To The Democrats, This Is Terrorism

Norman Rockwell is surely turning over in his grave.

The Real Ted Kennedy

Heard any good Mary Jo Kopechne jokes lately? According to his good friend and former New York Times magazine editor Ed Klein, the late Ted Kennedy always enjoyed a good knee slapper on the topic of Chappaquiddick. And for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m not surprised. You probably don’t know about the “waitress sandwich” episode either. Nor do you recall when Ted Kennedy was raising money for terrorists. Or when he tried to strike a deal with the Soviet Union to undermine US foreign policy.

Since Kennedy gained his eligibility to vote in Chicago elections, our unbiased and ever vigilant mainstream news media has only told us what a great man he was, how he cared about the less fortunate. But while Ted Kennedy used his position in the Senate to tell us how we should live, he lived a life of dissolution and used his wealth, authority and surname to escape legal responsibility.

A young friend of mine had heard of Chappaquiddick but didn’t know what it meant. She had never heard of Mary Jo Kopechne. I enlightened her as I will enlighten you.

Mary Jo Kopechne was one of three young female volunteers for Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign who joined Ted Kennedy and two friends for a party at a cabin on Chappaquiddick Island. Later that night, Kennedy and Kopechne left the party for what was almost certainly a tryst. Kennedy, who had been drinking, missed a turn and drove off a bridge. Kennedy escaped the sinking car. Kopechne did not.

After abandoning Kopechne to her fate, Kennedy swam across a narrow channel and took a room at an Edgartown hotel. Later that night he complained to the desk clerk of noisy neighbors who were disrupting his sleep.

The next day he was confronted by one of his fellow partiers and forced to alert authorities. Kopechne was found later that day in a position indicating that she survived for some time until she exhausted the oxygen in her air pocket. Kennedy received a suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident.

When the news media did mention Chappaquiddick, it was treated as though this was his only transgression in an otherwise exemplary life. Untrue.

Until the 1990’s, the Irish Republican Army was Europe’s most dangerous terrorist group, setting off bombs in public places and committing murders. Ted Kennedy was one of the IRA’s primary enablers in this country and even helped raise money through the fake charity Noraid. Kennedy eventually condemned Noraid and claimed that up until then he was ignorant of its terrorist ties, but if so, he was the last man to learn of it.

And Kennedy didn’t confine himself to subverting Great Britain. About 15 years ago, Russian president Boris Yeltsin opened the Soviet Union’s KGB files for public inspection. The news media discovered, and immediately forgot, that in 1983 Kennedy was attempting to undermine US foreign policy. He offered to sabotage Reagan’s missile defense plans in exchange for Soviet assistance to Democrats in the 1984 general elections. I don’t think that even Alger Hiss’s treachery approaches Ted Kennedy’s. But that Kennedy name and the news media’s affection shielded him once again.

In 1985, Ted Kennedy joined Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) in an assault on a cocktail waitress, which came to be known as the “waitress sandwich.” In an account verified for accuracy by the victim, Carla Gaviglio, that was published in Gentleman’s Quarterly in 1990: “As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair.”

This wretch served for decades as the conscience of the Democratic Party. The Chappaquiddick incident ended his presidential aspirations, but he never paid the slightest price for any of his other misbehaviors.

A wit once posited that, to hear people speak of the recently deceased, one might conclude that dying was a privilege reserved only for the most virtuous. Ted Kennedy’s eulogies verified that. But history should not be so kind.

Who's Crazier - Keith Olbermann or a Terrorist?

Alonzo has the answer, right here.

California Speaker Envies The Mullahs

There's too much free speech going on out there.

California’s Speaker of the Assembly, Karen Bass: "The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair."

Obama: He Was Against It Before He Was For It

Those who pay attention to such things (ie: not Democrats) noticed that Barack Obama made a complete 180 on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force. Although the issue was not important enough for him to interrupt his campaigning, he declared himself opposed to a Senate resolution that declared the Quds a terrorist entity. In fact, he lambasted Hillary Clinton for having done so.

But now, he is labeling the Quds Force as terrorists.

"Obama may not be an unusually cynical politician, but he is extraordinarily cynical."

Obama: Senator Tom Coburn Equivalent To A Terrorist

Barack Obama was finally asked to explain his friendship with William Ayers, an unrepentant domestic terrorist. He responded by comparing Ayers to his fellow US senator, Tom Coburn.

The fact is, is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those either.

But, of course, Hillary has her own terrorist problems.

After Mrs. Clinton criticized Mr. Obama for not severing all Ayers ties, Mr. Obama said, “By Senator Clinton’s own vetting standards, I don’t think she would make it, since President Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences of two members of the Weather Underground.”

That referred to commutations by Mr. Clinton in January 2001, shortly before leaving office, for Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg. Ms. Evans had been convicted of weapons and explosives charges connected with eight bombings in the mid-’80s and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ms. Rosenberg had been charged in connection with a 1981 armed robbery in which two police officers and a security guard were killed, and was serving 58 years after being convicted of weapons charges in a 1984 case.

And, when she was first seeking political office, her husband bought votes for her in the Puerto Rican community by pardoning terrorists.

Update: Obama lied.

This is getting to be a habit with him.

Muslim Terrorism Before Osama

It's been more than three decades.

I'm sure that most of us mostly remember the 70's for these terrorists, who now happen to be friends of Obama.

The Religion of Peace Targets The Olympics

China has thwarted two terrorist plots against the Olympics, and the game are still months away.

I blame George Bush, or global warming. Take your pick.