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YAHOO'S ROBOTS MADE A FUNNY

Yahoo Subtly Accuses Ted Kennedy Of Unspeakable Crime

The one crime he never committed.Talk about guilt by association! Mouse over the name of a convicted child rapist and what pops up? The photo of America’s favorite drunken uncle, Ted Kennedy, who was never once convicted of such a crime. FOR SHAME, YAHOO, HE HAS CANCER AND EVERYTHING. Thanks to Wonkette Mouseover Outrage Operative “Bobby” for bringing this grave injustice to our attention. [AP via Yahoo]


11:35 AM on Wed June 25 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. nbawriter says at 11:38 am, June 25th, 2008

    Wow, Yahoo has a psychic server that can point to the real purveyor of crimes … a regular Pentium Mason.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 11:40 am, June 25th, 2008

    I guess that’s why I keep seeing David Vitter on Pampers Ads.

  3. When the article deals with a criminal named Patrick Kennedy, the Supreme Court opinion is written by Anthony Kennedy, and the whole thing is avatared by Ted Kennedy, a healthy question arises: WTF is up with all the Kennedies?

  4. Outstando says at 11:43 am, June 25th, 2008

    At least he didn’t drown a woman and then try to cover it up. What? Okay, so there’s this family of traveling vaudevillians, pitching their act to a booking agent…

  5. SayItWithWookies says at 11:44 am, June 25th, 2008

    The Yahoo servers have been discombobulated ever since they heard that R. Kelly was running for Senate.

  6. Godless Liberal * says at 11:46 am, June 25th, 2008

    This is just like how everyone blames 9/11 on bin Laden’s namesake, Barack bin Laden.

  7. The Neoskeptic says at 11:47 am, June 25th, 2008

    is every “wonkette operative” named bob, bobby, or some derivative thereof?

  8. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 11:47 am, June 25th, 2008

    I always knew Patrick Kennedy was creepy, but wow. Now who will represent the good (ha, not really) people of Woonsocket, Pawtucket and Central Falls?

  9. ColdCupofHope says at 11:47 am, June 25th, 2008

    Heck’uva job, Yahooie!

  10. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 11:48 am, June 25th, 2008

    This is what you get when you try to replace real live journalists with teh Googlez. Stop laying us off, fuckers!

  11. nbawriter says at 11:50 am, June 25th, 2008

    If you think that’s curious … when you scroll over Antonin Scalia’s name on that page, a picture of the Virgin Mary giving herself an abortion with a wire hanger shows up.

  12. loudmouthredhead says at 11:57 am, June 25th, 2008

    Geez, if you mouse over the “Hussein” in Barry’s name, do they show Saddam?

    nbawriter: And if you scroll over Clarence Thomas’ name, it just pops up a note that says “See: Antonin Scalia, black version”

    See Microsoft? Might actually be good you couldn’t buy Yahoo. Their search engines are worse than yours!

  13. freakishlystrong says at 11:58 am, June 25th, 2008

    nbawriter: Thanks, peed m’self at work again!

  14. Deepthroat says at 12:00 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Ted Kennedy also put down ‘Ol Yeller (and Bambi’s mom), willed the space shuttle Challenger to explode, and created Crystal Pepsi. What a monster.

  15. mookworthjwilson says at 12:04 pm, June 25th, 2008

    nbawriter: I have that picture in my living room. It’s a real conversation starter.

  16. Jewdishoowary Square says at 12:04 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Subtly?! Those mouse-over balloons are almost as jarring as a DC bus ride.

  17. loudmouthredhead says at 12:04 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Deepthroat: I KNEW it! Crystal Pepsi DOES give you brain cancer! It really is all connected!

  18. ForeignSickSpecialist says at 12:07 pm, June 25th, 2008

    AxmxZ: Just wait until the Dead Kennedies drop an album. How much confusion will that create for Yahoo? Serious.

  19. weirdiowasculpture says at 12:11 pm, June 25th, 2008

    But erroneous mouseover baloons are an internet tradition.

  20. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 12:13 pm, June 25th, 2008

    The court ruled that the death penalty can only be applied to those who have killed someone. I can’t imagine what that has to do with Ted Kennedy.

  21. Deepthroat says at 12:18 pm, June 25th, 2008

    loudmouthredhead: It has all the great taste of regular Pepsi, without that troublesome opacity.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgQx1fA3ZDc

  22. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:20 pm, June 25th, 2008

    This is better then those gmail ads where your friend talks about their new dog and there’s a link to “Find the best beastiality today” to the right of the screen. Ahhh, doubleclick.

  23. Brutus Harlot says at 12:30 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Even McCain fixes mistakes on his website within moments of them being posted on Wonkette. Get a move on yahooooooooooooooooooooooo.

  24. SocialList says at 12:56 pm, June 25th, 2008

    ForeignSickSpecialist: Kennedies?That’s hilarious.

    It’s Dead Kennedys.

    The plural of Kennedy is not Kennedies.Jello Biafra knows that.

  25. William Irwin Thompson wrote “In this world of information overload, the benumbed citizen no longer reads or thinks; he watches and feels,” which is the excuse I use for never reading anything, and the reason I completely unprepared to snark this post. So I’ll just say “YEAH…WHAT HE SAID…FUCK DAT!”

  26. Cranky Little Camperette says at 1:13 pm, June 25th, 2008

    ForeignSickSpecialist: Aw, man, why’d you have to go and invoke Yahoo Serious?

  27. artbot2000 says at 1:23 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Outstando:

    Apparently I’m not the only one who decided to go off his meds last week.

  28. ronaldpagan says at 1:27 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Some radio station should celebrate this ruling by not playing a Dead Kennedys song.

  29. donner_froh says at 1:30 pm, June 25th, 2008

    To twist the knife a bit more an ad for “low cost life insurance” is next to it.

  30. SocialList: I like mine better. :)

  31. masterdebater says at 2:31 pm, June 25th, 2008

    Teddy Kennedy killed the Lindbergh baby!

  32. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:47 pm, June 25th, 2008

    That is one internet tradition I wasn’t aware of.

  33. masterdebater says at 2:56 pm, June 25th, 2008

    masterdebater:

    Now that’s a cover-up. And proof that Teddy DID kill the Lindbergh baby!

  34. shortsshortsshorts: As someone who has to implement DoubleClick technology, let me be the first to agree.

  35. hopeforbill says at 9:33 pm, June 25th, 2008

    “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Son.”

    Unless you’re Teddy?

  36. villageatrois says at 12:34 am, June 26th, 2008

    SocialList: Yah, and East Bay Ray! Hell yah! Gotta admit, “California Uber Alles” was prophetic, and The Governator has followed. And “Too Drunk to Fuck” is timeless, like Teddy K.

    Oh yeah… you get really ugly results when you mouse-over Jello Biafra.

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