If Mary Jo Kopechne were alive today, surely she'd want it named after the man who killed her. Right?

The "levee to nowhere."  In honor of Mary Jo Kopechne - a life lost, and no lessons learned.

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I think the big deal here is that Rush used the word "Memorial."

They view it as having decided that Kennedy would be dead by the time the bill is completed.

We now have a new "D" word  and a new "M" word, neither of which anyone is allowed to say. 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Sigh!

Reporters spread information and misinformation by the same machinery. It's in the nature of reporting. A reporter tries to take events and wrap them up into a story, which the publisher distributes to the public. If the story is accurate, the story informs. If the story is wrong, the system accelerates ignorance.

How many of the reporters who are spreading this story were listening to Rush Limbaugh when he made the comment? More than likely, the vast majority of the reporters heard it from someone else first, who were passing it on because they thought it was significant. Who would think that Limbaugh's comment was significant? Answer: people who were offended by it. (Most of us who don't hate Limbaugh thought little of it, and it wouldn't have occurred to us to pass it on.)

So, reporters heard the comment from people who were offended by it, which instantly colored the story against Limbaugh. But then again, why would those first people report it to the second? Because they thought the second group would also be offended by it also.

The people who accelerated this comment and its negative interpretation were all links in a chain - a liberal media chain.

"If Mary Jo Kopechne were alive today, surely she'd want it named after the man who killed her. Right?"

 Kind of  hard to make sense of your wording, (If she were "alive," she wouldn't be thinking about the man who "killed" her!) but good point.

This is getting tiresome quickly.

NOTE to Obamaiacs:  Rush is a private, taxpaying citizen.  As such, he is covered by any dadgummed amendment he cares to use, anytime he cares to use it, in the United States of America.

Furthermore you microcephlic media,  Rush was parroting everything which had already been said by many democrats in the house and senate. As Conservatives, we are not going to do your job for you. 

If you are too lazy to even use a search engine to find the exact quotes that Rush used, you need to get in line with everyone else looking for work. You are making yourselves look like even bigger fools than you normally are.

 I think Rush tried to say it in a bombastic way. If Rush wanted to say it will probably be named after Kennedy, he would have said it probably will be named after Kennedy. Putting a person into the dead category before they are dead is in poor taste, and that was exactly the intention of the remark. I wonder how Jay Nordlinger would defend that remark or spin it into good taste?

You're irrational if you don't want the new president to succeed - Gingrich

This guy need a teleprompter to provide a reasoned response?

"Saying that a bill should be named after Sen. Kennedy is different from saying the bill will be named after the late Sen. Kennedy. (As Rush Limbaugh put it, "Before it’s over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.")" - Fournier

Mr. Fournier implies that Rush Limbaugh said the bill "should" be named after Kennedy.  He then goes on to quote Limbaugh as saying that it "will" be named after him.  Maybe Mr. Fournier should invest in a dictionary (that's a big book of words for any aspiring journalists out there).

Brent Bozell...

You have got to be kidding...that is the updated response from the AP that they insist be put on the record!?!

Talk about sit and spin...and spin...and spin.

How typical of the leftists.

This would be rip-roaring funny if it wasn't so infuriating.

Saying that a bill should be named after Sen. Kennedy is different
from saying the bill will be named after the late Sen. Kennedy. [emphasis mine] (As
Rush Limbaugh put it, "Before it’s over, it’ll be called the Ted
Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.") -AP response

As was mentioned in another thread, most of West Virginia is called the Robert Byrd Memorial Something or Other, and Byrd isn't dead yet.

As I said there, liberals can use the term "memorial" as an honorific, but when Rush uses it, they claim it's the equivalent of yelling "Ted Kennedy's going to die, and soon!"

And Limbaugh never said it will be named after the LATE Ted Kennedy.

This is just more of the media's putting their own spin on their own manufactured "facts."

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Well it appears that with this statement the AP wishes to be APedant.

Saying that a bill should be named after Sen. Kennedy is different from saying the bill will be named after the late Sen. Kennedy. (As Rush Limbaugh put it, "Before it’s over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.")

Well being A Pedant myself wehen I want to,  one can also say that while "memorial" is obviously used to commemorate or remember the dead, it is ALSO used as a term serving to remember a "past event" such as: The passage of a Health Care Bill into legislation.

In other words it is a legitimate usage to use it about a piece of legislation in which the person associated is very much alive.

Got that Mr Fournier? If that is your real name.

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from wash Post

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said "enough is enough" when it comes Democrats delighting in the hullabaloo over Rush Limbaugh.

 even Howard dean says enough of the Rush bashing from the MSM.  maybe Howard realizes that this is going to backfire, the constant attack on Rush every week. 

Did you really expect the AP to get one right. They haven't for years and aren't very good at producing staged photo's either. I discount everything with an AP tag attached by 99 44/100%. Sometimes the actually get the date correct.

 Old, Retired and glad of it.

Sooner or later, Senator Kennedy WILL die.  I echo the sentiments that some have said - 'good riddance'.  The man was, and is an onion.  He's lived a life of successful villainy and my only fear is that whoever replaces him is going to be even worse.

As a christian and god-fearing man who believes that judgement rests with God alone, I have no wish to speak ill of anyone.  But it's hard when you see these vile politicians and newspeople condemning the righteous because of their righteousness - letting the guilty and the wicked go free because of their money - and upholding secret combinations to get power and gain - they make it tough to be charitable sometimes.

So how about this Mr. "AP" man?  'Saying 'the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill' is different
from saying 'the late Sen. Kennedy.' (As YOU put it, "that's outrageous and reprehensible.")

That better - Mr. ASSociated Press guy?

Yes, Rush should be more respectful...kind of like the way the Communists were when Tony Snow was ill.

Honestly, I've grown up believing Ted Kennedy to be a pain in the ass for this country and a crook.  He only got elected...and elected, and elected because of his brother's name...oh, and probably tons of pork brought by him to Taxachussetts.  I also think that the Kennedy's are generally idiots and something just ain't right with that gene pool.

What exactly has this man done for this country?  Nothing.  Just been a strong mouthpiece for the Communist movement.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

are mad at Rush and others for spoiling their ability to use Kennedy in the bills name.....

Its a pride thing..

No Representation in NorCal

Oh how wonderful it is to see how the libs want precise terms when anything is referenced to their liberal icons! The insertion of the word late turns the whole context of the monologue into demonizing "Poor Old Ted!" Do any of these "Poor Little Babies" remember all the below gutter level crap their side said about the Gipper when diagnosed with Althseimers? How about the classic "He was just about dead while president" and "Whats any different about him now?"  Heres a little tidbit for you liberal infants out there! If you can't take it, don't dish it out! In the terminology of Sean Connery in the "Untouchables", "If you send one of ours to the hospital, we'll send three of yours to the morgue!"