Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009: Chappaquiddick

[ts53shea]

The Kennedy's -- THE LIFE & TIMES of PRIVILEGED CHARACTERS

[randy6771]

I'm glad the drunken killer is gone and thus ends the BS of Camelot!

That whole famn damily has cursed our nation since the early 1920's!

[ts53shea]

@randy6771 Amen, bro!

[SuperBecksy]

My theory. She was murdered beforehand and her body placed in the car. He was never in the car. Either he did it or was made to take the blame to protect someone else.

Find it weird that the victim would leave her purse and keys behind at the party.

[glenwood183]

Ted Kennedy site FATBOY.cc

[ajay999999]

Justice was done the Kennedys paid Mary Jo's family $90000

[rvhawkeye]

drunk and criminal.  would be imprisioned today.

[gsrdtg]

he should have gone to jail for murder....why did he not call the cops to help get that gal out of the car......why...BECAUSE HE WAS DRUNK!!

FUCKING SCUM BAG

[76reliant]

Ted Kennedy was not a moral man....The Kennedy's for the most part were not moral people...All this so called 'great-things' he did are just 'camelot' fantasies that you guys continue to read in your fairy-tale books before you go to bed...Did you know the car and mary jo's clothes were destroyed shortly after the b.s. trial....you talk about conspiracy theories....

[alpha18412]

Look there's Joe Sr the prohibition bootlegger (entrepeneur), Wall Street wheeler dealer doing business with the Third Reich, and Ambassador to the Court of St James, running back home when it got hairy in London.

This interviewee makes the people of Massachussetts sound like serfs in bonded servitude to the K family.

"Ted, why did you let this happen?"

[alpha18412]

She must be a quarterback because she gives him one helluva pass.

[Rikenrocker]

So much easier on the ears to call it Chappaquiddick instead of the Mary Jo's death. Right Jenna?

[hlimkb]

perhaps should have called a cab when drinking

[jeepkid99]

an honorable man would have #1- saved her, #2- resigned; but yes it's the liberal swimmer we're talking about. i'm glad that the lord instituted terms limits on the 'great' warrior against the individual.

[drew8269]

he killed her

[mrbriscoe2001]

I have a feeling that deep down,even Ted  was haunted by the fact that he never paid a (non-political) price for his crime.

[mrbriscoe2001]

The narrator using the words"Why did you let this happen when we were counting on you" defines this tragedy in a political sense,insteadof a human one,which is a disservice to the memory of a young woman.

[corrections189]

Ted wasn't driving....he got out a minute earlier because he was drunk/with Mary Jo and thought he saw the police.

[backlighting]

The SOB is dead. Should have died 40 years ago instead of Mary Jo. 47 years of Senatorial Hell foisted upon us by the state of Massachusetts and his bootlegger father. Not qualified for anything.

What a horror. Now the Dems are going to try to ride his corpse to "health care reform."

[NightWatchman55]

Ted should have got a 100 years jail for leaving Mary jo to die

[smithandrewj]

@NightWatchman55 Watch your obnoxious mouth

[CkRo]

Even in death, he remains immoral and unworthy of any accolades. And the gods always kept him from his undeserved goal. So, it's some sign of justice that none of the three brothers ever completed a full Presidential term.

[devlinger]

He couldn't report the accident because he was drunk. I read one theory that he planned to have his cousin Joe Gargan to say he was the driver, but Joe either refused or Ted changed his mind.

[wassssupokc]

All of u ppl judging him r hypocrites...acting like u all have never made mistakes in your life's. He is the one who had to live with it, and he maybe paing for it now. Get over it and let him rest in peace...damn already.

[DaMuttzNutz]

Sure I've made mistakes, but leaving a woman to drown and waiting 10 hours to report it is not one of them though. Neither is involving myself in raising funds for the IRA.

[frankd1965]

@smithandrewj Barak Obama visited Chappaquidick on his summer trip to Martha's Vinyard.

[snoops71]

That's right. We have all done things we're ashamed of.

[jfk60]

We all make mistakes, but very few human beings are capable of watching a woman drown and simply walking away, let alone someone we know when we are responsible.

For someone who did that, and who then used his wealth and power to evade all responsibility, to be held out as some kind of paragon of compassion is egregiously hypocritical and absurd. The one time in his life his compassion was tested, he failed to meet the most basic human standard. We have a duty to speak up when he is lionized.

[smithandrewj]

@jfk60 You are correct that we all have faults and Ted Kennedy did a lot of great things

[devildoc225]

Fuck you, and fuck your liberal scumbag of a dead drunk Senator. He, and the rest of his socialist scumbag friends have so fucked up this country that it will take years to fix. Yeah, we all make mistakes, but letting a young girl drown is not one of them. He and his whole rich bootlegging fuckin family can rot in hell. Another classic example of "the social elite" thinking they know whats best for all of us. What a piece of shit.

[nfl01]

@devildoc225 kudos!

[devildoc225]

@nfl01 Thanks...Glad there are many of us who see through the bullshit. At the end of the day, "old Teddy" was finally "term limited". Camelot? Gimme a fuckin break right? A family full of nothing but a bunch of "get ahead at any price" womanizing scumbags, and one womanizing murderer. It always amazes me how people could of continued to vote for this piece of shit every term. Just proves a theory...Never underestimate stupid people in large groups.

[argeets]

Hey MSNBC THINKS HE'S A GREAT GUY, MUST BE!

[tyburnstree]

"If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd been President."

National Lampoon add 1973.

[billeybop]

We are all flawed as humans and need to seek redemption for our wrongs towards others. I think the family has paid for them as a whole and it is time to move on.

[ICONICFREEDOM]

flawed!? his intentionally leaving a woman to DIE is "flawed"

LOL! Breathtaking inanity is what comes to mind with that rationalization!

[phillipgaley]

Y-y-y-eay, . . . and, having felt her, . . . struggling, . . . beside him, . . . and, retained his driver's license, . . . the Kennedy's, . . . above the law--both civil and criminal, . . . but worse, Mass. mourns his long delayed passing, . . . and, prominent Republicans--so-called--show up for the public honors, . . . amazing, . . . simply amazing, . . .

[ICONICFREEDOM]

when you read the FBI testimony, before you even read their notes below, you can easily see the contradictions in his story, the lies about the timing and the absolute inhumane neglect of a woman who was drowning.

most especially interesting is how HIS window was open and he managed to escape. now, why not return to the car, the lights were on, find the window, pull her out and let her float to the top.

more to the story than ever actually said.

[phillipgaley]

Well, yeah, . . . Ted was "cheating on" his wife, . . . Mary Jo was pregnant, . . . uh, . . . with that and his support of abortion etc., the life and legacy of Ted Kennedy is perfectly representative of the worst kind man, . . . but, far worse, over a span of DECADES--I would say--were the fawning offerings made by the people of Massachussets, and now, upon remembrance of his death, similar statements made by conservatives and others who are obliged to better account themselves, . . .

[JimRSeattle]

Drove drunk, wreaked his car, killed Mary Jo Kopechne, left the scene of the crime and had the Family cover it up.

Wow, even kept his drivers license. Great guy....

[ClipperSays]

no such thing as hell, FAIL!

[ICONICFREEDOM]

"it distanced a lot of people from him"

YA THINK!

[MsSunlover]

he screwup and would not admit it; he deserved about 4 years in jail for manslaughter. he was drunk and with another women and had a pregnant wife at home so he tried to make up a story plain and simple

[jayott103]

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. . Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil. . .& after that they go to the dead. But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, & they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love & their hate & their envy have already perished, & forever they are forgotten

[Huntersmoonx]

There is a special place in hell for this monster, and his Martin Luther King wiretapping political monster brothers.

Good riddance.

The best explanation is that Mass is a crooked a state as any in the third world.

[DecimusIunius]

Disgusting. This man had about as little in common with your average Massachusetts voter as it is possible for anyone to have, and Russell is here pretending to shed light on the eternal mystery of why those voters kept returning him to the Senate, even after Chappaquiddick, while actually further obscuring it. This is a pseudo-explanation of a pseudo-apology.

[eulainia]

All of it is conspiracy. All the way down to the death of poor Diana and Marilyn Monroe. Diana is the was the only innocent one.

[19justlookin55]

u r an idiot

[hymnsing]

Death of a monster. Ted Kennedy knew the truth about how JFK was killed & took pay-off of 45 years scot-free after death of Mary Jo. When the Bush-Clinton Crime Mob knocked off John Kennedy Jr. & Caroline in that phony small plane accident (really a bomb), again Ted Kennedy handled a quiet private cremation & kept quiet. Hell is too good for him. I forgot he was also a notorious womanizer who forced his attentions on girls when he was drunk, which was often. Will ANYONE report the truth?

[19justlookin55]

where do you people come up with this ridiculous crap R.I.P. Ted

[Cahulawassee]

I can see the human side of this man. And to that I say, Rest In Peace.

But, I can see Obama and the Democrats milking this for everything it's worth. You think the Michael Jackson death was blown out of proportion? Just watch the liberals. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

[algreer90]

AH HA!!! Chappaquiddick Kennedy dead! Finally, some good news at last!