Mark Steyn: Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne ("Only a Kennedy could get away with it.")

National Review ^ | August 29, 2009 | Mark Steyn

[gwilhelm56]

My only prayer for this is ... I pray that when Teddy Kegger arrived at the PEARLY GATES, there to Meet him was MARY JO... To KICK HIS *** all the way to HELL!!

[petercooper]

bttt

[BenLurkin]

BTTT

[McLynnan]

He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the “Kennedy curse,” a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim

Clever bit of PR work. I've always wondered how much the Kennedy's paid the Kopechne's to go away quietly.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Gotta love Steyn, but I always feel uneasy at stereotypical shots at Appalachian folk, an honorable people. It tempts me to make acidic comments about the sodden degenerates typical of Martha’s Vineyard.

[Loud Mime]

Other than his wit, this piece by Steyn is spot-on...especially its final sentence.

[COBOL2Java]

It has been repeatedly reported that there was no autopsy on Mary Jo, yet other reports state that she suffocated rather than drowned because there was no water in her lungs. Wouldn’t it take an autopsy to determine that?

By the way, how long does embalmed fetal DNA last?

IIRC, the Kennedy Clan made sure THAT little annoyance was taken care of. Mary Jo's body was cremated. No autopsy.

[P.O.E.]

That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life

The part of the public that is made of liberals, the media, the sycophants & toadies, & the parasites on the left.

[Loud Mime]

OK, let’s see how much his Estate pays in DEATH Taxes!!

[COBOL2Java]

My only prayer for this is ... I pray that when Teddy Kegger arrived at the PEARLY GATES, there to Meet him was MARY JO... To KICK HIS *** all the way to HELL!!

Would have loved to hear some conservative commentator say to the panel "I'm sure Senator Kennedy got a very warm reception in the afterlife."

[major_gaff]

Why did the Last Lion cross the road?

To sleep it off!

Steyn is the man....lol

[TexasNative2000]

Spot. On.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Clever bit of PR work. I've always wondered how much the Kennedy's paid the Kopechne’s to go away quietly.”

Perhaps just the idea that her name would be sullied somehow. I would think the only thing that would make her parents not pursue justice would be concern over their daughter's memory. I'm not making a value judgment, or trying to justify anything. I'm just speculating on what could possibly take them let it all go ‘peacefully’.

[KansasGirl]

[At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo “would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history . . . Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” ]

That is infuriating.

[immadashell]

Mary Jo was just the beginning chapter in probably the sleaziest life story in American politics. Kennedy's chief of staff, Richard E. Burke has written The Senator: My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy. This is an unforgettable and unforgivable story about an American reprobate into personal power, booze, drugs, deviant sex, adultery and infidelity. Anyone who still respects anything about this killer after reading this book should sit down and really have a serious self-examination session with an analyst.

Like the passing of Michael Jackson, I do not mourn.

[Helen]

Another great Steyn commentary. My only criticism is that he didn’t include the exemplary way old Teddy helped his nephew cover the Kennedy backside when the nephew raped a girl at the Kennedy compound in Florida.

Teddy Kennedy is only one of a truly disgusting family.

[bert]

......As Teddy’s biographer Adam Clymer ......

That guy’s a real Clymer, positively the definition of the term.

History records his most famous moment......

Bush said to Cheney, “There’s Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times.” Cheney responded, “Oh yeah, he is, big time.”

[devere]

Mark Steyn at his best.

[webschooner]

You are correct. Rush mentioned yesterday that the ratings of the alphabet Commie networks, with their wall to wall Kennedy coverage, were absolutely in the tank.

No one gives a flying f___ that Ted is dead, that he is still dead, or that he even lived, not even the braindead dolts who vote for these morally-bereft Libtards.

The one exception is the Leftist talking heads, who are all just talking to each other about one of their Gawds — Ted the drunk and serial woman abuser.

[gwilhelm56]

**OK, let’s see how much his Estate pays in DEATH Taxes!!** Due to the fact that he died during the LAST YEAR of those Terrible BUSH TAX CUTS.. His FEDERAL DEATH TAX WILL BE ....

ZERO