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Liberal at Huffpo thinks Mary Jo Kopechne didn't mind dying for Ted
American Thinker ^ | 8/28/09 | Rick Moran

Posted on 08/28/2009 11:15:26 AM PDT by proudbirther

Maybe she phrased it wrong. Maybe liberal blogger Melissa Lafsky writing in Huffpo this morning had a brain cramp and wrote something she didn't want to.

Maybe aliens made her do it.

Somehow, some explanation must be given for this kind of incredible, tone deaf, idiocy:

"We don't know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don't know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: huffpo; kopechne; lafsky; martyr; moonbats; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 08/28/2009 11:15:27 AM PDT by proudbirther
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2 posted on 08/28/2009 11:17:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: proudbirther

So perhaps Melissa should off herself for the One.


3 posted on 08/28/2009 11:17:30 AM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: proudbirther
As Savage said many times, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
4 posted on 08/28/2009 11:18:16 AM PDT by Rocko (Report this post to flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: proudbirther
The final sentence"

"What a despicable thing to write."

Amen to that.

5 posted on 08/28/2009 11:19:12 AM PDT by bcsco (How's that hopey-changey thing going?)
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To: proudbirther
Mary Jo Kopekne died for Our Lord, Tedward Kennedy.

ALL HAIL TO OUR LORD GOD TEDWARD KENNEDY!!!!

6 posted on 08/28/2009 11:19:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (It's Claire Wolfe Time.)
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To: proudbirther

M E G A - B A R F

You know, maybe I should start reading the Puffington Host regularly. My wife tells me I need to lose a few pounds, and the crap emanating from there is enough to kill anyone's appetite!

7 posted on 08/28/2009 11:19:39 AM PDT by ssaftler (OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

self ping for later.


8 posted on 08/28/2009 11:20:10 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: Carley

So perhaps Melissa should off herself for the One.
___________________________________________________

Best idea I’ve heard all day.


9 posted on 08/28/2009 11:20:58 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell)
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To: proudbirther
Any doubt how Hitler was able to persuade his population to support his treatment of the Jews?

Leftists are insane.

10 posted on 08/28/2009 11:21:42 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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To: Carley

>> So perhaps Melissa should off herself for the One.

Great idea! She could be buried WITH Uncle Teddy — it’s not too late!

Better yet, she could talk another one of her liberal nutcake buddies into offing herself as well, and they could BOTH be buried with the old lecher! You know — sort of a “corpse sandwich”! He’d LIKE that...


11 posted on 08/28/2009 11:23:16 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: proudbirther

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”

Only a whack left liberal can hear the one ball bearing rolling around in their tin can brain.....


12 posted on 08/28/2009 11:23:18 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: proudbirther
Someone on Rush just reminded me that mary Joe did not drown. She struggled in a pocket of air in the back of the car before running out of air. She had no water in her lungs. Imagine trapped and running out of air while the swimmer cut out on you. I an sure she was thinking “what a wonderful man”.
13 posted on 08/28/2009 11:23:19 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: proudbirther
Mary Jo may have done the republic a great service. Consider this alternate history:

  1. Ted doesn't drive off the bridge that night
  2. Gerry Ford narrowly wins the 1976 election
  3. Ted Kennedy is elected president in a landslide in 1980

14 posted on 08/28/2009 11:23:57 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: ssaftler

Since the author can not ask Mary Jo, why didn’t she ask her relatives. I don’t think they would speak to highly of the good Senator.


15 posted on 08/28/2009 11:25:13 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Ben Mugged

All the swimmer had to do was break the glass....


16 posted on 08/28/2009 11:26:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Ben Mugged

What planet do these people come from? They are sick.
Please remind your friends that you thought Kennedy was a jerk and deserves no eulogy from the TOTUS.(I’m sure they will be there in church).
We let liberals get away with this crap because we won’t stand up and be heard. Get in their face. Make it unfashinable to be a liberal..remind them of their friends and leaders.


17 posted on 08/28/2009 11:27:12 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Ben Mugged

Maybe she wasn’t struggling. Maybe there was no water in her lungs because her airway was “offline”.

Maybe she floated immediately up into the “airpocket” in the car.

Maybe Ted had no reason to “save” Ms. K.

Conjecture.


18 posted on 08/28/2009 11:27:14 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: proudbirther

Proof of the total dementia of mainstream dems.


19 posted on 08/28/2009 11:28:16 AM PDT by charmedone
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To: Campion

Seriously, Mary Jo saved us from this wind bag in the White House!


20 posted on 08/28/2009 11:28:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: proudbirther
I wrote this on another thread - one where the libs were talking about Kennedy collecting Chappaquiddick jokes. It seems appropriates here.

When you think about it you realize this shows the Leftist mindset: Chappaquiddick is just something that happened to this really nice caring pleasant humane guy, who was just out minding his own business, having a little party. An accident. Not at all his fault, everything he did was understandable. Sad, but hey, he bears up under the tragedy and makes jokes about this unfortunate turn of events.

Instead of a window into the soul of a totally corrupt self-centered liar and coward who left a another person to die because of the risk to his political career. And the reality that the Leftists are all right with him leaving her to die, because he will be on their side in their battles to “fix” (and I mean in the sense of castration) American society.

21 posted on 08/28/2009 11:28:39 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: roses of sharon

In 2009 there seems to be a common theme among leftists that people should be willing to sacrifice their lives for the greater good of society. We shouldn’t resist dying for ObamaCare. After all, Mary Jo gave all for Teddy.

This kind of thinking eventually leads to mass murder by tyrants.


22 posted on 08/28/2009 11:28:49 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: proudbirther

“I got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind,
“I”m just twenty-eight and I don’t mind dyin’,
“Now who do you love,
“Who do you love?
“Yeah, who do you love?”

23 posted on 08/28/2009 11:29:24 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: proudbirther

Sick...sick...just very sick.


24 posted on 08/28/2009 11:31:14 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Hey, Mr. Obama, please don't kill my gramma! NO on socialist healthcare!)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

posted comments
My name is David Kopetchny, MaryJo was my first cousin. To bad she didn’t live to see poor Teddy die. May he rot in Hell! I for one do not forgive or forget how that drunk killed a truely wonderful person and friend and then lied thru his teeth to get out of trouble.
Report David R. Kopetchny, 08/27/09 - 3:41PM

http://www.standardspeaker.com/news/liberal_lion_kennedy_left_his_mark_on_n_e_penna


25 posted on 08/28/2009 11:32:18 AM PDT by angcat (GO YANKEES! I LOVE MY YANKEES!!!!!!!!!)
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To: proudbirther

If she didn’t mind dying for Blimpy, then I can see how he can joke about it so easily. It all makes sense to me now.


26 posted on 08/28/2009 11:32:37 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 ("Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - Anonymous)
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To: BigBobber

Not only are we who disagree “unAmerican”, we are part of the larger set called “ecotumors”, whick also includes silly liberals, tho they don’t know it yet.

And getting older won’t be good for our survival, either.

Have a good ObamaWorld weekend!


27 posted on 08/28/2009 11:33:40 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: proudbirther

I’m sure the millions of vietnamese and cambodians didn’t mind dying for Ted either.


28 posted on 08/28/2009 11:33:51 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: proudbirther

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder.”

*****

Melissa, you’re way, way past ignorance.


29 posted on 08/28/2009 11:35:12 AM PDT by bereanway (Sarah get your gun)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“Seriously, Mary Jo saved us from this wind bag in the White House!”

Yeah, but then we would have only had to tolerate him for four, maybe eight years and not the 52 years that we had to.

There’s always a bright side.


30 posted on 08/28/2009 11:36:32 AM PDT by Daniel II (I'm Jim Thompson, this is my brother Jimmy, and this is my other brother Jimmy)
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To: Cheburashka

Sometimes the libs go beyond parody.

This broad should buckle herself into her car seat drive off a bridge so that Euro-Socialist bureaucracy can have another martyr.


31 posted on 08/28/2009 11:36:44 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: proudbirther

Many feminists saw Clinton’s victims the same way. Twisted.


32 posted on 08/28/2009 11:37:38 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Spok

Oh my gosh, you are so right! They are twisted.

Gotta be Daddy issues.

I will never understand!!!


33 posted on 08/28/2009 11:40:23 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: proudbirther

They just get sicker and sicker with their bs.


34 posted on 08/28/2009 11:41:45 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Voter62vb
An investigation at the scene of the accident by Raymond R. McHenry, suggested that Kennedy approached the bridge at an estimated 34 miles (55 kilometres) per hour. At around 5 metres (17 feet) from the bridge, Kennedy braked violently. This locked the front wheels. According to McHenry: "The car skidded 5 metres (17 feet) along the road, 8 metres (25 feet) up the humpback bridge, jumped a 14 centimetre barrier, somersaulted through the air for about 10 metres (35 feet) into the water and landed upside-down."

Investigators found it difficult to understand why he was crossing Dyke Bridge when he said he was attempting to reach Edgartown which was in the opposite direction. They also could not understand why he was driving so fast on this unlit, uneven, road. They also could not work out how Kennedy escaped from the car. When it was recovered from the water all the doors were locked. Three of the windows were either open or smashed in. If Kennedy, a large-framed 6 foot 2 inches tall man could manage to get out of the car, why was it impossible for Mary Jo Kopechne, a slender 5 foot 2 inches tall, not do the same?

Local experts could not understand why Kennedy (and later, Markham and Gargan) could not rescue Kopechne from the car. It also surprised investigators that Kennedy did not seek help from Pierre Malm, who only lived 135 metres from the bridge. At the inquest Kennedy was unable to answer this question.

There were also doubts about the way Kopechne died. Dr. Donald Mills of Edgartown, wrote on the death certificate: "death by drowning". However, Gene Frieh, the undertaker, told reporters that death "was due to suffocation rather than drowning". John Farrar, the diver who removed Kopechne from the car, claimed she was "too buoyant to be full of water". It is assumed that she died from drowning, although her parents filed a petition preventing an autopsy.

Other questions were asked about Kennedy's decision to swim back to Edgartown. The 150 metre channel had strong currents and only the strongest of swimmers would have been able to make the journey safely. Also no one saw Kennedy arrive back at the Shiretown Inn in wet clothes. Ross Richards, who had a conversation with Kennedy the following morning at the hotel described him as casual and at ease.

Kennedy did not inform the police of the accident while he was at the hotel. Instead at 9am he joined Gargan and Markham on the ferry back to Chappaquiddick Island. Steve Ewing, the ferry operator, reported Kennedy in a jovial mood. It was only when Kennedy reached the island that he phoned the authorities about the accident that had taken place the previous night.

35 posted on 08/28/2009 11:44:47 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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This woman is mentally ill..


36 posted on 08/28/2009 11:47:07 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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37 posted on 08/28/2009 11:50:14 AM PDT by maggief (KennedyCare ... Dead in the Water)
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"If Mary Jo can give her life for the good of the state so can your granny! Let's all support ...

Dead Ted Health Care Reform!"

38 posted on 08/28/2009 11:57:09 AM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer
Since the author can not ask Mary Jo, why didn’t she ask her relatives. I don’t think they would speak to highly of the good Senator.

Unfortunately, her parents have always been pretty quiet about the "accident". It seems that the large payoff from the Kennedy's did the trick.

39 posted on 08/28/2009 12:00:44 PM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: maggief

I’d like to send that pic to every libtard shedding a tear for Captain Oldmobile.


40 posted on 08/28/2009 12:01:38 PM PDT by proudbirther
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To: Voter62vb
"Maybe she wasn’t struggling. Maybe there was no water in her lungs because her airway was “offline”. Maybe she floated immediately up into the “airpocket” in the car. Maybe Ted had no reason to “save” Ms. K. Conjecture."

There were scratch/struggle marks inside the car indicating she made an active effort to escape.

Fact.

41 posted on 08/28/2009 12:08:12 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: angcat

When I first saw “David Kopetchny”, I thought “some faker can’t even bother to get Kopechne’s name spelled right.” But then I looked it up and found that Mary Jo’s father had changed the spelling of his name from Kopetchny to Kopechne.

Anyway, nice find. I can see why Mr. Kopetchny is angry to see all the praise heaped on the swimmer.


42 posted on 08/28/2009 12:11:50 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: All
Here she is:


43 posted on 08/28/2009 12:15:39 PM PDT by proudbirther
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To: proudbirther

If only Mary Jo had the chance to trade places with your dumb ass, Melissa!


44 posted on 08/28/2009 12:24:13 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: proudbirther

Mary Jo struggled to LIVE!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1433366/posts

He said he took a wrong turn and drove his car into eight feet of water. He got of the car, returned to the party and brought two other men to the scene of the accident. When they were unable to rescue the girl, he told the others he would call the police.

He did not. Instead, he returned to his motel, spoke to an employee there, began making telephone calls to associates and went to sleep. All that time Mary Jo Kopechne remained in the car.

Possibly she could have been saved. The captain of the Edgartown, Massachusetts scuba team believes she may have stayed alive in an air pocket for several hours.

The next morning the car and the girl’s body were found. When Kennedy finally completed an accident report, he didn’t even know her name, referring to her simply as “Miss Mary ___.”

There was a conflict on what time the accident had occurred. A sheriff said he had seen Kennedy’s car hours after Kennedy said the accident occurred. The senator said he based his estimate on the clock of the rented car he was driving. When it was determined the car didn’t have a clock, Kennedy changed his story.


45 posted on 08/28/2009 12:24:53 PM PDT by maggief (KennedyCare ... Dead in the Water)
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To: freekitty

Like any doorstop couldn’t have done Ted’s job. Give me a fortune and a dynastic family name to trade on and I’ll show you how well I can play to the cheap seats. Hell, I’d have a few homeless guys over to play tennis every other Tuesday. Granted, it must have been tough growing up with a Dad who placed such grand expectations on you but Ted handled the pressure with astounding mediocrity.


46 posted on 08/28/2009 12:24:56 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: proudbirther
What politician would she die for? 0bama? Probably.

No loyalty to country just ideology.

47 posted on 08/28/2009 12:27:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Callahan

Yes he did. That’s because he knew anything and that means anything he did even if it was wrong would be taken care of and he would not suffer.

He is surely suffering in hell now.


48 posted on 08/28/2009 12:30:04 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: proudbirther
To me, it reads like she is trying to smear conservatives. What, exactly would be 'worth it' (MJK's death)? Keeping Kennedy out of the White House? Who would say such a heartless thing? A Limbaugh loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll?

I feel like one of the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers: "Not One of Us"

49 posted on 08/28/2009 12:42:36 PM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: proudbirther

Savage is right. Liberalism is a mental disorder. This might be the most ludicrous, reprehensible and thoroughly insane statement I’ve ever heard from a leftist. And talk about taking in some territory!


50 posted on 08/28/2009 12:58:24 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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