Posted on 09/05/2009 11:21:41 AM PDT by John Semmens
It is being reported that the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) apologized for his role in the Chappaquiddick “incident” in his memoir. In the book, Kennedy acknowledged that “in some small way not entirely clear to me even 40 years later, I may have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”
The memoir defended the late Senator’s “deferral of admission of responsibility” as “a necessary sacrifice for the national interest. My political enemies would have gladly used it to divert me from my mission to succor the indigent, the improvident, and the irresponsible during my long career of public service.”
Kennedy contrasted the “inestimable harm that would have transpired if I had not been able to continue my work with the relatively minor loss of one young woman of questionable character. Mary Jo was a person willing to have a one-night stand with a married man. She took advantage of my inebriated condition to seduce me. I could’ve been killed, but with God’s help, I was able to swim free.”
CBS News’ Bob Schieffer concurred with the late Senator’s take, calling him “a classic American hero.” “No ordinary man would have been able to so quickly assess the situation and recognize the comparable values of the two lives involved,” Schieffer said. “Instead of risking drowning in a futile attempt to rescue Ms. Kopechne, Senator Kennedy put the good of the country first. For that we must be truly grateful.”
In related news, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) boasted that “we will milk Senator Kennedy’s timely demise for as many sympathy votes as we can for the KennedyCare health reform bill. Of course, it would’ve been better if he’d been shot like his brothers, but we’ll make the best we can of his death.”
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Ya think?
Pride is the root of all sin.
Even from the grave he shames himself.
boy I hate these satire sites.
LOL!
Yes, I knew a resident of the White House a few years back that toted the same compassionate mind set and sacrificed himself for the cause of preventing the spread of AIDS and gave up some pleasures of life and had sex just using a cigar.
I think he was a true humanitarian democrat too.
Caring and self sacrificing people such as these two should have the respect and honor of all.
To F’N late teddy
Who cares now?
Mary Jo is still gone
Why couldn’t kennedy stand up in front of the country and take responsibility for what he did? He puts it in his memorirs? Good Lord... GO AWAY!!!
Has Zer0 yet app0logized for the Kennnedys’ rum running past? Their virtual enslavement of Blacks as the property of the ‘Rat Party?
“In some SMALL WAY, not entirely clear to me, I MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEATH of Mary Jo...”
Just incredible.
Much too little, much too late.
Thankfully he can cause no further direct harm to any woman.
This satirist has the gift of making the truth glaringly apparent in a seemingly effortless way.
Whoa! Dudes..it is SATIRE! Very oblique, very Kennediesque, but wonderful satire nonetheless..
There - corrected it.
For some reason, until I read this today, I didn’t realize you are THE John Semmens, the brilliant satirist.
*slaps forehead*
I am a nidiot.
Oh. o.k.
are all lefties narcissistic egomaniacs?
Took me a second to figure out that this is satire! Ha! Wasn’t fooled for long.............this time.
This is book Teddy penned after he assumed room temperature, right?
“in some small way not entirely clear to me even 40 years later, I may have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”
Unbelievable!
A disgusting pig, dead or alive.
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