Posted on 10/10/2010 12:56:07 PM PDT by FTJM
How evil was Ted Kennedy? Shocking new details have emerged, now that the man himself is dead.
While many conservatives realized that Ted Kennedy's was a morally compromised man (his record of walking away from Mary Jo Kopechne as she suffocated in an air bubble inside his Oldsmobile clinched the case), America's major media studiously ignored the incident, and many others, in order to preserve the luster of the Kennedy name, and to aid him in his role as the liberal "lion of the Senate."
Now, the son the then-owner of the National Enquirer has provided information which, if true, adds a new dimension to understanding of Kennedy and the media which abetted him. The New York Post writes:
Teddy Kennedy quashed a National Enquirer story alleging Mary Jo Kopechne was pregnant with his child when she died by giving the weekly a fawning article about Jackie Kennedy Onassis and her kids, a new book claims.
In Paul Pope's "The Deeds of My Fathers," he claims his father, Generoso (Gene) Pope, who turned the Enquirer into the best-selling tabloid in America, spiked a story that reported Kopechne, the pretty young campaign worker, was pregnant in 1969 when she drowned in the Chappaquiddick River in Kennedy's car.
Pope writes that his father sent a reporter to DC in 1980 to buy the story from Washington Post gossip columnist Maxine Cheshire and a Women's Wear Daily reporter. The story detailing the alleged coverup included on-the-record sources, with every quote attributed.
So Kennedy not only let his young mistress die when he walked away and spent a night prior to notifying authorities, he also got rid of a child who could have become a serious embarrassment, as well as a financial burden. The mechanics of paying for an illegitimate child snagged even a superlawyer like John Edwards. Perhaps Kennedy family fixers could have handled a Kopechne child with greater finesses, had Catholic Mary Jo decided to keep her baby, rather than kill it via abortion. But it still could have spelled trouble ahead, especially if Mary Jo became demanding of his time and attention, as mistresses have been known to do.
How very conventient that mother and child both were removed from the ranks of the living.
The incident also illustrates the way the Kennedy family traded on its glamour to shape news coverage favorably. In this, they no doubt learned a lot from the Hollywood studios, which routinely covered up embarrassing stories about stars by trading access to sources. Teddy's father Joe Kennedy was very active in the movie business, as well as with female stars.
Now that the mood of the American people is shifting to cynicism and anger toward those who have been pulling off a giant political con job for decades, and now that the Kennedy family glamour quotient is dependent on the likes of Caroline Kennedy, whose "ya know" locutions were so pathetic that even New York voters found her laughable as a potential senator, it is time to expose the real evil of Ted Kennedy, waitress sandwich and all, to the American people, and mark him as the villain he was. The revisionist history of the Kennedy clan is a narrative whose time has come.
You talking about Helms or Strom Thurmond????
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
Did you mean Strom Thurman?
I believe you’re thinking of Strom Thurmond.
Hey, you could stay off the thread if it bothers you so much.The stuff posted on FR pales in comparison to that posted on DU or the KOS.
I flew my Pirate flag at half mast the whole week after he croked.
I felt absolutely NOTHING for Ted Kennedy. NOTHING.
My first thought is did he murder her then rather than just let her die?
The pregnancy rumor has been around for decades. The Jackie story is new so let’s see the proof. No more Dem style media hits without valid evidence.
Whhaaatt? Teddy’s dead? Somebody really should let Harry Reid know about this.
If there were some evidence that she was pregnant why would her family have kept quiet about it all these years?
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Of course she was pregnant! Of course Ted was the father. Of course, he left her to die. Of course, the family arranged to spirit her lifeless body and vessel of his then dead child to another state to avoid autopsy. Of course Ted was only absent from the seen distraught, confused [meanwhile consulting with his family’s lawyers....] Of course! Bootleggers, liars, thieves, and every other nasty name you can think of for the Kennedy Klan....
No, it is not. There are new generations that need to be reminded of the Kennedy Legacy....
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Need to add for the younger Freepers. I remember this as many others. One day, if this country survives, you will be cautioning your youngers about Obama and his ilk. He’s just like the Kennedys, only much, much more dangerous. And if we aren’t educated in the the evil that is Democrat (e.g., a typical Kennedy), then, we haven’t learned anything at all and won’t withstand our greatest threat Obama.
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