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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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To: murron

The same day that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Teddy was there with a competing story. One of the most historic events in the history of mankind and ole Ted stole the thunder right out from under NASA. What a POS!!!!!


21 posted on 07/14/2009 6:29:05 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: Zakeet

O’Donnell seems to have no shame.


22 posted on 07/14/2009 6:29:36 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: GOPJ
This story epitomizes our situation in this country today.

It is simply STUNNING the way we have let the communists take over media, Hollywood, Academia. All forms of mass communication.

They even write our history.

God help us.

23 posted on 07/14/2009 6:29:41 AM PDT by roses of sharon (It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
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24 posted on 07/14/2009 6:33:10 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Zakeet

Why does anyone watch MSNBC at all?


25 posted on 07/14/2009 6:41:02 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Zakeet

It seems they only throw “softballs” to Marxists on that show. The swimmer is probably the most evil Senator ever in Congress.


26 posted on 07/14/2009 6:44:36 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: Kenny Bunk

And that right there, FRiend, is why I have zero respect for the “good” people of Massachusetts.

How they can square their consciences with being represented nationally by a murderer is something I will never understand, and frankly I don’t want to try that hard.


27 posted on 07/14/2009 6:48:36 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Don't threaten me with a good time.)
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To: Zakeet

As usual, rewriting history is what the lefties do best. We wouldn’t be in a world of hurt like we are today without the help of men like Ted Kennedy who have been working toward the destruction of America.


28 posted on 07/14/2009 6:50:50 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: swain_forkbeard
In re "autopsy."

The Kennedy Team pulled a fast one. The law of Massachusetts places the body in the custody of the local Medical Examiner. The Chief Medical Examiner (Dr. Dukakis... Mike's dad) circumvented the practice by calling in the ME from Springfield, 175 miles + a long ferry ride, across the state. Of course, he drove.

In the meantime, The Kennedy Team buffaloed the local funeral home and literally seized the body, which was immediately (and illegally) flown to PA in a private plane, before the worthy medical gentleman and Kennedy stooge from Springfield could arrive on the scene.

The funeral director, experienced in drowning cases, noted that Ms. Kopechne did NOT drown, but had suffocated. Nobody asked him. The imported ME reviewed his notes and made it "Death by Drowning" on the official record, without an autopsy. Later, a MA DA sought exhumation, but was denied permission by a PA Judge, and as I understand it, the Kopechne family was also against further investigation. That may, or may not have, had anything to do with the settlement they accepted from the Kennedys.

BTW, this is absolutely typical Kennedy family behavior around Cape Cod and the Islands. Sometimes it seems there isn't a village or hamlet that doesn't have at least one permanently injured or paralyzed victim of some lesser Kennedy prank, or accident, limping or wheeling about.

Was she pregnant?
Ms. Kopechne was a woman of excellent reputation, so it is unlikely. However, technically speaking, it can never be known one way or the other.

29 posted on 07/14/2009 6:53:57 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (What's with the Obama Birth Certificate Fuss? Hitler was a foreigner. So was Stalin.)
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To: Zakeet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2291698/posts?page=136#136

My post on a different thread yesterday. Timely, huh Chrissy?


30 posted on 07/14/2009 6:57:58 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (piddy da foo)
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To: Zakeet

Didn’t Kennedy work with the Soviet Union to undermine Reagan’s foreign policy back in 1984? I remember that story coming out couple of years ago.

Bet that won’t be in the movie either.


31 posted on 07/14/2009 7:10:13 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Liberals are hypocrites and phonies. Associate with them at your own risk.)
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To: murron
They are omitting Chappaquidick, but yet they are doing the special close to the 40th anniversary of the event.

If we had an unbiased press - this would be commented on publicly...

32 posted on 07/14/2009 7:26:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
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To: ComputerGuy

Great pictures.


33 posted on 07/14/2009 7:44:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
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To: roses of sharon

Liberals cover for each other - the old double standard in action...


34 posted on 07/14/2009 8:01:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Still waiting for journalists to ask Obama how he'll heal a deeply divided nation-FreeperOldDeckHand)
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To: GOPJ
They are omitting Chappaquidick...

Thanks to Murdering Drunken Swine Ted's "Immigration Reform Act" of 1965, and his continuing efforts to eviscerate American schools, practically no one under 65 years of age living in New England today can even spell "Chappaquiddick," locate it on a map,or never mind, pronounce it.

35 posted on 07/14/2009 8:05:03 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (What's with the Obama Birth Certificate Fuss? Hitler was a foreigner. So was Stalin.)
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To: murron
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.

I was thinking the same thing.

He began by declaring "There‘s so much ground to cover. We don‘t have enough time for this. And I want to show the people out there, people under 60, who don‘t know the early Ted Kennedy, don‘t remember the early Ted Kennedy, I want to show what you have got in this movie." But O’Donnell’s interview completely left out the biggest scandal of "the early Ted Kennedy" – the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick.

It's like they are thinking that if they keep omitting the facts about Mary Jo's death at Chappaquiddick enough, eventually, especially younger generations, will think of it as an urban legend. 'Did it really happen? It's not in official TV bios...' Sick.

36 posted on 07/14/2009 8:28:46 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: NMEwithin

Perfect! The cover pic says it all. But can Frank and Joe get anybody to believe the story they’ve uncovered? It could be the one case they can’t wrap up!


37 posted on 07/14/2009 8:39:27 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: Zakeet

Time-Lies-Warner’s Hail Barack Obama network.


38 posted on 07/14/2009 9:34:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: DManA
He's braindead yet he's still in Congress.

Anyone hear the brain drip from Senator Robert Byrd yesterday?

These old braindead Democrats are completely unfit for service in our Senate.

Is Byrd still fourth in line for the presidency?

Obscene.

39 posted on 07/14/2009 9:35:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: zert_28

Yep. Lousy Red.


40 posted on 07/14/2009 9:36:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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