Wash. Times columnist spits on Ted Kennedy's grave. Your move, John Solomon
August 27, 2009 8:05 am ET by Eric Boehlert
The only thing surprising is that it's not surprising. The unhinged haters cannot restrain themselves. Even now.
Notes Politico:
Andrew Breitbart, a Washington Times columnist who oversees Breitbart.com and BigHollywood.com, tapped into the anti-Kennedy vein in the hours after the senator’s death was announced, posting a series of Twitter messages in which he called Kennedy a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.”
"I'm more than willing to go off decorum to ensure THIS MAN is not beatified,” Breitbart wrote. “Sorry, he destroyed lives. And he knew it."
Since becoming editor of the WashTimes, John Solomon has been trying to convince people that the Moonie-owned daily is more than a right-wing spin outlet. He's been trying to convince people that it's a serious newspaper run by serious people. Well, it seems to me Breitbart's outlandish hateful screed, coming just hours after Kennedy died, provides Solomon with a perfect opportunity to prove his point.
It provides Solomon with a chance to do something. (Demand Breitbart apologize; cut ties with the columnist, etc.) Solomon can stand up for the kind of newspaper that Times leaders say they wants to be, instead of allowing people like Breitbart to prop it up as a laughing stock.
I realize the GOP Noise Machine has done its best this year to obliterate any semblance of common sense and decency in terms of its unprecedented outpouring of hate rhetoric. (i.e. The POTUS is a Nazi racist) But it would seem to me that there must be some adults still seated at positions of conservative media power who can plainly see that spitting on the memory of an American icon like Ted Kennedy deserves to be met with a swift, and equally forceful, response.
We'll see if John Solomon really means it when he claims he wants the WashTimes to be a serious newspaper.
If this accident had happened to anyone else, it would have been an unfortunate accident in which a young lady lost her life. Because it was a Kennedy, Kennedy haters have turned it into the "CRIME OF THE CENTURY." I work in insurance defense . . . I've seen much, much worse than this where there were no criminal charges filed because it was determined that there was no intent. Kennedy tried to save the young lady, he could not. He left the scene, most likely in shock. It happens. Doesn't mean there was criminal intent nor is it an admission of guilt.
Do you have an example of that?
So, Laura Bush went to jail? I don't remember this. What was she charged with again?
...but enough about G. W. Bush's (age 30) and R. Cheney's (ages 21 AND 22) DUI's.
They probably didn't have to hire the lawyers (I don't know), but the powerful family part helped, I bet!
Is the Laura Bush incident the only thing you pathetic leftists can come up with? There's gotta be some republican politician who tried to get away with something similar.?
Why do you on the left have such a hard time admitting the inescapable fact that because of his wealth, class and position Teddy Kennedy received an entirely different kind of justice? Can you possibly be so obtuse just because Teddy was a reliable vote for abortion and defamed Robt. Bork so completely?
The best proof of your hypocrisy would be to change the facts just a tad ... Let's put George W. Bush behind the wheel and leave everything the same ... late night party, married men, single women, GWB departs the party with a pretty young blond who leaves her purse and keys behind, the blond ends up dead in the pond. GWB tries to reinvent the facts, get someone else to take the fall for him and then boogies for ten hours.
You still going to be so understanding as to serve up insurance adjusting stories?
Sure, you are.
Hyprocrites.
If this accident had involved anyone other than Ted Kennedy it would have been the death of a young woman AND it would have been the beginning of at least a manslaughter and probably a negligent homicide prosecution. It may well have also been a conspiracy to obstruct justice case as the Senator, Gargan, and Markham explored more than a little event reconstruction including taking Teddy out of the driver's seat and putting cousin Joey or even poor, drowned Mary Jo, in it.
you need to take a chill pill and relax.
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I'm pretty sure Bush was President then.
Clinton did try to do something about it, but was generally chastised by republicans for "wagging the dog" to try and distract from the Lewinsky scandal, and he was roundly criticized, again from republicans, for striking Afghanistan several times.
Now, when this subject came up I was hoping to see some of you nut-jobs bring up the "loose change" theories. That's a lot more entertaining than this dribble.
Clinton may have failed, but at least he tried. The 1990's WTC bombers were arrested, tried, and sentenced.
Bush: "Now watch this drive!".
He hit more than camels and aspirin factories by the way.
OK. I am not sure if you think the report was from 1997 or if you think 9/11 happened in 1997, but either way your lack of intellect makes debating with you pretty pointless. Holy cow is right!
What directives did POTUS Bush Order after reading that PDB explicit threat?
I work in a skyscraper 50 feet from the TWC site and we were never given any warnings or evaculation drills . .
Why the President was allegedly receiving such poor information has never been explained, but it was clear well before Bush arrived at the school that an attack was under way and that the C-in-C needed to be back on Air Force One.
Dr. Matt, in the first post, has hit the nail on the head.
Dr. Matt, in the first post, has hit the nail on the head. " rms
Yes, rms, matt showed a lot of class in his first post. Um,...did you read it?
You mean we don't get a week long extravaganza like Reagan got? I thought we were supposed to not speak ill of the dead. Like bringing up Iran Contra for example.
But hey, Raygun's rhetoric about how "government is evil" was dead-on accurate...He PROVED it!
And, of course, Raygun raised taxes 7 times, signed into law not one but two major tax increases. But, should we really be surprised? We know it's a well established fact that kkkonservatives are best at growing the government and debt.
It's still the morning after in America; we need to exorcise Reagan's ghost.
Excellent point, mags:
Things will not change and the hate rhetoric will only get more and more outlandish until one of two things happen.
Either the traditional media steps up and gets the courage to condemn these people and their hateful screeds and lies and vitriol and all of them stand up for the truth and what is right. That leaves an impression to the public that this kind of behavior is not acceptable in our society and that it is very wrong.
Or,
something awful will eventually happen and the fall out that will result will calm things down a little bit.
Dude, if you really think its "unprecedented" then you were comatose during the recent Bush administration....
Right, we can't have people going around calling the POTUS a Nazi!
In other news, we have always been at war with EastAsia.