Ted Kennedy's death heralds Camelot's end

Chicago Tribune ^ | 27 aug 09 | John Kass

[rellimpank]

With Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77, the political iconographers on Wednesday were working feverishly, like alchemists over a fire.

The Kennedy legacy has always been about American royalty and the appetites of kings and the use of myth, and that myth was always Camelot, those shining knights and the idealistic boy who drew the sword from the stone. With the death of the Massachusetts Democrat, finally, mercifully, let's let Camelot go.

The iconographers on the political right, including some who call themselves Christians, were busy damning his soul to hell for walking away from that crash at Chappaquiddick 40 years ago.

He let young Mary Jo Kopechne drown in the Oldsmobile, her body twisting to find pockets of air in that submerged car as he made it to shore, then waited hours to sober up, put his clout together and save his political career.

[muawiyah]

Camelot? Wasn’t that really about Morgan le Fey, incest, murder, necromancy and baby killing?

[albie]

As Crissy Matthews said...”BO is now a brother”. So, good news! Camelot isn’t dead!~sarc Also, isn’t that Came-alot?!

[Da Coyote]

Calling the Kennedy era “Camalot” is just about like calling the Yugo a Lexus. We were still basking in the accomplishments of folks who created things and the evil corporations who actually provided us jobs.

[AmericanVictory]

Kind of early astroturfing, wouldn’t you say? All that stuff about “family” while the godfather of it all wasn’t living with his wife but with one of his movie stars.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Camelot? Wasn’t that really about Morgan le Fey, incest, murder, necromancy and baby killing?

And as another Freeper pointed out yesterday, the “Lady in the Lake” was another Camelot side plot.

Too bad Mary Jo couldn’t be around to see the end of Camelot.

[AmericanVictory]

Kind of early astroturfing, wouldn’t you say? All that stuff about “family” while the godfather of it all wasn’t living with his wife but with one of his movie stars.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Camelot? Wasn’t that really about Morgan le Fey, incest, murder, necromancy and baby killing?

And as another Freeper pointed out yesterday, the “Lady in the Lake” was another Camelot side plot.

Too bad Mary Jo couldn’t be around to see the end of Camelot.

[cryptical]

“If they’re going to talk about Camelot, then we get to talk about The Lady in the Lake.” - Treacher

[domenad]

You know, I always thought the “Camelot” moniker suited the Kennedy clan better at the end, rather than the beginning. Think about it - Camelot held shining examples of virtue, men selflessly committed to a noble ideals, ending in endemic decay and corruption, perversion of those ideals, and ultimate collapse. The Kennedy “Camelot” started out corrupt and ended corrupt, sustained by the by vice and selfishness rather than virtue and selflessness, ending only when grudgingly acceding to the demands of mortality. Good riddance to all of them.

[angkor]

Was Camelot about molesting young college interns on your office staff?

[andy58-in-nh]

“Strange women lying in ponds in inverted Oldsmobiles is no basis for a system of government.”

[OCCASparky]

Any bets as to whether or not Teddy was really the one who bought the space above Marilyn? After all, he was the only Kennedy brother who DIDN’T get to nail her.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Camelot was so powerful that even before Ted Kennedy's death, there were clumsy attempts to graft it onto our current president from Chicago. Invariably they'll try again.."

I don't think that will succeed with Obama.

[SERKIT]

Black-a-lot picks up where Camelot left off. Barry has officially been adopted by the Left Luminati as the “lost Kennedy brother”. Oh Brother, Whereart Thou?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"That line between history and drama for the Kennedys was never very thick, like the line between American realism and our yearning for royalty, and for comforting political myths."

I've always wondered if the idiots on the extreme left ever realized that Camelot was a mythical place that never truly existed? I think what I've despised the most about the Kennedy's over the years is the fact that too many people in this country wanted to treat them like American royalty.

The essense of America is that there is no royalty here. We strive to treat everyone the same. My fear is not the passing of the Camelot myth, but the passing of this myth. There are people in this country that are indeed treated differently because of who they are. Showcase example one would be Uncle Teddy...

[HapaxLegamenon]

Good Riddance!

[all the best]

When I hear talk of the Kennedys and Camelot I always hear “camel lot”. As in a place where smelly old nasty camels are being sold. Akin to a used car lot. Somehow it seems a whole lot more appropriate to this family.

[GeronL]

There was never a Camelot. There is simply a fawning press in love with a name and a liberal ideology. The media at present is trying to hound Gov Sanford out of office for things Ted Kennedy did every Saturday. But its OK when a Democrat does it.

This whole Camelot stuff was nothing more than leftwing wet dreams

[CAD Daddy]

(Stolen from Treacher.)

If they want to talk about Camelot the we can talk about The Lady in the Lake.