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Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with
ocregister ^ | 08/29/2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/29/2009 5:19:12 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard

Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with And by not calling his bluff on Chappaquiddick, Americans became complicit in it.

We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its "mainstream" media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's passing, America's TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there's a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it.

In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969. If you have to bring up the, ah, circumstances of that year of decease, keep it general, keep it vague. As Kennedy flack Ted Sorensen put it in Time magazine:

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: altereditle; chappaquiddick; edwardkennedy; kennedy; kennedycurse; kopechne; marksteyn; maryjokopechne; steyn; tedkennedy
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Classic Mark Steyn!


41 posted on 08/29/2009 6:34:26 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: ColdWater

8 hours of the plan was to snooze in bed


42 posted on 08/29/2009 6:38:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: quantim

Well, they often bury heroes “at sea”.

I’d like to see this coward burried “at lake”.


43 posted on 08/29/2009 6:40:11 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard; B.O. Plenty
I say watch for the lioness.
44 posted on 08/29/2009 6:40:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: Chairman of the Bard
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.

That hurts because it's true.

45 posted on 08/29/2009 6:41:29 PM PDT by rvoitier ("The law allows what honor forbids." -- C. C. Colton)
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To: DHSMostWanted

Teddy even knocked Jacko’s homocide to the bottom for awhile!


46 posted on 08/29/2009 6:43:11 PM PDT by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Chappaquiddick itself was not the problem. It’s mostly the stark lack of public remorse by Teddy.

I disagree. Chappaquiddick was the problem. Kennedy's behavior that day showed him to be either guilty of murder or, at the very least, negligent homicide. He never was brought to the bar in a human tribunal to answer for that event.

May God have mercy on his soul.

47 posted on 08/29/2009 6:48:02 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ You can not fix STUPID, but you can VOTE it out of office.)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

“In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969”

More unmentionable to me is his father kissing @ss to Hitler and giving his own daughter a lobotomy. Oh yeah, and getting rich from being a bootlegger during prohibition. The Kennedy fame and fortune made off of us ‘small souls’.


48 posted on 08/29/2009 6:53:33 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The most unabashed, gloves-off torch carriers for conservatism are Sarah and Michelle Bachman.
49 posted on 08/29/2009 6:54:56 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: MagnoliaB

Stupid on us for ever having had Prohibition in the first place. Without it, how many crime biggies would never have been seen?


51 posted on 08/29/2009 6:59:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
That's right. Lot's of people got rich.

Oh, by the way, does this girl look like she's ‘retarded’
enough to have a lobotomy?

http://fatboy.cc/Rosemary.htm

Wonder if this is covered under TeddyCare? Usually the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

52 posted on 08/29/2009 7:04:15 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: taillightchaser

This funeral shows, in a nutshell, the disconnect between the media and the public. The public by and large does not truly give a damn and those who do, are not mourning his passing. It’s almost laughable.


53 posted on 08/29/2009 7:05:43 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: MagnoliaB
Oh yeah, and getting rich from being a bootlegger during prohibition. The Kennedy fame and fortune made off of us ‘small souls’.

Like JK reaped the benefits of HDR's election, Soros is presently (and quietly) reaping the benefits of Obama's election.

54 posted on 08/29/2009 7:06:05 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: taillightchaser
I think “The Senator” went south and Mary Jo went north. .

Mary Jo was a hanger on, and "boiler room girl". She is in no way an angel or anything else. She was a true believer in the snake oil that Ted Kennedy sold.

Ted was screwing her, and he left her in that car to die because he didn't want to get caught cheating on his wife.

Mary Jo got her comeuppance at 29. Ted got his at 77.

55 posted on 08/29/2009 7:06:37 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats: the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy and Sedition)
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To: taillightchaser

At least there is some comfort that he probably will not pass the ratings of the MJ funeral.


56 posted on 08/29/2009 7:07:50 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Don’t let it be forgot,
That Teddy was a sot...


57 posted on 08/29/2009 7:09:36 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Chairman of the Bard

He was called the Lion of the Senate.

Not for his white mane or mighty roar,

but because he mated without limits and killed without remorse.

*JimTreacher via twitter.


58 posted on 08/29/2009 7:25:22 PM PDT by JRochelle (CO2 is plant food.)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Bump....


59 posted on 08/29/2009 7:30:49 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Not only that, but Kennedy used his wealth and power to literally get away with murder, sexual assault, theft, bribery, and Lord knows what else.


60 posted on 08/29/2009 7:37:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Senator Edward Kennedy 1932-2009, May he rot in hell.)
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