The Canonization of Teddy Kennedy - Harley Forum

Tbone · #1 08-29-2009, 01:21 PM

Here are some of the other stories that the mainstream liberal news media won't be reporting. Most of you probably already heard of this.

The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty

As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the "canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark.. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally
Intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on ChappaquiddickIsland in Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's' keys to his Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond. He swam to shore and walked back to the party passing several Houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later
Testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of- state to her family before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy and never sued . There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills.... A "token of friendship"?

8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for Liberalism". In his very first Senate role he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries..

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of an increase in immigration up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what's right". What a pompous ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous, and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American".

I've always said "Thank God for Mary Jo Kopechne, she kept Ted Kennedy from being president. She is a real American hero who died for her country."

Rocky · #2 08-29-2009, 02:30 PM

T-Bone,
You hit the nail on the head. I was born and raised in the great state of La. and my grandpa was a died-in-the-wool Huey P. Long Democrat and was a staight ticket voter until the Kennedeys came along. He hated all of them because he lived Joesph Kennedys screw ups of which you mentioned a couple. The one that really stood out to me was the insider trading he did before the stock market crash in 1929, he made a mint on that. Anyhow though I wish we AMERICANS could get the main stream media to publish those facts you mentioned. Mary Jo has been so long ago and so hushed up there are millions of folks that have never heard of her. If justice had been done in 1969 no telling how much money would have been saved in our great country.

#3 08-29-2009, 03:26 PM

Thank
T Bone
nice to see not everyone is blinded by the name kenndy
wonder what mary Jo would say

frisco-rigid · #4 08-29-2009, 03:45 PM

Ooh Yeah

T-Bone gets the Gold-Star today..!!

Thanks buddy..

sgtcowboyusmc · #5 08-29-2009, 04:13 PM

Good piece T-Bone. I got this E Mail this morning. Your additional Comments "I've always said Thank God for Mary Jo Kopechne, she kept Ted Kennedy from being president. She is a real American hero who died for her country." is one I have never heard of but one I totally agree with! Thank you Sir for your contribution.

Hammerhead Pat · #6 08-29-2009, 08:05 PM

Bingo!!!! Now if some of the other lifer politicians would just go away!!!!

sgtcowboyusmc · #7 08-29-2009, 08:43 PM

Here is another article on Socialist Ted from the UK.

‘More people were killed at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island’ - car bumper sticker says it all - Telegraph Blogs

“Senator, you were expelled from Harvard for cheating, then you left a woman to drown in your car at Chappaquiddick. What makes you think you have what it takes to be President?” That was the opening question of an interview with the late Senator Edward Kennedy during his unsuccessful bid to secure the Democratic nomination for the US presidency. It might equally now serve as an obituary.

The answer to that embarrassing question, of course, can be given in one word: entitlement. The Kennedy dynasty has long assumed a divine right to high office and privilege that accords ill with the spirit of the American constitution. We saw it yet again, earlier this year, with the attempt to shoo-in the totally inexperienced Caroline Kennedy as successor to Hillary Clinton representing New York in the Senate. It failed: the Kennedy clan, as used to be said of effete Chinese dynasties, has exhausted the mandate of heaven.

Now that Edward Kennedy has died, the liberal est ablishment and its media acolytes have the onions in the handkerchiefs to orchestrate a show of grief over the loss of a “great leader”, as Barack Obama ludicrously termed this discredited playboy. No doubt the modernist Catholic Church in America will bury this indefatigable proponent of federally funded abortion with full honours. Despite his having led a life of extravagant degeneracy, the liberal “Catholic” caucus of the Pelosi/Biden orientation will fervently claim him as their own.

In Britain, Kennedy will be remembered for his championing of IRA terror, on the same knee-jerk anti-British principles that inspired his father, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, to support Hitler. Yet Kennedy was awarded an honorary knighthood, just as America gave him its Presidential Medal of Freedom. What for? For being a Kennedy, of course. The Kennedy humbug was incisively deflated by a Republican bumper sticker that memorably claimed: “More people were killed at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island”. Another succinctly said: “No one drowned at Watergate”.

What is it that motivates people in so-called democratic societies to create reverential myths around hollow idols with feet of clay? America is the one country on earth where only the rich are socialists. That East Coast tribe will now indulge in false hero worship and wild hyperbole about a man who, if his surname had been anything other than Kennedy, would have provoked widespread distaste and social ostracism. This time, the liberal elite is burying not just an individual but the political aspirations of a dynasty whose objectives were incompatible with the best interests of America.

shovelmike · #8 08-29-2009, 08:58 PM

I saw a poll on the internet, "Was Ted Kennedy the last great statesman?", I checked it out. It was rigged, the two choices were: 1) Yes, he was the last. 2) No, there will be others. There was no provision for a negative response.
He was not a friend to upstanding hard working Americans. Some refrain from "speaking ill of the dead", if you're a dweeb in life dying doesn't change a thing. When I'm dead people don't have to whitewash anything.

Tbone · #9 08-30-2009, 04:03 PM

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Some refrain from "speaking ill of the dead"

I give him all the respect he gave Mary Jo Kopechne.

grampadac · #10 08-31-2009, 07:07 AM

Good riddance in my book.