No, I'm not making this up, this is serious:
Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."
Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May.
"I am very excited about the opportunity to create a book for young readers and their families that will deepen their understanding of how our American government works," Kennedy said in a statement Monday issued by Scholastic.
According to Scholastic, Kennedy's book "not only takes readers through a full day in the Senator's life, but also explains how a bill becomes a law." Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, was inspired to write the book from his work with a Washington-based reading program, "Everybody Wins!"
Kennedy's net proceeds will be donated to charity.
No word on whether the Senator or his dog contributed the majority of the text to the book, or whether MADD will receive a portion of its proceeds. (ADDED: The book is apparently "written" from the dog's point of view, but who actually wrote the text? If Kennedy needs a "ghost writer," Mary Jo Kopechne might be available.)
(2nd try at humor) Will MADD receive a portion of the book's proceeds? And who "wrote" the text for the dog? If Senator Kennedy needed a "ghost writer," did he use Mary Jo Kopechne?
I had forgotten that the Senator owned a dog named "Splash." Will wonders ever cease?
I see that Michelle Malkin wrote about this too, so here is my obligatory trackback whoring link.
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And if you thought my comments were tasteless ...
Rush Limbaugh: "Still no word on whether there are any pop-ups in this book ... Splash does the captions ... One of them says, "Here's my boss at lunch. He's the one on top of the waitress."
Junkyard Blog: " ... the “full day in the Senator’s life” seems like something more suited to a crime novel than a kids’ book."
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And while we're beating up on poor ol' Teddy, why not let him hit himself in the face a few times:
"Alito's Credibility Problem" - Edward M. Kennedy, The Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2006.
(Mike's Noise condensed version of Ted's op-ed: "Repeat after me: racist, sexist, homophophobe. Racist, sexist, homophobe. Racist, sexist, homophobe. Racist, sexist, homophobe."
National Review's Ed Wheelan continues the pummeling:
... the only questions of credibility, fairness and decency raised by Kennedy’s op-ed (if indeed these questions are still open ones in anyone’s mind) are whether Kennedy can credibly, fairly, and decently assess Judge Alito’s manifest and compelling qualifications for the Supreme Court.
Now we'll let Teddy hit his own head against the wall a few more times:
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notes some of the wisdom flowing from Sen. Ted Kennedy regarding Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, when he writes in this piece: (via PoliPundit—emphasis added)
“Briefly, Kennedy rewrote the outcome of the 1964 election. ‘This nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency,’ he said. ‘The Goldwater battles of those times were the battles against the civil rights laws.’ Only then did Kennedy acknowledge that “Judge Alito at that time was 14 years old.”
John Hinderaker from PowerLine writes,
... Democrats are just making it up as they go along. They recognize no duty of consistency. Their logic can't withstand the most elementary scrutiny, and their leader is a dimwit who, after being thrown out of Harvard for cheating, graduated last in his law school class. While a law student, he endured the humiliation of being arrested by a highway patrolman while cowering in the back seat of his car, pretending not to be the driver. He subsequently drove off a bridge, thereby drowning a young woman whose only crime was assuming that he was a competent escort. She probably could have been saved if he had gone for help, but instead of trying to rescue her, he spent the night looking for someone who would pretend to have been the driver of the car, discussing legal strategies with his family's advisers, and trying to establish an alibi. And now Ted Kennedy purports to sit in moral judgment over a brilliant, self-effacing public servant like Sam Alito. The American public isn't paying much attention, but I think they're smart enough to figure this one out.
Ooooh, that one's really gonna leave a mark.
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