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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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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