In questioning Judge Alito, Sen. Kennedy read from an issue of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton's magazine, Prospect.
Its subject is a lawsuit by a female Princeton student who wanted to be admitted to an all-male eating club at the university. The article argues broadly that elitism isn't a bad thing.
There's only one problem: the article was a joke.
Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire:
The essay may not have been funny, D'Souza acknowledges, but Kennedy read from it as if it had been serious instead of an attempt at humor."I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them," D'Souza said. "It was a satire."
Poor Teddy. Maybe next time they'll feed him some hard-hitting exposes's from Mad Magazine...
