Monday, July 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy's most recent award
However churlish I may be for complaining about a man with a brain tumor, neither should a brain tumor immunize Ted Kennedy against criticism for this:
Mexico has awarded Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy the country's highest honor for his work defending the rights of immigrants during his decades in Congress.
Mark Krikorian rather nicely captures the problem with this:
It's not like last year's award, which went to Bill Gates for humanitarian work in Mexico. This is an award to a serving American legislator rewarding him for promoting the preferred policies of a foreign government in domestic matter.
There is no evidence from the article that Kennedy rejoiced on having learned of this award, but so what? The testimony of the foreign government is damnation enough. If you doubt me consider this quaint little thought experiment: Ask yourself how crazy the mainstream media would become if Saudi Arabia gave George W. Bush an award for "his work defending the petroleum-based economy."
1 Comments:
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Tue Jul 22, 09:36:00 AM:
Here in Southern California we have endured the burden of educating a large percentage of Mexico's population for a generation. Many years ago I was pleased to find out that the Mexican government was going to ship tons of free textbooks to our school to help out. Under the fold was the punchline, the books were on Mexican history and were in Spanish only. It is okay with Senator Ted Kennedy and the Mexican government for me to be forced to pay on bond issues to expand our schools for Mexico's children, but they certainly haven't done anything "bilingual" to help my children.
One of my children's teachers said, "I wish I could teach the class at your son's level". My children got a substandard education because of waves of illegal aliens and Ted Kennedy gets an award. Very "equitable".
