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50 Years of Shame: How Journalists Protected Ted Kennedy After Chappaquiddick
newbusters.org ^ | 7/16/2019 | scott whitlock

Posted on 07/16/2019 8:21:14 AM PDT by rktman

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21 posted on 07/16/2019 9:45:37 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Thus, the media is accurately labeled, The Corrupt Media.


22 posted on 07/16/2019 9:47:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rktman
I was 15 yros old also......remember it all too well....

I don't know when I became "woke" but it seems that I've always questioned everything all the time....

23 posted on 07/16/2019 9:51:14 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

LOL! Perhaps I have an UNhealthy dose of skeptic in me.


24 posted on 07/16/2019 10:04:41 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

That’s one small bridge for Ted,
One giant fall for Mary Jo.


25 posted on 07/16/2019 10:05:02 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: rktman

Yes, the press has been corrupt since before then.

I don’t trust anything I read in the mainstream media.


26 posted on 07/16/2019 10:15:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Roccus

The press covered for JFK’s womanizing from 1960 if not before. RFK was a womanizer too.


27 posted on 07/16/2019 10:22:37 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: SunkenCiv

That “no good son of a bitch” did make a couple dozen phone calls from a pay phone near the scene. It would be interesting to know to whom those calls were placed, and what was said.

One theory that I found interesting. Kennedy wasn’t driving. Recall that a cop on pateol had driven by the parked car. The story goes, he got spooked and unassed the area. Kopechne then tried to drive the car back to the party, but she was unfamiliar with the roads and ran off into the water.


28 posted on 07/16/2019 10:28:16 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Cecily

Don’t tell me, tell the OP.

I was giving a single, verifiable instance not a generalization.

PS...According to SS agents I met in the late 60s, RFK was a bigger swordsman than JFK.


29 posted on 07/16/2019 10:28:21 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Freedom4US

He was probably calling dad, lawyers and other Kennedy family fixers.


30 posted on 07/16/2019 10:30:47 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: red-dawg

As you say . . .

<>On a base, transactional level, View co-host Joy Behar explained why liberals like her did not abandon Kennedy. On the January 5, 2016 episode, she explained that the Democratic agenda matters more than the life of Kopechne.<>


31 posted on 07/16/2019 11:56:25 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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At least 1932. Remember, during WWII, the government had complete censorship over the media. Roosevelt's relationship with radio was warmer. The key distinction was that broadcasters operated in an entirely different political context: Thanks to federal rules and administrators, they had to tread much more lightly than newspapers did. At its inception in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reduced the license renewal period for stations from three years to only six months. Meanwhile, Roosevelt tapped Herbert L. Pettey as secretary of the FCC (and its predecessor, the Federal Radio Commission). Pettey had overseen radio for Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign. After his appointment, he worked in tandem with the Democratic National Committee to handle "radio matters" with both the networks and local stations.

It did not take long for broadcasters to get the message. NBC, for example, announced that it was limiting broadcasts "contrary to the policies of the United States government." CBS Vice President Henry A. Bellows said that "no broadcast would be permitted over the Columbia Broadcasting System that in any way was critical of any policy of the Administration." He elaborated "that the Columbia system was at the disposal of President Roosevelt and his administration and they would permit no broadcast that did not have his approval." Local station owners and network executives alike took it for granted, as Editor and Publisher observed, that each station had "to dance to Government tunes because it is under Government license." Some dissident radio commentators, such as Father Charles Coughlin and Boake Carter, gained wide audiences. But radio as a whole was firmly pro-Roosevelt—and both Coughlin and Carter were eventually forced off the air for pushing the envelope too far.

32 posted on 07/16/2019 12:27:53 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Cecily

No doubt. It would be interesting to hear those.


33 posted on 07/16/2019 3:15:09 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: rktman

Deep State + UniParty: Nothing has really changed.


34 posted on 07/16/2019 3:37:39 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: SunkenCiv

Left: Morality is collective, relative, and political.

Right: Morality is individual, absolute, and personal.

The left always feels free to excuse specific crimes by politically effective allies. Only when they become excess baggage (e.g., Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein) does the left disown them - and then brag for having done so.

Billy has had his two terms; Hilly will never have even one.

When Clinton was in the Oval Office, a prominent feminist defended him with the categorical denunciation, “All men are dogs.”

I still seethe at the memory of that arrogant, immoral communist slandering all decent men.


35 posted on 07/16/2019 3:49:53 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: marktwain

Thanks for the reminder Dean.


36 posted on 07/16/2019 5:02:10 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: YogicCowboy
Well said. BTW, all Democrats are PsOS.

37 posted on 07/17/2019 9:34:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Riiiiiiight. What's a qubit?" -- from the Big Book of Discontinued Humor)
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To: Freedom4US
That's not a theory, that would have been his defense had it gone to trial.

38 posted on 07/17/2019 10:06:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

They didn’t shoot enough Kennedys.


39 posted on 07/19/2019 11:13:04 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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