Posted on 07/14/2009 5:59:22 AM PDT by Zakeet
On Friday night’s Hardball, guest host Lawrence O’Donnell enthusiastically promoted HBO’s new, glowing Ted Kennedy documentary.
He began by declaring "There‘s so much ground to cover. We don‘t have enough time for this. And I want to show the people out there, people under 60, who don‘t know the early Ted Kennedy, don‘t remember the early Ted Kennedy, I want to show what you have got in this movie." But O’Donnell’s interview completely left out the biggest scandal of "the early Ted Kennedy" – the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick.
This seemed especially odd as O’Donnell recounted with filmmaker Carolyn Waterlow how Richard Nixon was obsessed with Ted Kennedy:
O'DONNELL: Imagine that. Here you are, a senator. You have a president of the United States obsessing all day, is there something we can hang on him. Is there something we can accuse him of?
WATERLOW: With all—to think of Teddy, with all the things he was dealing with politically and within his family and all of the losses he has suffered, he was also—
O'DONNELL: He lost his oldest brother in World War II. He then has his remaining oldest brother assassinated November 22nd, 1963, as president of the United States. His then—his remaining oldest brother is assassinated while running for president in 1968. And at this point, having lived through all of that, here we are in 1972 and Nixon is trying to figure out how to make this guy‘s life worse.
WATERLOW: Yes.
O'DONNELL: But he perseveres. He keeps going. And he eventually himself wants to run for the presidency.
WATERLOW: Yes. That was something that I also had not fully appreciated going into this project, that from about ‘68 right after Bobby‘s death, people are talking to him about running for president. And there was an effort to draft him in ‘68 to take Bobby‘s place, and really for—yes, up until 1980 or ‘79 when he finally decides he is going to run for president president, this is a question that‘s hanging over him and it‘s something people are asking him about that whole time.
O'DONNELL: When you look at that early Senate career of Ted Kennedy, leading up prior to running for president in the ‘80s, it‘s hard to find the easy year for Teddy. Early on as senator, he had a plane crash, a small plane goes down in western Massachusetts. He‘s in the plane. He injuries his back. He‘s never going to be able to walk the same way again for the rest of his life.
One of the things I think about when I watch him in front of these audiences like last summer is the young kids don‘t understand what the older people in that convention hall—what‘s happened to them when they‘re crying listening to Ted Kennedy. They don‘t know the emotional base of the relationship that he has with those voters.
Let‘s take a look at Ted Kennedy giving what I believe was the most public eloquent public eulogy ever given. It was his eulogy of his brother, Robert Kennedy.
T. KENNEDY: My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. To be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, who saw suffering and tried to heal it, who saw war and tried to stop it.
O'DONNELL: Not easy to watch.
WATERLOW: No, it‘s incredibly emotional moment, and really we tried very hard in this film—it‘s entirely archival interviews and footage. We tried to let the footage speak for itself. You can see the emotion and you can see Teddy just by watching him and letting it play.
It's not like the HBO film leaves Chappaquiddick out, which it shouldn't, because it was a continuing obstacle to Kennedy's White House dreams. But MSNBC feels comfortable airbrushing it out of their warm, fuzzy historical memories.
The same day that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Teddy was there with a competing story. One of the most historic events in the history of mankind and ole Ted stole the thunder right out from under NASA. What a POS!!!!!
O’Donnell seems to have no shame.
It is simply STUNNING the way we have let the communists take over media, Hollywood, Academia. All forms of mass communication.
They even write our history.
God help us.
Why does anyone watch MSNBC at all?
It seems they only throw “softballs” to Marxists on that show. The swimmer is probably the most evil Senator ever in Congress.
And that right there, FRiend, is why I have zero respect for the “good” people of Massachusetts.
How they can square their consciences with being represented nationally by a murderer is something I will never understand, and frankly I don’t want to try that hard.
As usual, rewriting history is what the lefties do best. We wouldn’t be in a world of hurt like we are today without the help of men like Ted Kennedy who have been working toward the destruction of America.
The Kennedy Team pulled a fast one. The law of Massachusetts places the body in the custody of the local Medical Examiner. The Chief Medical Examiner (Dr. Dukakis... Mike's dad) circumvented the practice by calling in the ME from Springfield, 175 miles + a long ferry ride, across the state. Of course, he drove.
In the meantime, The Kennedy Team buffaloed the local funeral home and literally seized the body, which was immediately (and illegally) flown to PA in a private plane, before the worthy medical gentleman and Kennedy stooge from Springfield could arrive on the scene.
The funeral director, experienced in drowning cases, noted that Ms. Kopechne did NOT drown, but had suffocated. Nobody asked him. The imported ME reviewed his notes and made it "Death by Drowning" on the official record, without an autopsy. Later, a MA DA sought exhumation, but was denied permission by a PA Judge, and as I understand it, the Kopechne family was also against further investigation. That may, or may not have, had anything to do with the settlement they accepted from the Kennedys.
BTW, this is absolutely typical Kennedy family behavior around Cape Cod and the Islands. Sometimes it seems there isn't a village or hamlet that doesn't have at least one permanently injured or paralyzed victim of some lesser Kennedy prank, or accident, limping or wheeling about.
Was she pregnant?
Ms. Kopechne was a woman of excellent reputation, so it is unlikely. However, technically speaking, it can never be known one way or the other.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2291698/posts?page=136#136
My post on a different thread yesterday. Timely, huh Chrissy?
Didn’t Kennedy work with the Soviet Union to undermine Reagan’s foreign policy back in 1984? I remember that story coming out couple of years ago.
Bet that won’t be in the movie either.
If we had an unbiased press - this would be commented on publicly...
Great pictures.
Liberals cover for each other - the old double standard in action...
Thanks to Murdering Drunken Swine Ted's "Immigration Reform Act" of 1965, and his continuing efforts to eviscerate American schools, practically no one under 65 years of age living in New England today can even spell "Chappaquiddick," locate it on a map,or never mind, pronounce it.
I was thinking the same thing.
He began by declaring "There‘s so much ground to cover. We don‘t have enough time for this. And I want to show the people out there, people under 60, who don‘t know the early Ted Kennedy, don‘t remember the early Ted Kennedy, I want to show what you have got in this movie." But O’Donnell’s interview completely left out the biggest scandal of "the early Ted Kennedy" – the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick.
It's like they are thinking that if they keep omitting the facts about Mary Jo's death at Chappaquiddick enough, eventually, especially younger generations, will think of it as an urban legend. 'Did it really happen? It's not in official TV bios...' Sick.
Perfect! The cover pic says it all. But can Frank and Joe get anybody to believe the story they’ve uncovered? It could be the one case they can’t wrap up!
Time-Lies-Warner’s Hail Barack Obama network.
Anyone hear the brain drip from Senator Robert Byrd yesterday?
These old braindead Democrats are completely unfit for service in our Senate.
Is Byrd still fourth in line for the presidency?
Obscene.
Yep. Lousy Red.
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