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Mark Steyn on Ted Kennedy

Mark Steyn says what needs to be said about Ted Kennedy.  Here's a taste:

When a man is capable of what Ted Kennedy did that night in 1969 and in the weeks afterwards, what else is he capable of? An NPR listener said the senator’s passing marked “the end of civility in the U.S. Congress.” Yes, indeed. Who among us does not mourn the lost “civility” of the 1987 Supreme Court hearings? Considering the nomination of Judge Bork, Ted Kennedy rose on the Senate floor and announced that “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit down at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution . . . ”

Chris Matthews is Disgusting

Watch this disgusting episode of Chris Matthews drooling over Ted Kennedy.  No mention of Chappaquiddick - Matthews merely stated that Teddy "grew up."  Chris Matthews is nothing but a Kennedy shill.

Cranky Greg is not here to diss Senator Kennedy because Kennedy was a liberal - many conservative politicians were very fond of Teddy - but Cranky Greg has a real problem when a U.S. Senator is involved in an incident in which a woman died and Teddy didn't report the accident for hours, and he ended up getting virtually a free pass.  That would not happen for most people.

MSM hypocrisy is really amazing considering the fact that recently Robert Novak died and all everyone heard about was the Valerie Plame issue despite over 50 years of unassailable journalism.  And when Ronald Reagan died, MSM OD'd on Iran/Contra and Alzheimer's.

But when a liberal icon dies MSM forgets about little details like a crime.

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Letterman's An Idiot

Just another reason why people are sick of David Letterman and his ratings suck.

Robert Novak: RIP

Robert Novak, the old conservative journalist, died today.  He was a cranky old bastard, which is precisely the reason Cranky Greg was so fond of him.

Cranky Greg recently read Novak's autobiography, The Prince of Darkness, and it was an excellent read for those of you who are interested in America's political history of the past 50 years.  It was the one autobiography where the author really revealed warts.  Most autobiographies make Cranky Greg laugh, but not this one.

In any case, Novak will be missed by those like Cranky Greg who get so tired of hearing the conventional wisdom and who detest "journalists" who fail to scrutinize those they like, such as Barack Obama.

Novak was his own man, and did his own thing, and his reporting was accurate.  He didn't care if his reporting hurt a Republican's political career or a Democrat's political career.

He was definitely a man of the old school.  Smoking, drinking, reporting.

Cranky Greg is going to miss Robert Novak, and it is too bad that Novak is going to probably be remembered for the Valerie Plame affair, which was ridiculous in its own right - not because of anything Novak did.

The recent passing of Walter Cronkite had the MSM in a frenzy of self-adulation and worship of Walter Cronkite who mostly wrote and read scripts.  Novak was more valuable to Americans in his day because he was a reporter.

But MSM won't slobber over themselves at Novak's passing.  Which explains everything.

Obama's Big Brother Government

What's scarier than Obama's Government taking over your computer?  Kimberly Guilfoyle's weird face!  Anyway, Glenn Beck explains this evil.

Malaise

Jimmy Carter's "Malaise Speech" from 30 years ago, today.  It's kinda interesting to listen to during these times.  Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter was the worst president of Cranky Greg's lifetime, barely narrowing out George W. Bush, who gave Carter a run for his money.

More Palin Fallout

Peggy Noonan provides readers with a fairly thorough analysis of Sarah Palin - the most interesting of which is that Palin is a creation of the Republican elites and is actually bad for the GOP despite the fact that many party regulars see Palin as a fresh face.

Cranky Greg agrees with Noonan.  Pres. George W Bush was also a Republican elite creation - a disaster of monstrous proportions.  (The GOP party establishment is a corrupt embarrassment and has been for over 10 years.)

The other main point that Cranky Greg thinks is important is Palin's lack of curiosity about issues.  She was a parochial politician who really had no idea what was going on in the Lower 48 or the rest of the world, and didn't seem to be curious enough to read about things or even ask questions.

The Republican Party is a mess.  The sooner it forgets Palin and moves on the better it will be.  Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any future leaders in the GOP.  There probably is a true leader lurking in there somewhere, but we probably just don't know his or her name yet.

And we can all blame the Republicans for this Obama Cult of Personality.  Had the Republicans governed as they promised, Obama would be an obscure state senator.  So forget the GOP bullshit seeping out from Washington which is poluting our political discourse.  They can blame Obama al they want - but they are the ones who handed this mess to Obama on a silver platter.

What's Wrong with Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin quit today, whining her way out of office.  She's either going to make a misguided run for president, or there's some shit that's about to hit the fan.

Coincidentally, this morning Cranky Greg read Vanity Fair's hit piece on Palin, which was really nothing new, and a rather pointless article devoid of substance and facts.

Unfortunately, Palin doesn't really seem to get it.  Cranky Greg thinks she's much smarter than portrayed, but one wouldn't know it looking at her today.  Why would anyone vote for a quitter?  She played herself right into Vanity Fair's hit piece.

In her self-serving whine-atribe today, she spoke of the great things her administration did for Alaska.  Well then, why stop now?  When our country is facing a multitude of crises that are more serious and dangerous than most elected officials will admit?  Isn't now the time for leaders to emerge?

Palin didn't learn from Ross Perot, that big-eared nut from Texas who had a lead and then quit and then jumped back in and then looked dumber than he'd ever looked before.

No one will take Palin seriously now.  At least she didn't say, "You won't have Palin to kick around anymore."