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'Hardball' Promotes Ted Kennedy HBO History, But Completely Leaves Out Death at Chappaquiddick
NewsBusters ^ | July 14, 2009 | Tim Graham

Posted on 07/14/2009 5:59:22 AM PDT by Zakeet

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1 posted on 07/14/2009 5:59:23 AM PDT by Zakeet
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The timing on this is interesting. They are omitting Chappaquidick, but yet they are doing the special close to the 40th anniversary of the event.


2 posted on 07/14/2009 6:02:33 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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The early years of Ted, same as the older years, running around half naked, drunk and stupid.

A must miss, thanks HBO.


3 posted on 07/14/2009 6:02:59 AM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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4 posted on 07/14/2009 6:03:06 AM PDT by Maceman
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5 posted on 07/14/2009 6:04:31 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Williams/Sowell 2012 -or- Sowell/Williams 2012)
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6 posted on 07/14/2009 6:05:16 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.


7 posted on 07/14/2009 6:05:46 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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...and the riches from rum-running, and the mob ties....


8 posted on 07/14/2009 6:06:49 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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Never say anything bad about the dead. What? He’s not dead. He’s a drunken murderous old fool.


9 posted on 07/14/2009 6:07:03 AM PDT by DManA
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This is their own revisionist history. Demonrats live on lies. That is the only way they know how and to hell with everyone else. To hell with Mary Jo as she is an inconvenient truth and an example of just how far these scumbags will go to not abide by the laws, which are for everyone else.


10 posted on 07/14/2009 6:07:40 AM PDT by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: Maceman

Good graphic, except that for MaryJo, it was all darkness.

How long did they say she was alive, more than an hour, right?

She was breathing in a little air pocket near the back of the car. She might have survived if Ted had notified the police sooner.


11 posted on 07/14/2009 6:08:37 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: ComputerGuy

How times have changed - that satire could never be published today. (except as fond memory on the web).


12 posted on 07/14/2009 6:10:39 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Did the swimmer die?
Micheal Jackson died you know.


13 posted on 07/14/2009 6:11:11 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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If President Bush had killed a woman while driving drunk -

and walked away while she might have been saved

- (to keep the press from knowing he was drunk) - it would have been in the movie...

Hell, knowing how biased the double standard Hollywood types are, it would have BEEN THE MOVIE.

14 posted on 07/14/2009 6:11:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
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It wasn't only Ted at Chappaquiddick, but other members of the entourage who delayed reporting this to the authorities for 9 hours, while their colleague suffocated in that submerged vehicle. Several of them were lawyers. And in that nine hours, Ted, and others made literally hundreds of telephone calls, not one to anyone who could help the victim, who apparently lived for between 4 and 6 hours after the incident.

This was negligent homicide, vehicular manslaughter, and just plain murder. Not one of the lawyers who were immediately on the scene with Kennedy was even sanctioned, never mind disbarred. They literally sat on the beach strategizing while Kopechne died.

Ted was not even a licensed driver at the time, and once the fix was in, he received the mildest of reprimands, couldn't even be called a slap on the wrist.

These simple facts were available even in the Massachusetts press. So what did the massholes who vote this foul beast in term after term do? They got together in demonstrations of sympathy .... for Ted ... not his victim.

15 posted on 07/14/2009 6:14:28 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (What's with the Obama Birth Certificate Fuss? Hitler was a foreigner. So was Stalin.)
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Anybody else would have done 20 years for manslaughter. A married man, drunk, goes parking with a young girl. A cop approaches to check out the car and he speeds off. Later the car goes into a channel. He immediately saves himself and abandons the girl, according to experts in an air bubble that lasted some 25 minutes. He walks past four homes without trying to get use of a telephone to notify authorities and swims home. The authorities perform no autopsy even though there was blood on her dress and nose which was inconsistent with drowning. He was found at an inquest to have been driving negligently but that information was withheld from a grand jury. It looked like the hands of friends in high places was screwing up the process at every level. By not going to the authorities he avoided a breath test and since no one determined the reason for the blood, he avoided questions of whether he did violence to her before they went into the water, which would have been a murder charge.


16 posted on 07/14/2009 6:17:07 AM PDT by idov
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To: ComputerGuy

Where did that run originally? The National Lampoon?


17 posted on 07/14/2009 6:20:56 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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Yeah, it was the Lampoon iirc.
It's one of the all-time greats, imo.
18 posted on 07/14/2009 6:23:54 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Williams/Sowell 2012 -or- Sowell/Williams 2012)
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“The authorities perform no autopsy...”

Was she pregnant?


19 posted on 07/14/2009 6:24:03 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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I have a copy of that ad. It’s 100% true.


20 posted on 07/14/2009 6:25:01 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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