"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit in segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of million of citizens." -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, floor of the U.S. Senate, 1987.I'm all for remembering a man's good qualities upon his death. But not at the price of ignoring—and denying—history. Yet that's just what David Shuster did during today's 4 PM hour on MSNBC when he claimed that Kennedy "didn't dabble in small personal attacks." This of the man who invented the dark political art form of "borking."
DAVID SHUSTER: Ted Kennedy, unlike so many politicians of this day, he didn't dabble in the small stuff, the petty personal attacks: that was not him. And again that's why I think so many people are feeling so sad, not only for the loss of him but for the loss perhaps of a political era.
I suppose you might argue that, technically speaking, Shuster was right. Kennedy's leading of the assault on Robert Bork wasn't a "petty" personal attack." It was a huge, and hugely unfair, one.
Note: Scott Whitlock earlier noted another example of the MSM perpetrating the fiction about Kennedy eschewing hardball politics.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Kennedy's dead body is now a liberal puppet...
August 26, 2009 - 16:20 ET by SlyrrKennedy's body isn't even cold yet, and liberals are
already tying strings to his fetid corpse, hoping to turn his dead body
into a puppet they can make dance around and pimp Obama's disgusting
communist medical plan.
Kennedy lived a
lifetime of successful villainy, and the world is better off without
him. Every man is responsible for his own choices - and eventually
Kennnedy will face the one thing he fears the most - a judge that he
cannot lie to, and from which the media cannot protect him.
Those
who survive Kennedy, in both politics and media, would do well to
examine their lives and re-think their mad desire to follow in his
footsteps.
Slyrr
August 26, 2009 - 16:30 ET by NorthCoasterSomehow your first paragraph reminded me of the movie "Weekend at Bernie's".
BWAHAHAHA!
Yes Ted Kennedy Dealt in Really Big Pesonal Attacks
August 26, 2009 - 17:37 ET by allanf.. Robert Bork and his work behind the scense against Clarence Thomas.
Wow what a surprise
August 26, 2009 - 16:21 ET by well99Davey boy is lying.Oh my gosh does he eat with that mouth?The only thing that comes out of it is well.... I will behave.Anyhow he has no integrity.
I always love the NB
August 26, 2009 - 16:23 ET by MaideneerI always love the NB pics/screenshots of David Shuster. It 100% of the time looks like Black Hole Sun, the music video from the 90's, where everyone had stretched faces. Only he isn't smiling, he looks like a 2 year old baby crying.
http://marcodipasquale.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/black_hole_sun.jpg
"didn't dabble in the small
August 26, 2009 - 17:41 ET by kg"didn't dabble in the small stuff, the petty personal attacks"
That's right! He left that stuff to Shuster and MSNBC!!!!!
"DumbAssity of Dope"
MSM revisionist history
August 26, 2009 - 16:27 ET by GalvanicIn that mythical Kennedy-blessed land the MSM refers to as Camelot, a Kennedy can do no wrong.
Just consider how they frame the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. It was at once tragic because it would deny Teddy his rightful place ion the throne of the United States; but in the end, it was actually a positive thing, because it gave America an improved, more dedicated Senator. In other words, the life and death of this young lady has no context except as a catalyst in the career of Lord Teddy.
It's Shuster
August 26, 2009 - 16:27 ET by BlondeHis name is now a metaphor for a BIG FAT LIE.
I hope he fails, too.
Aw, crap! Just thought for
August 26, 2009 - 18:12 ET by bretzysdudeAw, crap! Just thought for kicks I could go to an anagram generator and type David Shuster's name to see if it would produce an insult. Came up with "RAVISHED STUD"??? I think I like metaphors over anagrams better. Grrr...
My own
August 26, 2009 - 18:24 ET by misterbilla dust dervish>>>>>>>
Heaves Turds
August 27, 2009 - 00:01 ET by JerryA good anagram for Dave Shuster is "Heaves Turds". Very appropriate.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Oh, and Ted Kennedy's is
August 26, 2009 - 18:13 ET by bretzysdudeOh, and Ted Kennedy's is "DYKE NET END"
Somewhere, Rahm is smiling.
August 26, 2009 - 16:28 ET by Mike BrattonAnd saying something about never letting a death go to waste.
Deal in revisionist history if you like, but Ted Kennedy was hardly a "man of the people." The assassination of character (though you'd think a Kennedy would stay away from any sort of assassination) was, unfortunately, his stock in trade.
But we'll hear the "liberal lion" nonsense, all the while ignoring the damage he did to this nation--and to the Kopechne family.
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport...
On one hand
August 26, 2009 - 16:32 ET by jdlybrandI can count on one hand how many genuine cognitive thoughts Shuster has each day.
1. Wake up.
2. Morning constitution.
3. Shower, shave and dress.
4. Go to work.
5. Lie like a dog!
At this point I cannot decide who is the biggest liar at MSNBC.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
He's right...
August 26, 2009 - 16:39 ET by wizardjrKennedy always went for over the top outrageous attacks.
and why does Shuster look like that?
August 26, 2009 - 16:42 ET by wizardjrHe always seems to be suffering from a permanent wedgie.
WIZARDJR...
August 27, 2009 - 00:58 ET by danybhoyShuster looks like someone gave him a wedge because BathTubBoy gave it to him.
No love from the tub for Shuster...
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Liberals make me want to vomit through my anus
August 26, 2009 - 16:53 ET by Lord ErondI figured that Ted's passing would be a new chapter in the utter disgrace to humanity that liberals are as a whole. However, I really am finding myself surprised at the number of people who are willing to wax poetic about what a great man Kennedy was. As if it makes a man great to drown a woman who may have been carrying your child. As if it makes a man great to besmirch and slander a person like Robert Bork. As if it makes a man great to be a pathetic alcoholic having more affairs than you can imagine. As if it makes a man great to be so academically dishonest to be thrown out of Harvard. As if it makes a man great to spend BILLIONS on the "Big Dig" with more graft and corruption than has ever been seen in recent history.
In what reality is any of this acceptable? Yet we get a person like Sarah Palin who's a good person, hasn't cheated or screwed anyone over and they're all over her like the Anti-Christ?
I hope that every liberal suffers the fate of Senator Kennedy. It would only be just.
"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates
"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po
Lord:
August 26, 2009 - 18:24 ET by iveseenitallGood for you, Lord E.. You speak the truth. And you've only scratched the surface of what made this man someone to be despised, much less admired. Making this evil person a hero demonstrates how much America has lost in modern times. The MSM and the relativist left in general have turned this country's values upside down. How sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Carrying Kennedy's child..
August 26, 2009 - 18:37 ET by mastersofdeceitand don't forget Joan Kennedy his wife was carrying Cadillac Eddie's child when ted & mary jo were in the car. I believe she later miscarried.
" We were to learn all the insignificant trash that had obtained the name of education." - Rousseau
Re Teddie's Child
August 26, 2009 - 19:01 ET by slickwillie2001Maybe it was an abortion, a la Kay Corleone.
Shuster: "Kennedy Didn't
August 26, 2009 - 17:06 ET by Chris NormanShuster: "Kennedy Didn't Dabble In Small Personal Attacks"
Why would he? He had smarmy little creeps in the MSM, like Shuster, doing it for him.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Shuster is a dim bulb
August 26, 2009 - 17:04 ET by woburn828Has anyone wondered what the green room of MSNBC looks like when Shuster, Matthews, & Olberman are there together. Can they even string a sentence together? Losers all.
Personal Attacks were the small stuff
August 26, 2009 - 17:37 ET by evilcontractorScrewing someone's career (Bork) was just child's play. How about trying to screw the President and the country so he could profit?
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-kennedy-offer-to-ussr
www.btreasures.com
Sheesh!
August 26, 2009 - 18:03 ET by MightyMouthAnd I thought I couldn't despise the man more than I already did!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Sounds treasonous to me.
August 26, 2009 - 18:30 ET by Jack HermanSubmitting to the one world order, even then.
You can't make this stuff up.....
August 26, 2009 - 18:34 ET by evilcontractorIt's tough to see these people as they really are. Anyone really think Reagan or either Bush would do something like this? Gotta love those Kennedy's
www.btreasures.com
JH... Plus anything to
August 26, 2009 - 18:42 ET by bigtimerJH...
Plus anything to hurt what Reagan was doing.
Let's don't forget Ted groomed Kerry...two peas in a pod.
Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh
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August 26, 2009 - 17:59 ET by R D HelmOops, sorry evil ct, didn't see you had already gone there
No Sweat....
August 26, 2009 - 18:30 ET by evilcontractorI know they say respect the dead, but I don't see a whole lot of love for Hitler out there....I'm just saying...
www.btreasures.com
evil ct,
August 26, 2009 - 18:38 ET by R D HelmLOL-I started out this morning saying that I had been taught not to say anything bad about the dead unless it was good, which meant I was going to have nothing to say at all about Ted today.
Then, ObamaCare suddenly morphed into KennedyKare (as we all suspected it would) and all that went right out the window.
-Dave
I hear you...
August 26, 2009 - 18:43 ET by evilcontractorIt's all I need to hear for the next 3 months is "..we have to do this for Teddy..." I just hope the Republicans remember if it was a bad idea when Teddy was breathing, it's still a bad idea......
August 26, 2009 - 18:13 ET by jessieHKennedy was a MURDERER. I call that a personal attack.
no personal attacks?
August 26, 2009 - 18:16 ET by UndercoverConservativebut plenty of blatant, amateur-hour nastiness. Anyone remember the "when did the US Military stop torturing prisoners" question in Senate hearings from that nasty blowhard?
WWW.GS2AC.COM. 2nd Amendment Grass Roots Action in the Bay Area, CA. We're not all "Breakfast Cereal" folks here! :)
Damn
August 26, 2009 - 18:34 ET by Jack Herman"2nd Amendment Grass Roots Action in the Bay Area, CA"
Did you get that approved by Ms. Babs and Nan?
Quick Question
August 26, 2009 - 18:46 ET by evilcontractorCould you guys in CA do any worse if you picked your elected reps randomly out of the phone book? Just asking.....
www.btreasures.com
Five Decades!
August 26, 2009 - 18:58 ET by iveseenitallI heard on Fox today what a wonderful guy this Kennedy fellow was for having spent FIVE DECADES as a Senator. I beg to differ. The founders NEVER envisioned any citizen representative spending FIFTY YEARS in Congress. It is positively un-American. It is against the very principles for which this nation fought a revolution. America needs to impose Term Limits in order to stop the insidious influence and corruption a man like Kennedy represented.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
I cannot take it
August 26, 2009 - 19:07 ET by bigtimerI cannot take it anymore....heard BOR's opening, gag me with a spoon...going to mute it for me, my husband is leaving it on though...hope I can tune it out with Levin...he usually will do the trick.
Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Once again Little David leaves us wondering..
August 26, 2009 - 21:00 ET by CT"...Ted Kennedy, unlike so many politicians of this day, he didn't dabble in the small stuff, the petty personal attacks..." Little David Shuster
What are you trying to say David, you either don't have a clue or you don't believe Teddy Kennedy acted exactly like you do most everyday?
RIP MJK
August 26, 2009 - 21:07 ET by retroconpersonal attacks?