This is the kind of insane, deranged, un-blanking-believable completely unhinged type of progressive claptrap that makes me want to break out in Ace type language over this Eric Zorn Chicago Tribune story: How wall-to-wall Chappaquiddick would have changed history — for the worse
Of course every network would have had special logos featuring bridges, water, wrecked cars or portraits of the main players. And each would have had a snappy title for their non-stop coverage:
“The Bridge Too Far,” “Tragedy on the Vineyard,” “Teddy in Trouble,” “Camelot Submerged” and so on.
If we’d had insatiable 24/7 cable news networks in July 1969, the accident on Chappaquiddick Island in which a passenger in a car driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy drowned would likely have dominated the national consciousness for months.
Special programs every night devoted to nothing but pundits bickering over the depths of the 37-year-old Kennedy’s responsibility for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, 28.
This continues on for many paragraphs, but, ready for the punch line?
This thought experiment invites a question to which there is no nonpartisan answer: Was it just as well that we didn’t — couldn’t — have a media feeding frenzy over Chappaquiddick in 1969? Would the nation have been better off if Kennedy had been shamed into private life?
Or, as I believe, is the nation — particularly our disabled and disadvantaged residents — better off for the 40 years of service he was able to render after that terrible night?
Ted Kennedy left a woman to die after he drove off a bridge while drunk, you blanking idiot. He ran off to create an alibi while Mary Jo was suffocating, using up all the oxygen in the car, all the while thinking, for about 2 hours, that she was going to drown as the car slowly sank. You lefties complain about some of the methods used on Islamic jihadis, yet, you want to look for torture? Mary Jo underwent torture. Picture yourself in that car, cold, drunk, scared to death, the water sloooooooowly creeping up.
Who knows, maybe the nation would have been better off without this drunken demagogue. A lifetime of “good” doesn’t excuse what would have been ruled involuntary manslaughter. Who knows, maybe Larry Craig would have done some great things, but, he was driven out by his Conservative base and wall to wall media coverage for possible looking for some homosexual sex. But, whether his foot tapping was repugnant or not too people, he never left a woman to die.
As a sidebar, now that the media has truly opened the floodgates for reminiscing about Chappaquiddick, I think it is high time to lay out how horrible this man was.
Weasel Zippers: I’m sure Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents would approve of their daughter being killed so Ted Kennedy could spread his far-left ideology for another 40 years…..
Others: Don Surber, Pajamas Media, CNN, The Greenroom, The Other McCain, Hot Air, American Spectator
