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How ‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy
New York Times ^ | April 6, 2018 | Neal Gabler

Posted on 04/06/2018 6:06:07 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the most famous members of America’s most famous family, understood that he belonged as much to popular culture as to political culture. Now, nine years after his death, comes a movie about the event that, almost as much as the circumstances of his birth, established him in the tabloid pantheon: Chappaquiddick.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; hollywood; kennedyfamily; maryjokopechne; massachusetts; moviereview; tedkennedy
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no one but the most lunatic conspiracy theorists see this as anything but a tragic accident in which nothing much was covered up.


Damn I guess I am a lunatic conspiracy theorist. Who knew?

1 posted on 04/06/2018 6:06:07 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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If the slimes is against it, I’m for it.


2 posted on 04/06/2018 6:08:04 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (RINO politicians beware your time is coming ... SOON)
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Yes you are, shame on you. /s


3 posted on 04/06/2018 6:08:10 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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Yep. It surely makes the Kennedys look like the scum they really were, so naturally, the old Gray Whore for the Democrat Party does not like the movie.


4 posted on 04/06/2018 6:08:20 AM PDT by txrefugee
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brought out now to clean the path for the next generation of kennedys


5 posted on 04/06/2018 6:09:49 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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“no one but the most lunatic conspiracy theorists see this as anything but a tragic accident in which nothing much was covered up.”

Not even the Kopechnes.


6 posted on 04/06/2018 6:09:58 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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New Jerk Times...right on cue...oh, poor widdle Kennedy baby!

The future "Lion of the Senate" and woodabeen POTUS, suffering through all these LIES, LIES!

Oh, the horror, that someone would tell the TRUTH about this damned bunch of inbred cretins.

No more Kennedys...NONE, I tells you!

7 posted on 04/06/2018 6:10:37 AM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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LOL. This has to be a must read for everyone. It is full of laugh out loud lines like:

no one but the most lunatic conspiracy theorists see this as anything but a tragic accident in which nothing much was covered up

[the movie] tampers with his life at the peril of turning it into tawdry melodrama.

Mr. Kennedy immediately and forever after felt deep remorse and responsibility for the accident.

This article made my morning.

8 posted on 04/06/2018 6:11:16 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Operative words, ‘nothing much’.


9 posted on 04/06/2018 6:11:53 AM PDT by Lent
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Neal and the NYT are pathetic.


10 posted on 04/06/2018 6:11:55 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Shocking that the Times would trot out some leftist boot licker to defend a first class scumbag and murder.


11 posted on 04/06/2018 6:12:26 AM PDT by DAC21
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"#Me-too"

-Mary-Jo Kopekne, and baby.

12 posted on 04/06/2018 6:12:34 AM PDT by blackdog
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This is just another example of where our 4th Estate is.

The Fourth Estate (or fourth power) is a segment of society that wields an indirect but significant influence on society even though it is not a formally recognized part of the political system. The most commonly recognized part of the fourth estate is the news media, or press.

Fourth Estate - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate.

13 posted on 04/06/2018 6:13:44 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign To (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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The NYTimes is nothing more than a leftist propaganda rag and Satan’s mouthpiece. The NYTimes always cover for the left by consistently subverting truth to fit the agenda. The NYTimes started the whole Camelot hogwash and to the very end they seek to protect that narrative, despite the well-known fact that the Kennedy façade was wholly fabricated and borne of deceit.


14 posted on 04/06/2018 6:14:21 AM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is hate speech to those who hate truth.)
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To speak with such authority, Neal Gabler must have beenn a witness to all these events. Right?


15 posted on 04/06/2018 6:19:35 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Neal Gabler used to be on TV. He was one of those perpetually angry leftwingers who just couldn't find a way to be civil in person, so now I guess he just writes things.
16 posted on 04/06/2018 6:20:49 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

By Gosh, you were right! Line after line had me laughing right out loud!


17 posted on 04/06/2018 6:23:29 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Mary Lou K died of asphyxiation, NYT, not drowning.


18 posted on 04/06/2018 6:24:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Mary-Jo K


19 posted on 04/06/2018 6:25:11 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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The Times is right!

An on scene investigator stated on video the car damage was inconsistent with Kennedy’s account, instead indicating Kennedy crashed the car injuring Kopechne earlier, then pushed the car with help into the water.


20 posted on 04/06/2018 6:27:31 AM PDT by Eddie01 (I learned it on FreeRepublic.com, same as you.)
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