Tribute to Ted Kennedy’s Liberal Spending Ideals Wins Award

Media Research Center ^ | 3-8-04 | Brent Baker

[FlyLow]

Liberal reporting awarded. Last week Boston Globe reporter Charles Pierce won a National Headliner Award, in the category “newspaper magazine writing,” for story titled, “Deconstructing Ted.” In that January 5, 2003 piece, Pierce effused: “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.”

Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy’s submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.

Pierce’s tribute to Kennedy’s liberalism and big government solutions to problems won the “Quote of the Year” in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2003: The Sixteenth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” See: www.mediaresearch.org

The paragraph in full in which the macabre observation appeared: “And that's the key. That's how you survive what he's survived. That's how you move forward, one step after another, even though your name is Edward Moore Kennedy. You work, always, as though your name were Edward Moore. 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.”

The MRC’s Tim Graham alerted me to the honor bestowed upon Pierce by the Press Club of Atlantic City. Its Web site explains: “The National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry.” The “Headliner Awards in all categories will be presented at an awards program on May 15, 2004 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.”

So what did Pierce win? A free hotel room in Atlantic City: “Hotel rooms are provided, at Headliner Club expense, for first place winners.”

For a list of the winners in all categories: www.nationalheadlinerawards.com

For a March 2 AP story on the awards: story.news.yahoo.com

For a picture of Pierce: www.charlespierce.net

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Nice time, instead of tossing other people's money, Ted, you might want to toss a life preserver.

[billorites]

If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today

It floats.

The way our body is built, we'd be surprised if it didn't. The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that can eat away at the underside of a car. So it's watertight at the bottom. And everybody knows it's easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you've rolled down the window a little.

That proves it's practically airtight on top. If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it's not a boat, it's a car.

And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it's only 99 and 44/100 percent pure. So it won't stay afloat forever. Just long enough. Poor Teddy. If he'd been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he never would have gotten into hot water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[atomicpossum]

“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.”

Gad, what depredation. That would embarass The Onion. This man should be barred from ever writing again.

[maggief]

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/07/le.00.html

BLITZER: But you personally -- you're a good Catholic. You support gay marriage?

[Kenny Bunk]

Ping for an excellent example of the Massachusetts Mindset.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

Was this supposed to be sarcasm?

[Kenny Bunk]

Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
Was this supposed to be sarcasm?

Unfortunately not.