Mark Steyn: To the left, ideological purity trumps all

National Post ^ | January 13 2003 | Mark Steyn

[lorrainer]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

This is obscene. Charles Pierce IS a major-league Clymer. I am amazed that there are any democrat women. Sheesh.

[azGOPgal]

Thanks for the ping, Wphile.

What always seems to get me mad is the HUGE double standard in Washington. It seems that if a Democrat (in Sen. Kennedy's case) kills someone, they can just cover it up with excuses upon excuses and shed tears in front of the media and express their complete sympathy. The media will then embrace the Democrat who now appears to be the victim because of the "trauma" they have suffered. Heaven forbid the media actually reports the facts of the accident.

Now in the case of a Republican, I'll use George W. Bush, who had some run-ins with the law because of drunk driving, the media jumps all over that and looks at every single angle of the story to try and twist it in order for it to seem like he had actually committed murder. And instead of leaving the story alone after it's reported, they will capitalize on it, and make George Bush like the most heinous person alive.

It just blows me away that the Democrats can get away with murder while Republicans are just short of being put on trial for a little mishap.

I could be completely wrong in my statement, but this is what I have observed from the media and Washington.

[aBootes]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

Genuinely disturbing. Hope this line finds its way to a suitably large number of conservative OP-ED pages, blogs, talk radio, etc., etc.

[Stallone]

BRILLIANT!

[Stallone]

BRILLIANT!

[McLynnan]

Thanks for the ping. I wouldn't have wanted to miss this. Ted Kennedy's callous murder of Mary Jo Kopechne should have bought him a life sentence. So lucky for him his daddy had big bucks and he didn't have to endure the prison sentence ordinary Americans would have received.

[Leisler]

"This was one of those big ol' butt-numbing magazine profiles, which only reaches the reader after it's spent weeks working its way up through the deputy assistant copy-editor and the assistant deputy copy-editor and all the rest of the fine tooth-combers the American press employs to drain all the life out of their publications. "

The Boston Globe, now owened by the New York Times. The Globe, home of the bow-tied bumkissers.

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Pinging Steyn's list.

[Hildy]

I actually won a Village Voice Contest for this joke: HOW MANY KENNEDY'S DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB? I'll let you come up with the answer.

[LisaFab]

Thanks Poke - saved and printed to bring out into the world of CT libs unfortunate enough to cross my path tonight!

[Wolfstar]

I believe Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo — and by 'killed', I do not mean that he just let her drown. Perhaps only two people know the truth, and one of them has been dead for 34 years. Or perhaps one or more of the people in that party knew the truth, although they never talked. But whatever the exact nature of the circumstances, there has always been solid reason to believe that, at minimum, it was manslaughter (2nd degree murder is not out of the question).

[Tribune7]

PING

[MeekOneGOP]

bttt for later read. Schteyner !!

[FreedomPoster]

The Kennedy family exemplifies dissipation.

The earlier generations snuffed their girlfriends.

It's all that the current generation can do to manage and kill themselves.

Excellent! Both cutting and incisive, like Steyn's article.

[Temple Owl]

We should pray for and admire Mary Jo as a true American heroine. She died to keep an oversexed drunk from becoming President of the United States of America.

[Temple Owl]

Thank you so much for the ping. I do believe I would have missed this keeper of an article if you had not been so king to bring my attention to it.

[Mr. Mojo]

One to hold the light bulb, and the rest to drink until the room spins.

[driftless]

You're right about Clinton. He was only interested in one thing: himself. He knew that the typical liberal nostrums of the day were leftist nonsense, so he expropriated the common-sense logical programs and ideas of the conservatives when he had to like welfare reform. He gave lip service to liberal worshippers, but played them for suckers. But of course liberals are inherently illogical anyway and prone to being taken in by con-artists like the Slick One. Only liberals can gush about the wonderful economy Clinton "gave" the country, and at the same time condemn capitalists for being greedy.

[DugwayDuke]

There was an investigatory program on this on one of the other channels, A&E, Discovery, etc. about two years ago. Don't remember the details but they did a number on the good Senator.

As I remember, they reached the conclusion that MJ and Teddy had slipped off for a little discussion of welfare policy or something. There was testimony from a local cop that he saw their car parked in a spot conducive to "policy discussions". He drove past then went back to check. The car took off at a high rate of speed and he lost it.

The program speculated that Teddy didn't want to be caught discussing policy with a young single woman late at night and very drunk too. That MJ, unfamiliar with the Island, took a wrong turn and drove off the bridge. Teddy thinking she'd returned to the party went to the hotel.

The program speculated that since MJ had no significant injuries, it was unlikely she was a passenger since the car was damaged on that side leading to the conclusion that she was the driver.

[billorites]

"She died to keep an oversexed drunk from becoming President of the United States of America."

Not the first, and not likely the last.