Posted on 12/11/2017 1:06:50 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
In 1990, when liberal journalists still had some sense of obligation to the truth, Michael Kelly wrote the following for GQ:
As [Carla] Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound [Sen. Ted] Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on [Sen. Chris] Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room.
The incident above took place in 1985 at the restaurant La Brasserie in Washington, D.C., where Loh and Gavigilio both worked as waitresses. Everyone in Washington knew about it, including Sen. Claire McCaskill. Here is what McCaskill had to say about Kennedy's behavior upon his death in 2009:
This man was so much more than his image. While his vision soared, the power of his personality and the magnet of his intellect drew his colleagues to the table of compromise. It was there he did his best work. His love for the little guy and his affection for the underdog influenced everything he did. And importantly, his sense of humor and contagious laughter made him real and approachable in spite of his power and privilege.
Although more than enough to kill a Republican's career, the infamous "waitress sandwich" barely made Kennedy's highlight reel.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Aw, don’t you appreciate the art of understatement.
It’s a huge call-out on hypocrisy.
As long as any public building bears homage to Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd democrats have nobody moral right to criticize any republican
Wow!
Great poster.
Thanks for posting.
I believe we all have not just the right, but the duty, to compare ourselves with what the Lord hoped when He created us. But the answer also has to be God’s answer, rather than man’s answer. All we can do on our own is band into worldly groups, ostracize, and blame. We can’t conceive of a positive-sum game.
The people who are in the position to know better often draw the most intense gaze of God. Ted Kennedy might never have known any better. He might have thought that political esteem was the only esteem worth having, and that’s what would cause his trysts to be forgiven. Roy Moore does know better, and so he gets the third degree. OK, you think the Ten Commandments are so peachy? Get ready to be scored against them.
And Don't You Recall.....
The most Famous Rapist Of all?
William The Red-Nosed Rapist.
[OK, you think the Ten Commandments are so peachy? Get ready to be scored against them.]
And therein may even yet lay a snare for Roy, if he doesn’t loosen up a bit. For one thing, it’s overly grandiose to presume that the famous Ten are the basis of any secular law. They are a superset.
More applicable in this regard is something known as the Noahide Law. Respect towards God was expected, but frank belief and love not commanded. Certain other things were expected. And that’s it.
Roy seems to have passed the no-adultery test just fine, at least externally, and with a charitable view about his formerly divorced wife.
But his enemies won’t quit there, even after he is elected. They will keep stepping up to test, test, test him.
Its not only that nobody drowned in his car. He did not drive drunk with a young girl over a peer. And leave the young girl in the car. Get home, without telling anyone about the girl. Of course Ted Kennedy did this while he was married at the time. And the 28 year old girl was a secretary in his political organization.
He also cheated on college tests, getting caught and thrown out of school. Additionally he was caught drunk driving several times and caught trying to evade police. Whenever you hear about the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, just remember it was payback to have Ted reinstated.
We could go on. His whole life was one big drunken list of scandals. But the democrat’s outrage seemed to never include Clintons or Kennedys.
Only Democrats are allowed to get young woman and themselves drunk, drive over a bridge and then abandon the young woman to drown in their cars... Kennedy’s, Clinton’s, Al Franken, et al.
Republicans know better.
To be a Democrat, or a Democrat sycophant requires acceptance of hypocrisy and BS beyond that of a normal human-being.
If you expect to compile photos of all criminals who are/were ‘Rats in high places, you’re going to need a bigger hard drive.
And under Ted Kennedy’s name, just change it to “murder”, because that’s what it was. Add “rape” while you’re at it.
Alcee Hastings. John Conyers. Barney Frank.
I don’t see Bob Menendez there.
Doesn’t using underage prostitutes qualify ?
“abandon the young woman to drown in their cars... “
IIRC, the coroner said she didn’t drown, but lived for a very long time breathing in an air pocket until she asphyxiated. There was way more than enough time for her to be rescued if Kennedy had gone for help. Instead, he spent that time fabricating a story.
No one passes the 10 Commandments. We are all guilty. That’s why we need a savior; his name is Christ the Lord.
He drove off a bridge, not a pier.
Even Teddy knew no good ever comes from driving off a pier.
To be fair it certainly looked like a pier, being a very rudimentary sort of wooden bridge.
I will never forget a 1980 bumper sticker prior to the primaries.
Kennedy
Promises a Blond in every Pond.
And we know that year brought us Carter because they could not bring this front and center, again.
Sexual harassment is a resume enhancement when you are a democrat,but not for anyone else
Man, I never heard about that. It's a shame it wasn't Chris Dodd. :-)
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