DON LEMON said it for me.
He didn’t have to say it because we know it down here in Loozianer, even if we won’t say it openly.
I mean, it’s a given.
But Lemon, a native of Baton Rouge now plying his trade with CNN, called Sen. John Kennedy an “ignoramus” Wednesday night, adding that he was “just that dumb” and that he “embarrassed Louisiana, all Louisianians.”
Well, not all, of course. There are still many who do not possess the cognizance to recognize a buffoon when they see one. Their misplaced loyalty to a party label prohibits them from separating dignified diplomacy from dumb-ass platitudes and outright insults.
And of course, Kennedy will ramp up those catchy little banalities in his upcoming campaign for reelection without uttering a single word of real substance.
So, what, exactly, provoked Lemon into calling out Kennedy Wednesday night?
Nothing really – except Kennedy’s penchant to insult, debase, and demean (pick one) President Joe Biden’s nominee for the US Supreme Court – before the nominee has even been named.
To quote a now deceased friend of mine, “What an ass-clown.” And I’m talking about Kennedy here.
The man is a graduate of Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia Law School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, so it’s pretty well substantiated that he’s no dummy. Yet, he insists on playing down to the lowest common mental denominator of his Trump-worshiping base by doing his best to sound like Foghorn Leghorn of the Warner Bros. cartoons.
Kennedy, a member of the Judiciary Committee which votes on federal court nominees, was uncharacteristically quiet when Donald Trump touted the qualifications of a female nominee before the nominee’s identity was even known. That nominee, of course, was Amy Coney Barrett and she was approved with nary a Republican objection.
But then President Biden promised to appoint a qualified Black woman to the court, Sens. Ted “Cancun” Cruz and Kennedy went berserk. Cruz called Biden’s promise “offensive,” but Kennedy, true to his Mouth of the South persona, didn’t stop there. He had to inject his witty homilies into the dialog.
“Number one,” he proclaimed, “I want a nominee who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog. Number two, I want a nominee who’s not going to try to rewrite the Constitution every other Thursday to try to advance a woke agenda.”
That absurd utterance prompted me to wonder if our junior senator had been peeking at the women’s lingerie section of a J. Crew catalog, perhaps mistaking it for a law book.
Lemon’s response? Well, there were no cute little remarks like, “Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit” or “I’ll be batter dipped and deep-fried.”
No, Lemon, in an understated, calm manner said, “Senator Kennedy, really? You’re an ignoramus. You’re just that dumb. And I’m embarrassed because I’m from Louisiana. You embarrassed Louisiana, all Louisianians.”
Lemon went on to say Repugnantcans are “playing to the base with manufactured outrage over President Joe Biden’s vow to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. They can’t hang their outrage on her education or her record or anything at all other than the one thing that they know: That she’s Black. They don’t even know who she is yet.”
Remember, too, that when he first ran for senator, Kennedy was a liberal Democrat. But when the political winds shifted, so did he and now he’s a self-described Trump Repugnantcan.
Remember, too, that he was one of eight senators to vote to overturn the 2020 election, joining such luminaries as Tommy Tuberville (who identified the three branches of government as the House, the Senate, and the executive and who mistakenly said the US fought socialism in WWII), Josh Hawley and Cruz.
Kennedy, aka Mr. Haney (Green Acres), also said he’d “rather drink weed killer” than support Obamacare. He has repeated his pledge to drink Roundup than to let his constituents down.
Don Lemon was correct: Kennedy is an embarrassment much in the same manner as one Earl K. Long was in 1959. But Long had an excuse. He was suffering from a mental breakdown.
Kennedy is just suffering from diarrhea of the mouth.
Louisiana Voice 
And what does that say about those who voted for and elected him?
I don’t remember who ran against him. We need more qualified, caring and honest people to run for elective office. A friend of mine told me that she wouldn’t run for judge because she didn’t want people asking her embarrassing questions about her past or harassing her family. It seems like Republicans can forgive/forget their own’s transgressions, but nothing too trivial a Democrat has done or suggested can be let go. Republicans still drill the Clintons about Monica & the emails, etc. but never mention Vitter’s booty calls from Congress or Hastert’s wrestling teenage boys or the bathroom foot tapper from Minnesota…. It is just ridiculous and annoying beyond all reason. Why doesn’t the free liberal press hound Republicans about George Bush’s DWI or Sarah Palin’s daughter’s child out of wedlock….Republicans harass Democrats over evils that have yet to happen…. – like this unqualified not-yet-named female Supreme Court nominee. Biden should select Anita Hill to balance out the karma for what she went through during Clarence Thomas’ hearings…..
An important note and recommendation:
Foghorn Leghorn was actually based on a 1940s character, Senator Beauregard Claghorn. See the Wikipedia link below. I sent Senator John Neely Kornpone a message (to which I got no response at all) asking if he was really based on Senator Claghorn rather than Foghorn Leghorn as had been the accusation. I guess his email algorithm considered my question a joke because, as I say, I didn’t even get an acknowledgment of my query. Anyhow, I wouldn’t have known about Senator Claghorn had an online vendor not accidentally sent me a DVD with one of the Senator Claghorn films on it. Check out the link and, if you get a chance, watch as much as you can stand of one of the Senator Claghorn movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn
Up here in equally corrupt New York State we are on a roll. Former State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver recently checked out-not of jail but life. He one of the “three men in a room” the power trio for years. Also notable was the resignation of long time Governor Andrew Cuomo. He of the active hands and graceless mouth-among other unlovely attributes. Let’s see if Louisiana with no shortage of creative and cunning operatives can find the path to give dudes on the government teat their due. Ouster.
pitiful. you must have our head buried in the sand
Bobby, really not interested in reading insults. Any moron can sit in a dark room and type those. So here’s the deal:
Give me some specifics as to what I’m missing that the Repugnantcans have done that’s so wonderful.
They’re against voting rights, against teaching history as it actually occurred, against early childhood development, against healthcare, against protecting the environment, against investigating an invasion on the US Capitol, against rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, against equal pay for women. and, in Mitch McConnell’s own words, against anything that Joe Biden is for (no matter what he might be for – that, by the way, is not pro-America, it’s just anti Democrat. Period. It’s got nothing to do with what’s best for the country. Nothing. Just look at the way the last two Supreme Court vacancies were handled.
So, please tell us something the Repugs are actually for. Trump had a Repug majority in Congress but couldn’t get his wall built (and Mexico damn sure isn’t going to pay for it). He had a Repug majority in both the House and Senate but still couldn’t repeal Obamacare.
So, please pull my head out of the sand and show me what the Repugs have actually done.
If you can’t do that, then I have to assume you’re just another troll.