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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Classic Mark Steyn!
8 hours of the plan was to snooze in bed
Well, they often bury heroes “at sea”.
I’d like to see this coward burried “at lake”.
That hurts because it's true.
Teddy even knocked Jacko’s homocide to the bottom for awhile!
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.
“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’.
Stupid on us for ever having had Prohibition in the first place. Without it, how many crime biggies would never have been seen?
Oh, by the way, does this girl look like she's ‘retarded’
enough to have a lobotomy?
Wonder if this is covered under TeddyCare? Usually the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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.
Like JK reaped the benefits of HDR's election, Soros is presently (and quietly) reaping the benefits of Obama's election.
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.
At least there is some comfort that he probably will not pass the ratings of the MJ funeral.
Don’t let it be forgot,
That Teddy was a sot...
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.
Bump....
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.
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