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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(To the tune of “Bridge Over Troubled Water”)
When she’s pregnant,
When you’re in a fix,
When Gallup’s on your back,
Pray to Brother Jack.
He’ll bail you out,
Oh, and you’ll find out,
Your troubles can be drowned.
At the Bridge over Chappaquiddick,
You will lay her down.
court mortadella
And they tell us that AI is taking over the world.
If he and the Kennedy family had ethics, he never would have gone on to a life as a public figure. If he wanted to atone, there were many better ways to help the world while keeping an appropriately and deservedly low profile.
#9 re a movie about Hillary. THEY DID. It was called “The Thing” and like her second book, the followup to “The Thing” was “The Beast With a Thousand Eyes”.
Can’t wait for the last of Hillary’s trilogy. It will be entitled, like the film, “The Return of the Swamp Thing”.
Popcorn. Get your hot popcorn!
I’m sorry to be crude, but it appears as though a penis might have been on the end of his nose.>>> not crude at all look bill clinton’s. i think it is a facial tick.
Ted Kennedy’s story was always a farcical cover-up, in that and other ways.>>> i thot mary joe was pregnant as part of the story. dig her up at this point. dna the baby. tear down a statue dig up a dead girl. no difference.
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.
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Fake news:
Kennedy would have won the presidency even if Nixon had won Illinois’ electoral votes.
I’d like to see this almost 60 year old lie put to rest.
Illinois alone wasn’t enough, that’s true. What about Texas?
One theory I hadn’t considered, at the Wiki article on this debacle.
Teddy wasn’t driving. What happened, so the story goes - there was a cop who saw them parked somewhere and was going to check them out. This part is documented. Teddy got spooked, and didn’t want to get caught with a woman who was not his wife, as a US Senator, etc. So he took off running and Mary Jo was unfamiliar with the big car and the roads, and ended up driving off the bridge.
That would have been deserved but cheesy.
VW ad Teddy the swimmer
Chapaquiddick: Native American for ‘Place where White House candidate murders pregnant female and his campaign for White House.’
National Lampoon was great...that and the VW ad...
Teddy Bare was a great book on Chappaqua...
And a restaurant in New London, too. I was at that restaurant with my ex girlfriend...(no, I didn’t drove off a bridge with her, I broke up with her...) and I saw the waitress sandwich.
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Did she drown or did she suffocate? The article gives conflicting answers.
What always gets me is this timeline.
He leaves the party at 11:30 (more or less). Two minute drive up and he should have turned left (but instead turned right). It’s a 3/4 mile drive to the point where he runs into the water.
So, then (figure 11:40 at latest), he pulls himself out and walks all the way back to the cottage (in the dark). Drunk guy. You can figure that this took at least 30 min (taking him to 12:20 at the least). He lingers at the cottage (no one around apparently). Maybe it’s five minutes....maybe it’s twenty minutes. Then he starts walking to the ferry point. It’s a fifty minute walk minimum, assuming he doesn’t get turned around or lost. He gets to the ferry and then finds no way across....so he says that he swims across. It’s a quarter-mile space of water. A fit guy in the middle of the night....half-drunk? You can figure at least 15 minutes...maybe 25 minutes.
I just don’t see him back at the hotel at 2AM. Not unless someone drives him along. My humble opinion is that there was a third-person in the vehicle, and this person helped to drive him over to the ferry landing. I don’t believe the wrong turn story or the timeline. It just doesn’t work.
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“Fat, drunk and stupid, like Bluto from Animal House, is no way to go through life.”
Dean Wormer’s “fat, drunk, and stupid” line was directed at the Kent Dorfman/Flounder character, played by the recently-deceased Stephen Furst. John Blutarsky/Bluto, played by John Belushi, is shown driving away in a closing credit as achieving exactly what Teddy did: US Senator with a trophy wife. Humor always requires an element of “truth” in order to be really funny.
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