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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: B.O. Plenty
If we, in the right, would have had an old "conservative lion" all those years who would have counteracted the old "liberal lion", we would not find ourselves in the fix that we are today. We did....and remember how Jesse Helms was vilified by the MSM when he passed on?
61 posted on 08/29/2009 7:38:49 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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To: Chairman of the Bard
I was in NYC at an upscale restaurant and in walks Robert Redford and Kennedy. As I was leaving Redford was being very nice to his fans. Kennedy,on the other hand, was absolutely insulting calling the people rif/raf and that they didn't need to put up with this sh-t.
Real nice guy, actually a POS.
62 posted on 08/29/2009 8:00:58 PM PDT by festoon
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To: taillightchaser
The media in this country is going to be the primary cause of the downfall of the USA.

BINGO!

And don't forget the public education system which has been working on the destruction of evil America for decades now - finally seeing all their years of hard work come to fruition with the child messiah in the WH and a Congress packed with far left commie RATS.
63 posted on 08/29/2009 8:20:07 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: All

In all fairness, I must report the following:

There’s this news/docu channel called MSNBC. I remember back in the day, they used to be all news, all the time. Years ago, however, they changed to mostly legends and a few evening rabid commentators.

Since I did watch the funeral, just to note the inconsistencies withing my Church, I kinda got lost in the Camelot fog and switched to MSNBC to see what they had to say. While we were waiting for the arrival in DC, they showed a “Legends” story on the Tedster. You guys are not gonna believe what I saw!!!!!

THEY TALKED ABOUT MARYJO! They laid the blame on the Tedster, they talked about how he turned himself in hours after some kids had found the car. Of course, they didn’t hack on him, but they did report the facts as they were known then. I was shocked! A little kernal of truth in an otherwise whitewashed life. Amazing.

They spoke very little about Joan, which upset me. I have no opinion about Vicky, but I do think Joan should be upheld as a saint. She had to live with him (sorta) while he was at his worst, and as a result, is basically excommunicated from the Kennedys. Joan, Ethel and Jackie, now THOSE were Kennedys to learn from!

Oh, and as for that channel MSNBC, I can’t even remember the channel number. I did hear Cwissie Matthews and that Olbemaniac, after the Legends show, so switched back to Fox.


64 posted on 08/29/2009 8:22:28 PM PDT by blu (Graffiti the world, I've seen the writing on the wall...)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Just as he was about to be buried a thunderstorm started to roll in, lightening flaring. De Devil comin’ to claim his own.


65 posted on 08/29/2009 8:29:12 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Wrong, research a little. Mary Jo was engaged, a professional, uptight about sexual matters, and a devout Catholic. She asked for a ride from a monster, thinking he was a friend. She was, and is, blameless.


66 posted on 08/29/2009 8:32:04 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Chairman of the Bard
He didn't get away with anything. Whatever he did not answer to here...he is now answering to a Heavenly tribunal.

THE TRUE LEGACY OF TED KENNEDY

67 posted on 08/29/2009 8:34:49 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Mark Steyn is a genius.

As Teddy's biographer Adam Clymer wrote, Edward Kennedy's "achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne."

You can't make an omelet without breaking chicks, right? I don't know how many lives the senator changed – he certainly changed Mary Jo's – but you're struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy's Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been OK to leave a couple more broads down there? Hey, why not? At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo "would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history … Who knows – maybe she'd feel it was worth it." What true-believing liberal lass wouldn't be honored to be dispatched by that death panel?

Mr. Steyn, I'd be honored to fetch your coffee and sharpen your pencils (or vacuum your keyboard).

68 posted on 08/29/2009 8:43:35 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo "would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history … Who knows – maybe she'd feel it was worth it."

You just can NOT make this stuff up.

In fact, you can't even exaggerate it.

69 posted on 08/29/2009 8:50:37 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I agree that Mary Jo is and was blameless. But that night, she would not have left her girlfriends and her purse. I believe they had all been drinking, and perhaps the dashing Senator had flattered her and wished to show her a special part of the island, a lovely beach or a private cove or some such. The ferry had long since stopped running, and the two left extremely quietly from the house of merriment.

The best that could have happened to her that night was to sustain a few beachside gropings from the famous Senator. As odious as that might seem to some of us, one does live on thereafter.


70 posted on 08/29/2009 8:55:13 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle; All

Video (mostly audio actually) of interview with Chappaquiddick diver John Farrar/ WHDH-AM Howie Carr show
done from the “party house” some 25 yrs later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miAyUKStliM


71 posted on 08/29/2009 8:58:53 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Talisker
Talisker, liberalism is truly a cultish mental disorder. The deification of this sot is nauseating.
72 posted on 08/29/2009 9:01:44 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Talisker, liberalism is truly a cultish mental disorder. The deification of this sot is nauseating.

Indeed. Lord of the Flies ain't just a river in Egypt.

(But it did come out of the tombs.)

73 posted on 08/29/2009 9:05:57 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Edward Kennedy - the original Joran Vandersloot.


74 posted on 08/29/2009 9:10:35 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: supremedoctrine

“Nobody (except Free Republic) has EVER called them on this entirely hollow “presentation of self”,

There. Fixed it!;))


75 posted on 08/29/2009 9:14:00 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Chairman of the Bard
How'd The Swimmer do at Hahvid? Besides playing football, I mean.

ML/NJ

76 posted on 08/29/2009 9:26:52 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

You mean besides being caught cheating on a Spanish exam? (Didn’t he get kicked out for it?)


77 posted on 08/29/2009 9:28:17 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: ml/nj

The Swimmer was expelled for cheating on an exam. Probably the last time in his life he was held accountable for his actions.


78 posted on 08/29/2009 9:28:23 PM PDT by blu (Graffiti the world, I've seen the writing on the wall...)
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To: MayflowerMadam; blu
Thanks for refreshing my memory about this, but methinks there was more than one cheating episode and more than one expulsion. I just wish our ever vigilant press would let us know. Could it be that this great man wasn't? I mean, overlooking the manslaughter, or maybe even murder, we know about.

ML/NJ

79 posted on 08/29/2009 9:36:17 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: taillightchaser
This senator is getting more coverage from the lame stream media than President Ford got when he died.

Strom Thurmond served in the senate for 49 years. How many days of nonstop coverage after his death?

80 posted on 08/29/2009 9:38:58 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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