Posted on 08/30/2010 5:27:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
This is one story that U.S. News & World Report's Washington Whispers might want to keep to a low whisper or risk even more ridicule than what they are already receiving. Paul Bedard, writing in Washington Whispers, quotes Kennedy's biographer and former girlfriend who claim that Ted was really an innocent victim of the Chappaquiddick accident. Here is Kennedy biographer Burton Hersh making the case for Kennedy as merely a lousy driver:
Now, a year after Kennedy died, his lifelong biographer Burton Hersh, armed with fresh interviews with Kennedy's mistress at the time, tells Whispers that the whole July 1969 episode should have been handled as a simple crash, leaving the senator's legacy untainted. "It was a car accident," he says. "Ted was a terrible driver. He never paid much attention to where he was going."
"He took a tremendous blow on the head," says Hersh. In interviews following the crash, Kennedy displayed confusion and amnesia, he says.
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That's what he usually believed had happened to him the night before.
Never forget that Ted Kennedy's cheating and lying did not begin at Chappaquiddick. He was expelled from Harvard for cheating.
Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a "legacy" -- his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy's admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. While attending law school at the University of Virginia he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. He passed the bar exam in 1959, and two years later was appointed an Assistant to the District Attorney in Massachusetts' Suffolk County.
http://www.nndb.com/people/623/000023554/
Kennedy should have served at least 6 years in prison.
The guy who shot JFK was a pretty typical Leftwingtard, not much different than say Senator Leahy, or Durbin, or Schumer. I can see any one of them taking a bead on Kennedy’s head in that car and firing.
JFKs main problem was one of inability to be faithful to his wife and marriage.
Even so, he pioneered the space program and he did cut taxes.
JFK as politics is concerned was not a typical democrat.
Unfortunately, he was the last democrat that that could be said about other than Moynihan.
Drat! You've finally figured it out. :)
We would be so much better off if folks had to resort to home brew and moonshine.
He would have been a popular bi+ch in Cellblock D.
Oooooooh, a little creative history coming right up. Do I smell a posthumous award of some kind in the wind? Medals are always nice, they lay flat and can be framed. Whereas trophies, cups and bowls....well, let’s face it, you need display cases.
Ted Kennedy will rot in HELL for eternity. He deserves nothing less. It is not my call, of course, but terrible, swift, justice is due the likes of him.
Are we going to have to celebrate his passing on its’ anniversary every year or can we just forget his bloated
presence on our scene?
So was he senile?
From the party you had to take a hard left to the small ferry to get back to Edgartown - Dike bridge is a hard right- and a pretty fair way before you hit the drink....
Also, the road back to Edgartown was paved, the road to the dike bridge was a dirt path. No way the lying POS could have not known where he was going.
OK, I think you have the straight of it.
Remember the original story: that Teddy dove to exhaustion into Poucha Pond trying to rescue Mary Jo?
Of course, the weakness of that story (and time-line) was the last ferry would have already have run by the time that Teddy essayed to return to Edgartown.
So what's the solution to that quandary? Simple. The official story at the time was that a completely exhausted Teddy swan the channel to Edgartown.
That was totally unbelievable, but the news types swallowed it whole.
“JFKs main problem was one of inability to be faithful to his wife and marriage.
Even so, he pioneered the space program and he did cut taxes.
JFK as politics is concerned was not a typical democrat.
Unfortunately, he was the last democrat that that could be said about other than Moynihan.”
You forgot Zell Miller.
The next time anyone is beset by the notion that Leftists can be reasoned with or influenced by hard facts, just think of Burton Hersh.
The pig reportedly stood on her shoulders while he climbed out . . . she was found with her neck frozen in an upright position where she was searching for air in the total darkness while tubby climbed out, somehow got ashore (?), and planned on his next day tennis match while she died of drowning.
I’ve never considered her to be blameless (after all, he was married and the world knew it), but she was held under water by his lardness while he climbed out and lived. What a pathetic human being.
The space program was not a legitimate function of the Federal govt., except for the spin-offs relating to national defense. JFK's pledge to place a man on the moon was a promise made by someone who never produced a single thing in his spoiled life which an ordinary person would voluntarily buy, even for a dollar, let alone the billions the moon program cost.
JFK sounds less extreme than today's Demonrats, but his brothers show that an Irish mob family will do and say anything to get elected. They were all a bunch of trash.
No RFK, Jr, the one who’s getting divorced in NY.
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