Video: Kennedy’s name booed at health-care town hall
posted at 8:16 pm on September 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
A palate cleanser via Progress Illinois, which is shocked, shocked to find that Ted Kennedy is still loathed by conservatives in death — quite in contrast to how George W. Bush would be treated if, say, a Republican congressman invoked his name posthumously while addressing a Democratic audience. Consider this further evidence, though, in case any was indeed that slapping the Ted Kennedy seal of approval on a government program isn’t much of a selling point to anyone to the right of MoveOn.org. Which is too bad for The One, really, considering how his own vaunted salesman skills have deserted him lately.
Fun fact about Jan Schakowsky, seen here stupidly invoking the hero of Chappaquiddick in defense of her cause before a crowd with right-wingers in it: To this day, no one has been as blunt about the public option serving as a trojan horse for single-payer as she has.
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Kennedy? Boooooo
jgapinoy on September 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Have they no shame? /sarc
HoustonRight on September 1, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Sweet. Too bad they can’t make splashing noises instead.
elduende on September 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Why don’t they torture terrorists as much as they torture statistics?
fourdeucer on September 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Did you hear the breaking news?!
Ted Kennedy has been sober for 5 straight days!
RarestRX on September 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Just a reminder for our liberal friends, from Patterico, lefty comments about a man who didn’t even kill a woman (tony snow)
So Cry me a river about ‘not showing ted respect’. I’d boo Ted Kennedy too.
Hateful hateful left
battleoflepanto1571 on September 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Oh Boy!!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:21 PM
And so it begins!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I hope he can hear it over the roaring fire.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Olympia snowe
this is off topic but it has to be posted here. She is going to cave and side with the libs on healthcare. Burn her phones at her offices. Pick a zip code or a town in Maine, call her office saying you represent a group of seniors and let her know she’s out if she votes with the libs. Better yet, take a page out of alinskys rules for radicals and say your moderate democrats against the bill. Stop her now before she caves! Call now!!
texaninfidel on September 1, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Maybe she should have invited one the grandchildren to speak.
Cindy Munford on September 1, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Or perhaps wave the appropriate flag.
ElectricPhase on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Obamacare in deep water.
the_nile on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Notice,how every issue that Liberals put forth,
is always,
the most important one!!Gack!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
but there’s some awfully drunk earthworms up in Arlington….
ted c on September 1, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I get sick and tired of whores like Jan Schakowsky telling us that the “time for reform is now.” No sorry you whore but the time is not now because we can’t afford it. Your corrupt party and the filthy liar in the White House ran up too much of a debt rewarding the UAW, ACORN, and other special interests for this to be financially viable right now. So just STFU and keep your filthy hands out of my wallet.
highhopes on September 1, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Sorry, but I didn’t hear the “boo’s”. But her “facts” are ridiculous. She claims that 50% of Americans went without a medical procedure because they couldn’t “afford” it? More likely they decided they didn’t feel that bad and wanted to spend their money on something else.
LASue on September 1, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I’d boo as well.
I don’t think they were booing Ted Kennedy. They were booing HER for trying to play sympathy freakin’ games with thinking people.
Boooo is an understatement.
bridgetown on September 1, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Obamacare in deep water.
the_nile on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
the_nile: And the Sharks are hungry,hehe!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM
she won’t.
battleoflepanto1571 on September 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Kennedy was a nothing. Illinois vote that woman out and while you are at it…. Get rid of Durbin.
suzyk on September 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM
The entire concept of American Royalty is so far removed from what we are as a nation it is disgusting. If the only way we can get rid of them is death then so be it. God bless those he left behind, but damn his agenda.
Oh, suck it Jan.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Chapaquiddaloo?
Enoxo on September 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM
They’d get booed too.
joejm65 on September 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM
He may be gone, but he’s now registered to vote in Chicago.
flyoverland on September 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM
I hope he can hear it over the roaring fire.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
HornetSting:That reminds me of a movie called Little Nicky,
were someone in hell,was being serviced with a
ahem, pineapple!! hehe:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Gone, but not done voting…
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
THE DREAM….of having all you dumb peons on a rationed healthcare….that I WON’T BE ON.
Attention stupid voters in this chicks’ state…..RE-ELECT HER AND SEAL YOUR DOOM.
Unbelievable lying Communist.
THROW THEM ALL OUT!!!!!
PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Oops,should be where,not were!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Isn’t this the same lady that was on tape saying they were pushing this as a stealth single payer?
p0s3r on September 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Reading a script, and poorly I might add. Are they hoping to bore us to death? It’s more blah, blah, blah, and we know that when they move their lips, they’re lying.
pcpower1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM
At least he’s not voting in the Senate any longer.
thomasaur on September 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM
LOL..
deedtrader on September 1, 2009 at 8:33 PM
It is the issue of their life because nothing would put the final nail in the Marxists’ coffin like a free market solution that got everyone (who wanted it) health insurance.
bitsy on September 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM
That would be hilarious if it wasn’t true.
HoustonRight on September 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Does this douche even realize that people are uninsured because they are unemployed?
Key West Reader on September 1, 2009 at 8:36 PM
No but the adult that would use a child in that manner certainly would. But I am sure the Dems would never do that, oh wait…….
Cindy Munford on September 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Yeah, but they got the video pulled from YouTube.
ROCnPhilly on September 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Maybe it was the ghost of Kennedy trying to scare everyone to an early death panel.
SouthernGent on September 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Vote early…Vote often, Thats the Chicago way!
TheVer on September 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I.E., an employed person who didn’t want to miss work or a deadline or an obligation.
Unlike this sweet young lady that would be transported via EMS to an emergency room for a stuffy nose because she is on Medicaid.
Key West Reader on September 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Work with me here..I watched all 5:35 of that clip and heard NO booing or anything remotely like an expression of disapproval.
Am I missing something?
VoyskaPVO on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
If I had a nickle for every time I hear “the health system is broken”by one of these hacks I could retire.
docflash on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Isn’t this the same lady that was on tape saying they were pushing this as a stealth single payer?
p0s3r on September 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Yeah, but they got the video pulled from YouTube.
ROCnPhilly on September 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM
ROCnPhilly: I went searching on You-Tube,I did’t know it was
pulled,thanks for the heads-up!:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:43 PM
..in fact, it sounded like an SEIU pep rally.
VoyskaPVO on September 1, 2009 at 8:43 PM
If it were only that easy. It his hard for a conservative living in Illinois. No matter how bad Obama tanks we will have statues of him. No longer the Land of Lincoln. The land of Obama and lincoln. The will probably rename the Reagan Expressway to Obama Expressway.
I am more ashamed of Dick Durbin more than Rod Blagojevich.
After calling our troops Nazis he still got reelected.
Yes we feel a little dirty in the Land of Obama.
cubbieblue25 on September 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM
But Harry Reid said Kennedy’s death would help ObamaCare?
conservative pilgrim on September 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM
A little off topic, but I enjoyed “Obamacare -The Musical”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ojfzsr
By the way, I live in Maine, and have called poe little Olympia a couple hundred times this past 9 months, all to no avail. She could care less what anyone other than herself thinks, and certainly does not represent me.
notanobot on September 1, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I assumed they were booing her using the name of a recently expired man to further her political policies and career. To me, that’s even more disgusting than the mere name “Ted Kennedy.”
calbear on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
By putting it out of its misery, I guess…
ROCnPhilly on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
That was soooo funny!!
Cindy Munford on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Who was in the crowd SEIU they were all clapping w/every word oops (lie) she said
xler8bmw on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
*Coffee everywhere*
Needed the laugh.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
That reminds me of the old joke that those retirees committed to the Democrat Party move to Chicago instead of Florida. That way they know they will be voting long after they are gone.
highhopes on September 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM
It’s rough living in IL, especially Chicago. Most likely Midway will be renamed after Obama.
I saw a Lincoln replica in the United terminal at O’Hare last week, and was shocked, shocked! that there wasn’t an Obama reference in the description or his picture in the vicinity.
conservative pilgrim on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
FINALLY! WE as conservatives have caught on to the tactics of the left. I have been waiting since forced busing for a unified effort. Something did not seem right about the unity of these people and now I know that it was a bona-fide conspiracy wow The shocked looks on their faces is priceless. Plus with the internets we can combat them in real time hahahahah SWEET!!!!!
sonnyspats1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I’m more troubled by the fact that she was getting applause. Was the hall filled with Obamabots and who the hell was shusshin people?
Shameless scripted speech! Vote her out! Her interests do not belie her employers wishes! Or do they?
JohnnyD on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I agree. The booing was right at the beginning and you could barely hear it. It sounded to me like Dem astroturf cheering and clapping to drown out the others.
d1carter on September 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Good one SouthernGent…wished I would have thought of your Booooo first.
yoda on September 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
The protesters are the people paying not taking from the system. A far different situation.
That has to put a bit of fear into your average communis…democrat.
jukin on September 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I hope the service includes the spiky tree too….
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I didn’t hear booing, which wasn’t surprising since we now know how townhall meetings with dems. work. Acorn wouldn’t boo, SEIU wouldn’t; boos require them to actually allow anyone who disagrees with them to attend.
pcpower1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM
And the hero of Paris too, so don’t forget that!
“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.“
BTW, while Private Ted was protecting Paris from the North Koreans and the Chinese, does anyone know if there were any unsolved drownings of women there?
MB4 on September 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Most circumstances it would be disgusting. Teddy’s last words probably were “exploit my death to get health-care passed.” So in this case its not disgusting its pathetic and its what we have come to expect from the Dems.
cubbieblue25 on September 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM
George Bush had a series of policies that people either agreed with or not. Some hated him, some didn’t like him, and some supported him.
Ted Kennedy let a girl die to further his political prospects and interfered in his nephew’s rape trial because he could. Ted Kennedy was a scumbag and deserves all the booing that comes his way.
18-1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Let it be so.
conservative pilgrim on September 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM
She was trying to make a sympathy play on Teddy. Loser.
Captain America on September 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Sure she does. She just doesn’t do it well.
Forgive my characterization but, outside the high rent areas adjacent to Boston, isn’t Maine pretty much West Virginia with Moose? Are your Senate gals playing to the backwoods and the welfare culture?
highhopes on September 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I doubt that.
His last words were probably, “Where the hell is my scotch – don’t you candy strippers know who I am?”
18-1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Thanks…I manage about one of those a quarter…which is pretty bad considering I’m on here more than the Allahpundit it seems. Heh.
SouthernGent on September 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Still don’t understand why we should give the government more to do when they have already broken medicare and medicaid.
jukin on September 1, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Isn’t this pretty much what the Left accused Bush of in 2004?
18-1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I hope he can hear it over the roaring fire.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
HornetSting:That reminds me of a movie called Little Nicky,
were someone in hell,was being serviced with a
ahem, pineapple!! hehe:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I hope the service includes the spiky tree too….
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
HornetSting: In the movie,zee pineapple wasn’t sliced or
diced,it was whole,as in,
OOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 8:53 PM
That alone disgusts me. The whole Kennedy funeral was a sham state funeral complete with the plane landing at Andrews AFB (where RFK and JFK entered DC for the last time)and a motorcade stop at the Capitol which I guess was a blessing that they didn’t want the corpse to lie in state in the Rotunda.
Teddy Kennedy, alive or dead, should not be a reason to vote in favor of this bad legislation.
highhopes on September 1, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Even an IV Push of 100 Proof Ted Elixir may not be enough to save the patient. Somebody better send for a Priest.
MB4 on September 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Nope, it’s still there
blue1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I don’t agree with booing Kennedy after his death, but I do agree with booing that bitch!
NathanG on September 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Yah, pretty much. They had to bend the story though. No bending needed with Kennedy.
MB4 on September 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Thank you, canopfor…I will never look at a pineapple or a CAN of pineapple chunks in the same way, ever again.
:)
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Someone send this stupid BITC$ a copy of the Constitution and challenge her to cite just where in the Constitution the federal government can run health care. Good Lord!
DerKrieger on September 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Yes. Not to mention Chuck Robb’s stint during Vietnam as a staff weenie because LBJ needed his son-in-law serving at a time the draft was sending young men to their deaths (compare with McCain’s service while his dad was CINCPAC).
highhopes on September 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM
sorry forgot the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E
blue1 on September 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM
The stories of Ted’s alcoholism were “exaggerated”.
Contrary to what some of his very few enemies say he never had more than one drink at a time. Well sometimes one for each hand, but that’s it, never two glasses in each hand, except on special occasions like the arrival of 5PM.
MB4 on September 1, 2009 at 9:00 PM
this woman’s statistics are bogus
D2Boston on September 1, 2009 at 9:00 PM
flyoverland @ 8:29
He registered 9 times in Ohio. ACORN has the signatures on file.
elclynn on September 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM
KopechneCare: Wherein leftists take you for a drive, whisper sweet nothings in your ear, lull you to sleep and leave you to die, alone in the dark.
spmat on September 1, 2009 at 9:10 PM
That was hilarious!
LASue on September 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Sounded like a pretty friendly audience to me.
roasted7 on September 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Every time I hear a lying Democrat, when speaking of Health Care Reform, utter the phrase, “This is The Great Issue of my (or our) lifetime,” I want to call bullsh!t.
Even an idiot like me knows that the great issue of our lifetime is whether or not Our Great Nation will devolve into a 3rd world ghetto at the hands of the growing hoard of traitorous commie scum. Plain and simple.
Gang-of-One on September 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Poor analogy. The townhalls consist of libertarians (dems and repubs), not repubs only.
joshlbetts on September 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Didn’t hear any booing,,,,,, but how many of her projected 50 million “people” with out healthcare in America are citizens as opposed to criminal aliens? And why should I give a rat’s ass if they don’t get health care?
I don’t have a G-5, is that anyone else’s problem but mine? I don’t carry tornado or flood insurance, is that anyone else’s problem but my own? Why would I expect someone to pay for MY insurance, and why would you expect ME to pay for someone else’s insurance?
Get yer hand outta my walet silly liberal bitch.
Alden Pyle on September 1, 2009 at 9:22 PM
sounded like the audience liked all that B.S. i didn’t hear any one speaking against her or her ideals.
FloridaMike on September 1, 2009 at 9:22 PM
After the mass murder attempt on Palin’s church (you knew about that right? They lit fuel at every entrance, with kids inside, and cars in the parking lot), liberals had this to say:
“God willed it to happen”
“Burn them all down”
faraway on September 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Unlike this sweet young lady that would be transported via EMS to an emergency room for a stuffy nose because she is on Medicaid.
Key West Reader on September 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Key West Reader: Me thinks she is “Certifiable”!!haha:)
And,the fall is really gonna hurt,when
these ObamaBotVoters realize they’ve
been done Betrayed!!:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Thank you, canopfor…I will never look at a pineapple or a CAN of pineapple chunks in the same way, ever again.
:)
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM
HornetSting:-:)
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Looks like the Dems have their talking points down. I just got home from a townhall with Congressman Gary Peter(D) and a lot of the same points were made by him. He said he couldn’t support HR3220 as it is written right now-yea right! The crowd was probably 60-40% us in the minority.(830 in auditoruim and a lot of people outside that couldn’t get in) But we held our own and Peters certainly knew where we were coming from and that we don’t support this bill. He also said the bill will not cover abortion or illegals. Spin spin spin. Questions were submitted on a card and picked , I think, by a young college student from Oakland University(probably the YOung Democrats. Unions etc were bussed in.
Bullhead on September 1, 2009 at 9:48 PM
I really hope they name ObamaCare after him. Maybe then these elitist snobs will find out just how little most of America really thinks of the traitor Ted Kennedy.
Dave R. on September 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Jan Shakowsky is a such a liar. “62% of personal bankruptcies have medical bills as the main factor.” What a liar!
I remember some years ago she was on local T.V. doing a press conference to support Blago’s idea of illegally importing prescription drugs from Canada. She was comparing the prices for prescriptions you get from the vet with the price for human versions of the drug. “Why can your dog get anti-depressants for half price? It’s the evil corporations!” This broad is about a nuanced as a hammer and sickle. Her husband was recently convicted for embezzlement or fraud relating to some lefty non-profit. Really wonderful people. Oh and she is in for life. Her predecessor Sid Yates served in that district for 50 years. It is Lake Front liberals and the old Jewish suburbs like Skokie. McCain got 26%. It’s our gift to all you. Enjoy.
Ted Torgerson on September 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM
“50 million people went without health care in America this last year?” (1/6th of the entire country? Impossible)”62% of personal bankruptcies have medical bills as the main factor” (where does she get her facts? That, too is patently wrong.)
If you must lie to make your point, then why should I listen to anything you have to say, and why should I grant you permission to take away my medical care and give it to someone else?
What a lying POS.
Subsunk
Subsunk on September 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM
yeah, but she is no lady
Wolfen on September 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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