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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should be:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/a-chappaquiddick-reckoning-at-last.php
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/a-chappaquiddick-reckoning-at-last.php
A working link to the article. . . .
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/a-chappaquiddick-reckoning-at-last.php
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Same story on PT 109. JFK should have been court mortadella. Nixon was worried about Ted Kennedy, even after Chappaquidik. As Nixon was President he should have called for an investigation and hung him. 68’ ma have been too turbulent to do those things. Gratitude was shown in Watergate.
(a little help from my friends parody):
What did you see when you turned off the road?
I can’t tell you but I think it drowned
—National Lampoon, Sargent Shriver’s Bleeding Hearts Club Band
Bill Clinton should have had Teddy drive Monica home.
A hard-hitting movie after he’s dead.
Maybe in 2,300 they’ll make a movie about Hillary.
Ted should have been executed for treason when he traveled to Russia and asked for the Russian’s help to defeat President Reagan.
“JFK should have been court mortadella.”
Let me guess. . . auto-correct?
“..Gratitude was shown in Watergate....”
Yup.
Because that’s the way the dems play.
Nixon should have had his Justice Department throw the book at the drunken slob and put his ass away for as long as possible.
But that’s what happens when you play Mr. Nice Guy with scumbags.
and the people of Mass kept electing him and he wanted to be president. Had he killed two women the dems would have made him a saint.
I don’t know how you tell this story, and not wind up with, “And this is exactly what is going on today with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and 250 others to be named later.”
More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than at Three Mile Island.
This is a REAL advertisement.
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/chappaquiddick-review-toronto-1202553436/
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