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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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To: artichokegrower

To the NYT Idiots trying to purvey utter BS: It distorts nothing other than confirm that T. Kennedy should have gone to prison but because the laws are applied unequally among all classes of men, the sh*t of a man got off scot-free.


61 posted on 04/06/2018 8:23:57 AM PDT by cranked
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To: artichokegrower

The Grey Lady is still dropping her drawers for the Kennedys, I see...

50 years later and nothing changes.


62 posted on 04/06/2018 8:38:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla
The Grey Lady is still dropping her drawers for the Kennedys, I see...

Just like they did for Stalin.

63 posted on 04/06/2018 8:39:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

nyt = malignancy on civil society

scumbag kennedy = malignancy on civil society
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birds of a feather...


64 posted on 04/06/2018 8:41:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: elcid1970
Hollywood worshipped the Kennedys and their lingering loyalty was to protect the "legacy" of the "last Kennedy brother," Ted. I recall a magazine article from 1962, I think it was Esquire, which advocated for a Kennedy dynasty, each of the three brothers serving their terms as president, by which time John Jr would be old enough to run himself. That's how sick Kennedy worship was in this country.

I suspect this movie is able to be made now only as a result of the rash of sexual abuse and harassment charges. The "me too" movement has made the exposure of leftwing icons possible. Not to allow this movie today would hold Hollywood up to intense charges of hypocrisy.

65 posted on 04/06/2018 8:41:34 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: dfwgator

Idea for a bumper sticker just came to mind....

Ted Kennedy’s illegally operated car killed more people than my legally owned firearm.


66 posted on 04/06/2018 8:42:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: krug

Excellent summary!

Only thing I’d add is that Ted, the poor guy supposedly suffering from shock and a concussion, managed to make a slew of phone calls, IIRC, between your points 6 and 9.


67 posted on 04/06/2018 8:50:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

What do you have, a Semi-trailer?
How about, “TK killed more people than my gun”


68 posted on 04/06/2018 8:52:40 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: bjc

Young’uns won’t know who TK is.


69 posted on 04/06/2018 8:54:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: bjc

Good point about the length, however!

Here’s a good selection...

https://www.cafepress.com/+ted-kennedy-chappaquiddick+stickers


70 posted on 04/06/2018 8:58:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: artichokegrower

The huge point is that he could have saved her. He should have saved her. Kennedy left her to die. What kind of human would do that?


71 posted on 04/06/2018 9:11:43 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: artichokegrower

Protecting the Legacy of the LYIN of the Senate.

BTW - Ted Kennedy made colluding with the Russians a Democrat tradition.


72 posted on 04/06/2018 9:19:15 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: artichokegrower

If this Guy’s daughter was the one left trapped to die a horrible death in Teddy’s Oldsmobile, I doubt he would be calling this a Tragedy.


73 posted on 04/06/2018 9:20:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: artichokegrower

“-———————so one tampers with his life at the peril of turning it into tawdry melodrama.’


His life WAS a tawdry melodrama.

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74 posted on 04/06/2018 9:25:36 AM PDT by Mears
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

I have absolutely no intention of seeing this movie. We all know what happened, more or less, so what’s the point? Besides, there must be some ulterior motive for producing it, or Hollyweird wouldn’t have done it. Probably just trying to put the story to bed, once and for all, so Chapstick Kennedy can move on up. Massachusetts LOVES their Kennedys.


75 posted on 04/06/2018 9:25:51 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative (S)
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To: artichokegrower

Liberals are so cute when they try to make believe they are relevant. Here’s a tip NY Slimes no one but the half wits that read your rag believe this was a hit piece.


76 posted on 04/06/2018 9:34:37 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: JerseyDvl

“nothing much” was covered up...

Well, because in large part, there WAS pretty much nothing. I mean, it was a single drunken and completely irresponsible mistake of which perhaps many of us are equivalently guilty; though I would hope that as many of us are equivalently guilty we did not cause the death of another person or persons. But it’s not like there was dossier a written by A and sent to B to be peddled by foreigner C so it could be used for D while E covered for F constructing distraction G.

In that sense, it was blandly and abasedly simple.


77 posted on 04/06/2018 9:35:34 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

No. Probably 25% full. This was one of the new luxury theaters with electric reclining seats with only 8 to a row. $12 to a ticket.


78 posted on 04/06/2018 11:16:41 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Terry Mross

Maybe she was dick?


79 posted on 04/06/2018 11:33:43 AM PDT by Eddie01 (I learned it on FreeRepublic.com, same as you.)
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To: artichokegrower

I have a diehard Democrat friend who lives in the midst of Kennedys in NYS, and even she recognizes them and their legends for what they are.


80 posted on 04/06/2018 11:35:49 AM PDT by EDINVA
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