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Politics : Teddy Kennedy Today -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (482)	2/3/2006 12:25:43 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 729

A smear continues Although Senate Democrats were unable to lay a glove on Judge (now Justice) Samuel A. Alito Jr. during his confirmation hearings, the same cannot be said for the reputation of a conservative group to which Mr. Alito once belonged, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Proof of that came in a Washington Post story yesterday about how conservative groups outmaneuvered the left-wing coalition that tried to stop the high-court nominee. The article by Jonathan Weisman said Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, "aggressively questioned Alito on privacy, abortion and his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a now-defunct group known to be discriminatory toward women and minorities." Now the latter part of that statement (put into italics by this column for emphasis) is false and defamatory. In fact, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy read "bigoted" statements from an article that once appeared in the group's magazine. But what the Massachusetts Democrat failed to tell anyone was that he quoting from a satire. Thus Mr. Kennedy misled his colleagues, a national TV audience and now The Post. Jerry Zeifman, a dissident Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, set the record straight in a commentary at www.NewsMax.com. "For me, Kennedy's effort to impugn Judge Alito's integrity was reminiscent of Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy, who tarred his victims with the brush of guilt by association." Mr. Zeifman said. "Kennedy's charge against Alito was based on the fact that 34 years ago, while a reserve officer in the Army, he joined a Princeton alumni group that opposed the banning of ROTC programs from the university's campus. Some members of the group (other than Alito) wanted Princeton to continue its traditional policy of denying admission to women. They also opposed affirmative action programs based on quotas."