Posted on 12/14/2016 7:34:00 AM PST by rktman
Daily Beast reporter Liza Foreman tells readers in her lede that she was "not all that familiar" with Chappaquiddick, the remote island where Kennedy drove off a bridge late at night with a young woman who drowned in the car while Kennedy escaped.
Kennedy failed to report the accident until the next morning and was later given a suspended sentence for leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The death of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker to Kennedy's late brother Robert, shadowed Ted Kennedy for the rest of his life and arguably kept him from ever winning the presidency.
Albeit without leaving someone to perish in his car while he sobered up, but I digress. Back to Clarke on the accident itself --
"It was a critical night," he added. "It was a really long night for Ted and a long day. I mean we start off from Washington, then Martha's Vineyard for the boat race. There is the beach, then the boat race, then the whole party, and then the accident, and then the whole night to the next morning. So it was a long night for Ted. Ted had a rough night."
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I remember the ad well
VW was touting that their cars were made so well, they were water tight. They actually floated a Bug, told how long it floated, and ran an ad of it
Then the Swimmer had his “bad night”.
Some months later National Lampoon magazine ran an ad parody (1970 I think). There were loud harumphs - and laughter.
I still have that issue.
http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/7863/National_Lampoon_Ted_Kennedy_VW_Ad/#.WFFwCFIzXAU
Mad magazine and later Lampoon were YUGE influences on me.
To put Teddy’s presidential hopes in a nutshell, at the time, was put concisely by my father-in-law, “If you can’t get a whore over a bridge, you can’t be trusted to run the country.”
I thought it was from Mad Magazine.
Ditto on that!
Shows how the whole corrupt Mass. political and LEO machine bent over, grabbed their ankles to allow Teddy “The Swimmer” Kennedy escape justice.
repeating the title:
“Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-up” (by Leo Damore)
At Amazon:( available through third party, but worth the visit for comments of those whose were opened )
https://www.amazon.com/Senatorial-Privilege-Chappaquiddick-Leo-Damore/dp/0895265648
Someone really ought to erect a statue on the Mall to Mary Jo for keeping this reprobate out of the White House. She really DID give her life for her country.
Russia’s Fault
I thought it interesting the picture in front of the Capitol building that showed his hearse and a few cars and that was it.
Mudd asked Ted "Why do you want to be president?"
Ted couldn't respond coherently, and Dan Rather got the job because of the blowback on Mudd for daring to ask Ted a "hard" question that ended Ted's quest to fulfill his Nazi father's plan.
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age,”
Charles Pierce, Boston Globe Magazine, January 5, 2003
The office liberal once cited something saintly that Teddy was doing...and I guffawed...the swimmer has no credibility.
In the conversation that followed, it became apparent that this 40 y/o man had no idea what had happened. He vaguely knew of the incident, but characterized it as ‘controversial’...as in there was some lack of certainty that Kennedy had been the driver.
I confess that I hadn’t heard of it until age 21, during the Clarence Thomas witch trials.
VW’s “Two Pennies a Mile” line is more memorable for me.
He also tried to talk a friend of his into saying that he, and not Ted, was driving the car that night. I'm glad I don't have friends like Ted Kennedy.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.................
And that's from somebody that Ted went after by legislation. Ted had his corrupt backside handed to him by the USSC for violating the "Bills of Attainder" provision of the Constitution.
Sadly, had they lived, drunken Ted would likely have raped her.
Mary Jo had a worse night.
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