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Fox's Tammy Bruce keeps it classy

August 26, 2009 12:56 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From Fox News political analyst and radio host Tammy Bruce's Twitter account: 

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    • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 12:59 pm ET)
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      Ah yes, the sad tragic tale of Chappaquidick, again, being used as a club to hit Kennedy, even after he's dead.

      I can say this for Bruce, at least she is NOT original.
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      • Author by congero6189599 (August 26, 2009 1:57 pm ET)
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        I'am still waiting for your apology from FL!
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      • Author by Cheney2012 (August 26, 2009 2:06 pm ET)
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        "Ah yes, the sad tragic tale of Chappaquidick, again, being used as a club to hit Kennedy, even after he's dead."

        And well-deserved!
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        • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 2:08 pm ET)
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          It is? Really? How many times did anyone bring up Laura Bush killing someone in a car crash? That would be approximately hardly ever.

          A tragic event that took place 40 some odd years ago is somehow relevant today why? How? Nobody is going to say Kennedy acted correctly in that situation, he didn't, but I'd say the man has more than made up for it by his actions over the years and the work he's done for Massachusetts, and the country. Don't you?
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          • Author by dr. matt (August 26, 2009 2:21 pm ET)
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            How many times did anyone bring up Laura Bush killing someone in a car crash?

            IOKIYAR
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          • Author by goesto11 (August 26, 2009 3:55 pm ET)
               
            I'm a bigger liberal than most people, but....

            It's not really fair to compare Laura Bush's fatal accident with Ted Kennedy's. Laura Bush didn't run from the scene, leaving someone else to die. (Kennedy admitted to that, it wasn't made up by some enemy of his. Technically, he swam from the scene.)

            And the passing of 40 years doesn't diminish Kennedy's responsibility for what happened.

            Ted Kennedy was a great senator, but let's not pretend Chappaquiddick was just your average car accident.
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            • Author by Brabantio (August 27, 2009 1:18 am ET)
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              I don't think anyone's claiming that his responsibility is diminished. I think the point is that it's not the end of everything if you make a huge mistake. Does someone get to try to own up to it, move on, and do the best they can as a lawmaker from that point forward, or are they obligated to respond to reminders about it every day for the rest of their life?
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          • Author by bintx (August 26, 2009 4:09 pm ET)
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            Laura Bush's accident was just that, an accident. Kennedy's was the same . . . except that he was unable to save a young lady and walked away from the scene, most likely due to shock. It happens.
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        • Author by bintx (August 26, 2009 4:06 pm ET)
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          Really? You know the only thing that Kennedy was found guilty of was leaving the scene of an accident. Ever hear of SHOCK? I have worked and investigated many, many auto accidents in the past 24+ years and have seen people walk away from accidents. One case, the man was found several miles from the accident after being missing for almost 8 hours. He was not the person at fault in the accident . . . it was the other driver. He had no memory of the accident at all. Happens all the time. Kennedy's case is not dissimilar. You won't be convinced because you spend all of your time reading hate sites and listening to hate speech on Fox and talk radio.

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        • Author by historygeek001 (August 26, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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          Let's talk about Republican offenders while we're at it. Here and here. Abramoff, Allen, the other Allen, DeLay, Reagan and all the criminals in his administration, Randy Cunningham, Mark Sanford, Paul Stanley, John Ensign, Dick Cheney - do you want more? Chappaquidick was in 1969 and Kennedy has spent a lifetime atoning and working for human rights and the American people. Where is your outrage about, say Joe Scarborough? What about Laura Bush killing somebody in an auto accident? What's that--you don't care about Republican outrages, you only want to hit the Democratic party any way you can, no matter what, all the time, without regard for decency, integrity, or reality? We already know that. You disgust me. Nobody is defending Kennedy's actions that horrible night, but you and everybody like you acts like he did it on purpose and at the same time you pretend that actual crimes committed by Republicans are excusable, allowable, and acceptable. Again, you disgust me.
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (August 26, 2009 6:53 pm ET)
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          How many americans did shrub and your namesake kill in Iraq?
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    • Author by shaggles (August 26, 2009 1:28 pm ET)
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      Isn't it funny when someone brings up something from a Reps past someone always pops up and says "Oh. That was so long ago." But Ted Kennedy's name can never be mentioned without bringing up Chappaquidik (however you spell that.)
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      • Author by Ecotopian (August 26, 2009 2:19 pm ET)
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        Yup. When it relates to their side, "it's let's move on," but when it relates to ours it's "never forget." Another example of the latter: repeated references to Sen. Robert Byrd's long-ago---and long since irrelevant---Klan association.
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        • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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          They love to use that one to show that democrats are "racist".
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (August 26, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
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      Ohh.......I see.

      So, should we remind America during each discussion about Reagan about selling arms to Iran and funding death squads in Latin America ?

      Or that he had one of the most corrupt Administrations in US history with 32 convictions though Reagan escaped being indicted
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      • Author by twseattle (August 26, 2009 1:31 pm ET)
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        Let's add it to the sign on the Airport repubs named after him.
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        • Author by pilotshark (August 26, 2009 1:39 pm ET)
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          To me it will all ways be Washington National Airport, as Ronnie really never done anything worth the accolade of a named airport.

          and i think that the last bush admin might just be closing in on the most corrupt admin ever.
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      • Author by Cheney2012 (August 26, 2009 2:05 pm ET)
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        "So, should we remind America during each discussion about Reagan about selling arms to Iran and funding death squads in Latin America "

        When reagan died people like you..including dozens in the media did exactly that!
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        • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 2:09 pm ET)
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          Nobody in the media did that. You can't show us one example at all.
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (August 26, 2009 2:10 pm ET)
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          People like us DID criticize reagon. The media did NOT. The Reagan love fest went on for a couple weeks. All "shining city on the hill" and "take down this wall" blah blah blah.

          Us poor little bloggers just wanted a little perspective, like how Reason negotiated with TERRORISTS.
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        • Author by dr. matt (August 26, 2009 2:22 pm ET)
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          When reagan died people like you..including dozens in the media did exactly that!
          Prove it.
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        • Author by twseattle (August 26, 2009 2:28 pm ET)
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          What's the matter today, Cheney2012? Sounds like you are in the 'anger' stage of greif, lashing out at others with nonsense. Won't Glenn Beck take your calls?

          You missed a cap on the second Reagan, maybe the republicans can organize around a bill to require full capitalization of that name 'REAGAN' every time it's used. Tax breaks if it's in gold leaf!
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        • Author by congero6189599 (August 26, 2009 2:28 pm ET)
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          Well wheres the proof Cheney? Your boy exposed in another lie about torture,which by the way is illegal.
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          • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 26, 2009 3:32 pm ET)
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            Patience. Cheney has to Google until he finds a wingnut opinion piece that agrees with him that the media focused on Raygun's crimes immediately after his death.

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        • Author by bintx (August 26, 2009 4:10 pm ET)
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          Are you kidding? We had a week-long funeral when Reagan died and everybody was pretending that he was the most loved president ever. I voted for the man . . . twice and I didn't like him. Thought he was a TERRIBLE president.
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        • Author by mikehuck1976 (August 27, 2009 6:09 pm ET)
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          Show us, Dick. Show us where it was published.
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    • Author by rkcomments (August 26, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
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      I feel sorry for Tammy Bruce's parents for having given life to such a putrid thing (calling her a human would be an insult to the rest of us).
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    • Author by vwcat (August 26, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
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      I think to a degree, way inside, many conservatives feel guilty in regard to Kennedy.
      By that, I mean that the Kennedy's motto of "To whom much is given, much is expected". The Kennedy's embraced that saying and made it their own with multi generations now dedicated to service of the poor, disabled, ect.
      Conservatives, on the other hand, embrace the mindset of "what's in it for me, it's all about me" with gusto.
      They blame the victim and make the culprit, like corporations, the poor put upon victim of heartless poor people.
      It's about greed and selfishness.
      Then they look at the Kennedy's and some of that hate and resentment has to be buried guilt or uncomfortable feelings.
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 26, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
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        I'd say you have that right, VWCat. In the conservative gospel, the concept of noblesse oblige only covers the responsibility to tell those not as privileged or lucky that they need to scratch and crawl a little harder to get up that ladder. This should be accompanied by some stomping on their fingers as they try to climb.

        Of course, they need to go back three or four decades to try to overshadow Kennedy's accomplishments, while ignoring the transgressions of right wingers last week as "old news".

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        • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 2:11 pm ET)
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          I also saw some comments on Freeper about how Kennedy was an advocate for the poor, and the disabled, and one commenter noted how Kennedy sure as heck didn't give up anything he had in order to help the poor, calling him a hypocrite (of course forgetting what that word actually means). It was the old John Edwards canard. Apparently, in order to want to, and to actually, HELP poor downtrodden people, you must be poor yourself. Which is what ACORN does, and we know how conservatives feel about ACORN.
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          • Author by Ecotopian (August 26, 2009 2:27 pm ET)
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            Yeah, as if giving up a chance for a life of ease to spend 47 years in the Senate fighting for what he cared about doesn't count. How many of Kennedy's critics have done anywhere near as much to help those less fortunate than themselves? And political biases aside, it's a near certainty that historians will rank him among the greatest of our Senators.
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            • Author by magnolialover (August 26, 2009 2:32 pm ET)
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              Exactly. And believe me, I'm not excusing Ted Kennedy the man for what happened that night. He did something bad, killed a woman, or was responsible for her death I should say. He handled it, well, poorly at best, criminal at the worst. I don't condone his actions.

              Kennedy was a practicing and faithful Catholic though, and I believe, or would assume, that he confessed to his priest about this, and was given absolution, and I'm also willing to bet, it haunted him for the rest of his life, as it does for most folks who accidents like this happen to.

              He also spent, as you said, the majority of his life working for his State and his country. Was it a guilty conscience? Don't know really, but he did good work, and was well respected throughout Washington.
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            • Author by rms (August 26, 2009 3:07 pm ET)
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              Of course, one has to WANT to help those less fortunate than themselves...
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (August 26, 2009 2:12 pm ET)
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          Torture? What torture. Didn't that drunk Kennedy kill that woman?
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    • Author by dr. matt (August 26, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
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      Who are teabaggers kidding? If Mary Jo was still alive, they would be labeling her a "Marxist, Fascist, Communist Socialist".

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    • Author by MickD (August 26, 2009 3:29 pm ET)
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      Pretty damn heartless. Even for Fox and their ilk.
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      • Author by fairliberal (August 28, 2009 3:00 am ET)
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        What does her twitter page have to do with Fox? You are dilusional once again.
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        • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (August 29, 2009 4:40 am ET)
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          um, because she works at fox news. she doesnt have to say something on twitter to not be representing the vitriol spewed by fox news. they are all mostly cut from the same cloth.
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (August 29, 2009 4:39 am ET)
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      keep it classy, tammy.
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