Who are they kidding?
Ted Kennedy was an asshole. Not the great all-serving, kind, thoughtful man his is portrayed to be by the media. But a certifiable sphincter.
How he got away with murder is still not clear, but the same media that trips over themselves to support Obama's ill-considered support for Eric Holder conducting a CIA witch-hunt, manages to gloss over a crass, needless murder.
Did you know that there is forensic evidence that Mary Jo lived at least a couple of hours before suffocating? Did you know that the bridge he drive off of was not on the way to the Edgartown Ferry (he was driving her there to catch the last ferry so she could get to her hotel) -- not even remotely close? Ted, a Hyannis - MV regular since birth knew that. There is no mystery here: even the inquest Judge said that at a minimum it was manslaughter. But the Commonwealth chose not to file. Why? And by the way, Ted's wife Joan was pregnant at the time that Ted was driving a pretty young campaign worker ... not back to her hotel. Joan subsequently suffered a miscarriage.
Ted was not prosecuted because he was a Kennedy. Simple. You or I would have had to face the music, and given the inexcusable delay in reporting, the sheer nonsense about getting lost, the recklessness of driving at speed (he was seen by an off-duty sheriff), our trial would be ugly.
Ted was also expelled from Harvard. Ted, you see, was a jock ... a football player ... and when his athletic eligibility was threatened, he got a friend to take his Spanish test for him. Spanish. They were caught and expelled. Three years later he was re-admitted to Harvard and played football through senior year. In the interim between being expelled and re-admitted, he had enlisted in the Army.
In the Army, Ted was posted to SHAEF in Paris, as part of the honor guard.... His maternal grandfather (Honey-Fitz) and his father's political connections ensured that he would not have to go to Korea to fight in the war raging there at the time. Along the way, Ted briefly was considered for duty with military intelligence ... but was found lacking in some way and dropped. The military refuses to divulge why ... and like won't ever do so.
Consider: would you or I ever have been readmitted to Harvard? Would we have gone to Korea? Yet Ted, man of the people, appears to have skated through murder, cheating and patronage without the merest whiff of foul-smelling media-taint. "Lion of Liberalism." Does that mean King? Is Liberalism the monarchy of corruption and hypocrites?
The Lion also created one of the most partisan and disgusting episodes in Senate history: the systematic slandering of Judge Robert Bork. To "Bork" someone is now part of our lexicon ... thanks to Ted Kennedy. The left saw no problem in destroying a man's reputation, career and personal life -- on fabrications because the man was ideologically different. Yet, Pelosi today states, "we won, we get to pick." Somehow that's OK to the left. When Clarence Thomas can to bat, Ted was silent ... and arguably if you had to pick jurists, Thomas can't hold a candle to Bork. But Thomas' problem was one of sexual harassment, and even Ted could not afford to cast those stones: he was front and center at the time with the William Kennedy Smith murder. And also being photographed all over Europe fornicating and boozing with much younger blonde women.
Ted never saw pork he didn't like: although he voted against almost every weapons system for the military that came before the Senate, he did vote for the F-18 variant that the Navy did not want ... the engines were built in Massachusetts.
Kennedy was very vocal supporter of health care reform (read "free" health care for all), immigration reform (read "come one, come all -- you're all welcome) and gay and lesbian rights (OK, why not?). He was also a strong supporter for freedom for abortion ... a difficult position for a reputed devout Catholic. Ted always made a big show of his "faith." How he reconciled that "faith" with his political stances, his actions with women and progressivism, I can't figure out. Yet he received his first communion from Pope Pius XII, and had a Cardinal do his funeral. For that matter, how does the Catholic Church reconcile its positions?
Ted did not lead a life we can relate to. He espoused populist politics and lived the life of the elitist scion that he was. A complete and total hypocrite. A common thread in Liberal politics. Maybe he was the King after all....
How he got away with murder is still not clear, but the same media that trips over themselves to support Obama's ill-considered support for Eric Holder conducting a CIA witch-hunt, manages to gloss over a crass, needless murder.
Did you know that there is forensic evidence that Mary Jo lived at least a couple of hours before suffocating? Did you know that the bridge he drive off of was not on the way to the Edgartown Ferry (he was driving her there to catch the last ferry so she could get to her hotel) -- not even remotely close? Ted, a Hyannis - MV regular since birth knew that. There is no mystery here: even the inquest Judge said that at a minimum it was manslaughter. But the Commonwealth chose not to file. Why? And by the way, Ted's wife Joan was pregnant at the time that Ted was driving a pretty young campaign worker ... not back to her hotel. Joan subsequently suffered a miscarriage.
Ted was not prosecuted because he was a Kennedy. Simple. You or I would have had to face the music, and given the inexcusable delay in reporting, the sheer nonsense about getting lost, the recklessness of driving at speed (he was seen by an off-duty sheriff), our trial would be ugly.
Ted was also expelled from Harvard. Ted, you see, was a jock ... a football player ... and when his athletic eligibility was threatened, he got a friend to take his Spanish test for him. Spanish. They were caught and expelled. Three years later he was re-admitted to Harvard and played football through senior year. In the interim between being expelled and re-admitted, he had enlisted in the Army.
In the Army, Ted was posted to SHAEF in Paris, as part of the honor guard.... His maternal grandfather (Honey-Fitz) and his father's political connections ensured that he would not have to go to Korea to fight in the war raging there at the time. Along the way, Ted briefly was considered for duty with military intelligence ... but was found lacking in some way and dropped. The military refuses to divulge why ... and like won't ever do so.
Consider: would you or I ever have been readmitted to Harvard? Would we have gone to Korea? Yet Ted, man of the people, appears to have skated through murder, cheating and patronage without the merest whiff of foul-smelling media-taint. "Lion of Liberalism." Does that mean King? Is Liberalism the monarchy of corruption and hypocrites?
The Lion also created one of the most partisan and disgusting episodes in Senate history: the systematic slandering of Judge Robert Bork. To "Bork" someone is now part of our lexicon ... thanks to Ted Kennedy. The left saw no problem in destroying a man's reputation, career and personal life -- on fabrications because the man was ideologically different. Yet, Pelosi today states, "we won, we get to pick." Somehow that's OK to the left. When Clarence Thomas can to bat, Ted was silent ... and arguably if you had to pick jurists, Thomas can't hold a candle to Bork. But Thomas' problem was one of sexual harassment, and even Ted could not afford to cast those stones: he was front and center at the time with the William Kennedy Smith murder. And also being photographed all over Europe fornicating and boozing with much younger blonde women.
Ted never saw pork he didn't like: although he voted against almost every weapons system for the military that came before the Senate, he did vote for the F-18 variant that the Navy did not want ... the engines were built in Massachusetts.
Kennedy was very vocal supporter of health care reform (read "free" health care for all), immigration reform (read "come one, come all -- you're all welcome) and gay and lesbian rights (OK, why not?). He was also a strong supporter for freedom for abortion ... a difficult position for a reputed devout Catholic. Ted always made a big show of his "faith." How he reconciled that "faith" with his political stances, his actions with women and progressivism, I can't figure out. Yet he received his first communion from Pope Pius XII, and had a Cardinal do his funeral. For that matter, how does the Catholic Church reconcile its positions?
Ted did not lead a life we can relate to. He espoused populist politics and lived the life of the elitist scion that he was. A complete and total hypocrite. A common thread in Liberal politics. Maybe he was the King after all....
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, September 03, 2009
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