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.
Oh my God, I thought I was the only one to do an 'Arab Street Dance' to commemorate the occasion. I also did an encore when hell reached up and grabbed that bastard Murtha by the ass.
You are both right; it was Strom.
Forgive my Alzheimer's brain.
Are we allowed to cheer the death of Hitler or Musolini? Please let us know whose death we may enjoy; that way we won’t have to think for ourselves.
I’m thankful Christ is the final judge of Teddy and the other Kennedys. I’ve lived through many years of the “sacred cow” status of the Kennedy family. They are inherently no better than anyone else; and their “royal” status conferred on them by a fawning press is a negative as far as I’m concerned.
See my post number 62 on this thread, and thanks for participating in the correction.
The immigration “reform” legislation of 1965 was the most destructive entity ever unleashed on the nation, IMO. It has proven to be more destructive than even the Civil War was.
>One day, if this country survives, you will be cautioning your youngers about Obama and his ilk.<
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What you should not forget to include in the story is the cowardly conduct of our congress critters and other politicians who never bothered to demand disclosure of Obama’s identity but conveniently kept silent on this subject in order not to incriminate themselves.
I did an American jig.
Ted was a lush, and a Democrat, but nobody's that stupid.
If Kennedy did get Mary Jo pregnant and decided to get rid of her, don't you think he could have come up with a better plan? One that didn't involve being at the scene, in control of the car?
No doubt it was homicide, but not premeditated IMHO. Even a moron would come up with a better plan to murder someone.
Maybe she was dead when he ran off the bridge?
From what we can learn, old Joe was the worst of the lot. I have heard that it was because of him that Joe Jr. went on this mission that cost him his life. The father wanted him to be president.
Unless the girl was at the wheel of the car.
I always heard growing up that LBJ had JFK done away with to be Pres. that was why he insisted being sworn in on the plane. That was the pic with Jackie standing there with the blood on her suit beside LBJ.
Hogwash! The “occasion of sin” is not only applicable to Catholics but to all who believe in the existence of God and His laws.
Beg pardon? I only say that at that time the term” occasion of sin” was a term used during the Catechesis of young Catholics. Not so often these days.
Jesse Helms was my hero and a fine southern gentleman...
Darn it I thought he was still dead and sober
I think they shot the wrong Kennedys.
Betting that Teddy wasn’t even driving the murder car, but rather a professional! No witnesses saw him, and the story that he survived the crash, walked several miles to the ferry slip, then swam across and walked to his Hotel unseen by any human is too bizarre for even a Twilight Zone Episode! And we know Teddy was a Coward, a Fraud,
and a Totally Dispicable Dirtball!
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