WaPo's Paul Kane re-writes history
July 14, 2009 11:39 am ET by Jamison Foser
Here's Washington Post reporter Paul Kane:
Biden and Kennedy have had their share of mishaps over the last 30 years, drawing plenty of criticism from conservatives.
During the 2006 hearings for Justice Samuel Alito, Kennedy forced the proceedings to stop in a long-shot effort to turn up evidence that the nominee was part of a secretive alumni club at Princeton University that was engaged in insensitive behavior, a charge that was never borne out.
Uh ... what?
The evidence that Alito was part of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) is pretty strong. After all, Alito bragged about his membership in CAP when he was applying for a job in the Reagan administration.
And the evidence that CAP "engaged in insensitive behavior" is pretty strong, too. CAP did, after all, try to limit the number of women and minorities allowed at Princeton.
There is no doubt that Alito belonged to CAP. None. Alito himself said he did. There is no doubt that CAP engaged in insensitive behavior. None. What on earth is Paul Kane talking about?
It's a 'conservative equivalence:' Kennedy is from Taxachussets and killed somebody and is a flaming liberal and conservative arch-nemesis. So therefore, you talk about Kennedy and tell more lies about him and conservatives get to hate him even more. Then, you introduce Biden as somehow equivalent to Kennedy, and maybe some of the Kennedy odor rubs off on Biden.
Except for one thing: In REALITY none of it is true. It's a total fantasy. But it's a fantasy that the red meat conservatives have been in love with for 30 years now.