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Article: There are no political sides to choose amid Senator's fight.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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YOU DON'T have to be a Democrat or Irish Catholic or an American over the age of 40 to be shaken by news of Sen. Ted Kennedy's malignant brain tumor.
You don't even have to be an admirer. You only need to be someone whose family has been touched by cancer, that awful equalizer.
And yet, some so detest the fiery liberal from Massachusetts that they can't muster empathy for the stricken man. Even now. They were out Tuesday, on the radio. On the Internet.
Talk show host Michael Savage, heard locally on WNIS, set a new standard in tastelessness. I wasn't able to switch stations quickly enough to be spared hearing him cue a tune by the punk band the ...