Ted Kennedy: Lion or Jackal?

April 6, 2018 By Dennis Lund
 

On April 6, Chappaquiddick, a movie detailing the events involving Senator Ted Kennedy on Martha's Vineyard in July 1969, will be released. That incident demonstrated the depths to which the Kennedys were willing to go to salvage the political career of the last of the Kennedy sons. In subsequent years, the actions of Ted Kennedy that night were forgiven by the Democrats, as were subsequent actions as noted below. The movie is based on a book, Senatorial Privilege:

The Chappaquiddick Coverup, by Leo J. Damore, who committed suicide in 1995. Well, that is the official version, at least. The Kennedy family exerted pressure to block the making and release of the current movie. Similar pressure was reportedly put on Mr. Damore, which may have added to the issues that resulted in his death. In the history of politics in this nation, few families have equaled the Kennedys in both political power and despicability for their personal actions. I will look forward to seeing the movie. In the meantime, there was precious little in the career of Ted Kennedy that anyone should be proud of............Read more

Hollywood (and History) Catches Up to Ted Kennedy

Chappaquiddick has the last word.

 

Daniel J. Flynn April 6, 2018

 

A telephone, not an automobile, exposed the worst parts of Ted Kennedy’s character at Chappaquiddick, a tragic episode explored on the silver screen in a new movie.  One of the film’s producers commented on the picture three years ago, “You’ll see what he had to go through.” But most accounts (I have yet to watch) depict the final product as a more balanced account that shows what Mary Jo Kopechne “had to go through,” too.

 

Kennedy’s coverup eclipsed the crime when it comes to assessing character. No amount of special effects or dramatic license can escape that truth.

 

Sure, throwing a party for six, older, married male guests and six, twentysomething, unmarried women marks one as a cad. And yes, driving after downing an ocean of rum and cokes, and doing so despite the lack of a license and the presence of a chauffer, indicts the senator’s judgment. But his actions, and lack thereof, after the midnightish crash represent the worst of the senator at his worst moment.............

 

My Take -   The Kenndy's seem to have had a ton of "worst moments" and in most of those moments others paid the price for their "worst" moments. 

The Kennedy's have been swine going back to the family patriarch, Joe.  The only Kennedy man that didn't get involved in scandalous affairs was young Joe and that most likely because he died in WWII, and as a hero.  As for the rest of them - even the young Kennedy's are disgraceful, including one who had a marriage of many years and a number of  children "annulled" by the church so he could marry another woman in the church.  A decision which took over ten years and a strong fight by his first wife to overturn by the Vatican. " A woman in the right who was accused of being a vindictive ex-wife, an alcoholic bigot, an idiot." There's no end to the lack of moral fiber among the Kennedy's or the leftist hypocrites who defend them.

Even the church is expected to ignore church law in order to make their despicable behavior acceptable, including having Ted, an ardent advocate of unrestricted abortion, buried in the church.   But, after all - they're Kennedy's,