witnessed just such a phenomenon involving men who are afraid of a powerful woman. Hillary Clinton, in her quest for her Presidential nomination, has in fact endured infantile taunting and wildly inappropriate commentary. Indeed we have witnessed almost comical attacks by John Edwards who in turn sided with Barak Obama as both snickered at Clinton’s “breakdown,” which consisted of a very short dewy-eyed moment. Now John Kerry, who should certainly know better after his own “swiftboating,” has joined the playground gang…
Think about the legacy we’ll leave behind when we support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. Let’s put a stop to the psychological “gang banging” of women and girls. Let’s stand up and be counted by way of the hard-won votes we can now cast!
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How does one exactly be the agent of change by getting the endorsement of an establishment dinosaur like (hic) Teddy boy, the Harpo of the Kennedy brothers.
Kendrick on January 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM
What a letch. His true colors are out!
saiga on January 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM
This is stunning. The Dems are crumbling before our eyes. That’s what happens when you play to all the “issues” voters.
Hillary WILL pull out the nomination. The question is how much damage will have been done to the party.
stenwin77 on January 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM
1) Ironic, it’s off the scale.
2) Liqueur doesn’t talk back
Kini on January 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Yet, still no comment from NOW in support of Broderick, Wiley, Lewinsky…………
Don’t ya just love it when they eat their own.
BacaDog on January 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM
That’s gotta rank as at least a 9.
Tim on January 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM
So now the race and gender card have been thrown in. What’s left?
amerpundit on January 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Exit question two: Why does Teddy hate women?
Because they are all backstream drivers.
Benaiah on January 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM
What about leaving someone to drown, to me that was “the ultimate betrayal”
rockdog63 on January 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I can think of at least one, although hated puts the verb in the more appropriate tense.
Vote Sauron 08 on January 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM
HA! Pass the popcorn. It promises to be quite a show.
ReubenJCogburn on January 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM
It took endorsing Obama to get NOW outraged about Ted Kennedy? Geeeeez.
Bryan on January 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM
i don’t think it’s merely ironic justice. ted kennedy manifestly hates womenand is cynical enough to brush them off by voting “correctly”.
the cllinton’s are manifestly racist, as are a huge part of their base and essential facets of progressive ideology.
jummy on January 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Question 1: 9.5
Question 2: Hmm, not sure … because he has bigger boobs than most?
My exit question: In the wake of our own ongoing conservative crackup, is anyone noticing (or perhaps enjoying) the ongoing crack-up of the liberal coalition?
thirteen28 on January 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM
He loves the
submergentsubmissive ones.drjohn on January 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Spirit of 1776 on January 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM
You know, eventually it gets to the point where it isn’t funny anymore.
These are the people who will vote for who should be the most powerful person in the world.
That these mental lightweights who see everything through the lens of their own genitalia should be allowed to alter the course of history is truly frightening.
Seriously, I know its an old and chauvanistic joke, but did we make a mistake with women’s suffrage? This is ridiculous.
BKennedy on January 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM
I’ll take “Chauvinist Pig” for $500, Alex.
txsurveyor on January 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Stunning maybe, but only because true colors were exposed publicly. But hardly a surprise. Hence, I suspect no damage at all.
JiangxiDad on January 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM
What’s most pathetic is come the general election, they will be one big happy family, still lacking their integrity, and will back the nominee no matter who it is. And, guess what else, the MSM will have total amnesia regarding this infighting and will report only how the Republican nominees sniped at each other.
Brat on January 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM
When identity politics attack!
lorien1973 on January 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM
And here I thought my birthday and Christmas were over, I am loving this! :)
ThePrez on January 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM
So what’s left at the end of it all?
Ferris on January 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
It’s almost obligatory now:
I still can’t believe he did that.
Matticus Finch on January 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
It’s going to be quite the show before it’s over.
Ouch! That’ll get you cold meatloaf for dinner, BK.
BacaDog on January 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Women are the worst punctuators.
DaveS on January 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Didn’t NOW hear that race trumpts gender? It was all over the news. After all Teddy and Obama .. wait, no, that’s not it. Didn’t BHO get more male votes than HRC? Maybe when it comes to men gender trumps not being Hillary.
Vote Sauron 08 on January 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Teddy sez…
Iron My Shirt.
swami on January 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Race Politics vs. Gender Politics
Oh my god the schandenfreuden is so beautiful I’m almost teary eyed
Defector01 on January 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Glorious. This may be the first explicit victimhood card played this campaign season, which will no doubt be perpetuated and countered by similar victimhood cards by people associated with the campaigns, with or without their consent.
Let the recriminations begin!
Vizzini on January 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Dang, they’re really starting to eat their own young.
Our problem is that we don’t have a truly and consistently conservative guy in the race across the social/religious, economic, foreign policy, and immigration policy spectrums. Our decisions now, unless you were McCainiac or Romnoid from the beginning, is picking the lesser of two evils.
THEIR problem is that their factions are now in open attack mode, setting upon the other. Either you’re a misogynist or a racist. No middle ground. Deep, vicious, internecine polticial warfare over having to choose between a black guy and a white woman, when both of them and their supporters are at each others’ throats, is the liberal democratic version of doomsday.
If I had to compare, ours is still the more dispassionate choice to have to make.
Wow. What a political season. Apart from the fact that none of them really fit my druthers for POTUS all, which normally would make it hard to care, the sheer knock-down drag-out-ish viciousness of this election season is about as exciting as it gets.
Shirotayama on January 28, 2008 at 4:27 PM
The Night of the Long Knives II is about to begin….
ScottG on January 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM
It isn’t exactly working anymore the way it is. What’s left is much worse or much better. But there is no staying where we are.
JiangxiDad on January 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM
1) Eleven
2) I hated him first.
Buttercup on January 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM
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Probably because they hate him. Just take a look at that melon!
stacman on January 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM
This is so much fun to watch!
Buy Danish on January 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM
*munches* mmm..buttery, just the right amount of salt.
TexasDan on January 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Righteous indignation, meet hypocrisy.
BacaDog on January 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Teddy, like many other Irish-American NE Democrats worked hard for abortion on demand, free college and “stuff” for women that would divorce their husbands and move into public housing, the total denial of father’s rights and lots of food stamps for the kids and mom’s live-in boyfriends. .
This is a guy who’s father lobotomized his sister since she was playing fast and loose with the local boys. His famous brother managed to cheat openly on one of the more beautiful women of the early 60’s and Lord Kennedy would rather allow the local women to drown than get his hair wet.
This article is so on target. Wake up you dumb Democratic damsels!!!! You’ve been duped. The irony is a 10 and Teddy thinks all women need abortions, public housing and to be kept by the State (Aka He friggin’ hates them).
Hening on January 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM
But sex. orientation trumps race. Think transsexuals are actually at the top of the heap, endorsement-wise, male-to-female being preferable, male-to-minority female BEST
JiangxiDad on January 28, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Is this campaign going to completely destroy both parties? stay tuned!
marc@hubsandspokes on January 28, 2008 at 4:31 PM
‘Cuz he’s nowhere near as popular with them as his brothers were.
Frozen Tex on January 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM
My thoughts precisely.
Plus, there is now one bright point if Hillary wins - twelve hours after the inauguration she’ll be wearing Ted Kennedy’s balls as earings.
ErikTheRed on January 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Good thing I’m not as of yet married and will probably be hitting Wendy’s for dinner tonight. Wendy is a mistress who never slaps back.
BKennedy on January 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM
It’d be interesting to compare in terms of popular vote electorate on the Dem side:
Likely # of black voters for Obama
+
Likely # white voters (mostly male?) for Obama
+
Estimated # of independent voters for Obama
vs.
Likely # white female voters for Clinton
+
Likely # of white male voters for Clinton
+
Likely % of black voters for Clinton
+
Est. # of independents for Clinton (low number??)
and compare the two numbers to get an idea - who’s got more popular votes?
I’m not a fan of McCain’s but if he stands a better chance of trouncing Billary in the general, maybe I’ll make allowances. Now that Fred’s gone, I’d prefer Mitt but reality’s reality. The ultimate goal is getting another Republican…even these RINO’s…into the house as opposed to avowed Socialists.
Shirotayama on January 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Looks like Bama won’t be getting the “pissed off lesbian” vote.
repvoter on January 28, 2008 at 4:33 PM
oooo…somebody call the waaaaaaambulance.
tickleddragon on January 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM
I heard that Ted led the crowd in chants of “Drown ‘Em, don’t Crown ‘Em” and “Bros before Hoes”.
Buddahpundit on January 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Headline of link from above:
Um - I’m a woman and I’m not in the least bit offended or feeling betrayed by Teddy’s endorsement of Obama. I am offended by Teddy in general however. His very existence is a betrayal to the human race.
Speak for yourself, Marcia Pappas. This woman, who grew up in MA and remembers the Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy, will never forgive that pompous popinjay for leaving that young girl to die.
Teddy can endorse whoever the hell he wants - he’s a blowhard whose credibility shrivels more with each passing day.
KrisinNE on January 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM
As a female, sometimes I wonder the same thing. I’m almost 100% sure the women in my office are voting for Hillary solely because she’s a woman. Women like this make us look bad.
wherestherum on January 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM
The lesbians come out to defend their Headmistress.
They want a hardcore lesbian in the White House, who can blame them…
benrand on January 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Well I’m just shocked! Shocked I say! Ted Kennedy has ALWAYS held the upmost respect for women…NOT! Blech*** Hic-up..hic-up…hic-up
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Hapless bitches can’t even breathe underwater.
ErikTheRed on January 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Let me get this straight.
NOW supported Bill Clinton after he got caught in behavior that, in its best light, can be described as objectifying women in the workplace. Then, there wasn’t a peep about lists of progressive white men putting women down. Interesting. I wonder why Caroline Kennedy’s support of Obama at the same event wasn’t mentioned.
highhopes on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
This is the funniest article I’ve ever read on HA. More news releases from NOW!
jaime on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Whoops. It’s taken a huge crowbar but some eyes are finally being pried open.
oakpack on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
ROFL! And Bill’s the next day.
BacaDog on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
OMG man, that was baaad!!
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Quick someone find the following images to photoshop:
1. Ted
2. Bee
3. Tray
4. Women
Dash on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I’m just interested in learning which card will win - the race card or the gender card
I mean this is the ultimate poker question
Defector01 on January 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I really think we’re watching the fragmentation of the Democratic party take place right before our eyes. This is what decades of ethno-centric, gender, and pandering to activists has got them! Is it wrong for me to take joy in this race vs. gender debacle????? I hope not, but if it is…..oh well.
moonbat monitor on January 28, 2008 at 4:38 PM
My favorite part is how they slip the “just not ‘this’ one” comment in there all sarcastically. It’s true!
Ferris on January 28, 2008 at 4:38 PM
He-He-He.. this is getting better by the day!
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
NoFanofLibs on January 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Feminists vs Mainstream Dems…. all you can do is hope for casualties.
AbaddonsReign on January 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Wonder if they’d feel the same way if it was Condi instead of Hillary?
BacaDog on January 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Question 3
Why does NOW hate blacks?
BL@KBIRD on January 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Condi would be the ultimate card to slap down in the middle of that debate. Not only is she the solution to that whole issue, but a Republican. THAT would be fun to watch.
Ferris on January 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Is it just me or does Teddy look like he is going to stroke out just any second?
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 4:44 PM
I love well-reasoned, level-headed political discourse.
Frozen Tex on January 28, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Dude. I just read the update link.
That is just plain nasty.
txsurveyor on January 28, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Seriously? Yes. Identity politics has no place in America.
Andy in Agoura Hills on January 28, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Gang banging? A little strong of a description isn’t it? I hope the authoress is tea bagged for her stupidity.
BL@KBIRD on January 28, 2008 at 4:48 PM
“Ultimate Betrayal”,wait a tick,isn’t that what Libs said about Patreus a little while ago.Oh the fun starts as
each passionate Liberal marks their line in the sand
between Obama and Hillary!
Now we have Ted Kennedys “Ted’s excellent endoresment”
of Obama,and “Bill’s,I’m not happy with you on this
political adventure”!
Now we have accusations on both sides of the Liberal
camp,and as I’m not trying to laugh,Ted threw Hillary
under the bus,and I think Lieberman somewhere is chuckling.
Why does Ted hate woman,well maybe they don’t want to
take a moonlit ride while drunk with Teddy!
canopfor on January 28, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Hey, what happened to the GOP having all the fighting candidates? I thought we were the bitter bunch.
This is pure nirvana. No, it’s better than nirvana! It’s Pearl Jam. heh heh
No wait, Nirvana did have the album cover with the kid under water… so that’s more Kennedy-esque. My bad.
Sugar Land on January 28, 2008 at 4:49 PM
So now that “violence” has been dumbed down to saying mean things on the playground, “gang rape” is now a word that can be suitably used to describe… endorsing a political candidate.
And feminists wonder why no one takes them seriously. They wonder why the cops don’t take some women, dressed like a $1.50 whore and loitering on street corners, seriously when they claim rape. Apparently now rape constitutes using words feminists don’t like, not sexually violating a woman in pure lust and anger and leaving her wounded and broken in the streets.
Again, this is why no one takes feminists seriously, they make mountains out of molehills and diminish actual atrocities against women in the process.
BKennedy on January 28, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Nice analogy.
And psychological gangbang? Wow.
Lets just vote for Shillary because she’s a woman. Nevermind that she’s a communist, “Vote for her because she’s a woman girls, that’s the way to pick a candidate. We’ll show ‘em how smart we are!”
Geronimo on January 28, 2008 at 4:49 PM
…on NOW’s news release:
“Uproariously Funny!”
“Entertainment for the entire family!”
“Two enthusiastic Thumbs Up!”
jaime on January 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM
It’s time for Hillary to do that “How do you do it” question again.
maynila on January 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM
NOW’s first mistake
NOW’s second mistake
10
Because Teddy is misogynist, something inconceivable for a ‘progressive’.
Oh, I reapeat, were the outcome of this gladiator fight not Hillary or Obama, I’d pay for the best seat in the arena to watch. To drool over, it’s that good. Molasses, and it’s just begun. By November our national political melodramatic orgy will finally be over.
Entelechy on January 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Seriously — you’ve got to start giving us popcorn alerts. I’m going to go put my kettle corn in and come back and read it again.
1 - 15
2 - Because he can. (But I think I like Frozen Tex’s answer better! Jealousy is so unattractive.)
Gang raping??!? Tell me they did not go there. Will Hill bother to distance herself from the putrescence of that comparison?
Numenorean on January 28, 2008 at 4:51 PM
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(no, best leave that one alone)
fixed
min: NOW is RAAAAAAAACIST!!
(or is it: Women are RAAAAAAAACIST!! ?)
urbancenturion on January 28, 2008 at 4:52 PM
beam me up scotty
custer on January 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Not if she thinks it will help her!
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM
My ex-wife was gang-raped while she was in college, and let me tell “the sisters” that it didn’t resemble in any way what happened to Hillary Clinton. What would the metaphoric comparisons be to the scars on the cervix, pray tell? If a man made such an invidious comparison, you’d be crying for his head–both of them. Talk about trivializing the experience of women. Oh, the irony.
smellthecoffee on January 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM
That is seriously sick.
INC on January 28, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Real nice,I finish my comment,and theirs a update!
Gang Bang,you’ve got to be kidding,what fertile
mind dreamed this one up,sounds like femanize’s
description of marriage!
canopfor on January 28, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Support for Obama = gang rape.
FNG
Nag, Nag, Nag!
ronsfi on January 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM
“Chevy Chase, reporting for Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. Newsflash: Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Saddam Hussein Al-Tikriti, and Mary Jo Kopechne are STILL dead….”
Shirotayama on January 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Kennedy’s a misogynist…is NOW racist?
They’re choosing a white person over a black person.
Ergo, NOW should be SUED for RACISM.
So, it turns out that it’s not the MAN holding black folk down. The WOMAN is!!!
Shirotayama on January 28, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Were the various female victims demonized by team Clinton following their “bimbo eruptions” also metaphorically gang-raped?
phronesis on January 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM
(Anyone remember “If Ted Kennedy Drove a Volkswagon, He’d Be President Today”? Just a thought.)
tree hugging sister on January 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I must admit that I’ve been waiting for these chickens to come home to roost.
If this blows up into what it’s capable of blowing up into, it might just persuade Allah that there is a God after all.
Matticus Finch on January 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I can’t wait for the Swimmer’s response. He’ll have to say something, and how will the MSM split on this?
a capella on January 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Keep it up ladies… and no woman will ever sit in the Oval Office. Playing the victim gets you nowhere. We’re all sick of this sorry old song… And if you’re banking your whole movement and future on Hillary Clinton, then you deserve to rot in eternal irrelvance.
This is the sort of gasbag commentary that generally prompts Ann Coulter to bemoan the passing of the 19th Amendment, and I can see why.
D2Boston on January 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM
I’m praying for, “Shut up and fix my dinner, B#$%&!!!”
Matticus Finch on January 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM
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