“A prayer for all the other people (9000 in the US) that get a brain tumor every year in the US.”
Why is it that all of the other people who are suffering from cancer or brain tumors never get the headlines of Saint Ted?
I agree that it is a bad way to go. I know of several famous people who died of cancer last week. There never were any articles about their declining health. Barely an article on their passing in some cases.
And I still recall the venom that the Left held for Reagan in the 15 years he was in decline. They questioned when it began to affect his judgement as a politician.
Ted is not alone in his malady. But the world has come to a stop because Ted now has the same illness as so many other silent figures.
Because they are not household names. Like it or not, our media culture focuses on those names that we know. Ted Kennedy is known, and so stories about him will generate interest. Stories about brain tumors suffered by Fred Beeblebrox will not. It's that simple. If stories were about the subject matter, and not the person involved, they'd be far more informative, but far less interesting to 90% of the American public.
The only reason Teddy is coddled and praised is because he’s the brother of an assassinated President, and another brother who was assassinated while running for the Presidency. He’s been forgiven for all his bad behavior and decisions because the PC police decided you shouldn’t say bad things about a man whose family has had such bad luck, never mind the fact that much of what went bad for the family was self-inflicted due to the lifestyles they led.