"a fake but accurate lie."

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Senator Teddy Kennedy recently wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe in which he decried the Patriot Act and other efforts by the Bush administration to maintain Homeland Security. However, as one of his examples of "abuse" and the "chilling effect on free speech," Kennedy told the story of a Massachusetts college student who "had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto." Aside from Kennedy's ignorant blunder misnaming Mao's "Little Red Book," the student soon admitted to having made up the entire story.

Ted Kennedy has no qualms about slandering America's finest for political gain.

Having no qualms about slandering law-enforcement officials or service personnel when it comes with perceived "political gain," Kennedy, like John Kerry, didn't bother apologizing. The Globe reports that spokesmouth Laura Capps went before the cameras to declare that "the senator cited 'public reports' in his opinion piece. Even if the assertion was a hoax, she said, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance." So it was, in the immortal words of Dan Rather, "a fake but accurate lie."

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The fact that there is no evidence of any crime what so ever does not take away from the seriousness of the charge.