The cable Tee Vee news vultures circling over Ted Kennedy as if he was fixin' to join JFK, RFK, the dead Kennedy compound, and Mary Jo Kopechne. [He's "resting comfortably" "talking" "joking"]MSNBC and Fox News wallpapered the etherland with any talking head they could dredge up who could offer their memories of Teddy. Trent Lott, Geradine Ferraro (on Fox). It was almost like he was dead already.
It could've been the networks' Pope Death Watch. Rushed to the hospital with stroke-like symptoms... The second-longest serving senator... More influential than his brothers... [graphic, Boston talk radio dude Howie Carr's nas-ty Ted "Fatboy" website]
Hillary issued a statement: "My thoughts and prayers..." Ted's health was left in the dust as the speculation turned to Obama and what will happen if Ted isn't around to campaign for his political protege?
When Ted didn't cooperate and exit the planet, the cable vultures dumped him like Paris Hilton dumps boyfriends.
Drudge, the doyenne of all that's news, deigned the hoopla didn't warrant a police siren alert - or a link for that matter until the speculation became official with an official statement.
By then the "stroke" had been downgraded to a "seizure." Sounds like an alcohol withdrawal seizure to me - nearly identical symptoms to a stroke.
The NYDN buries it at number 7 on its online hit parade. NYP: "Sen. Kennedy Rushed To Hospital" NYT "Sen. Kennedy Suffers Seizure" ABC "Kennedy Suffers Seizure" CBS "Ted Kennedy Hospitalized For Seizure" CNN "Ted Kennedy Hospitalized After Seizure" MSNBC "Kennedy Hospitalized After Apparent Seizure"
Odd website juxtaposition: Fox "Sen. Kennedy Hospitalized After Suffering 2 Seizures" And to the left: "Hillary: I'm Still Here".
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Assembled masses await the first puffs of white smoke from Massachusetts General Hospital indicating that a new Kennedy has been selected for the senate seat held by one for 54 of the last 56 years.
Obviously, the previous post went up before Kennedy's brain cancer diagnosis.
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