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.”
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“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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Yeah, who knows…maybe the 6 million jews that Hitler killed would feel the say way too.
AUINSC on August 27, 2009 at 10:55 PM
JFK and Bobby murdered by the right-wing in this country? LOL! Thanks, I needed a good laugh before bed time…
joejm65 on August 27, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I remember when Muslims blew up Oklahoma City’s federal building
I remember when liberals kept Ole Miss segregated
I remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
battleoflepanto1571 on August 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Wow. That’s all I’ve got for those two quotes.
brak on August 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Exsqueeze me? JFK was killed by a commie and Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian.
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM
AWESOME!!! Perhaps liberalism will go as well. We can always hope!
4shoes on August 27, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Let’s see….
A commie wannabe and an anti-Israel Palestinian killed his brothers. Sounds like the “right wing” to me!
CurtZHP on August 27, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I type too slow!
CurtZHP on August 27, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Rush summed it up best
daesleeper on August 27, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Breathtaking.
Purple Fury on August 27, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I think Kennedy’s death is a metaphor, too. Its ironic timing signals the end of America’s flirtation with limousine Marxism. The stunning incompetence of Teddy’s brother from another mother, Barack Obama, is bringing the movement Kennedy spent his life propping up to its knees. Kennedy will be remembered for being a liberal when liberalism was still cool — before Obama pulled its mask too far back and killed it.
Rational Thought on August 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM
The redneck offspring in Texas schools cheered when JFK was shot. For that reason alone Texas should be given back to Mexico.
simplesimon on August 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Castro and Oswald were actually righties? Who knew?
Geochelone on August 27, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Mike Malloy is a hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity. He’s the douche who wanted Glenn Beck to commit suicide on the air. May all the venom he’s spewed come back to him 100 fold.
Monica on August 27, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Wait…what? There is still one Kennedy brother remaining to carry to torch, at least according to Tingly Leg.
Bishop on August 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM
The author was obviously using the Wikipedia definition of “right wing”
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM
What a great advertisement for public education.
rockmom on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
One commentor on HuffPo actually blamed Mary Jo.
txag92 on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Apparently after graduating from college and serving in the Senate, Bluto Blutarski went into talk radio.
I always wondered what happened to him after his political career ended.
SteveMG on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Yes, but you worded it much better.
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Along with one of the largest consumers of Jim Beam.
Knucklehead on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Asshat, meet Madhatter.
So much insanity, so little time.
Maybe JFK thought it was was worth it… to get Civil Rights legislation passed?
Maybe Bobby Kennedy thought it was worth it… to get Nixon impeached?
The trains of thought here are HO scale, if not worse.
profitsbeard on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Ted Kennedy killed his own brother?
Monica on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
That’s unreal.
Patrick Ishmael on August 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Total contempt for the baby killing POS.
DougDavis on August 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM
You cheered when Reagan was shot, didn’t you?
Bishop on August 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Link???
rockmom on August 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Let us focus on fouling up these fuzzy thinkers by puttin’ a monkey wrench in the plan.Maybe paragraph 3059-A1 section 5 about shooting the insane to save on laundry costs.NO FOOD FOR ALZHIMERS AND OH YEAH KILL ALL DEM BABIES THAT ARE NOT ETHNICALLY/PC/ PURE.
Sounds a lot like the T 4 plan that Adolph liked so well,reduced his medical costs!
Col.John Wm. Reed on August 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Actually, most of us here would be happy if you were given back to Mexico…whether you came from there or not.
AUINSC on August 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
The tax evasion goes on,
the hypocrisy endures,
the unmitigated gall lives,
and the supply of mindless fawning sheeple shall never die.
- The
Liberal LionRotund RoyalistThere’s one more individual, sort of the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, and that would be Ted Kennedy. If there’s one issue that Ted Kennedy likes more than any other, it’s taxes. In his mind, he’s the Robin Hood of the U.S. Senate. He’s going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. He talks about tax cuts or bonanzas for the rich and giveaways. He supports the inheritance tax in the name of social justice and says repealing it would benefit millionaires. He believes it’s that simple.
That’s what Ted Kennedy says about taxes. But what is the Kennedy record of actually paying taxes? Ted Kennedy of course is a millionaire. You’d think the inheritance tax would affect him. How has that worked out? The reality is that the Kennedys have set up dozens of trusts around the world to avoid paying the very tax that he says is important to pay in the name of social justice: the inheritance tax. What’s particularly ironic about this is, for a long time, their largest asset was Merchandise Mart, the real estate conglomerate. When they decided to set up a trust, where do they domicile that trust? Anybody want to guess? Was it Massachusetts, their home state? Florida? California? Delaware?
The Kennedys domiciled Merchandize Mart, with more than $600 million, on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Has Ted Kennedy ever been to Fiji? I don’t think there’s any record that he has. But they picked Fiji because it avoids IRS scrutiny, the sort that you would get if you domiciled the trust in the United States.
The reality today is that Ted Kennedy receives money from trusts established numerous times, from 1926, 1936, 1978, 1987, and 1997, and those trusts of course are designed to avoid paying the inheritance tax.
What does this actually mean in practical terms? Let me give you the bottom line. Ted Kennedy supports an inheritance tax of 49%. Forty-nine percent of what you have goes to the IRS after you die. Now, what rate did the Kennedys pay? The Kennedys have transferred $300 million, this is all according to their records, they have transferred $300 million from one generation to the other, and out of that, they have paid $132,000 in taxes, which is nowhere near 49%? Actually it’s .004 percent. The Kennedys, like a lot of other people on the left, love the idea of paying taxes for other people. When it comes to themselves, they’re not so interested.
“Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy” — his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy’s admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.“
MB4 on August 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
SImplesimon is a roid on the ass of HotAir.
Monica on August 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
getalife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMJOy7DrhqU
Del Dolemonte on August 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Where is the ban hammer?
Knucklehead on August 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM
She wasn’t born yet.
daesleeper on August 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Hmmmm. Do you need your immunizations to read Huff Post? I feel like a bleach and boiling water bath…..with a side of lye.
I think the left has officially jumped the drunk, fat whale shark.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
That’s why I call him PimpleSimon.
Geochelone on August 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Holy sh!t that Huffpo twunt is some seriously fI_Icked up tw@. To say that Mary Jo would approve of her murderer today is just v!le.
Apologetic California on August 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder:
txag92 on August 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Imagine if Bush had left a young woman at the bottom of a lake, and a blogger on a conservative blog had penned the above quote. OMG, you’d be able to light up NYC with the dudgeon. I’m to tired to try to make the connection, but for some reason this idea the MJK would have thought what Kennedy put her through was worth keeps reminding me of what they used to tell the British girls–in case of assault by the enemy, “Lie back and think of England.” So Mary Jo, if on the way home with that drunken Kennedy rascal, you should find yourself, er, compromised, just lie back and think of liberalism?
smellthecoffee on August 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM
All the acolades and legacies aside, the nicest thing Teddy The K ever did for this country was what he did a couple of days ago.
Namely assume room temperature.
pilamaye on August 27, 2009 at 11:07 PM
JFK was killed by a Marxist agent… Bobby helped Joe McCarthy… Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers dedicated a book to Sirhan Sirhan…
ninjapirate on August 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM
You can only read that as Mike Malloy admitting that he is to the left of Oswald.
Buddahpundit on August 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Alternative universe stuff. Just make it up, don’t bother with the facts.
Christian Conservative on August 27, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Really?
Are you sure that maybe some anti-war protestors weren’t cheering? After all, he started Vietnam and planned to escalate it further. He also left thousands of Cubans to be slaughtered by Castro when he didn’t back them up in the Bay of Pigs.
And keep your racism to yourself, troll.
CPL 310 on August 27, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I knew this would happen. I thought it would happen by the end of the day Kennedy died. I was off by a few hours.
I hate being right about revolting things.
Doctor Zero on August 27, 2009 at 11:10 PM
No one said everything he did was wrong.
thomasaur on August 27, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Why, yes, if a guy drove me into a river and left me to die there and didn’t even call for help for hours, I would consider it completely worth it, just so he could go on to be a liberal in the Senate.
Yes. Of course. We should all be willing to die so that our liberal leaders may live.
After all, some pigs are more equal than others, right?
Why, it’s practically our patriotic duty to die for them! And dying young is even more worth it, sure!
/spit
Alana on August 27, 2009 at 11:11 PM
That’s a half-truth pushed by “Gunga Dan” at the time. Children were dismissed from school early in one of the wealthier suburbs (Highland Park, IIRC) but were not told why. When they were told, they cheered.
teke184 on August 27, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Well as long as we’re making decisions for people I’ll throw my 2 cents in. Who knows — maybe she’d have a great career, meet the love of her life, get married and have some kids who she absolutely adored and felt she finally found something she could give her life for, her children. NOT some drunken, cheating, corrupt, selfish man.
4shoes on August 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Mike Malloy is a RACIST!
SouthernGent on August 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
When they were told they were dismissed, not that Kennedy was killed.
teke184 on August 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I’m hoping with the death of Ted Kennedy that the warped sycophantic view of the Kennedy’s as being some sort of American Royal family finally dies along with him.
Hellrider on August 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Good QoD Allah…
mjbrooks3 on August 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I see the Palin thread went to sh*t faster than usual.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
“But Bush was AWOL!”
Del Dolemonte on August 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Why on earth did these “right wing” people stop at just two Kennedys?
TMK on August 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM
This is the “by any means necessary” mind of the modern liberal. It is breathtaking in its amorality, and its ability to rationalize truly horrific behavior so long as it serves a “greater good.” Like Joseph Stalin said, “One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.” The left are troubled by Kopechne’s status as that tragic “one death,” so they’re trying like crazy to turn her into a statistic: she was just one more of the millions of people who would laud Kennedy today…if she could.
Rational Thought on August 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM
As Denis Leary put it, they looked at Teddy and said “Never mind, he’ll screw it up himself.”
teke184 on August 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Huh? Catalyst…Huh? Bewildering comment.
bestwins on August 27, 2009 at 11:15 PM
…but Tingles said that Bury was the last Kennedy brother. I heard a soundbite on the radio today, can’t find a link.
thomasaur on August 27, 2009 at 11:15 PM
It truly is revolting.
4shoes on August 27, 2009 at 11:16 PM
This is like that bullsh*t that liberals say about self-defense. Women shouldn’t fight rapists, they should just get raped. After all, the rapist probably has issues and he’s really suffering inside.
Same sh*t here. Kennedy was a “tortured soul” for all this.
Yeah, except we know exactly how he felt:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012070.html
Maybe somebody with a HuffPo account can post that so they know exactly how he felt. He laughed at her death.
What a great sense of humor. Looks like the left is still laughing “she’d have wanted to die, drowned and left for dead by a man who would laugh about her death for years to come”. Leftists are f*cking cruel-ass murdering motherf*ckers. Damn.
It’s like saying what nice kids Uday and Qusay were.
CPL 310 on August 27, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I was in grade school when Reagan was shot. I remember eleven and twelve year olds coming to school gleeful about the event and saying they hoped that Reagan would die.
That was my first experience with Liberal Hatred, but I knew even then that it was their parents feeding them the hatred, the sore losers of the 1980 presidential election were teaching their children to wish for the death of the President of the United States.
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 11:17 PM
#1 You have probably never been to Texas.
#2 Look at pictures from that day, I saw people grieving all over Dallas.
#3 Why give it to Mexico? How about France? How about Spain? You getting an idea yet?
TXMomof3 on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Well, you know what they say: You can’t make an omelet without drowning a few campaign workers.
ExUrbanKevin on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Or maybe Mary Jo would have utilized her “political talent” to become a supremely skilled operative that would have gotten Ted elected President, and how many liberal orgasms would that have caused?
It’s bad enough that Teddy’s barely-cold corpse is being dragged around to bolster political support, but the buzzards have to dig Kopechne out of the ground too? The people doing so are lowlife trash.
Bishop on August 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Heh!
(and I’m a Palinista, left a relevant comment then…I’m gone)
bestwins on August 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Hey, the Left saw Stalin’s “sacrificing” 20 million Russians on the altar of Communism as a small price to pay for their Utopian dream. What’s one young girl?
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Wanna puke? Read all of the comments from the Libs after the article condemning the writer for assailing one of the oracles of their Liberal religion. Seriously. It’s like someone writing an article in a Catholic journal critical of Jesus and then letting people comment.
watson007 on August 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Are you saying that…..if Teddy was elected president, nine months later, there would have been a baby boom?…oh wait, we’re talking about democrats. Nevermind, planned parenthood would have been busy….
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 11:23 PM
You should write for Hot Air………..
:O)
Seven Percent Solution on August 27, 2009 at 11:23 PM
I like Palin too, but she is a decisive figure, kind of like Glenn Beck….who knew?
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Yup, they already condemned her for getting in the car with a married man (read the comments) – as though she’s a slut just asking for it – then say how wonderful it is that she did die, so Ted could have that guilt to wallow in for decades… except he didn’t feel guilty at all. But it made for a great redemption narrative – if it weren’t all bullsh*t as he’s a sociopathic thug who believed himself above the people – as all liberals do.
They say they care about “the people” in the abstract, as a way to power, while they claim moral righteousness to break eggs all the way up. They don’t care about a person.
CPL 310 on August 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM
A tragedy. At least according to Uncle Joe.
CPL 310 on August 27, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The 20 million being a statistic then?
29Victor on August 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Finally the last damn JFK hair do is gone. There was only one JFK! Damned posers. That goes for you too Chris Dodd.
sonnyspats1 on August 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Yeah, but the ignorance sure as hell should warn you to keep your mouth shut. Or as someone wiser once noted; “It’s sometimes better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, rather than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
GarandFan on August 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Oh, please… Obama and his cronnies gotcha covered.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Teddy was a big part of the very, very, very, very very dark period that’s coming. His death doesn’t herald the period, but it does come shortly before we begin to feel the real downward spiral.
This is one of the sickest, most twisted lines I have ever heard used in an attempted glorification.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM
JFK was assassinated by communist sympathizer in an act carried out alone, or it was a Mafia hit.
RFK was killed by Sirhan Sirhan because Sirhan Sirhan was an Arab Nationalist. RFK was killed a year to the date after the Six-Day War which was like all Wars between the Arabs and Israelis, a total disaster for the Arabs.
Yeah, Right Wingers. And by Right wingers we mean, not Right-Wingers but an organized crime outfit or a Communist and an Arab Nationalist.
Holger on August 27, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Think of how many people the left would sacrifice in order to keep Ogabe in the political spotlight for decades.
Maybe I’ll wander out to the shop now, do a little reloading.
Bishop on August 27, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Hehehe
This is ridiculous. JFK was the rightwing of his party… He hunted communists and he (not the R’s) got us in the Vietnam mess.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM
I appreciate Allah’s commitment that those hurt by Sen. Kennedy don’t go unnoticed in the media’s attempt to glorify someone who’s greatest accomplishment appears to be longevity.
Cindy Munford on August 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM
aka leftists
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM
A palestinian.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Big Brother is watching. Get back to work Winston Smith.
Holger on August 27, 2009 at 11:38 PM
An Arab by anyother name as Shakespeare would’ve said.
Holger on August 27, 2009 at 11:40 PM
These two “quoters” need to go back to “smart school”; both are dismal failures… Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan as “right wingers”, indeed… RIP, Mary Jo… Quoters: simply PATHETIC…
Khun Joe on August 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Rest in Peace, Mary Jo.
TN Mom on August 27, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Is there any way we can deport the klan back to Ireland or something?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Mary Jo’s Presidential hopes were dashed in 1969.
faraway on August 27, 2009 at 11:48 PM
On TV today I saw Katherine Sebelius say “Every Senator is going to ask themselves: What would Teddy do?” and I saw the two biggest Republican apologists for Senator Kennedy in two separate interviews state that in no way has this death changed their resistance to a governmental takeover of healthcare. (Orrin Hatch and John McCain) I think this makes liberals mad and this is the tip of the iceberg – you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Marcus on August 27, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I thought their murderers were commie sympathizers?? God,, ignorance must be bliss.
Yeah,, gosh,, we’ll just never know for sure,,,SINCE SHE’S DEAD AND ALL,,, YA KNOW,, SINCE TEDDY LEFT HER TO DROWN!!
Ya gotta wonder some days. I was reading about this again tonight,, and did you know that Mary Jo left her purse and keys behind in the cottage??? Nobody even saw them leave.
Boy,, makes a guy think. Who knows what could have happened that night,, in the car,, in the water,, in the COTTAGE!!!
Well, one thing for sure,, I would imagine there are quite a few others down there that were just waiting for ol Ted to pass by. I am sure he’s real comfortable right about now. Kinda makes a man’s heart warm.
JellyToast on August 27, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Maybe, but unfortunately, Ms. Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
Bru on August 27, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Hey justplainsimplebraincell, been to Texas lately?
It’s been part of Mexico for some time.
lasertex on August 27, 2009 at 11:56 PM
This is the kind of stuff that finally drove me out of the Left.
These people (the author and her ilk) are Nucking Futs.
Bruno Strozek on August 27, 2009 at 11:57 PM
I have a friend that gets all her news from Huff Post. I often wonder, these libs get their news and their views from a slanted lib rag. We get our news from Michelle, Ed, and Allah, and one of the three could actually write for the Huff Post.
So, riddle me this, batman…Are the Huff Post rag readers dellusional because they only get their news from one source and that source is tainted, at best or are they just born stupid?
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 11:57 PM
murdered by the right wing in this country.
Jeez, and liberals think conservatives see commies under the bed. Once again, 99% of liberal criticism is projection.
Poor Mary Jo. All she did was place her trust in a liberal icon and look what happened to her. Sort of like what will happen to this country since the voters put their trust in Obama.
Socratease on August 27, 2009 at 11:58 PM
The Kennedy Klan? That’d be nice. The Irish who had to suffer though Sinn Fein and the IRA’s terrorism that Ted supported would sure enjoy getting their pound of flesh out of them for every child killed in a shopping mall bombing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1209313/Ted-Kennedy-The-Senator-Sleaze-drunk-sexual-bully–left-young-woman-die.html
Even though Oswald was a hard-core commie and Sirhan an Arab nationalist, consider how far left the Democrats and leftists in the US are today. Maybe they mean it.
Looks like Sirhan Sirhan uses the same brand of logic that the left does. Maybe he can run for Senator in Massachussetts? He’s really sorry, and it’s not fair. :’(
That worked for Ted when he killed Mary Jo. C’mon, liberals, you forgave Ted for murdering a woman, you can forgive Sirhan.
CPL 310 on August 27, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Oh man,, weird the things that go through your mind at a time like this. Losing the lion of the senate and all.
Oh,, made me think of this site. Interesting read.
http://spiritlessons.com/DOCUMENTS/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm
JellyToast on August 27, 2009 at 11:59 PM
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