Ted Kennedy, Traitor

I had noticed several stories recently about Ted Kenendy and his shady dealings with the former Soviet Union during the Reagan Administration, but the story never gets any traction due to the overwhelming liberal media bias in this country.

Well, I heard Roger Hedgecock, sitting in behind the Golden EIB Microphone today, mention Cold War contacts, a piece by a former CIA analyst in today's Washington Times, so hopefully the story will be picked up by more outlets.

Hedgecock made a point to note how the current behavior of the Democrats undermining the Bush Administration in the Iraq war isn't so much news as it's a pattern of behavior going back much further, and this story is more than ample evidence of the perfidy committed by the drunken sot from Massachusetts.

In 1983, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy offered to help the Soviets mount a public-relations offensive in the United States. This propaganda attack would target President Reagan and his policies. These are the same policies that eventually ended the Cold War and reduced the possibility of nuclear annihilation. This charge was made by Paul Kengor in his book "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism."

This new book adds to research done by Herb Romerstein, Yevgenia Albats, Vladimir Bukovsky, Pavel Stroilov and others. They all indicate that Mr. Kennedy felt that any bad relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were the sole fault of Mr. Reagan and that talk of a Soviet military threat was nonsense. These articles seem to validate reports that were first published by Vasili Mitrokhin — the former KGB historian who secretly copied sensitive KGB files and released them after the fall of the Soviet Union.

According to this research and released KGB papers, Mr. Kennedy felt that the booming economy during Mr. Reagan's presidency made him popular — and thus a difficult target for Democratic criticism. Because of this, Mr. Kennedy reportedly felt that Mr. Reagan's only weakness was in foreign policy. Here, the articles say Mr. Kennedy felt the Soviets might be of assistance, if Mr. Kennedy and the Democrats could get the ear of the general-secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Guarantee this: Should the story get picked up by a wider audience, the left will simply circle the wagons around their bloated icon, and question whether the author really exists, since he penned the piece under a pseudonym.

They won't have any problem "outing" a CIA analyst in this case.