Pinkerton: What If Media Had Given Chappaquiddick The Condit Treatment?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

If MSM had treated Chappaquiddick like Condit-Levy ping to Today show list.

[EDINVA]

Superb point by Pinkerton.

[Dallas59]

[trumandogz]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

I didn't think Pinkerton's analogy was on target since Condit didn't kill anyone.

Who did the media try to blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death? George W. Bush?

[GnuHere]

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.

[HIDEK6]

They look like a couple of bible-thumpers.

[Jeffrey_D.]

What are you drinking today?

He was referring to the media investigation and coverage!!!

[NautiNurse]

While reading the letter Kennedy wrote to Pope Benedict, Gary Condit came immediately to mind with the words, "I have been an imperfect human being." Condit said, "I have not been a perfect man." Same for Mark Sanford. Politicians fluffing over the issue, per usual.

"I have been a philandering louse, hurting my family and others" gets straight to the point.

[Oldpuppymax]

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.

[trumandogz]

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?

[Jeffrey_D.]

and with uncle ted it was...poor man, he has a neck brace, blah, blah, blah!!!

[BunnySlippers]

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”.

[rvoitier]

Pinkerton’s point was the scrutiny.

[abb]

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.

[DCPatriot]

That’s a splendid comparison to use, don’t you think?

[trumandogz]

Uncle Ted was lucky that he drove that car off that bridge before Watergate and before the advent of the 24 hour news channels.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[GnuHere]

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...