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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Mary Jo who? We don’t want to remember.

A sexual harasser who managed any jail or prison time after killing a woman in the course of his harassment has just died. [Don’t tell us that connections and/or wealth don’t help.] His passing probably won’t get the attention that the recent death of a child molester has received, but he is receiving a lot.

I remember when he spoke at the Civic Center in 1971 to raise money for the DFL Party and people who we would now call “abortion rights supporters” and/or “feminists” demonstrated against him, showing caricatures of the senior senator from Massachusetts pregnant captioned “if he were pregnant” and attacking him for his position on abortion. [In later years he almost looked the caricature, but I am confident that pregnancy was not the reason.]

Of course, this senator whose name I am withholding changed sides and the feminists made peace with him.

In 1980 the same senator whose name I am withholding challenged President Carter and helped bring on the Reagan era.

Yet Democrats continued to lionize him. And last year Senator Obama made an extra effort to enlist his support.

And I hear today that this guy who never saw combat is to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

To quote Yakov Smirnoff: “What a country!”

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