Guess what they're laughing about?
We wrote on Wednesday that Ted Kennedy “put the dick in Chappaquiddick.” Some new information has come to light and it turns out we weren’t far off the mark.
In an NPR interview with Kennedy’s friend Ed Klein, formerly of Newsweek and the New York Times, it was revealed that the infamous car accident was one of Kennedy’s favorite topics of humor. It turns out the Senator frequently joked about Mary Jo Kopechne asking his friends, “Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?”
We would like to go on record as saying, “That is so seriously messed up.”
Klein went on, “It’s not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.”
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What type of person is Ed Klein that he can utter that sentence without realizing how depraved it is? NRO notes that this basically makes Kennedy a monster.
HotAir piles on with the excellent point that this revelation destroys the notion that Kennedy felt deep remorse for his actions and that it somehow compensated for Kopechne’s death. Now it seems like the only remorse he felt was for the death of his presidential ambitions and his reputation.
We’re going to play a game called, “What if this were a Republican?” After all, Trent Lott lost his leadership position because he wished a segregationist happy birthday. What if Lott had said, “Strom Thurmond has a good sense of humor about segregation and is able to see the lighter, more ridiculous side of it.” It’s not very funny. But then a dead girl isn’t very funny either… unless you’re Ted Kennedy or his friends.
Ted Kennedy doesn’t deserve the send off he’s getting. Mary Jo Kopechne certainly never got a similar one.
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August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
If you read the Klein’s quote carefully, Klein said Edward Kennedy did feel remorse about the death of Mary JoKopechne.
July 25, 1969, in an Address to the People of Massachusetts on Chappaquiddick Edward Kennedy said the following “Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either in the physical, emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the policy immediately. You can read the complete address at http://www.americanrhetoric.com
What is absurd—and joke worthy–is how Ted Kennedy haters use Chappaquiddick and Mary JoKopechene for their own purposes.
This article also misconstrues the reason for Trent Lott’s resignation while also failing to mention the civility of Kennedy’s friendship with Lott. On the wall of Kennedy’s office is a letter. It a letter from Senator Trent Lott that states “Thank you my friend for your many courtesies. If the world only knew.”
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August 29th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Yeah, the quote said that Kennedy felt remorse…and that it was also his favorite topic of humor. Seriously, he drunkenly drove a car off a bridge, got out of the car while Mary Jo likely plead with him to help her as she drowned, waited ten hours to sober up while her body sat at the bottom of the river, and then used his last name to get out of jail. Did we mention he was probably cheating on his wife with her?
And the best you can do is cite a speech he gave that he clearly never wrote. Yeah, he totally accepted responsibility…by never going to jail or suffering any consequences whatsoever. What a joke.
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August 30th, 2009 at 12:24 am
“the ridiculous side of things”…I couldn’t agree more.
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