Posted on 08/29/2009 7:01:34 AM PDT by kellynla
“I’ve always wondered how much the Kennedy’s paid the Kopechne’s to go away quietly.”
From what I’ve read in the past, they were paid $90,000 by the Kennedys and $50,000 by the insurance company. One can only imagine what sort of pressure was put upon them by the Kennedy thug machine.
The bubbas got away with a lot too. Murder, probably, rape undoubtedly.
Lying cheating cowardly leadership, definitely.
Every week, when I read a new Steyn column, I think ‘he can’t top the last one.’ He always does.
This one soars in its brutal honesty. Well done Mark.
And btw, if anybody listened to NPR on Wednesday/Thursday (my boss is a donor!?!?!) It was the most sappy, worshipful tripe (even outdoing the breathless coverage of the inauguration) right down to the heavy, labored sighs and quivering voices.
But understand, too, that the implication (found in the general "trailer trash" idea) is that poor people living difficult lives are also the moral dregs. Coming, as I do, from poor people who led difficult lives, I admit I feel the sting of the stereotype.
By any reasonable definition of the word, it was murder.
It was bad enough to give her a ride while he was so drunk that he was incapable of driving. In fact, he had a chauffeur at the party because his family and handlers knew that he couldn’t be trusted to drive himself, but he evidently didn’t want the chauffeur along on his date—even though I’m sure he could have been trusted to keep his mouth shut, and probably often had.
But when Kennedy escaped the car, got to the surface, walked by several houses, went to bed and didn’t report the accident, that was deliberate murder.
You could even call it premeditated murder, since if he didn’t plan the accident beforehand, he did deliberately act in such as way as to cause Mary Jo’s death. She was still alive when he abandoned her, and she died because he deliberately decided not to do anything to save her.
Sure, he was drunk, but he had just had a sobering experience and more than a dash of cold water. He knew what he was doing, but he preferred to protect his political reputation more than he cared to take steps to save her life.
That is deliberate murder.
Romans 12:19 (NAS) Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Romans 12:19 (KJV) Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Maybe Teddy can tell Jesus some of those “Chappaquiddick Jokes”
The fact that we must endure glowing eulogies for marginal and crooked politicians like this, esp. with the help of the supposedly “watchdog” press, shows us just how far our standards have declined over the decades.
Many in Congress and the government should be in jail for obvious crimes or acts of corruption in office or during campaigns. Any of us certainly would be. We would have a hard time finding work (including government jobs in sensitive areas) - and be placed on various watch lists for some of these criminal activities.
Instead, we get nonsense - weepy displays, baseless public defenses, and even civil-service and Committee-Chair PROMOTIONS - for these low-life, marginal contributors, and outright crooks.
Geither, Frosty-freeze Jefferson, Rosty the Postman, Sandy Burglar, Barry the cokehead, the Clintons’ and their doc hide-&-seek games, Ways & Means tax-crook Wrangel, etc., etc.
It’s enough to make the average citizen want to give up the moral life — and go into politics.
Indeed, Ted Kennedy's greatest achievement on this earth may have been to prove, forever & for all time, that white trash can come with an elitist's pedigree too.
Search Google with the title and you can read the entire thing on line.
Do it before it is airbrushed out.
That was not Mark saying it. He was referencing.
Understood.
So true.
He got away with it on earth. He isn’t getting away with it now.
Whre is Rush going next week???? I didn’t know he would not be there.
I read that “Teddy” told a priest on his dying bed that he was ready to go to Heaven. I couldn't get this out of my mind. Is that what a contrite man says?
There is the story of another dying Irishman who, asked by a priest whether he repented his sins, said no. He had enjoyed them and the memory of them as well. He repeatedly refused to say that he was sorry. Finally the priest was reduced to pleading, "Won't you at least say that you are sorry that you are not sorry?"
This physical and moral wreck of a man was arrogant to the end. He was truly the worst of the Kennedys and far beyond Chappaquiddick (about which we are told he liked to joke,) he did immeasurable damage to this country.
Brilliant, Mark!!!
Spot-on. As Steyn always is.
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