Friday, January 13, 2006

"Harry Crocker III" gets the best of Teddy Kennedy

Mr. Right of The Right Place has the goods on Teddy Kennedy getting burned by a satiric letter from someone who called himself Harry Crocker III.

I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about this letter, which Teddy cited as "evidence," of Judge Samuel Alito's "elitism," yesterday. The below is from Mr. Right's site.

The 1983 essay "In Defense of Elitism" by Harry Crocker III included this line, read dramatically by Kennedy: "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic..."

But let's not be too hard on Teddy. At least he got this story right. Last month in the Boston Globe, Kennedy blew the whistle on the FBI for harrassing a UMass-Dartmouth student for checking out Mao's "Little Red Book" from the school library. Thanks for watching out for us, Ted!

Oh, breaking news from England. Some guy named Jonathan Swift has come up with a solution--he's calling it a Modest Proposal--for eliminating the problem of starving children. I'll do a follow-up as soon as I get more information.

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