# Tasteless, classless Ted Kennedy video at DNC **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698 "2012-09-05T00:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/21 "2012-09-05T04:05:27Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Concerned people are also worried about Bill Clinton overshadowing Obama as well. Weeeell, there is that [one meme](http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/288201-inappropriate-timing-bill-clinton). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/22 "2012-09-05T04:06:35Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > RNC chair, I beleive. Is that the chair the imaginary bogeyman Obama sits in? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/23 "2012-09-05T04:41:14Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > That line that sure worked out well for vice president Bentsen in the end anyway. Quite the zinger, though, wasn’t it? One memorable image counterbalanced by two memorable images (Willie Horton and a sad little man driving a tank). I those are the only things anyone remembers about the election of 1988. ---
**Author:** ![moonshot925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@moonshot925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonshot925)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/24 "2012-09-05T05:20:29Z")
Ted Kennedy was no hero, no great man, he was a rich, fat, murdering, cowardly, corrupt, treasonous, socialist, adultorous, alcoholic piece of shit. Good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/25 "2012-09-05T05:25:07Z")
Who you calling fat? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/26 "2012-09-05T05:26:41Z")
You misspelled “adulterous”. And that was the high point of your post. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/27 "2012-09-05T05:38:04Z")
> [@moonshot925](#): > > Ted Kennedy was no hero, no great man, he was a rich, fat, murdering, cowardly, corrupt, treasonous, socialist, adultorous, alcoholic piece of shit. I know you’re scared, but you don’t need to lash out. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/28 "2012-09-05T05:52:22Z")
I love that Reince is giving this a moment more attention than it already got. I saw it while I was getting ready for work, and I thought it was a pretty damn smart way of getting TK’s ghost to campaign for Obama, and Kennedy would have probably loved it. It made Kennedy look great, and Romney look terrible. Why would he want to draw _more_ attention to it? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/29 "2012-09-05T05:54:39Z")
> [@moonshot925](#): > > Ted Kennedy was no hero, no great man, he was a rich, fat, murdering, cowardly, corrupt, treasonous, socialist, adultorous, alcoholic piece of shit. Good riddance. And yet, most likely drunk and exhausted from banging a young staffer, he made Mitt Romney his bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/30 "2012-09-05T06:00:25Z")
> [@moonshot925](#): > > Ted Kennedy was no hero, no great man, he was a rich, fat, murdering, cowardly, corrupt, treasonous, socialist, adultorous, alcoholic piece of shit. Good riddance. Please explain to me how we was “treasonous” as well as being a “socialist.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/31 "2012-09-05T06:03:59Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I missed the tribute - does anyone know where I can find it? A quick Google search doesn’t find the whole tribute video, but [here’s a YouTube clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhzZmvmnS5M) described as “From the DNC video tribute to Ted Kennedy, 9/4/12”. It’s the segment dealing with the debate skewering. Good grief, but Romney was stiff and plastic and thin-skinned and defensive back then, too. Wair, I found [the whole thing](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7420484n), including his nephew’s live intro. ---
**Author:** ![moonshot925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@moonshot925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonshot925)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/32 "2012-09-05T06:36:42Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Please explain to me how we was “treasonous” In 1983 Kennedy offered to help Yuri Andropov defeat President Reagan’s efforts to strengthen America’s nuclear deterrent and in return Andropov would help the Democrat Party defeat Reagan in 1984. He put his own self-interest before his country. > **[sweetness-light.com](http://ww38.sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-ted-kennedys-offer-to-help-ussr)** > > This domain may be for sale! > **[Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit](https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html)** > > Considering the late senator's complete record requires digging into the USSR's archives. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/oct/27/20061027-084248-4386r/](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/oct/27/20061027-084248-4386r/) [http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/kgb\_kennedy\_the\_ted\_kennedy\_i.html](http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/kgb_kennedy_the_ted_kennedy_i.html) ---
**Author:** ![AlienVessels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@AlienVessels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlienVessels)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/33 "2012-09-05T06:46:31Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Haven’t seen the video and I don’t do Twitter, but isn’t this kind of thing likely to backfire on Obama? “Yeah, back then we had a real Democrat who knew how to do an election” – highlighting that Obama has never faced a serious opponent from the other party in his life. And it opens the obvious retort: “Mr. President, I knew Ted Kennedy. I faced Ted Kennedy in an election. Ted Kennedy was a respected opponent of mine. Mr. Obama . . . you’re no Ted Kennedy.” Romney doesn’t have the guts. Because it would be easy enough for the Dems to play this video of the (R) Romney trying to out-liberal Ted Kennedy. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a9IJUkYUbvI/hqdefault.jpg "The Real Romney?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI) I’m thinking the base might have second thoughts. Which is a shame because this younger Romney is a vastly better speaker and candidate. ---
**Author:** ![moonshot925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@moonshot925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonshot925)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/34 "2012-09-05T06:48:51Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Please explain to me how we was “treasonous” as well as being a “socialist.” Teddy promoted socialized healthcare for decades. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/35 "2012-09-05T06:52:52Z")
Ezra Klein [says it best](http://gawker.com/5940471/republicans-outraged-as-democrats-exhume-ted-kennedys-corpse-to-attack-mitt-romney?tag=DNC-Charlotte), I think[sarcasm sign] > [@](#): > > I, for one, am shocked that Democrats would inject politics into a video about politician Ted Kennedy during a political convention [/ss] ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/36 "2012-09-05T08:33:50Z")
Wow, that was a really good video. I liked the part where Kennedy said a long list of Romney flip/flops, then said “hell, give him two more weeks and he’ll probably vote for me!” For all of the Romney camp money, their convention looked like armature hour compared to this. I expect Reince to have a long week of being verklempt over the DNC convention. Quick, someone send him a package of hankies to fan himself with! ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/37 "2012-09-05T08:42:43Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I liked that it also got video of Mitt descibing his position on choice as completely the opposite of his current position, and played Kennedy’s bit on being pro-choice while Romney was multiple choice. > > Beautiful. Yup, every time the GOP complains about it and their followers go to watch the video, they will see Romney’s position on abortion. Talk about just being mean! ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/38 "2012-09-05T08:59:36Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > a sad little man driving a tank Dukakis served in the army for two years, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/39 "2012-09-05T09:21:38Z")
> [@moonshot925](#): > > Ted Kennedy was no hero, no great man, he was a rich, fat, murdering, cowardly, corrupt, treasonous, socialist, adultorous, alcoholic piece of shit. And yet, from beyond the grave, he’s _still_ making mincemeat of the best candidate the Republican Party has to offer. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698/40 "2012-09-05T09:25:38Z")
So the Republicans win a debate with a chair and then lose one with a dead guy. Best out of three? BTW I looked at Priebus’s Twitter feed. He retweets Romney saying “We don’t belong to government, the government belongs to us.” There’s two ways to read that… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-classless-ted-kennedy-video-at-dnc/633698.md?page=3)