I imagine there will be a lot of people venturing out today to Dike Bridge over Poucho Pond on Chappaquiddick. It was just over 40 years ago that Ted Kennedy and five other married men took six single women, campaign aides and interns known as the "boiler room girls", out for a night of drinking on the beach. The incident at Dike Bridge became one of history's worst examples of the personal abuse of power and privilege.
Investigative reporter Jack Anderson dug into the facts, as did hundreds of others, and the mea culpa Ted gave to the public was as legalistic and self-protecting an admission of error as ever made where a death was involved. The speech was crafted by the crack Kennedy team, known as The Best and the Brightest, including Robert McNamara, Arthur Schlesinger and Ted Sorensen.
Watch and read the speech here.
6 comments:
The vomit inducing worship of this evil man will go on for a few days until his bloated carcass is thankfully stuck in the ground, hopefully with a stake through its heart so he stays dead.
in the coverage of career, left unsaid was that he was a drunk for many years, and the most shameful episodes of his life involved heavy drinking. Once he went straight, he found redemption, and people who knew him far better than most, his fellow senators on both sides, respected him.
But hey, does the randomizer word verification in WordPress have a sense of humor? Mine was 'borkime'?
Your friend Mr. Bunny Rabbit (a la "D. Lapin") posted here obviously has no personal need for the important legislation Ted Kennedy penned.
In 47 years in the Senate, Mr. Kennedy passed more than 300 laws. Among them are the Americans with Disabilities Act (hope you are never wheelchair-bound because this law would be just for you).
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program has been a life-saver to millions of kids in need -- (You likely have a good job, so it's meaningless to you, right?)
When you lose your job, it won't matter because COBRA will be there for you in a pinch---though YOU don't deserve a helping hand.
Is your extended family whole? Do you think perhaps that Ted Kennedy's drinking may have been a human response related to losing two brothers to political assassination and one to a world war? Then again your sister isn't institutionalized is she?
Shame on you, Rabbit Boy, for your hateful comments.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable to comment on anonymous's jumble of inanities.
Teddy wasn't the only thing that was bloated; his pork-filled and freedom shrinking spending bills damaged this country, although Massachusetts certainly did well for itself.
As for the moronic supposition that his debauchery was as a result of the loss of two brothers; it began before they died. He was a pig his whole life, and no amount of hand wringing and moral relativism will change that.
Bunny Boy,
You obviously don't have better things to do with your life than to shame the dead, do you?
So let's hear chapter and verse YOUR very own story of personal heroics...what makes you such a faultless dream that you can carry so many stones in your hand for flinging ?
I can't imagine why I've just wasted two minutes of my life on the likes of you.
Argumentum ad hominem is an old, boring and thoroughly discredited technique. Try again.
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