I know where this is going:
“As they were leaving the party, Ted Kennedy opened the car door of the Oldsmobile for Ms. Kopechne. He then” NOTE: THE NEXT 50 PAGES OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BECAUSE OF PRIVACY CONCERNS OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY.
Joe Conason’s column, the next day: “We read the reports, and see the scandals add up to nothing. In fact, the information reveals that Sentator was actually very gracious to Ms. Kopechne by opening the car door. But don’t expect the Kennedy haters to admit that!”
Joan Walsh’s column: “We see a different side of Ted Kennedy. Unlike the Republicans who want to eliminate a woman’s right to choose, Kennedy cared about woman as shown by his willingness to open a car door for Ms. Kopechne. The contrast in behavior is not lost on women, and shows why the Republican party is in deep trouble.”
Keith Olbermann rant: “That SEXIST Scott Brown would never open a car door for a woman. Mr. Brown, you are UNFIT to be serving in Kennedy’s seat!”
Democratic Underground thread: “Kennedy’s car door opening vs. Bush slamming shut the door of opportunity on ALL women!”
I have difficulty rolling my eyes far enough up into my head. Who was the liberal airhead who opined that Mary Jo Kopechne would have thought her life was a good trade for what Ted Kennedy supposedly did for women.
Funny how they always say stuff like that when you can never ask the person what they really think, like their insistence that Jack Kennedy had second thoughts about the Joe McCarthy agenda and would privately express those concerns to people...but we never heard it from him.