Posted on 07/18/2018 11:08:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan
We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its "mainstream" media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's passing, America's TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there's a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it.
In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969. If you have to bring up the, ah, circumstances of that year of decease, keep it general, keep it vague. As Kennedy flack Ted Sorensen put it in Time magazine:
"Both a plane crash in Massachusetts in 1964 and the ugly automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 almost cost him his life."
That's the way to do it! An "accident," "ugly" in some unspecified way, just happened to happen – and only to him, nobody else. Ted's the star, and there's no room to namecheck the bit players...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Always thought it was kind of funny that BJCo decided to move to ChappaQUA, also the home of one of the world’s most well known of propagandists, the Readers Digest.
“Chappaquiddick,” the movie, is a good watch. It’s at Redbox, now, and well worth the time.
Nor are we supposed to question the “release” of Michael Skaekel, the “other” Kennedy murderer.
“The Sea Lion Of The Senate!”
Somebody throw him a sardine.
Kennedys.
Can’t drive
Can’t ski
Can’t skipper a boat
Can’t pilot a plane
And they want us to live by the rules they set.
Spit.
5.56mm
You remind me of a very interesting day in my life—the day after the moon landing.
I watched on TV the night before—and I was so exicted.
We had reached the moon!
I was visiting my grandmother’s house and I asked her “Grandma, Did you watch it?” “Man has walked on the moon!”
Grandma (who up until that moment in her life had always been known for her pleasant disposition and infinite tolerance for the idiocy of her grandchildren) looked me straight in the eye and said: “We did not land on the moon.”
And, after she dropped that bomb she hit me with one more (that was the best advice I ever received from _anyone_ _ever_ in my whole life):
“Don’t believe anything you see on TV.”
Larry Storch from F Troop was a neighbor when we lived in California when I was growing up. He said something interesting to my father and I once. “Nothing happens on television, the movies or radio by accident.”
LOL! I seem to remember I was bobbing around in the ocean on a destroyer on that occasion.
Why didn’t he just f her on the beach instead of getting into the car? Was that supposed to be chivalrous, to drive to a more remote beach?
Sand fleas, mosquitoes, etc.
Mao topped both of them.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip ...
“IMO, Oswald and Sirhan shot the wrong Kennedys.”
Fate had something more appropriate in store for Teddy, something that would greatly prolong his agony...like McCain. Jack and Bobby as well as brother Joe never knew what hit them while Teddy hopefully suffered a thousand deaths followed by an eternity roasting. .
Bone, I don’t believe it ever bothered him one bit. He went on living, had wealth, power, and fame. People like that, like him, well, they don’t just give a crap about what their actions cause.
He was crap. Pure and simple.
The moon had probably set by the time the car went off the bridge.
A completely appropriate location which would match dead (yeah!) Ted’s reputation, morality, and lack of usefulness to humankind would be at the bottom of the nation’s most putrid septic tank.
By the way, where is that grave, just in case one needs to take a bodacious Obama?
““We’re not supposed to speak ill of the Captain of the SS Oldsmobile?”
Try and stop me!
It’s been proven that Kennedy was never in that car.
I still curse Ted Kennedy for his Gun Control Act of 1968.
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