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'Chappaquiddick' and the power of myth
Chicago Tribune ^ | 4/11/2018 | John Kass

Posted on 04/11/2018 10:06:31 AM PDT by simpson96

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1 posted on 04/11/2018 10:06:31 AM PDT by simpson96
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That it has taken so long to tell this story on film is an indictment of the cynical politics of Hollywood.

Far more than just an indictment of Hollywood. Millions of people, both sides of the aisle in Washington, and most of the media share in that shameful indictment.

2 posted on 04/11/2018 10:11:18 AM PDT by Dahoser
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Logo on the truck.... “You wreck em, we fetch em” Mary Jo was already taken out by the diver.


3 posted on 04/11/2018 10:16:40 AM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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It was The Wreck of the S.S. Oldsmobile!


4 posted on 04/11/2018 10:21:58 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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JFK was having an affair with a Communist agent.

The story was about to break.

This was the early 1960s, and people loved Jackie Kennedy.

It would kill the Democrat Party.

So JFK was killed to save the Party.


5 posted on 04/11/2018 10:22:36 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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when Edward ["Dead"] Kennedy (Jason Clarke) drives off a bridge and into the water...

No. Not this movie, nor the facts, support "Dead" being in the car at this point.

6 posted on 04/11/2018 10:25:14 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Howie Carr,a well known Boston talk show host and columnist,has interviewed the scuba diver who retrieved Mary Jo's body.That diver said that,given what he found,he believes that she would have lived for at least an hour after entering the water...and maybe longer.

Myth? Yah...pull the other one,it's got bells on!

7 posted on 04/11/2018 10:28:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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1994, Howie’s interview with the diver

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=miAyUKStliM


8 posted on 04/11/2018 10:58:54 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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I think that’s referring to cars, not bodies. Appropriate for a towing company.


9 posted on 04/11/2018 11:07:53 AM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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The problem with this movie is that it's set almost 50 years ago.

It should have been made in 1970, and it should have been a documentary.

10 posted on 04/11/2018 11:16:32 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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i kept thinking that the cover-up team concept from this incident lives on today, to wit, all the officials - from
Doj FBI in particular - and enablers complicit in deep-sixing HRClinton e-mail “investigation”/”matter”


11 posted on 04/11/2018 11:38:14 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Bob

With only the letter K visible, I thought it read,

“You Dunk ‘Em, We Fetch ‘Em”

;^)


12 posted on 04/11/2018 12:04:48 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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It should have been released the day after Swimmer Kennedy croaked. Why did it take nine years?


13 posted on 04/11/2018 12:06:02 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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The movie is a day late and a dollar short.


14 posted on 04/11/2018 12:07:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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You’re right; what do millennials care about an event from nearly fifty years ago?

People my age remember not only Chappaquiddick (like where I was when I heard about it) but Kennedy’s 1965 open-the-floodgates Immigration Act.

Kennedy personally murdered Mary Jo Kopechne but is also responsible IMO for generations of victims murdered by third world migrants whose easy entry was made possible by his despicable legislation.

Kennedy died of an inoperable brain tumor; I believe it was karma that he had to helplessly contemplate his impending doom over a long period. Hope that nightmares of a smiling Mary Jo filled his days until he finally croaked.


15 posted on 04/11/2018 12:40:32 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2003/01/05/kennedy_unbound/?page=1

If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age,” wrote the Globe’s Charles Pierce.


16 posted on 04/11/2018 12:41:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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This degenerate is burried in Arlington.


17 posted on 04/11/2018 12:48:36 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: lepton

The front page color photo, several days later, of Teddy giving his mom roses told me everything I needed to know about that paper. It’s decomposing pustule lingers on thanks to big-money, cynical Libtards.


18 posted on 04/11/2018 1:12:26 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: simpson96
Good article.


19 posted on 04/11/2018 1:48:34 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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I saw this movie yesterday. Well made. Jason Clarke deserves an Oscar nomination for his skilled portrayal of Ted Kennedy.

Ted is portrayed rather sympathetically as an dim witted, immoral man trapped in an evil family dynasty. His cousin Joe Gargan is seen as a victim. Bruce Dern is truly frightening as old Joe Kennedy.


20 posted on 04/11/2018 2:07:23 PM PDT by iowamark
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