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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: "BREITBART: End to two grim fairy tales" |
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Yikes! Andrew Breitbart in a scathing commentary on the leftist iconization of Ted Kennedy. It's pretty clear that the discretionary dam has now burst inre a conservative take on Ted Kennedy's "legacy"...
| Quote: | BREITBART: End to two grim fairy tales
Andrew Breitbart
Monday, August 31, 2009
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
With the deaths of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, the summer of '09 marked the merciful ends to Camelot and Neverland, iconic American fairy tales whose story lines should have come to merciful ends long ago when their charismatic protagonists took dark and irredeemable turns.
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain. But through the power of celebrity, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jackson worked the media to twist truths. They manipulated their constituencies and fans to obscure their misdeeds. They played the faithful to confer this manufactured innocence on the rest of us. And, in the end, they placed themselves above the law.
My condolences go to the Kennedy and Jackson families, who should not be stained by the sins of their kin. But there is no time like the present to ensure that those masterfully produced, over-the-top, all-star televised funerals don't serve to canonize talented and charismatic men who failed to own up to their public wrongs and who continued to flaunt the behaviors that got them into trouble.
Given that President Obama's flailing medical care reform movement is in the process of being given new life under the fallen senator's name, our national health now depends on talking honestly. As Mr. Kennedy's political defenders would put it, it's time to speak truth to power.
Forty years have passed since Chappaquiddick. Immediately after the accident, Mr. Kennedy scrambled to organize the best and brightest to save his career, rather than to save the life of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.
Before the facts were gathered, as her family was being prepped for a cash payoff, the Massachusetts voter - in "shock" and "denial," the beginning phases of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's grief cycle - was asked by the senator in a carefully constructed televised speech to look away from his misdeed in the name of his family's recent tragedies.
In a time of grief, the young senator framed his future as a referendum on Camelot. And the media didn't call him on it. The fix was in.
The result was Mr. Kennedy needn't do more than show up for work to atone for his calculated selfishness. Without apology or contrition, Mr. Kennedy crafted a public career in which he spent taxpayers' money - certainly not his own - to make up for his unspeakable behavior.
As long as he toed the liberal line, this trust-fund Robin Hood was protected by the liberal masses and the mainstream media. Hollywood did its job by not putting his story on the big screen.
Doing to the reputations of Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork what he did to Miss Kopechne only reinforced his value to the Democrat Media Complex as the memory of his brothers' more authentic Camelot began to fade.
A blogger at the Huffington Post went so far as to argue the liberal Miss Kopechne herself would have accepted her death on utilitarian grounds. "Who knows - maybe she'd feel it was worth it," Melissa Lafsky wrote.
No reading of Mr. Jackson's relationship with young boys seems kosher. Perhaps he didn't molest Jordie Chandler, but paying him eight figures to go away certainly should have put an end to the Peter Pan routine. Mr. Jackson was a singer and a dancer but his best instrument was playing the media. As long as he kept up the "We Are the World" routine - noblesse oblige to a beat - the media looked the other way.
In the language of the Democrat Media Complex, speaking ill of Mr. Jackson was racist. Speaking ill of Mr. Kennedy was ideological. Both were protected. Their foes were ignored or castigated.
By playing the media's institutional biases, both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jackson rose above the law.
While Mr. Jackson spent most of his time self-medicating and collecting children and expensive stuff, the untouchable Mr. Kennedy continued his destructive habits while giving his Massachusetts constituency and American liberalism a bounty of legislative accomplishments.
The supporters of Mr. Kennedy, and to a lesser degree Mr. Jackson, elevate and promote "social justice" and "economic justice" as the highest human goals. Upon the deaths of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Kennedy, the media continue to erase their ugly backgrounds hoping their eternal celebrity can serve these collective ideals.
But the rubes - those of us skeptical of moral relativism, media manipulation and the cult of celebrity - prefer "justice justice."
Only when the "elite" among us begin to see things like us - and not in the unrealistic fairy tales crafted by our liberal betters - will Americans begin to live happily ever after.
• Andrew Breitbart is publisher of the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, Big Hollywood (http://bighollywood. breitbart.com), is a group blog on Hollywood and politics from the center-right perspective.
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| There is a race against time to see whether enough of the truth can reach the average "American Idol" aficionado before the "legends" and "fairy tales" are enshrined in school textbooks. I fear the latter will prevail. |
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Me#1You#10
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| TEWSPilot wrote: | | There is a race against time to see whether enough of the truth can reach the average "American Idol" aficionado before the "legends" and "fairy tales" are enshrined in school textbooks. I fear the latter will prevail. |
Precisely...and this speaks to a point Jack raised in another topic. "Conservatism", by its very nature of passivity, has had a dismal track record in combating the "creeping leftism" that now dominates our educational institution. Social conservatives ceded that control with barely a whimper commencing post WW II...and for that I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of "The Greatest Generation". They failed to recognize an even more formidable "enemy within" while digesting their tremendous sacrifices and military victory over an enemy from a foreign shore.
I believe that battle is being belatedly engaged today but, like you, am insecure about its outcome. That being said, the advent of the internet and its attendant facilitation of mass education and persuasion on a profoundly rapid scale still gives me some cause for hope.
Barack et al are, I think, learning that lesson today. Sometime soon, a newly energized and pro-active conservative movement must bring that same vitality to every school board meeting in this country. Those are the contemporary "front lines" on which this battle will be won...or lost. |
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LewWaters
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With all of the healthcare reform movement now being on the carefully constructed legacy of Ted Kennedy and the condemnations of HMO's as a prime example why this takeover is needed, we all need to recall that it is none other than Senator Kennedy who claimed authorship of the 1973 act that gave us HMO's.
| Quote: | "As the author of the HMO Act of 1973, Kennedy spoke in 1978 to the Senate in support of amendments strengthening the HMO law. He praised HMOs for delivering high quality care at 20 to 25 percent less cost than "fee for service" providers.
By 2001, HMOs were not enough government regulation of medical care. In that year, Kennedy authored a "Patients' Bill of Rights" condemning HMOs as "second-rate care" and calling for an end to "abuses in managed care." Only full government control of medical care would do." |
Ted Kennedy is Patient Zero
Given Kennedy's track record of failed healthcare measures, we should not support anything with his name attached and need to remind others.
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#1 wrote: | Quote: | | Sometime soon, a newly energized and pro-active conservative movement must bring that same vitality to every school board meeting in this country. Those are the contemporary "front lines" on which this battle will be won...or lost. |
Very astute observation #1. You are right on the money as to identifying the 'front lines' of the battle for the future.
The main reason we are in this situation today is as you stated, the ceding of influence in our learning institutions to the Communist infiltrated and subverted leftist cabal in this country.
They have a 60 or so year head start.
Can we catch up and reverse the situation now that we have several generations of indoctorination already in place in a large part of our population? I just don't know.
But fight we must.
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