Posted on 08/30/2009 11:46:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
It was just one line at the end of a segment.
But it spoke volumes about the way a media willing to look the other way saved Ted Kennedy's political career at the time of Chappaquiddick.
Jim Pinkerton made the observation on yesterday's Fox News Watch at the very end of the segment on the media's treatment of Kennedy's death.
View video here.
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If MSM had treated Chappaquiddick like Condit-Levy ping to Today show list.
Superb point by Pinkerton.
Interesting. Pinkerton believes that it was not Ted Kennedy who drove that car off a bridge and killed a woman but it was instead an illegal alien from El Salvador.
And both times, the media implicated the wrong person is those deaths.
Who did the media try to blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death? George W. Bush?
What if Condit’s last name were Kennedy, would HE have been given the white-glove Chappaquiddick Treatment? Interesting question, considering the vast difference in media coverage 40 years hence.
Condit learned that messing with a young intern who believes you will one day throw away your whole life and ride away with her on a white horse, REALLY looks bad when she turns up dead.
They look like a couple of bible-thumpers.
What are you drinking today?
He was referring to the media investigation and coverage!!!
"I have been a philandering louse, hurting my family and others" gets straight to the point.
It’s all quite moot. If the MSM were remotely honest, there would be 150 dems in the house, 30 in the Senate and the last dem president would have been Truman.
At least in the case of Condit, the media investigation was wrong on the most important point of the investigation.
How is it he can point to an example where the media investigation was not only wrong but resulted in Dominick Dunne writing a very big check to Condit?
and with uncle ted it was...poor man, he has a neck brace, blah, blah, blah!!!
Ted Kennedy would have been stopped in his tracks. But, there was no cable back then and simply no one was given the “Condit Treatment”.
Pinkerton’s point was the scrutiny.
In one of the Chappaquiddick books I’ve read over the years, Rose blamed Fat Teddy’s handlers for the thing. She said Old Joe always had ‘people’ around to take the hit if something went haywire.
That’s a splendid comparison to use, don’t you think?
Uncle Ted was lucky that he drove that car off that bridge before Watergate and before the advent of the 24 hour news channels.
For William Kennedy Smith (son of the last surviving Kennedy sibling), having Kennedy as a middle name seems to have been enough to get the Kennedy treatment.
Handy going by three names, when the middle one happens to be that.
Might even be enough to let your uncle more than twice your age convince you to go out drinking and womanizing late at night, since the world is your oyster...
Even without cable and 24/7 news, Teddy's aerial antics and deep diver doings were quite a shock to the whole country. After all, it was a gimme that Ted would be elected president.
At the time, a lot of my friends and I saw no way that he could twist his way out of this mess of his own making. But it turns out that money conquers all.
Except for the fact that the presidensity slipped out of his grasp.
With that , we’re on the same page!
That’s why Zero wants to be able to shut down ALL communication,internet, FCC, etc; if and when it suits “His Plan”
Silly rabbit. Scandal coverage is for non-Democrats.
Teddy also got a pass because of what happened to his brothers.
If I had been in a plane crash and broken my back and watched two brothers be assassinated, I am not all that sure I could have kept by sanity and sobriety.
But that of course is not an excuse for Teddy.
AS for Teddy having every become president, I think that is total BS. The other day I heard a sound-bite of Doris Kerns Goodwin saying that if it were not for Chappaquiddick, Ted would have been elected president.
I laughed and called BS on here statement.
There was a difference. In the Condit case, there was no body. In the Kennedy case there was no mystery.
Except for the fact that the presidensity slipped out of his grasp.
While I’m sure you only misspelled the word,
I’m actually struck by the term.
Would “PRESIDENSITY” be that condition wherein
a President is too thick with his own ego
to understand the consequences of his actions,
thereby refusing to accept any information contrary
to his own beliefs?
Better late than never, I suppose, because it caught up to him in 1980 against Carter in the Democrat primary. That might have been a tough one for Reagan if not for Chappaquiddick.
Condit is a Democrat.
Actually, many years ago I was an avid reader of Pogo Possum, and that's where I first ran across "presidensity". I usually use the term as sarcasm, or in this case to express my distaste for the putative presidential candidate.
Off subject, also from Pogo, the word "Congers" fairly well captures how I feel about the Congress. I use "Congers" frequently, and it isn't a mispelling.
Walt Kelly had LBJ pictured in Pogo as a cowboy gunslinger called The Loan Arranger.
Too bad we don’t have a Kelly now, because Zero would really fit that name.
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