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Mark Steyn: Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne ("Only a Kennedy could get away with it.")
National Review ^ | August 29, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/29/2009 7:01:34 AM PDT by kellynla

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To: McLynnan

Kennedy’s minions most likely told her parents Mary Jo was naked and pregnant in the car. If they didn’t want a scandal don’t make an issue of this.
Plus, we’ll give “ restitution” in the form of payments. Please sign here. End of story.


81 posted on 08/29/2009 8:37:05 AM PDT by Duffboy
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To: kellynla

Steyn’s vocabulary makes William F. Buckley sound like Jerry Clower.


82 posted on 08/29/2009 8:38:30 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (I may not be John Galt or Jim Thompson, but I AM THE MOB!)
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To: sonic109

You sound exactly like my mom.

She had never voted before 1960, but she made sure to register to vote against JFK. She still has the utmost contempt for the name Kennedy.

She passed it along to me.


83 posted on 08/29/2009 8:39:15 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("Vengence is mine" sayeth The Lord. And this one's for MaryJo.)
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To: kellynla
Frankly, America would be a much better, freer nation today if the Kennedy clan had forever stayed in Ireland.

Of course, then the Kennedy Curse would today be despoiling that Faire Isle!

Eulogizing this man's life with the gushing adoration evident this week is no different then during the 1950s USSR when the Stalin toadies mourned his passing. Only fools and the like-minded rave about a dead monster.

84 posted on 08/29/2009 8:41:06 AM PDT by Gritty (America needs to go through a certain de-Nazification process -George Soros at Davos, Switzerland)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I always feel uneasy at stereotypical shots at Appalachian folk, an honorable people.

Steyn was mocking Sam Shepard in that sentence. IMHO

85 posted on 08/29/2009 8:41:14 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("Vengence is mine" sayeth The Lord. And this one's for MaryJo.)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Perhaps just the idea that her name would be sullied somehow. I would think the only thing that would make her parents not pursue justice would be concern over their daughter's memory. I'm not making a value judgment, or trying to justify anything. I'm just speculating on what could possibly take them let it all go ‘peacefully’.

A single woman leaving a party alone with a married Senator? How hard would it be to write THOSE stories. Note the lack of question mark.

86 posted on 08/29/2009 8:44:32 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: kellynla

bttt


87 posted on 08/29/2009 8:45:52 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: Alex Murphy

I never watch Stewart. But OMG these people are truly sick. Sick and evil.


88 posted on 08/29/2009 8:45:53 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("Vengence is mine" sayeth The Lord. And this one's for MaryJo.)
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To: Thommas

Well said. AMEN.


89 posted on 08/29/2009 8:46:54 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("Vengence is mine" sayeth The Lord. And this one's for MaryJo.)
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To: kellynla

I liked this line:

“We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation.”

Someone else who got to inflict their sickness onto an entire nation was Bill Clinton, who couldn’t just cheat on his wife, he had to drag the country through months of hell while we tried to deal with his actions and lies.


90 posted on 08/29/2009 8:47:12 AM PDT by NRPM (America again in 2010!)
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To: kellynla

Good riddance. I’m thrilled Ted is dead and nauseous he is being buried in Arlington - still riding his brother’s coat tails. Puke on the commie slime. He has robbed me of as much freedom as any other commie slime liberal spitwad since the 60s. Good riddance, I say. I’m very sorry you made it out of the car. Much better for American freedoms if you hadn’t, you commie punk.


91 posted on 08/29/2009 8:48:26 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 55... 54... 53...)
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To: kellynla

Teddy is past the point of getting away with anything. He will get perfect justice now.


92 posted on 08/29/2009 8:48:36 AM PDT by pallis
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Exactly. I’ve never been a fan of Joan Kennedy but I do have a lot of sympathy for her.


93 posted on 08/29/2009 8:49:37 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ("Vengence is mine" sayeth The Lord. And this one's for MaryJo.)
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To: texas booster

I found the book by chance in my local library.


94 posted on 08/29/2009 9:01:07 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: Mr. K
too bad they were not cremating him so he could get a sneak preview of coming attractions
Amen, brother. Amen.
95 posted on 08/29/2009 9:02:27 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: immadashell
Kennedy's chief of staff, Richard E. Burke has written The Senator: My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy. This is an unforgettable and unforgivable story about an American reprobate into personal power, booze, drugs, deviant sex, adultery and infidelity.
96 posted on 08/29/2009 9:04:08 AM PDT by immadashell
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Steyn is always right on mark and many here have it exactly right. Kennedy tried to make America complicit in Mary Jo’s death allright, but it didn’t work. They let Kennedy’s lies about Mary Jo stand but, We The Voters, kept him out of the White House by not rewarding him with the top job. The Kennedy legacy for the last of them is everything the DNC are known for. He lied, cheated on his wife, drank himself into oblivion and got away with murder. He legislated liberal law that should have been against his religion and kept a true Constitutional scholar off the Supreme Court. Democrats loved this guy. They will use him as a reason to pass Obamahealthcare, and then trample over his grave tomorrow.


97 posted on 08/29/2009 9:04:18 AM PDT by cousair
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To: kellynla
At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo “would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history . . . Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”

It's like abortion. Liberals have no concept of the value of a human life, so no wonder they believe and say such outrageous things. Are you really that shocked?

98 posted on 08/29/2009 9:09:45 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: GoldwaterChick

Save for later.


99 posted on 08/29/2009 9:10:27 AM PDT by GoldwaterChick (We Snowflakes will always remember our beloved Snowman with the incandescent smile.)
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To: TxAnn56
From what I’ve read in the past, they were paid $90,000 by the Kennedys and $50,000 by the insurance company. One can only imagine what sort of pressure was put upon them by the Kennedy thug machine.
I don't care what kind of pressure. They are (were) criminals. If someone murdered my kid I would, yes, put my life on the line to bring the scumbag to justice. And so would you. And so would most Americans.
100 posted on 08/29/2009 9:10:44 AM PDT by samtheman
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