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 ...
And men on the moon.
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We’re not supposed to speak ill of the Captain of the SS Oldsmobile?
Oh, and it was not a moonlight drive but a moonlight cruise.
Don’t forget about Teddy’s Russia collusion. The *actual* kind! Collaborating with the KGB in an attempt to being down Reagan:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267250/ted-kennedy-and-kgb-jamie-glazov
It’s a pity Teddy’s efforts to get the Soviets to help him out never got the press that this poor gal did.
But he was (D)ifferent and the seriousness of the charges didn’t matter.
Apollo 11 saved Teddy’s career.
I inherited a newspaper from that day, and Chappaquiddick is WELL below the fold.
“We’re not supposed to speak ill of the Captain of the SS Oldsmobile?”
Recently heard here of the interesting theory that the captain was nowhere near his Oldsmobile ship that day....
Perhaps someone else will remember who or the source.
Can it be that Mark Steyn did not see the movie “Chappaquiddick”?
That film presented a pretty damning portrait of Ted Kennedy, that horrible night and all the political cr*p that followed.
The recent movie does not depict or ship Dead K. inside the ‘olds anytime after the encounter with the off-duty policeman near the home/party.
IMO, Oswald and Sirhan shot the wrong Kennedys.
I just watched that movie after it came out via DVD at RedBox. It was indeed damning. It showed that POS worried ONLY about his political career and nothing else.
Fat Ted. Someone who really did collude with the Russians.
Nice graphic, not quite true, but he does make the Big List of international murdering politicians, with Hitler, Uncle Joe Stalin, Che, etc.
Also with Gov. Bill Janklow, R-SD.
https://www.ranker.com/list/politicians-who-killed-people/mike-rothschild
Interestingly, Mao does not make the list.
Ted was utter cancer.....
Championed the removal of quotas for immigration.
Championed HMOs
Actively sought Communist Russia's help in defeating Reagan in '84.
Torpedoed Robert Bork's SCOTUS nomination.
The same media telling us this week that Trump’s Helsinki statements were tantamount to treason are the same media who continue to hide Ted’s treasonous dealings with the Soviets to throw the 84 election. They should dig up his bloated greasy corpse and hook it up to electrodes.
This article is from 2009 and the Chappaquiddick movie just came out this year.
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