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Edward M. Kennedy

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Art

    August 18, 2010

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

    R.C. Baker's Best in Show

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2009

    THE KENNEDY CURSE

    Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    New York Senator Helps Party, Herself in Convention Address

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Ted Kennedy's Obama Endorsement

    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 >>

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Sweet Relief

    You asked the politicians for help with student debt. And maybe, just maybe, you're about to get it.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2006

    Puerto Rico to Vote . . . on What?

    You asked the politicians for help with student debt. And maybe, just maybe, you're about to get it.

  • News

    January 3, 2006

    Alito Vague on Torture Ban

    Supreme Court nominee hems, haws through Kennedy questions

  • News

    March 8, 2005

    Let Them Eat Comp Time

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

  • News

    February 15, 2005

    War Crimes

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

  • News

    January 18, 2005

    The Ghosts of Torture

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

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2005

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

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

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2005

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

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

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    It's Mourning in America

    The Ohio debacle and the death of our civic life

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    We the People (They the Freaks)

    The Ohio debacle and the death of our civic life

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2004

    Save Your Disarming Smiles

    The Ohio debacle and the death of our civic life

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Walking the Planks

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

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    A Glimpse of Real Democrats

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

  • News

    April 27, 2004

    Congress Questions Rummy's Coverup

    He crumbles and turns petulant under grilling by senators

  • News

    January 27, 2004

    The Dems' Nor'easter

    Kerry and Kennedy: Together at Last

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    Nation

    Kerry and Kennedy: Together at Last

  • News

    January 16, 2001

    A Possible Filibuster on Ashcroft Nomination

    Kennedy Spars With Republican Senators

  • Music

    March 28, 2000

    Opera by the Book

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

  • News

    July 27, 1999

    The Son Also Rises

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

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