Posted on 12/21/2009 5:55:11 AM PST by Zakeet
The whitewashing of Ted Kennedy continued on the cover of Parade magazine, a supplement to many Sunday newspapers around the country.
Dotson Rader interviewed Victoria Kennedy, the second wife of the late senator. Decades of womanizing and a woman’s death at Chappaquiddick after Kennedy left the scene of an accident weren’t really noteworthy. One large bold pull quote read "Nobody had a better sense of what was right than Teddy."
"Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne" was not a sentence that appeared in the article.
The other large pull quote from Mrs. Kennedy was "He was elected to make a difference. He never stopped." The words next to Mrs. Kennedy’s picture on the cover was "Four months after the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, his wife Victoria remembers A Life Filled With Purpose." (The words in bold were much larger on the cover.)
Naturally, the pro-abortion, pro-gay ultraliberal was deeply religious: "His faith was very deep. Spiritually, he reached out to people of faith. Cardinal O’Malley of Boston came. We prayed."
The section of the story on Kennedy’s extraordinary sense of right and wrong was about halfway through the article, and his political causes came from the Bible:
On The Oprah Winfrey Show recently, Victoria said her husband would be happy that health-care reform was finally receiving serious consideration. I ask why he cared so much when he himself was dying."Why?" She looks at me in surprise. "Human rights were the chief cause of his life. He believed health care was a human right. His causes came from the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount. That was the source of his political philosophy. All his issues — fighting for the poor, for education, health care, equality, peace — came from that.
"Nobody had a better gut sense of what was right and how to make progress toward achieving his goal than Teddy," his widow says. "He understood human nature. He understood the Senate."
This was as direct as Rader the writer would get about Kennedy’s decades of sexual scandal:
When Ted and Victoria married in 1992, few believed it would last. Ted, then 60, carried a legacy of tragedy, grief, and misbehavior heavy enough to sink any union. He was 22 years older than her. His previous marriage, to Joan Bennett Kennedy, had ended painfully. The youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children, he was the last surviving male of his generation and, as such, was head of a political dynasty that had achieved and suffered much. And despite a superb legislative record, he had acquired a reputation for womanizing and drinking.
The "superb legislative record" is treated as a scientific truth, but the bad reputation was "acquired," which suggests Rader the writer isn't sure that reputation was deserved.
I posted the original Parade puff piece on Free Republic earlier this morning. You can find it HERE.
Be forewarned, it's foul enough to puke a buzzard!
Uh, where is my anti-nausea medicine?
Why people refuse to read newspapers anymore. Parade is doomed, another MSM suicide.
Best start calling the MSM the MSSM. Main Stream Suicidal Media.
I don’t think Mary Jo would agree with that! Left her to die in a car at the bottom of a creek.
Of course, this is Progressivism in a nutshell: "You don't know anything. You can't run your own life. But I'm different. Unlike you, I know what's right. So, I'm taking away your personal freedom, and your personal responsibility -- you don't know how to use them. I'll be running your life for you from now on, because I'm such a fine upstanding person, and so much better than you."
A completely unAmerican attitude.
Dream on, Victoria.
Oh Massachusetts! What moral sickness you have inflicted on us all.
I wish his family well and I thank god for mine
The only person he cared about was HIMSELF.
If he cared about people, he would NOT have used up resources just to stay alive for another few months. He would have taken the blue pill.
And he really really really cared about Mary Jo Kopechne, didn’t he? Oh yeah, he just cared so much for her that he left her to DIE by drowning . . . he could have saved her, but she’d have been like an albatross around her neck.
her= his
And I proof read.
Take your Sunday Parade..if you still take your Sunday rag..and mail it back to them. Signature required and tell them you don’t want it in your paper anymore. Or ...mail it to and advertiser.
I have a completely different interpretation of the Bible.
Jesus told us to love God first and then our neighbors as ourselves. God commanded us not to steal, plus I don’t know how one squares the command to love others with non-voluntary wealth redistribution.
Would Ted Kennedy have felt the same way if I broke into his home in order to collect charity for the poor? Perhaps. Still it isn’t how I want to be treated.
I believe my interpretation is sound. Yes, I think we have an admonition from the Lord to take care of others, but no, I don’t think Jesus intended us to use government to force acts of charity.
Had Ted Kennedy lived by the Golden Rule, voluntarily giving up his wealth and urging others to do the same in order to help the poor, I’d probably be one of his biggest fans. Unfortunately, I see him as little more than a thief.
ClearCase_guy: “A completely unAmerican attitude.”
A completely un-Christian one, too.
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