Thursday, August 27, 2009
Can't conservatives wait till Kennedy's buried?
Posted by John Grooms on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM
This will seem incredible to readers under the age of, say, 35, but there actually was a time when two of the most attractive things about conservatives were their sense of propriety and their belief in civil discourse. No need to tell you, but those days are gone, and now we're used to conservative windbags bloviating at full volume 24/7.
Consider me clueless, perhaps, but I honestly thought the right would probably wait a couple of days before slamming Ted Kennedy. Silly me. Pundit Michelle Malkin reacted to the news of Kennedy’s death by previewing the upcoming media coverage this way: “The wretched excess begins.” Rush Limbaugh, aka World's Most Repulsive Drug Addict, was bragging yesterday that he had correctly predicted that Kennedy would die before health care reform was passed. Popular conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart is getting attention for the nasty Twitters he’s been sending out about Kennedy (example: Kennedy was "a big ass motherf@#$er," a "duplicitous bastard" and a "prick”).
It was particularly striking, not to say revolting, to see the Observer this morning, in which they front-paged an article that gave Kennedy critics a place to voice their bile. It’s funny, but I don’t remember any such airing of “opposing views” in the daily paper after Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon died. It would have been easy to do, believe me, but the Observer showed some respect in those cases. Private grumbling is one thing — and my friends and I did plenty of it during the Nixon and Reagan post-mortems — but public contempt for someone who has just died is wrong, plain and simple.
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Not being a hypocrite I have to say that Novak was revolting and I thought the same types of thoughts when he died last week. By the way, Ted Kennedy changed the world as very few in history have. He will be missed
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I did not admire what Kennedy stood for. Conservative is a definition in flux these days. Malkin is not really a conservative in the historical sense. She's a neo-conservative, which is a offshoot of Wilsonian brand of liberalism. She's been discredited so many times its laughable. At least we still know what a liberal is.
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