The American Spectator

Oldefarte| 7.21.09 @ 12:55PM

Quin, these are your BEST words EVER [in my humble opinion]. My thoughts, exactly, especially the last sentence! This man deserved to be at least prosecuted for manslaughter, but escaped such due to his MAFIA-styled hold onto Massachusetts politics, and to a team of 10 lawyers that he was telephoning, post-accident. Again, well said, very well said!!!!!!!

scott| 7.21.09 @ 1:08PM

Hear, hear!

Nolan Ryan| 7.21.09 @ 1:43PM

Thank you for reminding those that aren't mind numbed robots of the perfidy of the scum bag better know as Ted Kennedy. BLEHHHH!!

Smitty| 7.21.09 @ 2:17PM

Teddy is the symbol of the democrat party.

Quin| 7.21.09 @ 2:18PM

Nolan, different subject, imagine what YOU could have done if you had been on steroids? No catcher could have even caught your heat without permanently damaging his glove hand!
;)

Tim| 7.21.09 @ 2:24PM

Mattie Ross: Do you need a good lawyer?
Ned Pepper: I need a good judge!

*True Grit

Grzmlyk| 7.21.09 @ 2:28PM

Mr. Hillyer, you don't get it! Shame on you.

1) Kennedy is a Democrat
2) Kennedy is a Kennedy
3) Kennedy CARES about the little guy.

Therefore, whatever he has EVER done is A-OK with me. I mean, come on: What's one trollop, more or less, in the grand scheme of things?

A typical liberal, Kennedy was always too important and too busy architecting a truly compassionate society that is responsible toward human beings to be bothered bothered with responsibility toward human beings.

Duh.

Amor de Cosmos| 7.21.09 @ 2:38PM

Yeah, but he's a Kennedy! Didn't you get the memo that you can be morally reckless your whole life, a talentless hack, bankrolled and backed for life by a fortune gained through unsavory means and associations and the people of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts will continue to re-elect you and think you are a pillar of rectitude. They will even think you are making a noble sacrifice by holding public office!

Teddy should have been beyond the Pale when he cheated on his Spanish exam in college. Instead, he got to be a Senator and leader in his party. That tells you all you need to know about Massachussetts politics and the modern Democrat Party.

WendyG| 7.21.09 @ 2:53PM

>>>>>While Miss Kopechne may well still have been alive, this man, this senator, walked past four houses without asking for help, returned to a guest cottage and did not call for help, went back to his hotel and went to sleep, awoke, showered, hung out on a hotel balcony with the winners of a regatta, chatting pleasantly, and then took the ferry back to Chappaquiddick, ignoring aides' advice to report the incident, making numerous phone calls to others but still not reporting the incident....

Cause he was trying to get his cousin Joe Gargan, the family's designated flunky (read poor relative) to take the rap.

Best book on the whole sordid affair: http://www.amazon.com/Senatorial-Privilege-Chappaquiddick-Leo-Damore/dp/0895265648

Basil Plumley| 7.21.09 @ 3:51PM

It's funny when folks call Teddy "the Swimmer". There is no way he swam across the Chappaquiddick with his bad back and that strong current. He would have reached Nantucket before he reached Edgarton. I doubt he was even in the car when it went off the bridge.

Teddy is the type of coward who would have dressed up as a woman to get off the Titanic. An utter, pathetic, gutless coward indeed!

Teflon93| 7.21.09 @ 4:48PM

Isn't it funny how the Democrats embrace all of their scumbags?

Imperial Wizard Robert Byrd.

The Iceman Bill Clinton.

Madame Barney Frank.

Dirty Harry Reid.

Chappaquiddick Swim Team Captain Ted Kennedy.

But when your party is founded by a serial murderer, what should we expect?

Richard Baker| 7.21.09 @ 7:10PM

Short, sweet, and to the point.

Brian Richard Allen| 7.21.09 @ 9:01PM

Loved the piece. Hear! Hear! - Well said!

But Teflon93 missed the traitor, Roosevelt, from his list -- and that evil barsteward's fiat "judge," the Imperial Wizard Robert Byrd's much younger 'first cousin,' also a member of that other window into the world of the "Democratic" party: (the first being the war-profiteering Kennedy Crime-family-dominated Military-Industrial Complex that, during Vietnam, "earned" the talentless failed grade-school-teacher, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1.5 Billion 2012 Dollars ) the Ku Klux Klan.

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And the Far Abroad

Rob| 7.21.09 @ 9:27PM

How hard would it have been for Kennedy to telephone a private pilot (or a friend who knew one) to fly him to the mainland, and then to pay off anyone involved afterward to maintain his silence? Wouldn't making a phone call that would send a pilot his way be easier than swimming through ocean currents with a bad back?

Spicy Joker| 7.21.09 @ 10:27PM

Newsweek just honored that murderer Ted Kennedy by putting his face on its cover. The cover story is Ted Kennedy's "Fight for Universal Health Care." When Kennedy dies, the liberal media will act like a member of the royal family has just died.

Been There| 7.22.09 @ 1:25AM

I agree with all of the comments generally. However there seems to be some mix up in the geographical references here. Chappaquiddick Island is no more than 100 yards from Martha's Vineyard and there is scarcely a current there at all...maybe some tidal current. There was tidal current running where Kennedy drove off the bridge to keep from being stopped drunk by the police car that was coming towardss him when he veered off of the paved road to drive down the dirt Dike Road and off of Dike Bridge.
ON the 25th anniversary of Chappaquiddick, Howie Carr, the Boston Herald columnist and radio talk show host, rented the exact same cottage that the "Kennedy Party" stayed at in 1969 and had at the "Fat Boy" coward as he calls him. I am sure that Howie didn't miss the opportunity to call attention to it again this year either.
And yes, "Senatorial Privilege" Leo Damore, tells the whole story from first hand account of Joe Gargan, the Kennedy cousin who Teddy begged to take the blame after he tried to recover Mary Jo alive from the car while Teddy cried and panicked about his likely ruined career and life as a result of her drowning. Kennedy was required to go to jail under Massachusetts or any other state law at the time...funny isn't it?

Been There | 7.22.09 @ 1:31AM

Sorry to re enter the blog, but I see that I didn't make clear that Howie Carr, columnist and radio talk show host, broadcast his number one rated Boston talk radio show from the Kennedy PArty cottage on Chappaquiddick Island for the entire week of the 25th anniversary 1994 and devastated the "good" Senator for the entire 15 hours that he was on the air that week..

Basil Plumley| 7.22.09 @ 2:09AM

@ Been There

What I meant was if Kennedy had swam from where the car landed in the water to Edgarton, the tide would have sent him in the other direction; especially with that bad back.

The theory/story as I understand it is Teddy saw the deputy and panicked. He got out of the car and told Mary Jo to keep driving. He was familiar with the area while she was not. He knew where the road ended; she didn't.

Been there too| 7.22.09 @ 6:52AM

If the earlier poster has been there, I wonder if he has seen the car ferry that struggles against the current to make the short crossing?? It holds several cars and must weigh a ton and yet it puts all the forward thrust it has into getting across a very strong tidal current.

Been there too| 7.22.09 @ 7:09AM

Ted's car went into a pond and was nowhere near the ferry crossing to MV.

BEEN THERE TOO TOO| 7.22.09 @ 8:27AM

I rode a bicycle there in about 1971. First, the bit about taking the wrong turn: The road to the ferry from the party curves left. The Dyke Bridge was on a dirt road. To get there you had to take a very sharp right turn. Second, as a previous poster says, the MV Ferry is far away. Where the Kennedy car was was, as I recall, a relatively small water course which separated Chappaquiddic from a desolate beach which was, I assume the destination of Kennedy and the young woman.
I am no Kennedy fan, but I see a couple of alternate explanations (probably none true) that would have helped the guy out : First one is that the girl was driving; she was too short to see over the hood of a late sixties Olds, and she drove the car over the unrailed edge of the bridge. Kennedy then heroically etc. tried to rescue her. With this one, Kennedy could have explained that the reason he did not report the incident was that he was stone drunk and that was the reason the girl was driving and took the wrong road. He was actually being a good citizen!
My real issue is this: Kennedy is not the issue. He did what he did or did not do. It is the people of his state who have reelected the guy that I hold up for shame.

susan| 7.22.09 @ 8:29AM

Mr. Kennedy is a vile human being who has left his mess for someone else to clean up all his life. How the American people can see this drunken, self-important imbecile as a leader shows they'll believe and/or fall for anything this man does because his name is Kennedy.

Frank| 7.22.09 @ 11:06AM

Since there is no statute of limitations on murder, why doesn’t someone responsible for enforcing the law bring charges against the guy? Oh, that's right the democrats are above the law!! Darn!!!

Been There| 7.22.09 @ 2:00PM

Fi you want to know what happened at Chappaquiddick. Leo Damores book "Senatorial Privilege" tells the entire story from the first hand account as well as all of the evidence that could be assembled from all sources. It is permanently damning of Teddy Kennedy. It shows he had no one in mind but himself on that night or any other night and he was willing to let people die and begging for them to take the blame for him. THis is an indictment, trial and conviction. As to the swim...the cousin and at least one other party person drove Kennedy to the "ferry" but he jumped out of the car and swam across so as to not be reported as on the ferry that night...his idea was to have been at his Edgartown Hotel all evening so that he couldn't have been on Cahppaquiddick at all and hence not possibly at the scene of the accident. His cousin and others told him that he "had to report the accident" but good old courageous Teddy had other ideas. Kennedy was at the time a good swimmer and when thetide is not running which frequently it isn't or it is in transition it is not that big a deal to get across, it's just like swimming across a river with current. Take a look at a picture of Ted in those days, you can't even tell he is the same person, other than the square jaw line and eyes. Mary JO was not driving, Teddy didn't know where he was going either..just away from the cops, it couldn't be a mistake as he said to turn onto Dyke Road since the paved road is highly banked and curving to the left and to turn off to Dyke Road you have to hang a 120 degree right up over thetop of the road banking left and drop down to a dirt road going nearly the opposite direction, but this was part of his story. He also walked around with a neck brace for a few months after holing up at his mothers place in Hyannisport where he should have been arrested and jailed. Kennedy was not injured in the accident andshowed no signs of impairment subsequent because remember, according to him, he didn't have an accident until late the next day when other people at the party told him they were going to tell the police that it was Kennedy who was at fault. He was still hoping he could pin it on some fall guy and get off. He is a massive piece of s-it.

Robert Belvedere| 7.22.09 @ 8:11PM

Edward Moore Kennedy never paid for the crime because he paid enough for it to go away, and he took advantage of the pity Americans felt for his family and lied in a televised broadcast. Those of us who believe in justice can only take heart in the fact that he will have to answer for his sins once he dies.

My greatest hope is that, once the Senator dies, Americans will wake up and say 'Enough with this wretched family! Go away and 'serve the public' no more!'

Robert Belvedere| 7.22.09 @ 8:12PM

I forgot to mention...quoted from and linked to at:
http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/2009.07.19_arch.html#1248272768960

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