Edward M. Kennedy

The Kennedy Curse Strikes Again With New Death

Many of the Kennedy family and their spouses have long been walking car crashes, as doomed as cast members from Saturday Night Live. All those good looks and great connections obviously come with a price. Just yesterday, Mary Richardson Kennedy--RFK Jr.'s troubled estranged wife--was found dead at ... More >>

Dick Nixon's Buddy Bebe Rebozo Comes Into the Watergate Picture

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 9, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 32 Covering up the cover-up? by Lucian K. Truscott IV In the days immediately following the break-in of Democratic National Party Headquarters at the Watergate in June 1972, Richard M. Nixon met repeated ... More >>

Jill Johnston: 'A Woman Like Bella'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 19, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 42 'A woman like Bella' by Jill Johnston NOTES: note 1. I quote hentoff quoting frederic morton: "Of course, I agreed with my callers she should never have run against Bill. Of course Teddy Kennedy shou ... More >>

Partying Down at Bill Buckley's House

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 17, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 38 A Day at the Buckleys: Big Blight at Great Elm By Barbara Long SHARON, Connecticut -- Several months before Apollo 13's crew walked out on "Hair," setting us straight once and for all on just who the ... More >>

Rick Meyerowitz's 'Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'; 'London Transport Posters' at MOMA

R.C. Baker's Best in Show

Jack Newfield and Robert Kennedy: A Lunch that Launched a Memoir

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 5, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 34 Memoir of a Hero Who Died at Five by Clark Whelton In February of 1966, Jack Newfield appeared on a tv talk show to discuss his recently published book "A Prophetic Minority." During the course of the pro ... More >>

J. Edgar Hoover Called Us Liars: Yes, We're Thrilled!

​J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI eye on Runnin' Scared in 1969, just-released Teddy Kennedy files reveal. In fact, he called us liars, the greatest blurb quote we've ever garnered.

Rightbloggers on Sex and the City: Still Hate Sex, and City, But Love That Anti-Muslim Angle

The reviews are in, and Sex and the City 2 looks like the season's biggest critical bomb. Though the film drew a decent crowd in its opening weekend, it was lambasted by critics both highbrow ("almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness" -- Wall Street Journal) and low ("Sucks in the city" -- New ... More >>

President Obama's Dog Is Worth Less Than a James Joyce First Edition, More Than a Golf Tourney

​President Obama's financial disclosure form has been released, and among the salient nuggets are his Vanguard retirement fund (us, too!), his $1.4 million from the Nobel Peace Prize (which he donated to charity), and the news that his Portuguese water dog, Bo, (a gift from the late Senator Ed ... More >>

Erick Erickson, Extremely Rightwing Guy, Liberal Media's 10,000th Conservative Hire

​The liberal media have done it again! They are advancing the Obama socialist agenda by hiring Erick Erickson, an author from the rightwing website RedState, as a commentator on CNN, aka the Clinton News Network. It is not immediately clear how this advances the liberal agenda, but you can be ... More >>

Nate Silver Predicts Republican Odds of Victory in Today's Senate Race are "3:1"

When Nate Silver talks...​New York is looking to the North today as Martha Coakley attempts to keep Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat for the Democrats. The Massachusetts senate race has the cover of the Post and has President Obama pleading with New York Democrats (via e-mail) to report to a phon ... More >>

THE KENNEDY CURSE

Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby

Liveblogging the Obama Health Care Speech

​ 8:05. The look of surprise Hillary Clinton uses when she greets people in crowds makes her look like she's trying to wake herself up. We wonder if she has a callous on her cheek from getting kissed. Whoops, Brian Williams said "death panels" was bogus! Liberalmediabias! Do a shot! 8:11. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Scour Kennedy Funeral for Anti-Obamacare Ammo

After a plane crash killed liberal Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, and several staff members in 2002, his friends and family held a memorial at the University of Minnesota attended by 15,000 people. The theme was "Stand up, keep fighting" for Wellstone's beliefs, and the expected D ... More >>

Latest Michelle Obama Outrage: Closes Eyes, Maybe Bumps Head

Oh good: we were worried we'd have to get through the day without an outrage. The latest offense: Michelle Obama closing her eyes at Ted Kennedy's funeral. "Michelle Obama falls sound asleep during Ted Kennedy's funeral," cries PUMA site HillBuzz. "The least this woman can do is stay awake during ... More >>

Week in Review: More Topless Women Than Non-Topless Women

photo from Girl Talk's Pool Party show by Sam Horine But seriously, this was a really depressing week. We said goodbye to Teddy Kennedy through song and so did Orrin Hatch. Ellie Greenwich, the woman who wrote "Be My Baby" also passed, as did 29 year old New York DJ Josh Link. Speaking of death, M ... More >>

Who Should Play Teddy Kennedy?

​I hate to start the casting ball rolling so soon after a person's passing, but somebody's got to. So in the inevitable movie about Teddy Kennedy, who should play the Massachusetts Democrat who achieved so much (though USA Today's Wednesday headline, "Kennedy Made Massachusetts Larger Than It ... More >>

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

​Last night Edward Kennedy, who had been suffering from brain cancer, succumbed at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. His life story is so well known as to hardly bear repeating: younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential contender, Senator ... More >>

Rightbloggers Observe Kennedy's Passing Pretty Much the Way You Would Expect

​Rightbloggers observed the death of Ted Kennedy with their customary grace. "By my reckoning, he left the country worse off than he found it, and to the moment of his death supported legislation that, if enacted, will make it a lot harder for the generation of my children to succeed, thrive ... More >>

The Ghosts of Teddy Kennedy

​You half-expected the Post this morning to have re- plated its front page with one of its many Page Six cartoons, the ones depicting a paunchy Teddy Kennedy, wearing heart-bedecked boxer shorts and chasing a perky blonde around the bedroom. Rupert Murdoch never forgave Kennedy for having ... More >>

Politico Finds Rightbloggers' Kennedy Eulogies Much Nicer Than We Did

After we skimmed some ingracious rightblogger remarks upon the death of Ted Kennedy, Politico did a story called "Not all Kennedy critics hold fire." Following some ripping examples from Andrew Breitbart ("villain," a "duplicitous bastard," "prick"), they observe, "Few -- if any -- others on the rig ... More >>

Obama Presents Medals of Freedom; Rightbloggers Predictably Enraged

​ Yesterday afternoon President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on 16 notables including Billie Jean King, Chita Rivera, Stephen Hawking, Sidney Poitier, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Edward Kennedy, the late Jack Kemp (whose widow accep ... More >>

Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk

​President Obama has announced this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. The nation's highest civilian honor has gone in the past to folks like T.S. Eliot, Lucille Ball, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Mead, Jack Nicklaus, Mother Teresa, and Norman Podhoretz. As you may have guessed, Dem ... More >>

New Book: Caroline Kennedy Expected "Automatic" Appointment; Ted Drinks

Vanity Fair has published excerpts of another damn Kennedy book, Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died. Of special interest to us are the sections involving former Senatorial hopeful Caroline Kennedy. "She had expected that the appointment would automatically be hers," writes Edward Klein -- not ju ... More >>

Caroline Joins Bloomberg for Laffs at Inner Circle

The annual Inner Circle dinner allows local press dignitaries to amuse themselves with skits gently teasing a cooperative Mayor, who usually appears in them. This weekend's version had a The Little Mermaid theme, with Bloomberg ruling an underwater kingdom called "NY Sea." (They get $500 a plate for ... More >>

Caroline Kennedy withdraws from Senate bid

Caroline Kennedy has retrieved her tiara from the ring. She's no longer a candidate for appointment to the U.S. Senate. Amid all signs that the princess's coach was rapidly turning into a pumpkin, one of her minions issued an e-mail just after midnight saying she was withdrawing for "personal re ... More >>

New York Senator Helps Party, Herself in Convention Address

Daily Flog: Terror and prayers in Denver, dead fish at a NY nuke, rent becomes a nationwide hit

Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

The Long Goodbye to Camelot: Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor

TABLOIDED: Ted Kennedy's Obama Endorsement

Sweet Relief

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Puerto Rico to Vote . . . on What?

Alito Vague on Torture Ban

Supreme Court nominee hems, haws through Kennedy questions

Let Them Eat Comp Time

Bush, Congress nix minimum wage hike, push tough bankruptcy bill

War Crimes

Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured

The Ghosts of Torture

New attorney general twists the rule of law to which he is 'deeply committed'

Morning Report 1/7/05
Panel's 'Oversight' of Gonzales? Mission Accomplished.

Gonzales Hearing 11:09 a.m.
POTUS Interruptus!

It's Mourning in America

The Ohio debacle and the death of our civic life

We the People (They the Freaks)

Save Your Disarming Smiles

Walking the Planks

Dems' creaky platform leans to right, has a warped colonial veneer

A Glimpse of Real Democrats

The other sides of the party and its issues—including Africa and the plight of a dead GOP president

Congress Questions Rummy's Coverup

He crumbles and turns petulant under grilling by senators

The Dems' Nor'easter

Kerry and Kennedy: Together at Last

Nation

A Possible Filibuster on Ashcroft Nomination

Kennedy Spars With Republican Senators

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

The Son Also Rises