Quotes of the day
posted at 10:52 pm on August 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
“So with the death of Ted Kennedy last night, liberalism in this country has lost its champion; the person who, in the modern era, personified liberalism to a greater degree than anyone in Congress; I think that his death heralds the beginning of a very, very very dark period in this country.
I remember feeling that way in 1963 and in 1968-when his two brothers were murdered by the right wing in this country.”
***
“We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.
Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.
Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
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Can anyone here imagine going to your warm hotel bed and getting a good night’s sleep while Mary Jo was laying there underwater?
faraway on August 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
In the darkness, the drunken darkness
The driver swerved over right
In the darkness, the quiet darkness
The bridge loomed up in the night
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Near the village, the peaceful village
The car went off the bridge tonight
Near the village, the quiet village
The coward runs in fright
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Hush my lefties, don’t fear my lefties
The coward lied well that night
Hush my lefties, don’t fear my lefties
The prosecution was paid off tight
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
Limerick on August 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.
- Reagan
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Proof?
massrighty on August 28, 2009 at 12:01 AM
God Bless Ronald Reagan.
HornetSting on August 28, 2009 at 12:02 AM
The Left is convinced RFK was killed by a Rush Limbaugh listener named Simon Simon.
Speedwagon82 on August 28, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Oh, just great, I am going to be singing that song for days.
Cindy Munford on August 28, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Just bring the tatas. Huffy has the rest ;)
Upstater85 on August 28, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Translation:
Professional student who never graduated.
fogw on August 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM
And the correct answer is: get drunk, grope the nearest waitress, and put yourself and your ambitions before everything else, including the lives of those unfortunate enough to come into contact with you.
LASue on August 28, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Communists and Palestinian extremists are now American right wingers?
So, when leftists claim to be the “reality based community”, did they forget the ‘non’?
18-1 on August 28, 2009 at 12:14 AM
It’s probably been said, but:
Malloy, you ignorant slut: Oswald was an avowed Communist. He was not in any way, shape, form, or fashion a righty.
Sekhmet on August 28, 2009 at 12:14 AM
POTD
Upstater85 on August 28, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Heck, European leftist are being referred to as far right…
Upstater85 on August 28, 2009 at 12:15 AM
In the great circle left does meet right. They are called Jackboots.
Limerick on August 28, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Maybe Kathleen Parker could write a similar piece on Tedster.
“A great man that I model myself after…”
Upstater85 on August 28, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Heh… I once heard someone say that if you go far left enough, you end up on the right… Don’t know if it’s true. Don’t want to find out.
Upstater85 on August 28, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Oh, have some respect.
You throw her down on the table to let her know you care.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1209313/Ted-Kennedy-The-Senator-Sleaze-drunk-sexual-bully–left-young-woman-die.html
Reading the HuffPo sh*t is like listening to an abused woman say “he really loves me and he’s a good guy” while her lips are bleeding and she’s blind from two black eyes.
It’s like all they know are liars and abusers. And they certainly love their “charming liars”.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/21/oh-my-obama-being-called-a-fascist-now-on-air-america/
…
Seriously, it’s sick. They enjoy being lied to because they don’t know the truth, and never get it. So they take well-delivered lies and enjoy them, because that’s the best they can get without making a break from the left. And to make that break, they have to acknowledge they’ve been fools all this time, and that’s a large part of one’s self-esteem to disavow.
…
It’s like the abused woman who doesn’t know what love is, so she embraces her abuser closer until she’s destroyed.
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:21 AM
It all comes down to definitions.
The left likes a political spectrum where fascists are far right and communists far left. On such a spectrum, well, yes, go far enough to one extreme and you can’t tell the difference from the other.
This spectrum makes no sense though since it has no room for libertarianism, and doesn’t place conservatives correctly within the band reserved for them – namely small government conservatives are closer to fascism then big government moderate conservatives.
The more accurate spectrum has libertarianism as the far right and communism as the far left;
communism-fascism-Euroliberalism-Americanliberalism-centerism-conservatism-libertarianism
With this spectrum obviously you have no wrap around, and you can place American conservatives and liberals.
18-1 on August 28, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Newsflash… compared to Oswald and Sirhan, Bob and jack Kennedy were the right-wing.
JohnGalt23 on August 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM
No, no, no, no, no.
Never do you get something so far left it’s right or so far right it’s left. You don’t get so fat you’re thin nor have a car so slow it’s fast. That’s idiotic.
You don’t go from conservative-libertarian-constitutionalist to leftist-socialist. National socialists and international socialists – communists – are in the same tyranny block. Fascists just work a little different from communist totalitarians.
There’s no “boot stamping on a human face forever” from somebody who believes in “don’t tread on me” as a motto. That’s bloody absurd, and perpetuated by those who want to excuse the tyrannical leftist claims.
Also note that American right requires adherence to Constitutional principles grounded in individual liberty and classic liberalism. So the hardest right you go means you want the least amount of govt. interference in anyone’s life – the antithesis of European right, which are often nativist groups desiring to preserve their collective nationalities. The US, being composed not of races but of united creed (ideally), rejects this outright – as it’s antithetical to our ideal of inclusive individualism. (Do what you want, but don’t tread on me.)
Leftists in the US want to reform the US into the same garbage Europe has – “progressive” groups that demean everyone equally and degrade both newcomer to a nation and native alike. They’re the communists and socialists and those who want to reject borgeouis in order to become the new borgeouis socialists – they covet the power, and they see the means to acheiving it in demonizing the current structure, destabilizing it, and taking it over. Like Alinksy and his terrorist cohort.
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Don’t have time to read all of the comments. Did anyone note that Mary Jo was pregnant when she died? It’s been too long ago, so I can’t find the source, but I remember reading it, and remember that the source was credible.
Buford Gooch on August 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM
LOL…well gawddamnit…I can’t pronounce
communismfascismEuroliberalismAmericanliberalismcenterism-conservatismlibertarianism.
Limerick on August 28, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Somebody who wants government out of their life is closer to fascism (government control of life & capital) than somebody who wants big government controlling people’s lives?
“Don’t tread on me” does not mean “gimme those boots so I can tread on somebody”.
Is that a typo, or what?
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:31 AM
18-1 wrote it.
I’d've called it superpolitickymegaleftyrightyexpialawonky.
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:33 AM
I was explaining the way the political spectrum the leftists use “works”. Namely that the smaller the government the conservative wants, the closer said spectrum places him to fascism.
Fascism, of course, believes in a vast government with no limitations.
So, I belief this example shows that said spectrum doesn’t make any sense.
18-1 on August 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM
18-1 on August 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Thanks for the clarification. Makes more sense now.
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009 at 12:42 AM
fascism is leftism!
for further edification, please read goldberg’s “liberal fascism”.
homesickamerican on August 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Is it too soon to print ‘Teddy Kennedy Toilet Paper’……..?
……… I think not.
Seven Percent Solution on August 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM
+1
+1
ReagansRight on August 28, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I think part of the reason for the confusion we see here is that in Europe there were at one point 3 general political philosophies:
Socialism/Communism – we know these ones all to well
Classical Liberalism – partly libertarian partly what we call American conservativism.
Euroconservatism/Monarchism - the belief that a self selected elite, with the best training and upbringing society can provide are needed to keep the proles in check…for their own good.
While the Euroconservatives and Socialists started out as bitter foes, but eventually the two groups settled their differences – see Bismarck’s reforms for a sterling example. In this union, these groups were able to marginalize the Classical Liberals in continental Europe.
The synthesis of these groups is modern Euroliberalism – a self selected elite controls society for nominally socialist ends with the trappings of representative government.
Generally speaking, American style conservativism is portrayed as being like Euroconservatism/Monarchism in the media and the left pretends there are no differences between the two. But let us return to those Bismarckian reforms for a moment – what did the Euroconservatives and the Socialists work together to invent? The Social Welfare State and the idea of National Health Care. Those sound like pretty clearly leftwing objectives…no?
18-1 on August 28, 2009 at 12:50 AM
The Dead Politician’s Society.
Like artists, they aren’t truly appreciated until they’re gone. So any of you Democrat politicians out there seeking ever lasting glory for at least a week or so, you know what to do. Hey, maybe the death panels can guide you?
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 28, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Makes one wonder about our real values. There’s a difference between accountability and forgiveness.
AnninCA on August 28, 2009 at 12:54 AM
I think they mean, as in “reality show”.
progressoverpeace on August 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM
This has to be a new level ignorance!
Ignoratillion!
christene on August 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM
I have to disagree. The right spins off into true anarchy (not European anarchists, who are really into collective destruction) and the left ends at totalitarianism. I see the major measure being collectivism/tribalism versus individualism, on the domestic issues. Europe has always been very tribal, so their domestic scale slides along collectivist issues, mostly, as with our left.
progressoverpeace on August 28, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Not only was mary jo pregnant but there was another body in the trunk of uncle teddy’s car.
huckelberry on August 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM
Is it too soon to print ‘Teddy Kennedy Toilet Paper’……..?
……… I think not.
Seven Percent Solution on August 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Seven Percent Solution: Me thinks,if so,or if not,the
roll will sit right next to the
Sheryl Crow One Square roll!!:)
canopfor on August 28, 2009 at 1:21 AM
Ted didn’t sleep well that night. He was worrying about having to get a new car.
Geochelone on August 28, 2009 at 1:22 AM
o_O
No seriously… elgeneralisimo is completely befuddled…
Probing…
That’s it.
That has to be it.
All that… unspeakable anal probing aboard the mother ship. That’s what pushed them over the edge…
elgeneralisimo on August 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Good old Teddy–He loved to spend lots of money-lots of our money!!!!!
mobydutch on August 28, 2009 at 1:41 AM
I keep thinking the Left can’t sink any lower.
……..
Really gotta stop doing that.
Hawkins1701 on August 28, 2009 at 1:42 AM
“Worth it” implies some kind of trade off. Whatever you think of Kennedy as a Senator, what could he possibly have accomplished in his life that was only possible because he got tanked, drove his car into the water, and left his one night stand to drown to death without trying to save her life? There is no “worth it” in this scenario.
What an insanely stupid thing to write. What makes it even a little worse, if that is possible, is that these are the people that don’t think it is worth it to pull a few fingernails, do a little waterboarding, stage a few mock executions, heck even lie to a few terrorists, if it will save a few lives. Even a few hundred lives. Heck, a few thousand and still not “worth it”.
Maybe we should stage the torture debate a different way. Instead of saying it might save a few proles lives, we need to ask if it will be worth it to get some information if a saved a few dozen of their favorite liberal Congressmen and Senator’s lives.
stldave on August 28, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Teddy would have driven off that bridge when he got to it.
The worthless turd is condemned to a life in hell and Mary Jo gets her long deserved justice.
dthorny on August 28, 2009 at 2:41 AM
A communist and a Palestinian Arab Nationalist are now right wing in this country. It’s hard to keep up with those moving goal posts.
Mallard T. Drake on August 28, 2009 at 2:45 AM
From Drew’s post over at Ace, reminiscing with liberals – Ed Klein claims that Kennedy loved Chappaquidick jokes (section with Ed Klein starts around 29:45 in the audio). You won’t believe it.
progressoverpeace on August 28, 2009 at 3:11 AM
O.k… I just found this. It’s a must-see video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
“The Government Can”. It’s based on “The Candy Man Can”. :) :) :)
Theophile on August 28, 2009 at 3:35 AM
If Mary Jo had only known that although SHE was about to die, her “date” Teddy would swim on and forget her and go on to liberal, communist greatness, she would of been pleased and probably quietly died with a smile on her face…if she could breathe.
Jeff from WI on August 28, 2009 at 4:57 AM
By the way, Mary Jo is still unavailable for comment.
God rest her soul.
kingsjester on August 28, 2009 at 5:55 AM
Ted Kennedy borks Barack:
ya2daup on August 28, 2009 at 6:01 AM
The conspiracy theorists’ mind is desperate to pigeonhole reality to pre-concieved notions they hold. They grabbed at whatever sounded plausible first and with every refutation they try to find a swizzle stick.
Not to harp on Tedster but let’s analyze the reality of what happened to JFK.
The liberal narrative is that wealthy Texas oil men and the mafia conspired with CIA to kill Prince Valiant before he could withdraw US troops from Vietnam….
literally none of that has a shred of evidence that outweighs the reality that surrounds the marxist-socialist who shot Ted’s brother….
ironically Tedster’s politics were closer to Oswald’s than JFK’s……
“surreal”
sven10077 on August 28, 2009 at 6:17 AM
First I’ve heard LBJ called the right-wing, Mr. Malloy.
sven10077 “surreal” for real.
This is rich, “The liberal narrative is that wealthy Texas oil men”–of course, progressives lead off by cursing the EVIL OIL MEN /cough. By their own free will, Jack and Bobby made campaign deals with the mafia, and then rather than bounty up, Bobby federally investigated them. As per “before he could withdraw US troops from Vietnam” that would make Jack just another Massachusetts Leftist flip-flopper, being the one who initially CHOSE to push us into VietNam even when France pulled out.
Back to bad seed Teddy, evidently he loved to joke about Chappaquiddick at Mary Jo’s expense.
maverick muse on August 28, 2009 at 6:39 AM
The right wing killed the Kennedys? Gee, I was under the impression that it was a Marine turned Marxist and an Arab named Sirhan that killed the Kennedy brothers.
These people are utterly shameless.
Terrye on August 28, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Re the quotes of the day, I’m going to provide 4000 words (or their equivalent):
First reaction to the originators of these quotes
Second reaction to the originators of these quotes
Doesn’t seem to be a cure for stupid of this magnitude
and
Unfortunately, you just can’t make them see the truth
Posted this earlier but it doesn’t look like it showed up
AZfederalist on August 28, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Re the quotes of the day, I’m going to provide 3000 words (or their equivalent):
First reaction to the originators of these quotes
Doesn’t seem to be a cure for stupid of this magnitude
and
Unfortunately, you just can’t make them see the truth
Posted this, but not seeing it show up.
AZfederalist on August 28, 2009 at 6:44 AM
I’d benefit from the author being dead. Then my children and I could have her apt. Maybe she’d feel it was worth it.
JiangxiDad on August 28, 2009 at 7:05 AM
ya2daup on August 28, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Where did that come from?!
It’ll go down a memory hole before the day is out.
tru2tx on August 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM
If it had only been a VW beetle, instead of the Olds, Mary Jo would be alive today
Jeff from WI on August 28, 2009 at 7:28 AM
So this is how justice works for the Left. A CIA operative involved in protecting Americans from dying by the hundreds is to be prosecuted because of using harsh language, threats, and second hand smoke in his interrogations of known terrorists.
A ‘liberal lion’, kills a young women through his recklessness, and illegality, and uses his position to evade prison time, getting off with a suspended license. He is exalted as a man of the people.
I am just glad I am not eating breakfast at the moment.
dio2peg on August 28, 2009 at 7:42 AM
A Kennedy driving a German economy car? You’ve got to be kidding.
I’m enjoying all the funeral coverage. Outside of the pomp and ceremony of Papal last rites, there is nothing that matches a mafia funeral for sheer spectacle.
highhopes on August 28, 2009 at 7:42 AM
The overnights are in: The “God” thread up in headlines has more hits than Teddy got here.
So long Lion, you are already fading from public consciousness.
Bishop on August 28, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Considering he named his Portuguese Water Dog “Splash,” I think that the case can be made. It isn’t so much making jokes as telling the world that he got away with it.
highhopes on August 28, 2009 at 7:45 AM
“Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
Fits in seamlessly with the leftists’ unending thirst for human sacrifice for their pagan religion – famine for ethanol, malaria for a DDT ban, etc etc
These people are beyond repulsive.
Filecchio on August 28, 2009 at 7:46 AM
I can’t imagine any person, other then a liberal, stating that the killing of an innocent girl (a liberal activist no less) was worth it, if it launched a senatorial career.
Absolutely astounding someone would actually write something like that, sit back and say “yep, that’s good let’s publish it”…
This person then would feel it is okay to kill anyone to further a liberal agenda….just think what this writer feels about conservatives, expendable.
right2bright on August 28, 2009 at 8:06 AM
I didn’t know Ted Kennedy even remotely – only what I read or saw on tv. He may have been the outgoing, back slapping, jovial, funloving man many make him out to be. He may even have been as spiritual and God fearing as others make him out to be. Only God knows his heart.
What I do know though does not conjure up images of respect, honesty, benevolence, charity, love, sound character, soberness or integrity. His was a legacy of cheating, involvement in the death of a young woman under suspect circumstances, a culture of death in his promotion of abortion, his advancement of an abominable life-style (both of which are contrary to his supposed spirtiualness and his Church’s teachings), unleashing a flood of illegal immigration upon this country, the waste of untold tax dollars on pork projects for his home state, and other sundry efforts while a US Senator.
The life he lived isn’t worthy of being memorialized let alone recommeding it be emulated by those coming after.
No, I don’t mourn his loss. He met the same fate all of us will meet and thus, deserves no special acclamation or current legislation being foisted upon us passed in his honor.
May his soul be at rest in heaven because it it isn’t, he’s got the memories of forty million plus innocents that have had their lives snuffed out due in part to Senator Kennedy’s efforts and the face of Mary Jo Kopechne reminding him of his deeds while on this earth for an eternity.
iamsaved on August 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM
It’s laughable to say Ted Kennedy’s brothers were assassinated by right wingers when Lee Harvey Oswald who was a former Marine, renounced his U.S. citizenship to live in the Soviet Union and embraced communism. And Surhan Surhan who was a Palestinian killed RFK for being Pro-Israel. Bill Ayers(The Terrorist) who is close friends with BHO, and both share the same ideas Wrote a book “Prairie Fire” and dedicated it to Surhan Surhan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D91J-vHwqy8&feature=PlayList&p=67573282300EFE84&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=86
jaboba on August 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM
I could not imagine not exhausting myself to rescue her. But then again, I’m not a liberal and thus I do respect each individual life.
rbj on August 28, 2009 at 8:38 AM
The universe is infinite, after all. Once you reach the edge, do you fall off? Not according to Relativity and Astrophysics. The view is just different.
On the other hand, it takes a few BILLION light years just to get to that edge. Just like the difference between Right and Left, correct and incorrect, up and down, Right and Wrong. Imagine how far one has to travel to get to the correct side from the incorrect side. And faster than light travel has not been invented, just like moral compasses for the Left, brains in jihadists, Truth in newspapers and TV, or true intelligence in trolls and flatworms. Witness simplesimon and Norman Blitzer…..
The Defense rests….
Subsunk
Subsunk on August 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Unbelievable. Scarborough is interviewing Sam Tannenhaus (New York Times Book Review) in his weekly Friday appearance.
Tannenhaus just referred to “a death that he [Ted Kennedy] probably caused.”
Probably?
Liberal denial, anyone?
BuckeyeSam on August 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM
+++++++
As always, Doc.
LibTired on August 28, 2009 at 8:51 AM
That’s just gross!
Frances on August 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM
OT
Do politicians require that at least one midget with a video camera follow them around in order to get that “Looking up at the Giant” footage and archive it until the “giant” goes tits up?
In all the various vids of T.Ken that have been shown in the last few days, I saw a couple of these. The one that made me wonder about the midgets was a few feet of footage of TK in these later years..not lookin all that healthy. It was evening and the light was harsh..he had a somewhat dazed and unaware look to him. His jowls and face flaps took on some shadows that only sharp angles can produce..and what struck my mind, was how much he looked like Godzilla, unselfconsciously tromping through a Japanese city squashing fleeing and screaming bystanders with his huge lizard feet.
It really looked like that to me. Does anyone know for sure if theres any validity to the “Midget archivers” legend?
Itchee Dryback on August 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM
We are just lucky that that in their arrogant stupidity they decided to show the world what they could get away with. Had they come up with a real cover story we could have had the monster as President.
darktood on August 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM
My quote of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Onward Forward and Upward
RoxanneH on August 28, 2009 at 9:58 AM
CPL 310 on August 28, 2009
The primary difference between fascism and socialism is ownership of the means of production. Control over said means is with the government in either case. This does naturally lead to the question: If the government controls my company, do I really own it or am I just kidding myself?
GM, Chrysler, banking industry…
SKYFOX on August 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM
The left is full of black hearts and soulless corpses who use death not to mourn but to rally the troops.
Al Qaeda, the PLO, Hamas do the same thing.
madmonkphotog on August 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM
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