HA!
Too late.

Feckin' Brizilliant.

How times have changed. Can you imagine the outcry, the rage, the furor, the hysterical 24/7 ranting, if such an ad would appear TODAY, that dared to sharply lampoon a popular leftist politician in that manner. Such as Obama.

Can we say "Whole Foods," boys and girls?

If the "wrong" politician was lampooned like that today.....Oh the marches, the editorials, the profanity-laced blog posts, the youtube rants, the nationwide led boycotts of Volkswagon.

The VW-USA marketing chair would have to be frog-marched into court for committing a hate crime.

Oh for days prior to political correctness.

Damn, I was gonna roll with that one today!

Heh. By the way, when I first saw the bottom photo it was captioned "The U. S. Navy inaugurates its Terrorist Catch-and-Release program."

Thanks for adding a good laugh to my day.

I'm a little surprised that cancer didn't leave him alone. Whatever happened to professional courtesy?

If not for penicillin, Teddy might have gone out like Henry the eighth.
It was three days before they could smell the stench of death over the stench of syphilis.

Sorry, but I reside in Massachusetts, and the constant stream of weeping sycophants on TV every time I turn it on is making me sick.

"Is it too soon?"

No.

Why are we pretending? He was a sleazy drunk.

Did I say sleazy? I meant creepy.

A Senator's Corpse Doesn't Make a Bad Idea Good.

There is a lot of truth to that first "ad". And a small blessing to what was a horrible, tragic death.

I myself am very grateful to the Senator. Grateful that he never drove any female member of my family anywhere in his car.

These Hyanniscrap asswipes deserve to have their noses shoved deep into the fact that millions of us - yes fucking millions - never bought into the Kennedy horsescrap, and particularly not into the woman-abusing corruptocrat hypocrital dirtbag that the last, thank God, of Godfather Kennedy's offspring became.

Good riddance to trash. The fact that so few of the "intelligesia" understand that is a testament to their moral prostituion.

Okay I meant "intelligentsia", but you knew that. God in heaven, I hate the Kennedys... could you tell?

I've been waiting for the 'Mayor Quimby Fest" to begin, seeing as Ted is the archetype Quimby. Shall I take a stab at it?

"It's time we face up to the un-face-up-to-able"

"Very well then, instead of fleeing this town, I'll stay here and grow fat off kickbacks and slush funds."

"Our city will not negotiate with terrorists. Is there a city nearby that will?"

"You can't seriously want to ban alcohol. It tastes great, makes woman appear more attractive, and makes a person virtually invulnerable to criticism."

I think we'll be spared the horse with the reversed boots. That's a military courtesy, and EMK was never the commander-in-chief (although he did a two-year military stint during the Korean war).

Gagdad Bob-

Perhaps the cancer was envious.

Outstanding post, Gerard! Great pics! :^)

For a minute there I thought you were talking about Black Jack Bouvier. But I believe the only thing he ever sired besides Jackie O and Lee Radziwill was something that dropped out of Cole Porter's butt.

Don't be too sure about not getting the riderless horse, Gordon. It's a military honor that is provided to O6 officers and higher. But recall that JFK's son, who never ever served in the military, was given a naval burial at sea.

No. Not at all:

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5585

As for Martha's Vineyard and the vacationing mourner-in-chief:

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!

Shakespeare

I think that about covers it. Unfortunately, Dan has been downgraded but should suffice.

This has been one long nightmare for the Kopechnes, family of the woman solely responsible for keeping Ted from doing more damage in the White House than he did in the Senate. Imagine how their hearts are breaking again over this undeserved fanfare for a man so common that a Bowery bum at his lowest depths possesses more character than Ted ever evinced.

That wasn't an official VW ad, of course. In fact VW was very upset when it appeared -- with their logo -- in the National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor. VW sued and NatLamp pulled all unsold copies.

I have mine.

>>This has been one long nightmare for the Kopechnes

Well, maybe, but they took an undisclosed cash settlement from the Kennedys to go away, so it can't have been a complete vale of tears.

Teddy was on the front line during the Korean War...guarding our embassy in Paris.

Ted's dead baby, Ted's dead.

Mary Jo Kopechne probably saved us from WW3. Think about it. He could have won in 1976 vs Ford: then, disarmament, the nuclear Briefcase in a crisis, two bottles of gin . . .

Every time I saw Teddy Kennedy on TV over the past 30 years, I'd remember the old saw that eventually, every man gets the nose he deserves.

Thank you all for this outstanding and literate thread. I feel better already, and have begun to lay in appropriate gallons of refreshments, in anticipation of the placement of Teddy's headstone. While I cannot be at Arlington, I can use a little silicone adhesive to afix a cunningly waterproof photo upon my local pub's porcelain wall fixture, right next to the existing and horrifyingly botoxified but still alive fossil Nancy Pelosi, the inestimably corrupt Barney Frank (n stein), the "you expect me to read this sh++" John Conyers and the biggest pisser of all, the pefectly corrupt Charlie Rangel. That leaves yet another appliance to fill with candidates, and I'm working on it now.
Suggestions appreciated.

Thank you all for this outstanding and literate thread. I feel better already, and have begun to lay in appropriate gallons of refreshments, in anticipation of the placement of Teddy's headstone.

While I cannot be at Arlington, I can use a little silicone adhesive to afix a cunningly waterproof photo upon my local pub's porcelain wall fixture, right next to the existing and horrifyingly botoxified but still alive fossil Nancy Pelosi, the inestimably corrupt Barney Frank (n stein), the "you expect me to read this sh++" John Conyers and the biggest pisser of all, the pefectly corrupt Charlie Rangel. That leaves yet another appliance to fill with candidates, and I'm working on it now.

Suggestions appreciated.

A lot of Massachusetts residents are still waiting to find out where Edmund "Eddy" Dinis got the money to buy a hotel and a radio station soon after letting Ted off from his chappaquiddick crimes.

This is one of those occasions that I just have to imagine what the lefties would all be saying if this were either George H. W. or George W. Bush who had just passed.

I love Volkswagen even more for this.

Here's to ol' Teddy! I've got a good bottle of single malt scotch to annoint his hallowed grave.

I hope he doesn't mind if I pass it through my kidneys first....

So Teddy was working a deal with Andropov to undercut President Reagan. That seems pretty close to treason.
Of course his father tried to backstab Britain during the early part of their war.

Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Tweet

http://historicaltweets.com/2009/08/04/ted-kennedys-tweetup/

To Meliisa Lafsky:

Yeah, I'm sure Mary Jane's last thoughts while trapped upside down in an automoblile sinking ever deeper into Poucha Pond were: this will all be worth it if Teddy becomes the "Lion of The Senate" and gets us universal health care - the cause of his life - and slanders and disembowels Robert Bork with false and wild accusations.

Slowly asphyxiating causes dereases oxygen to the brain which I guess can cause halucinations. Perhaps Ms. Lafsky is in the early stages and can be helped. We know for sure Mary Jane received no help from EMK...

Lafsky...it rhymes with Dumb Ass-Ky

BTW: Sorry for the typo above - "Lying Fat Bastard of The Senate" was misspelled as "Lion of The Senate."

Joseph Kennedy: "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here," stated Ambassador Kennedy in the Boston Sunday Globe of November 10, 1940. (From Wikipedia.)

The fact that is his own treasonous son Ted should have been tried for treason for contacting The KGB.

No sorrow here.

Lion of the Senate?

More like: Fat Hyena from Hyenas Port.

GOOD RIDDANCE! WHEN WILL THIS B.S. BE OVER? I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH ADORATION FOR A MURDERER

Sherlock, I think you stumbled upon a brilliant concept with 'intelligesia'. Intelligence combined with amnesia gives you intelligesia. This new word means that the people, who think they are smarter than everyone else, have lost their memory and so produce writing, which they think is absolutely brilliant and everyone else thinks is criminally insane.

With the death of Ted Kennedy, we see intelligesia everywhere.

I was on the Enterprise when we launched that car off the flight deck, back in '99 I think. It was a charity event, where anyone could take a sledge to the car for a couple bucks. Then we got rid of it the best way we knew how.