Posted on 10/05/2015 10:52:05 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Exposing the foibles of the Kennedy family has been a cottage industry since old Joe Kennedy made a bundle during Prohibition and caught a glimpse of Gloria Swanson.
The Kennedy story, equal parts triumph and tragedy, has been hawked by serious historians and shameless hucksters alike, gobbled up by an insatiable public that never seems to tire of tales where wealth, power, and misfortune collide to produce a quintessentially American saga.
It was amazing to me how much the Kennedys tried to control their narrative. They couldn’t do anything to stop the books, movies, and supermarket tabloids. They could, however, rest assured that no one in the family would break the Irish omerta that was honed over generations. It was as if the family had internalized that old Seamus Heaney verse: Whatever you say, say nothing.
That’s why Patrick Kennedy’s decision to write a candid memoir about his struggle with mental health and addiction — and especially his contention that his father, Senator Ted Kennedy, self-medicated great emotional pain and post-traumatic stress with alcohol — is so shocking. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Kennedy’s are over rated and virtually extinct. Only the inbred are left.
If Patrick Kennedy wants to do a “Fourth Step” which is what the headline says and work the other 11 steps, live a sane and sober life, clear up the wreckage of his past and so on, more power to him.
[Kennedy’s are over rated and virtually extinct. Only the inbred are left.]
After the era of Joe and Rose, each generation tries to outdo the others in amoral hedonism, criminality and psychotic disorders.
Well, I'm that lucky. There's nothing stopping the reporter from trying it.
Yes, a “self-serving and feckless inventory” won’t cut it.
“his contention that his father, Senator Ted Kennedy, self-medicated great emotional pain and post-traumatic stress with alcohol — is so shocking. . .”
I don’t know anybody who was shocked by Ted’s alcoholism—I guess only the Old Media. His problem was way out there in public for anyone who was not willfully blind.
A meaningful title about a meaningless subject.
‘[Ted Kennedy] spent much of his life searching for redemption, and he found it sticking up for the most vulnerable among us.’
Proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
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