Posted on 08/28/2009 9:26:50 PM PDT by Chet 99
(CNN) -- Sen. Ted Kennedy would have had a "very, very difficult" time politically surviving the drowning death of a young woman if it happened in the era of blogs, talk radio and 24-hour news cycles, experts said. Sen. Ted Kennedy hit the airwaves to say it was "indefensible" he didn't immediately report the accident.
Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, drowned after Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile off a bridge following a regatta party in July 1969. The incident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, helped dash the youngest Kennedy brother's chances at the Oval Office in 1972 and 1980.
Massachusetts was more forgiving than the rest of the nation, however, backing Kennedy by a 3-to-2 margin in his 1970 bid to keep his Senate seat. That his brothers, John and Robert, had been assassinated in recent years may have been a factor, experts said.
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What would we do without experts?
;-)
If that were true they would have asked Teddy anytime during the last 10-20 years.
out of control dog that killed maybe?
Need one of those BS detector pictures. There’s NO WAY the media would “demand” answers.
CNN would blame the incident on Mary Jo, and that her death tarnished his reputation.
Riiiiiiiiight..... just like they did with Juanita Broaddrick
Translation: Since NBC, ABC, CBS, the NYT and WAPO no longer hold a monopoly on what gets reported they would be unable to conceal a prominent Democrat's wrongdoing.
They’d demand answers just like they did with Vince Foster, Ron Brown, et al. < / sarcasm>
Slate.com? They would have provided the attorney for him and spun a defense at the same time. They are a bunch of hacks over there at Slate.
great point.
I doubt it really. Democrats get a pass. This age-old homicide proves it.
If any reporting leaked out at all, it would be posted at places like this. The source would then be tracked down and thoroughly discredited.
LMAO!!! No they wouldn't. The Democrat newsrooms are even worse today than they were then.
The only answers would come from internet and talk radio investigations into the matter.
WHAT???
The press had 50 years to ask him!
Who are these people kidding? They give our commie/marxist president a pass on his hate American policies and deliberate destruction of our economy and freedoms and they kiss his butt everyday. Liberal Democrats get a pass from the press no matter what.
If Teddy killed Mary Jo in today’s times, the press might scorn him if he got caught on video.
Well, he would still be defended by the MSM, but he would have had to contend with the Pajama Media.
The same media that claim she drowned when in fact she suffocated would demand answers. I don’t think so.
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