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Coming Attractions: New movie Chappaquiddick may threaten Kennedy mythology
americanthinker.com ^ | 12/23/2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/23/2017 8:00:43 AM PST by rktman

By the standards of the #MeToo movement, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was a monster, far worse than anything alleged about Harvey Weinstein. And he has never been held to account, by the media and historians, for his brutal crmies against women. He not only accidentally killed one of his prey, Mary Jo Kopechne, he engaged in a vicious sexual assault in public, in the so-called “waitress sandwich” attack. Readers unfamiliar with that incident are urged to read the undisputed account of the violent attack that was witnessed by fellow diners at Washington’s expensive La Brasserie restaurant.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kennedyfamily; lifesavers; pilingon
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Well, since I'm piling on....... Teddy didn't raise the bar, he was the bar that apparently many aspired to. POS in death as in life.
1 posted on 12/23/2017 8:00:43 AM PST by rktman
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Rest in HELL, Teddy.


2 posted on 12/23/2017 8:05:57 AM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Liberals will call it a pack of lies, as they always do when some one presents evidence that goes against their beliefs. Conservatives on the other hand already dismiss the mythology that surrounds him in particular, & his family as a whole.


3 posted on 12/23/2017 8:09:43 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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And that POS is interred at Arlington National Cemetery, where rest my father, mother, aunt, & uncle, and one day, Lord willing, so will I. The remains of that lying, murderous, traitorous, violent, anti-American Leftist skunk foul the hallowed ground that holds so many of our nation’s honored dead.


4 posted on 12/23/2017 8:10:17 AM PST by nickedknack
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I saw one scene in the movie trailer, where a cocky, smug Teddy is trying to justify his murderous actions and is telling one of his handlers (paraphrasing):

Ted Kennedy:"Look at Moses - he was a great leader, a great man. But in a fit of rage he murdered an Egyptian."

Kennedy handler: "Moses never left a dead girl at the bottom of the Red Sea."

5 posted on 12/23/2017 8:11:15 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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About time. They sure put out Watergate major movie releases quickly, but when the shame is targeted at a Democrat they wait until it doesn’t matter.

Remember when Rush identified Mary Jo K as the most influential woman in politics? How true.


6 posted on 12/23/2017 8:11:35 AM PST by cicero2k
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Ah... i think CHAPPAQUIDDICK threatened the Kennedy mythology


7 posted on 12/23/2017 8:12:12 AM PST by stanne
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Once the movie is out, conservatives need to point out all the Teddy supporters who knew how bad he was.


8 posted on 12/23/2017 8:12:55 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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And Ted Kennedy = real collusion with the Russians!


9 posted on 12/23/2017 8:15:38 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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Robert Bork is looking down..... LOL


10 posted on 12/23/2017 8:16:16 AM PST by TRY ONE (I never got the memo changing the name of Global Warming to Klimate Change)
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The trailer shows him crying at one point, and at another he says, "What have I done."

It is total BS that Ted Kennedy ever had the slightest regrets, remorse or pangs of conscience about what happened at Chappaquiddick. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. The only thing he cared about then was how to save his own hide and political future. The only thing he cared about the rest of his life was keeping the Kennedy myths (yes, plural) alive so he could hide behind them.

I'm sure plenty of reprehensible people have been elected to Congress in the course of our country's 230 years, but NONE more so than Edward M. Kennedy.

11 posted on 12/23/2017 8:16:52 AM PST by Avalon Memories (The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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“Senatorial Privilege”, a smallish book I read many years ago laid the whole thing out pretty well. Don’t know if it’s even available any more.


12 posted on 12/23/2017 8:19:28 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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I remember the no autopsy controversy.
I also believe that Teddy paid Mary Jo’s parents an undisclosed amount of money. And something I recalled at the time. Mary Jo’s mother said that she (Mary Jo) had a serious boy friend. As I recall he was never identified.

In 1970 I was working in Washington D.C. as a summer employee. There were several people in the office that I worked that simple said “Teddy can do no wrong.”


13 posted on 12/23/2017 8:19:35 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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It's worth repeating. They don't realize their weapons are being used against themselves. Back in the day, a movie like this had no chance of getting played on the big screen, let alone being made. Once this movie comes out, the Left will roll out their stale bag of tricks - and get their head handed to themselves in the marketplace of ideas by weaponized Deplorables.

In a great piece by Kurt Schlichter, he nails it:

The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don’t even know it.

The Leftist mafia godmaleidentifyingparents pulling the strings of the Marxist Muppets know the score – they are losing. And it’s awesome. Because, finally, the Right has taken Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and shoved it up where #TheResistance don’t shine.

Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. You yelled “Follow me!” and led a movement that had previously been dominated by doofy wonks and bow-tied geeks over the top in a glorious bayonet charge against the paper tiger liberal elite.

For Donald Trump and the revitalized conservative movement, Alinsky's book isn’t some dusty old commie tome - it’s a lifestyle.

Best. Election. EVER.

14 posted on 12/23/2017 8:22:15 AM PST by DoodleBob
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Several years ago, I was having a political discussion with a couple of young ladies who worked in my office (they were in their late 20s/early 30s, liberal Democrats - but we got along fine.) Ted Kennedy’s name came up, and I told them about Chappaquiddick. They were absolutely stunned. They had never heard about this before.


15 posted on 12/23/2017 8:22:18 AM PST by GreenHornet
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At one time I read very detailed timeline type of info re Chappaquididick - the reason it took him so long to raise the alarm was because of the time he spent trying to talk one of his cousins into saying he was driving. Don’t know whether that is covered in the “new movie”.


16 posted on 12/23/2017 8:22:55 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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“I’m sure plenty of reprehensible people have been elected to Congress in the course of our country’s 230 years, but NONE more so than Edward M. Kennedy.”

I think John McCain is trying hard to beat that record...when the truth about him is told in another 20-30 years, I think even those who despise him will be surprised at how bad it is!


17 posted on 12/23/2017 8:27:30 AM PST by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know Who holds the future!)
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I don’t think he accidently killed Mary Jo. I think he deliberately killed one of his pregnant girlfriends.


18 posted on 12/23/2017 8:27:59 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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When you read some of the facts (no underwear on Mary Jo, and then the time gaps,) it looks like the car-over-the-bridge was a cover up for a rape and/or murder, and Kennedy got a way with a hell of a lot more than a slap on the wrist for drunk driving and manslaughter.

I think these kinds of stories are important not just seeing how disgusting dems are, but the nature of the human mind unchecked is always itself the source of suffering and evil. It so happens that the unchecked and hence delusional mind and thinking process tends strongly toward the left ... but the original sin and its close relatives the mortal sins are all delusions of the mind (sin originally means 'to miss the mark,' - i.e. to misperceive and hence mis-act or mis-aim) and if the mind is not tamed, it's a reckless psychopath in most cases.

In other words, the DEFAULT, unchecked state, of the human mind, is that of a psychopath. The exception is the tamed or humbled mind. Most people are somewhere in between, and as a result, human history especially in groups, mobs and big governments - which is just a mob -> tends toward the violent, destructive and as a whole the human race's history, while at times punctuated by clarity and beauty and strength, tends in general to hover around the antics of a psych ward abandoned by the staff.

the cure is not a question of what direction is correct for the powerful to take - what philosophy. It's a question of making sure nobody has much power. In other words ... it's a chronic condition that you manage by giving no one power, maximizing freedom, and hence not letting evil concentrate.

But alas! I wax philosophical. What scumbags the lefties are! :-)

19 posted on 12/23/2017 8:29:25 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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Kennedy has done more to harm this country through the 1965 Immigration Act.

He lied when he said it would not change the ethnic composition of the urban areas.

Just one of his many lies.

20 posted on 12/23/2017 8:30:24 AM PST by ealgeone
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