Posted on 03/16/2009 12:07:48 PM PDT by lilylangtree
As soon as cancer was found in Ted Kennedy, it was noticed the immediate attempt at canonization of old Teddy by the main stream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a things clear and not twist the facts to change the REAL history.
1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended first attended the school. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.
2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops, the man can't count to four. His father, womanizer Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), 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. No preferential treatment for him like "he" charged former President Bush of receiving.
3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of private.
4. 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. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959, amazing!
5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?
6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy (another notorious womanizer like his dad and brothers) attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.
7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, after passing several houses and a fire station. Then two friends returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew, that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. The Kennedy family began "calling in favors," ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne, and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout from Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills a "token of friendship"?
8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for "liberalism." In his very first Senate role, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.
9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of and increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right. What a pompous idiot!
10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American".
Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero by short-memory Americans lest we forget what his real legacy is.
He will absolutely NEVER be canonized by the Church.
How DARE you be so disrespectful to a Knight of the British Empire!!!!
;^)
If he can be stuffed down the barrel ...
The Queen of England certainly has a low standard for knighting someone, considering that background. Were I a knight, I’d send back my sash at this point.
Vengeance is the Lord’s.
When Teddy is finally declared brain dead (long over due) look for a flood of public buildings to be named after him. The next Senate annex building in D.C. for one. Old liberal don’t fade away, they get memorialized.
TRAITOR is a better description than JERK.
Kennedy is a treasonous scumbag who has worked hard to destroy America.
The author also should have mentioned Kennedy's overture to the Russians regarding Reagan.
The Kennedy's are criminals and inbred retards. That some people think of them as American Royalty is clearly some sort of mental illness.
Canonize the jerk as St. Chappaquiddick.
Didn’t he ever do any good? I heard the family is charitable but slowly drowing someone kind of stands out doesn’t it. He could have been President in 76, yikes.
The Ted Kennedy Memorial Bike Rack.
Rush pre-emptively destroyed them when he said something along the lines of saying they would probably name their proposed government health care the “Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Package”.
Now they don’t DARE connect his name to it. ;)
and let’s not forget how th Daily K0s talked about Tony snow (forget the name - it was a repub) when they found out he had brain cancer
His remains could however, be cannonized, and it’s flight be directed to, err aaghh, the UN or some other nefarious organization..
The Knights of the round table just aren't what they used to be if you noticed... A fat loudmouth drunk, a fag, a fool, and a assortment of village idiots.
You forgot that atrocity, “The Big Dig”.
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