"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."
Many have been cowed into not printing the truth about this "man" (pardon the pun as Steyn says). I shutter to believe that he might have actually asked people if they had "heard any new Chappaquiddick jokes?" In my years in Washington I was known for saying the unsayable. Had I known that I would have told Teddy a new Chappaquiddick joke:
"What defines the aging, alcoholic, womanizing, boorish, Senator Kennedy? Chappaquiddick." What's wrong? Not funny? Well what do you know, Teddy Kennedy and I agree.
I actually take exception to your favorite quote from the article, especially as it comes from a Brit. Plenty of societies are complicit in cover-ups. What exactly could we do? It was appalling that he was not prosecuted for an obvious crime, but I do not agree that it was the “American public” who protected the Kennedys.... maybe Massachusetts voters, political string-pulling, the Catholic-lite church, but not Americans in general.
Otherwise, Mark speaks for me.