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Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77
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Eh, he had access to aggressive treatments, though they don't do much about this particular kind of tumor thus far.
How do you know Americans in general are using a single source for news?
They are, unfortunately, a fairly large chunk of the public in general. Polling on things like Death Panels and Obama's Citizenship would put it at about 30% of the population subsisting on non-objective news.
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Pew Research Center. Though it is thankfully not a majority of people, the amount of time people spend on the news and where they spend it is rather saddening. TV sucks for news, except for MacNeil/Lehrer, and even that is pretty bad when compared to other formats more amenable to long form storytelling and analysis.
Also, that obit from Obama was really touching
Those dynasties are almost all dead or crippled for a long time. That doesn't stop new ones from arising because the family is an extremely useful powerbase.
By definition that would be a generation. Also, it ignores a hell of a lot of political dynasties that are relatively weak. Politics tends to be a family business. That they don't necessarily get to the pinnacles of power don't make them any less real.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Something seems wrong about that.
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Everything?
Is there a clip of it online? I turned the TV off during the church thing because it was so dreadfully boring and haven't turned it back on since.
Well for one you watched a special with John Stossel and took his opinion into consideration instead of mocking outright as is proper.
I included Hillary as she was close to being President.
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He's a libertarian hack who biases all of his reporting to tell you why the government would suck, regardless of facts?
Okay, I know the Clintons are from the south, but I don't think they're actually related, let alone a line.
Will right wing radio talk shows have the dignity not to bash the eulogies on Monday?
They didn't have the dignity not to start talking trash days after he passed away. I am not certain what they will bash about the eulogies since they all seem non-political but instead just statements about a man who served his country.
I have only heard parts of Ted Jr's but I hear it was the most moving of all of them.
This is the kind of thing an internet troll would say. A political commentator should refrain from that kind of shit.
Also, Karl Rove's bullshit was in bad taste too. When your political opponent dies, you don't continue arguing against their political stances or career.
What the fuck is wrong with Fox and the political right?
So, stupid hack, got it.
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The question reveals the answer.
One should not speak ill of the dead (at least, not the recently dead) but neither should one be a hagiographer.
I get mad when people are disrespectful toward Ted Kennedy but I know that I've done some serious gravedancing of my own in the past (Falwell springs to mind). I justify this to myself by noting that Kennedy was a good person and Falwell was terrible, but I know that other people feel the opposite. So.
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Yerp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKkOSMaTk4
"And why not now a word from the friend of Jack Abramoff's"
Ha!
You would think that if you didn't know anything about Jerry Falwell prior to watching.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Ted Kennedy wasn't. Regardless of which side of the aisle you fell on, Ted Kennedy wasn't a bigot, didn't support bigoted causes, and was a better man than Jerry Falwell could ever dream of being. The world is a worse place for his passing. That's the difference.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
And I can't claim wholesome purity either, and I can't even claim to have limited myself to political figures. I've done it twice with baseball team owners- Marge Schott and Carl Pohlad.
I have the feeling that when conservatives dance on Kennedy's grave, it's not really out of a deep-seated concern for the life of Mary Jo Kopechne. Meanwhile when I say that I am glad Jerry Falwell is dead because he was a bigot who worked tirelessly to make my life miserable, I mean it completely. So there's not that much merit to what the Chappaquiddick howlers say.