Senator Ted Kennedy and Mrs. Alito’s Tears

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 27 January 2006 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[ilovew]

How do I know what? I'm not sure what it is you're asking about.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't care what y'all think. Mark my words. This is a load of BS!!

I don't understand your anger here. To me, the writer merely has to do a little editing--maybe just say that this COULD have been going through her mind.

Knowing what she was thinking is the only BS--the rest is fine.

Unless the writer can say he heard from a source that this was the reason she was crying. If not, I do think a little editing is in line, because that's dangerously close to doing what he accuses other writers of doing, substituting his ideas for the facts.

But with just that element removed, the story isn't BS. What's BS other than saying we know what was in her mind at that moment? Looks to me like Mr. Alito's family knew Kopechne. That revelation is far, far more important than the error of imagining what was going through Mrs. Alito's mind...unless a source confirms that part, also.

[paulat]

This does NOTHING to Kennedy...he has not been embarassed ONE WHIT by the Kopechne death.

It WILL put Mrs Alito in a horrible position!

[STARWISE]

Wow ...I agree that Mrs. Alito's tears were for the despicable pounding the Swimmer was giving her husband .. but you don't catch the brutal irony of the same creep asassinating her husband's honor and character possibly being the same monster whose spinelessness and selfish ego allowed the only daughter of family friends to drown?

[Emmet Fitzhume]

The sooner Kennedy is removed from office, the better.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm asking how you know what she was thinking as she burst into tears? You say you know why she was crying with the same certainty the writer of the article says HE knows.

What's your source?

If you have a quote from Mrs. Alito saying that was why she was crying, that would put the claim that she was crying over Kopechne to bed.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is too small a story -- maybe anything is too small a story -- to "bring down Ted Kennedy." I expect, though I do not like the thought, that he will be reelected in Massachusetts as long as he can draw breath and sign the papers to run again. But I agree that dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's is essential in a story like this.

That's why I Googled everybody, including the parents, and spent long hours wading through all sorts of irrelevant material to find what mattered.

John / Billybob

[Darkwolf377]

I'm asking how you know this:

She was crying because her husband was being belittled and attacked by the dims

Did Mrs. Alito confirm this? If not, then you can't just assume that.

If she did, this article is false.

[Killborn]

Thansk for the info anyway. Although it probably won't take down Toad or even a single DEMon, it is a vital tool in the battle for hearts and minds. We can't let the DSM spin this as "mean Repub makes wife of fascist cry".

Abomination - Pronunciation Key (ah-bom-mi-nay-shun)

n.

1) Abhorrence; disgust.

2) A cause of abhorrence or disgust

[see the Democrat National Party]

[Southack]

"That's why I Googled everybody, including the parents, and spent long hours wading through all sorts of irrelevant material to find what mattered."

Thanks for your work and for your follow up.

[paulat]

I don't understand your anger here. To me, the writer merely has to do a little editing--maybe just say that this COULD have been going through her mind.

It's the same anger that goes against ANY "reality/fiction" writer. It's the same anger that went against that idiot Reagan biographer who wasted his time with the President and wrote fictionalized accounts of what Reagan "thought."

What's not to understand??

[de Buillion]

"I went to high school with Van Cliburn.

Van Cliburn was born in 1934. "

They did have high schools then, my mother told me so.

[beyond the sea]

If Kennedy were a republican, this would become the biggest news story for weeks.

Years........

[RobbyS]

I've flown out of McGuire many times, and driven through Mt.Holly. It is a big deal for someone as famous as Kopechne to have been from so small a place. There is a personal connection with that person. It intensifies what people hear about Kennedy. Add to that the Air Force connection. Service people and people with military connections are much more aware than ordinary small town people about the "outside world."

[ilovew]

It's generally assumed that she was crying over the Democrats' treatment of her husband. I don't know of any other reason she would be. But if you really want a quote, I remember Orrin Hatch saying that was the case. It was on Drudge just after the incident.

[nunya bidness]

But unless the kiss was on the cheek my lady love would take umbrage.

I thought you said your wife left you to run a restaurant in Fiji?

[willyboyishere]

Hey, come on, give The Swimmer a break, he just came out with a children's book......like Tookie Williams.

[Congressman Billybob]

In another post on this thread, I explain by using myself and my daughters as examples, what the reaction of an only child (daughter) would be, if she heard from her in-laws of the death of an only child (daughter) in a family that was friends with them.

I made only one assumption in the article, that Mrs. Alito has at least normal human sensibilities. And I have a possible source for that, in the NYTimes article that I began with. Despite all their attacks on Judge Alito, their article on her was extremely favorable. And it did discuss her sensibilities and reactions.

I only regret that I had to sign up for that d*mned Times Select to get the article.

John / Billybob

[Westlander]

http://www.ytedk.com/

This may answer some of your questions.

[paulat]

Wow ...I agree that Mrs. Alito's tears were for the despicable pounding the Swimmer was giving her husband .. but you don't catch the brutal irony of the same creep asassinating her husband's honor and character possibly being the same monster whose spinelessness and selfish ego allowed the only daughter of family friends to drown?

God...none of you people get it!! We ALL understood the creep!! This stupid article says that Mrs. Alito was CRYING over the creep's victim. She was not...as any reasonable person will deduce.

This stupid article puts Mrs. Alito in a horrible postition to have to answer stupid questions in the press. I think it's despicable!!!