| The Swimmer Just Makes It All Up |
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January 9, 2005 |
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 RUSH: Have you heard Ted Kennedy is going to write a children's book? Ted Kennedy is going to write a children's book. I wonder if he'll talk about whether or not he thinks you can strip search a waitress while -- (interruption) yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a dog named Splash. Now, you can name your dog whatever you want to name your dog, it's a free country, feel free, name your dog whatever you want to name it, but is he tone deaf? Remember, we had videotape once back during the days of the TV show of Teddy Kennedy reading a song, a kids' book to a bunch of school kids, itsy-bitsy spider and so forth. I guess that experience has launched him now to this new career, wants to write a kid's book. I wonder if he'll describe how you make a sandwich out of a waitress like he and Chris Dodd did.
Anyway, he had a piece Saturday in the Washington Post, and Ed Whelan, National Review Online, has parsed the piece. He says, "Kennedy’s attack is a jumble of distortions, inventions, and non sequiturs. In the interest of brevity, I’m going to refrain from revisiting Kennedy’s own credibility. Here’s a quick response to Kennedy’s five stated areas of concern: 1. Alito’s 1985 job application essay sets forth a classic statement of American principles." This is what Alito wrote in '85. "I believe very strongly in limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement, and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values. In the field of law, I disagree strenuously with the usurpation by the judiciary of decision making authority that should be exercised by the branches of government responsible to the electorate."
That is flawless. There's no more perfect classic statement of American principles on a job application you'll find anywhere. Ted Kennedy finds this troubling, though. In his piece on Saturday in the Washington Post, "Kennedy asserts, without anything resembling an argument, that these views 'raise serious concerns about [Alito’s] ability to interpret the Constitution with a fair and open mind.'" Now, you just heard me read his job app. There's nothing that he wrote that would lead anybody to that conclusion.
Kennedy, "Claims that Alito tried to distance himself from those views by telling Kennedy that he 'was just a 35-year-old seeking a job.'" Well, Ed Whelan says that, "A well-informed source tells me that Kennedy’s quote is a concoction and that Alito has never tried to suggest that the 1985 essay was not a genuine statement of his views at that time." So we have it here that Kennedy basically made it up, basically lied, said, "Well, he tried to excuse that, said it was just the rantings of a young 35-year-old." And Alito said, "Never happened. I didn't make any excuses for that, I don't make excuses for it now." What was the story a couple weeks ago, Ted Kennedy actually had another column that ran somewhere and quoted an event that was a total hoax, it didn't happen. He quoted a student who claimed that he had been spied on by the government, that's what it was and it was a total hoax. The whole thing was made up, and when Senator Kennedy was informed it was made up, he did what liberals do. He said, "It doesn't matter, it could happen with these people in the White House, and it's still a fitting example." So he stood by a hoax as a fact. So we have documented evidence that Senator Kennedy will make it up and then stand by whatever he makes up. He will lie and then stand by whatever he lies about in order to advance his principles or his cause.
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