Ted Kennedy and offshore drilling
joke · American political history ·
retold in 3 talks
Senator Kennedy, who opposed offshore drilling, was photographed by paparazzi making love on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. A Republican colleague quipped at the next Senate session that he was glad to see Kennedy had 'changed his position on offshore drilling.' Žižek uses it to mock the gap between ecological rhetoric and practice.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“I'm glad to see that Senator Kennedy has changed his position on offshore drilling”
“I'm glad to hear that our esteemed colleague has changed his position of offshore drilling.”
“the only offshore drilling that should be allowed is the one that kennedy was involved in.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Ted Kennedy2John Searle1Peter Hawken1Branko Marcetic1Donald Tusk1Lech Kaczyński1George Lakoff1Jean-Luc Marion1
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Every retelling 3
Senator Kennedy, who opposed offshore drilling, was photographed by paparazzi making love on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. A Republican colleague quipped at the next Senate session that he was glad to see Kennedy had 'changed his position on offshore drilling.' Žižek uses it to mock the gap between ecological rhetoric and practice., illustrating ecological hypocrisy,gap between political discourse and way of life
Ted Kennedy opposed offshore oil drilling; he was then photographed having sex on a boat offshore. A Republican senator quipped he was glad Kennedy had 'changed his position on offshore drilling.' Žižek invokes this as an example of healthy dirty political humour that should be possible in a normal society., illustrating dirty jokes in politics,political correctness,sexuality and politics
A Republican senator jokes that Senator Kennedy, who opposed offshore drilling, changed his position after being caught in a love boat; the senator quips, 'the only offshore drilling that should be allowed is the one that Kennedy was involved in.', illustrating Irma’s injection structure