Posted on 01/18/2006 6:01:05 PM PST by ex-Texan
The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single.
According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.”
A Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.”
As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa Wagoner last night called the tabloid tale “irresponsible fiction.”
Here’s the story according to the Enquirer: Back in 1983, Kennedy, then 51, took up with Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette, several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids — Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick.
Bilodeau’s friends told the Enquirer the local lass became so smitten with the senator, she “had dreams about being the next Mrs. Ted Kennedy.” But the love affair came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way, the mag reports.
“Caroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,” blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. “Ted was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.”
According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused.
“He told her he couldn’t undergo another scandal — not after Chappaquiddick, not so close to his divorce from Joan” said the source. “He was very angry when she defied him and had the child.”
During her pregnancy, Caroline’s friends noticed the unemployed young woman who lived with her parents bought a black Mustang convertible, an expensive Shar-pei puppy and moved into her own apartment.
Woohoo! Teddy's got a new drinking buddy.
Bwahahaha! Hey, Ted. Teach him how to drink Chivas and womanize just like dear old dad.
It's probably a plant to make him immune. He isn't up for election for another year and a half. Something about it is b.s., I bet, and they'll harp on that inaccuracy to blunt the facts.
It was actually during this time that I started to read it --and other garbage like it- on a fairly regular basis.
What do you do when your most legitimate papers start reporting like Izvestia?
"Bwahahaha! Hey, Ted. Teach him how to drink Chivas and womanize just like dear old dad."
As long as someone else handles the driving.
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Yuck! Who would hit that?? This woman must be blind or something.
Dig deeper.
You are needed on this thread. :-)
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Kennedy is up for re-election this year (06)
Weekly World News is my favorite. I have to say the Enquirer is as accurate or at least as believable as the NYT or the Boston Globe.
Who makes up more stories or has more reporters get fired for writing fake stories?
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