Posted on 09/11/2017 7:21:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman, piles on:
“Chappaquiddick” is a meticulously told chronicle, no more and no less, and at times there’s a slight detachment in watching it, because it’s too tough and smart to milk the situation by turning Edward Kennedy into a “tragic figure.” . . .
Forty-eight years later, let’s be clear on what the meaning of Chappaquiddick is. Ted Kennedy should, by all rights, have stood trial for involuntary manslaughter, which would likely have ended his political career. The fact that the Kennedy family — the original postwar dynasty of the one percent — possessed, and exerted, the influence to squash the case is the essence of what Chappaquiddick means.
The Kennedys lived outside the law; the one documented instance in American history of an illegally stolen presidential election was the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960. He lost the race to Richard Nixon, but his father sealed the presidency for him by manipulating the vote tallies in Illinois. That’s the meaning of Chappaquiddick. too.
JOHN adds: Ted Kennedy was a coward. He left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, and walked back, a long distance, to the house where his party was still in progress. When he arrived there, he importuned his cousin, Joe Gargan, to tell the police Gargan had been driving the car. Gargan refused, and insisted that they return to Poucha Pond and see whether Kopechne could be rescued. Kennedy agreed, but was of no use. He sat on the bank while his cousin tried unsuccessfully to dive down to the sunken car.
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Be a shame if someone took a sledgehammer to Teddy’s headstone [it’s a monument, after all...].
I’m sorry to be crude, but it appears as though a penis might have been on the end of his nose.
good heavens, you’re right, what a strange image!! I hadn’t noticed until you said it.... must be your mind..... hee hee
LOL
"Just shut up."
Know any movie guys with a death wish?
“JFK should have been court mortadella.”
And pasta fagioli, to boot!
maybe on a sub-conscious level that’s what made me think of the crack about condoms..... “subliminal” suggestion??
Consciously I was thinking of the fact that the little “party” on Chappaquiddick was arranged to provide sexual hook-ups for Ted Kennedy and other married men in his circle. There is no serious question that he made the “incorrect” right turn that took him to the fatal bridge in order to take the young woman for a liaison on the remote beach at the end of that unimproved road... that’s all that was there, nothing else, no other reason to go down that road at midnight.... and there is no way you turn RIGHT onto an unpaved road if you really meant to go LEFT continuing on the paved road..... Ted Kennedy’s story was always a farcical cover-up, in that and other ways.
Would make perfect sense, given what's going on today. And of course his disastrous deeds go well beyond that single horrible incident.
No not my mind, looked at that picture and the penis on his nose immediately jumped out at me. Is that some strange pinnochio effect?
Charles Bronson?
re: map
Yes, Teddy’s ludicrous cover-up story is that he turned RIGHT by accident, leaving a paved road onto a bumpy unpaved road which led only to a remote beach across the small bridge that proved so fatal. To the LEFT, the paved road continued in Ted’s supposed direction, to the ferry. Even when sauced in the head, how can you turn right when you mean to turn left, and go onto a rough unpaved road when you know the PAVED road to the left goes to the ferry? His story was always preposterous.
It was near midnight, he claimed he was driving MaryJo to the ferry in the OPPOSITE direction, when in fact the ferry had ceased operating for the night, as Ted knew well. He was obviously trying to take her to the secluded beach to have a romp on the sand, but MaryJo did not live long enough to experience the wonders of Teddy’s affections.
Un no its a brilliant but somewhat tasteless item from the National Lampoon. :)
Sorry, that ad was a National Lampoon satire.
Lol
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