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The official White House Flickr photo-porn stream has crassly brought POLITICS into the death of famous politician Ted Kennedy, by posting a set of pictures titled, “Remembering Senator Kennedy.” Yeah, more like “Remembering the Politician Ted Kennedy, instead of the apolitical national mascot we all loved as our own sort of Col. Sanders or whatever.” God, these Obamas …. [White House Flickr]
Screw this, we need hourly Editor updates. Has Mark K Sanford, Jr. been born yet?
Man, lookee thar at them scary Marxists, Socialists, Pinkos. Makes me want to hide.
DEATH PANELZ11!
Our Preznent is one fine looking man.
“who’s got the brightest set of pearly white teeth” contest winners.
Those are great, especially this one — but for the sake of sanity, avoid the comments.
IT’S WHITXPLOITATION!
I saw this movie! It’s called The Thing With Two Heads, right?
SayItWithWookies:
Why didn’t Kennedy’s staff notice his hair before he walked out? Bless his heart, he had bed head. They should have fixed that.
Teddie to Barack: “Remember that time when I drove a car off a bridge down in Cape Cod and the girl with me died? Oh my God, was that hilarious!”
SayItWithWookies: Yeah, rpblog, meerkat avatar, or whateva, is a dick.
*sniff*
SayItWithWookies: I hate you for making me look at those comments.
professionalcynic: Barack to Teddie: “And remember that time I saw you leaving that KKK Meeting?”
professionalcynic: WAAH WAAH WAAH YOU SPAT ON THE GRAVE OF SAINT TEDDY. Let the sweary denunciations begin!
SayItWithWookies: The White House can, but obviously chooses not to, block comments on their Flicker. A refreshing bit of rational realism compared to the White House communications department of the previous administration. When Bush came to office, there was a working White House email server. But he claimed the Clintons damaged it. When it was “restored” the only way one could gain access to email the White House was to send an email to hte White House requesting access.
V572625694: I TOLD you…!
professionalcynic: Now that is funny. I can see why you glossed yourself “professional”.
SayItWithWookies: Brave souls all, for criticizing a dead man…
professionalcynic: Anita?
I just finished reading a story about assassination attempts on Teddy’s life. A secret service agent is quoted as saying something like “every single minute of the day every single day somebody is out there trying to kill Ted Kennedy.” A man that can’t be bought is just too dangerous to some people it seems. I am glad that it never ended that way.
professionalcynic: Aww aren’t you just the cutest thing! You sound like that god-awful Family Guy writer….the one who…well, you know.
Tybalt: You mean Swearengen denunciations, right? The kind where you stand it like a man…and then give some back. Ted can take it so bring it on bush.
Gorillionaire: To Quote Glenn Beck, “If you strike me down, I shall become far more powerful than you could ever imagine…”
JadedDIssonance: My favorite Glenn Beck quote is “I’ll suck your dick orderly for a swig of that mouthwash.”
Tybalt: No one listens to you Tybalt. Go beat off to a Nixon pic.
professionalcynic: Wow, that wasn’t just funny, but it was original!
I saw Ted Kennedy speak in Boston on the day before Super Tuesday (Super Monday?) They had a series of “B” level and up-and-coming politicians open, with the more prominent pols going on at the end. It was jarring to hear not-quite ready for prim time politicians speak about hope and try to inspire, they just couldn’t really pull it off yet. John Kerry and Deval Patrick were at best lukewarm.
Then Ted Kennedy took the stage. Amazing. At one point in time he got so excited he started what I can only describe as speaking in tongues. He was so riled up it just sounded like giberish. He might have been drunk. But the way he bore down on the mic, everyone in the audience was flat out going nuts. The energy was insane. That was my one and only real experience with Ted Kennedy as a force of nature. I’m glad I didn’t miss the event.
I heard Rush just say he was prepared to take a drink every time he saw a black person along the parade route but never took one because he didn’t see any faces of color. If Rush is swallowing pills with scotch and frosted mini wheats at 9:00 a.m. while scanning the TV for black people during a funeral, that makes him like me and half the people here (except we’re watching The Price is Right in our underwear).
liquiddaddy: Ahem, some of us prefer to watch Roseanne in our underwear tyvm.
JadedDIssonance: Roseanne fits in your underwear?
Gopherit: If it were funny or in any way original, it wouldn’t be an issue. But the jokes are always the same, and insensitive to both Kennedy and Kopechne, so the tellers’ moral grandstanding rings hollow.
suchsweetthunder:
Wellstone speeches were like that. He kind of sprayed a little so you didn’t want to be in the front.
suchsweetthunder: John Kerry was lukewarm??? No…Can’t be…why he’s a modern day William Jennings Bryan!!!
freakishlystrong: is it a meercat, or a weasel? whatever, i think we all know it can eat a bag of you know what.
*sniff*..why…why…..can’t we all just along!?!? *sniff*
o/ Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony.. /o
Too bad GM closed out the Oldsmobile line. It would have been a natural for corporate sponsorship for something like this.
Or possibly Mae West Life Jackets: “Taking a Dive With A ‘Campaign Worker’? Dress for it!”
SayItWithWookies: Why, do you suppose, did Zoboomafoo need to leave so many comments, that all said the same thing? Why do the Kratt brothers hate America so much?
sarahconnor: I wasn’t sure, my eyes were burning. In this case, more likely a weasel..
Bye Teddy
SayItWithWookies: Say, do you happen to know the name of that woman? Why can’t I think of it? Oh, I’ve got a great idea again today: let’s make Chappaquiddick jokes - they’re all so funny. And original.
Say what you will, Teddy was a good-looking old man.
Doglessliberal: He is but don’t let Michelle hear you crushing on her man!
AbstinenceOnly Ed: After all, we’re all renowned for our sensitivity around here, wouldn’t want to risk the reputation.
Min: He wasn’t much to look at when he was younger - a but puffy - but boy howdy he got handsome in his old age, even after he got jowly. Some guys just look better at 60 or 70 than at 35. Plus he had gravitas
On Ted Kennedy, one more thought. Teddy was a good man. And he was also a politician. So fuck him. You know who else was a good man? George McGovern. Ted Kennedy did everything he could to screw him over.
These snarkisms miss the real point, which is the extremely high resolution with which our Editor posted this photo. Just look at the freaking detail, what a great pic. Editor must really have hotpants for these guys cause this pic makes them both look terrific, bedhead Ted or not.
ps Teddy standing behind the presidential seal is somewhat poignant, eh? I don’t think there are any similar ones from the Billary years.
Great name for a rock band:
Delmont Eighty Eight and the Boiler Room Girls (opening for the Dead Kennedys)
Ted & Barry both really look great in this photo……http://bit.ly/invest_portfolio/?refer=wonkette