Never a dull moment with America’s royalty

Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^ | 7/10/03 | Michael M. Bates

[mikeb704]

Oh, the humanity.

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[nopardons]

See ... they news IS being reported in the Midwest ! :-)

[speedy]

This poll on Ted Kennedy is important, because it lets us pinpoint exactly how many morons are out there -- the 44 percent who have a favorable opinion of him. Now there is also that 4 percent who never heard of him. We could assume they are a different kind of moron, but maybe they are just living clean lives. In any event, we can see that our margin of victory is slim indeed. What we have to hope is that the 44 percent who are favorable to drunken sex offenders do not vote in the numbers of the upstanding 44 percent who have an unfavorable view of drunken sex offenders.

[cavtrooper21]

Ever noticed that the Kennedys are like roaches...
For all the oblivious reasons!

[WorkingClassFilth]

In about, oh, 1993 or so, Senator Kennedy was the guest of the National Press Club Luncheon and the broadcast aired on NPR. I caught the spectacle - yes, it was a radio spectacle.

After a typical Leftist, boot-licking introduction, Sen. Kennedy gave his remarks. His prepared speech went fairly smoothly, although his emphasis and diction went south a few times as though he was reading a prepared statement - which he was.

The real entertainment began when the session opened to Q/A from the audience. Each cub reporter and seasoned veteran stepped up to the plate to kneel before his besottedness and blurt out their being's sum of political wit and beltway urbanity.

'Uh, Senator Kennedy, what was it like to live in Camelot?'

'What are your fondest memories of JFK?'

You get the picture.

The dessert at the luncheon came when the old sod tried to answer the questions. Having no que cards or prepared script for the questions, he bumbled, he fumbled, he stumbled and slurred.

Like a gear with a broken tooth, he'd sit and spin aimlessly. He'd 'um' and he'd 'ah' until the teeth caught and he'd hit some jingoistic fragment of Democratic boilerplate and off he'd go.

"Uh...I...well, uh...[unintelligible]...we shud...umm...ther's more...and I shay...and I shay to you that we have no...nothing...to fear but fear itself...uh yuh."

I laughed until I cried. Well, I actually didn't cry since I was at work and I despise the fool, but I did laugh quite heartily at dear old Teddy's expense. I can't imagine his handlers letting old Ted suck down a fifth and go on the national air with a head full of ethanol.

Oh well, it was during the Krinton years. Who'd have ever noticed?

[MaxPlus305]

OK, this is sort of a tangent and I'm a young-un who wasn't alive at the time. How "credible" is it that Teddy did a cover-up at Chappaquiddick? By that, I mean there are conspiracies and there are wacko conspiracies...so where does Chappaquiddick fall on the continuium?

[nopardons]

Credible beyond your wildest dreams ! He killed Mary Jo and got off scot free. There's even a FREEPER, who was friends with Mary Jo and worked in that gaggle of backroom girls , but saw the light and is now a Conservative. There ARE books, that lay the facts all out for you. OTOH, I was not only alive, but an adult back then, and YES, there was a HUGE coverup !

[newzhawk]

senatorial privilege was a good book that laid out all the cover ups that went on with this crime- we never get to the truth with the Kennedys and the Clintons because they refuse to tell it!

[thegreatbeast]

I say that Hillary is the new Ted Kennedy for the Republican party. She can never be elected president because there are 44% of us who simply would not stand still for it. That leaves too small of a pool for her to win the prize. And Hillary Clinton, or rather the specter of her in power, will raise much more money for Republicans than she will ever raise in her own party.

[nopardons]

" SENATORIA; PRIVILEDGE ; The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up ", by Leo Damore and " CHAPPAQUIDDICK REVEALED ", by Kenneth Kappel, both spell it all out and should be read by EVERYONE !

Neither the Kennedys nor the Clintons are capable of telling the truth, have their own armies of flacks, intimidators/thugs, and the media on their side. It's an utter disgrace.

[nopardons]

SENATORIAL

[CARepubGal]

LOL! Kennedys are annoying and as hard to get rid of as Cockroaches.

[isom35]

I envy that four percent.

[MattAMiller]

I would imagine that a good deal of that 4% are rather young. A lot of us don't have any memories of Ted before he became a sorry mess. It's easy to see how he could fly beneath the radars of many.

[Miss Marple]

Yeah, NOW it is, a full week after the story broke.

It still isn't on the radar in Indianapolis.

[nopardons]

Better late than never ? This is a story, which will continuing giving.

So ... SO ... ? If those living in Indianna, who don't watch FOX CABLE ( O'Reilly muttered on about thsi tonight ), listen to talk radio, and don't read anything other than their own local paper don't ever know about this, why don't YOU ring doorbells and tell them about it, since you're so concerned ? :-)

[Miss Marple]

You know, I don't really understand why you seem to be so hostile to me. You have proven your point, a paper in the Midwest has picked up the story.

It is too early in the morning for me to get into pointless arguments. As I have said before, the reason I am interested in this story is because of the use of the media by both sides. That's all.

[nopardons]

Look, you are the one who started this wee contretemp and I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why you took after me, on another thread. You started this and I gave you a lot of leeway. Now, what the heck ? You want to rumble an old pal ? Okay, I've decided to just give it back to you.

[Miss Marple]

Please show me where I took after you. The only place I disagreed with you was where you said that everyone knew about this because everyone in the Midwest listened to Sean Hannity and read the Post. (I am paraphrasing.)

If I said something offensive in that exchange, please show it to me. I sincerely did not intend to do anything but politely disagree. I have conceded the point, so why are you continuing to be so hostile?