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Ask, Don't Tell (How the press covered for a drunken Ted Kennedy)
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| 8/17/05
| Walter Kirn
Posted on 08/18/2005 7:13:29 PM PDT by CaptainK
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:13:29 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
To: CaptainK
A liberal journalist states the obvious; that the press hides the flaws of their favorites.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
To: CaptainK
"A liberal journalist states the obvious; that the press hides the flaws of their favorites."
And even went after G.W. for being a "drunk" in his youth.
He never claimed to be a "drunk", only that he enjoyed drinking and his wife objected.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:17:55 PM PDT
by
Prost1
(New AG, Berger is still free, copped a plea! I still get my news from FR!)
To: CaptainK
He was given a pass as the sole surviving Kennedy brother. And to this day, such is the sickness in nearly half of people who vote.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:19:55 PM PDT
by
Solamente
To: CaptainK
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Ted" -- Joseph Kennedy
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:21:31 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: CaptainK
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Bushmills)
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:21:48 PM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Victoria Delsoul
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:22:53 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: CaptainK
The drunkest human being you ever encountered? You need to camp with my group of retards.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:27:19 PM PDT
by
359Henrie
To: CaptainK
The press has spent 3/4 of a century providing cover for the Kennedy Klan.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:30:29 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Cecily
Senior Dirigible from the State of Inebriation
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:30:43 PM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Solamente
I agree .. I don't think it was so much that they liked Ted, I think it was because they felt sorry for him, losing 2 of his brothers to assassins.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:31:24 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
To: Alberta's Child
LOL
To: CaptainK
How about all the dope Teddie and his scum sucking brother JFK inhaled in mass quantities for their "bad backs"? You never hear much about this fact!
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:33:26 PM PDT
by
Lewite
(Praise YAHWEH and Proclaim His Wonderful Name, His Son Yahshua Messiah is coming soon!)
To: Prost1
He never claimed to be a "drunk", only that he enjoyed drinking and his wife objected.
I've heard W say he never would have been president unless he stopped drinking.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:35:44 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: CaptainK
They reserve their best stories for one another, publishing them only when they have to and feeling very nervous when they do, because it might screw up the Great Arrangement. And afterwards, once the secrets are on the street, it often comes out that they were common knowledge among the people whose jobs it was to tell them. A good observation.
To: CyberAnt
I don't think it was so much that they liked Ted, I think it was because they felt sorry for him, losing 2 of his brothers to assassins.I disagree. The press loved the Kennedy clan. They even gave the clan the exalted name of Camelot, indicating that they could do no wrong? They did not feel sorry for him, as they should have, they agreed with his politics..........
To: CaptainK
And Andrew thinks this is interesting because?
The rest of us have long wondered why the press tried to make Bush into a drunken, drug taking dweeb but they never, ever mention Kennedy's out of control drunkeness.
I went to college in Boston and lived in CT for most of my adult life and it was like a dirty little secret about Ted.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:44:55 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Peach
Andrew didn't write this. He is on vacation and a man named Walter Kirn is writing the blogg this week. Kirn lives in Montana and was writing about journalists who live on the east coast having incestuous relationships with politicians.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:49:09 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
To: CaptainK
Oh, thanks. I scrolled through the text/excerpt and saw so many swear words I backed out. I didn't think Andrew swore like that.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:50:49 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: CaptainK
I never knew Ted Kennedy drank until one day I saw him sober.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:52:09 PM PDT
by
IronJack
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