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 ...
Yeah me too.
“nothing much” was covered up???
LOLOL. It’s amazing how they admit that there was a cover up but it’s crazy to talk about it.
How ‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy
What took them so long?
Then why not put her behind the steering wheel and say she stole the car.
At the bottom of the article, it mentions that Gabler
is writing a biography of Kennedy.
Marko
Kennedy is dead & in you-know-where & can no longer threaten film makers.
Only...he croaked nine years ago. Why did it take this long?
Was waiting for the radical left to condemn this factual movie about the hypocritical senator who got away with negligent homicide because he was in a rich family and paid his way out of going to jail. He was lower than a worm and deserves no praise.
But it’s the NYT - an America-hating leftist rag.
The Kennedy men were/are the embodiment of the white, privileged, drunken, groping narcissistic Frat-boys the Left claim to hate, yet....
I doubt Ted Kennedy ever felt any real remorse over the ‘accident’. If he had any it was that he suffered humiliation because of it. As for Mary Jo, Mary Jo - Who???
I doubt Ted Kennedy ever felt any real remorse over the ‘accident’. If he had any it was that he suffered humiliation because of it. As for Mary Jo, Mary Jo - Who???
"Many scenes cross from dramatic interpretation to outright character assassination. In this version, the Kennedy character leaves Kopechne to die as she gasps for air, and then, with the aid of his brothers’ old advisers, cooks up a scheme to salvage his presidential ambitions. A more callow, cunning, cowardly and self-interested yet moronic figure you couldn’t find. His first words after the accident are: “I’m not going to be president.” "
How many HOURS did Ted Kennedy leave this girl in the car before calling it in to the police? The car went into the water around 1 a.m. and he telephoned the police around 10 a.m., only after having been told that the young lady's body had been found. So this author contends that Kennedy was something other than "callow, cunning, cowardly and self-interested yet moronic". Why? Oh, I know, for the usual Lefty reason that he took the Party Line on all issues and advanced their agenda throughout his life of 'public service'. He was a lecherous, drunken scoundrel -- that is, a Kennedy through and through.
I saw it last night. Great movie. Jason Clark and Ed Helms were fantastic.
“Senatorial Privilege” was the book which really covered the entire taudry story.
the NYTs is beeing it’s usually idiotic self.
“Senatorial Privilege” was the book which really covered the entire taudry story.
the NYTs is beeing it’s usually idiotic self.
There were a few scenes in the movie where Ted appeared to show remorse, but they quickly dissolved into contortions of self-pity and weakness. It’s hard to tell if he really felt any of it.
This is, after all, the paper that stoutly defended Stalin and covered up his genocides. Whitewashing a negligent homicide by the Swimmer is a relatively trivial matter.
This is one of those exceedingly rare times that I’m actually embarrassed for the writer of an article. You can almost hear this obsequious toady sniveling as he types this ridiculous whitewashing of an indefensibly cowardly act. Even a significant portion of the Kennedy worshipping NYTimes readership is calling him out in the comments.
He is defending his prog Icon , but he is correct about Old Joe’s condition. Joe was trotted out by both Bobby and Teddy to the 67 World Series in Boston. They came under a lot of criticism for using their clearly incapacitated old man as a stage prop. That was 20 months prior to Chappaquiddick. Personal note. I was present at Teddy’s last public appearance prior to his midnight swim. He gave the commencement speech at my graduation from Fordham in 69. He and his wife Joan processed past me, about ten feet away. Joan was stunning, Hollywood tan, long blond hair , silver mini dress. When I saw Mary Jo’s pic in the papers I could hardly believe Teddy boy could cheat on Joan with her. Didnt know at the time he was a too much a player to stop himself.
Even more appalling is that he he buried in Armington with real heroes.
Oh I don't know... Washington is full of them. So is the news media.
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