Limbaugh teases letter that "details Sen. Kennedy's offer to help the Soviet Union defeat" Reagan's nuclear deterrent

Further proof that the ridiculous right just can't make up their mind...

First they lecture us about why we shouldn't trust or believe in anyone or anything associated with communism, socialism, etc.

Then they throw their weight behind something that allegedly came from the KGB.

Andrew Wilkow "described" Ted Kennedy "the best way I know how...by quoting The Communist Manifesto...." These guys don't stop being soulless pigs just because somebody dies, you know. The show- meaning, the nonstop lying and smearing- must go on.

Sean Hannity talked about how, when he was young and had no money, he had to "make deals" with dentists and doctors, and how "when I broke my arm, I never had a doctor refuse to treat me because I didn't have any money...." What Hannity DIDN'T mention was the reason no doctor would refuse to treat someone with a broken arm- because it's illegal to do so. Which is hardly the "Free Market at Work." If Hannity had the "free market" he and his ilk claim to want and claim represents "freedom," he'd have been turned away at the door and sent home to heal on his own, without sponging on the hard-working people with enough money to PAY for luxuries like Emergency Rooms.

Who was it again on the other thread who claimed the right wouldn't disrespect Kennedy? Oh yeah, failedliberal...

What? I thought he didn't feel comfortable talking about Kennedy's politics? I guess he's not actually discussing his politics if he's just making sh!t up though.

Is this thing for real?

Or is it yet another BS that the right-wing has simply pulled out of their a@@?

All great points. But I read the letter. Kennedy offered to help the Soviet Union in defeating Reagan's ideas. Didn't the Soviet Union eventually lose the Cold War? Rush is no truth squad, but this looks straight foward.

Is that because the KGB would want to smear a liberal politian's record? I'm trying to figure this out. Would the KGB produce a false document that would make conservatives look good?

Here's something I found a little weird the letter: "(Kennedy has just completed a divorce and plans to remarry in the near future)"

Interesting, considering Kennedy didn't remarry until 10 years after his divorce.

I've got to hand it to MMFA. So far, they are the only lefty/progressive/liberal blog that's so much as even touched this.

Has this ever been debunked, though? I suppose it has, but my google fu is poor today. Can anyone give me a link to make some annoying people shut up?

I'd sure like to see more context and information about this. I've seen the wingnuts shouting about this for the past few days, and there has been no rebuttals on the left.

The letter in full can be found at this link.

If this document is both authentic and accurate and true, and I have seen no reason to think that it isn't, then Sen. Kennedy may well have commit treason, or at the very least tried to.

The question is whether or not the KGB created the document, making it a real KGB document, but then flat out made up everything in it. I can't see why they would lie about Sen. Kennedy, seeing as he was an ideological ally of the Soviets. Nor do I see any reason the Soviets would have in helping Republicans with such a letter, as it would clearly have given them ammunition to target any liberal politician suspected of harboring Soviet sympathies.

In all likelihood (at least in my opinion), this letter shows the lengths one man is willing to take to destroy a political opponent and gain power for himself. The letter would be akin to hearing that Ted Kennedy offered to help al-Qaida with propaganda during the height of the US-led Afghan invasion. I can understand honest political disagreement, or even legislative obstructionism, to stop actions that one believes to be wrong. Both are legitimate. But treason for what appears to be political gain is just disgusting beyond measure.

I hope for the sake of Sen. Kennedy, his family, and this country that the letter proves false, but I have seen no indication that the letter is anything but authentic and accurate.