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2009-08-28 |
Jules Crittenden, "Forward Movement" ...listening to ”Reflections on Sen. Kennedy … Lion of the Senate” on the Diane Rehm Show on the drive home last night, I was deeply moved to hear Newsweek’s Ed Klein tell guest host Katty Kay about Kennedy’s love of humor. How the late senator loved to hear and tell Chappaquiddick jokes, and was always eager to know if anyone had heard any new ones. Not that Kennedy lacked remorse, Klein quickly added, seeming to intuit that my jaw and perhaps those of other listeners had just hit the floorboards. I gather it was a self-deprecating maneuver on Kennedy’s part, exercised with the famous Kennedy charm, though it sounds like one of those “I guess you had to have been there” things. |
Posted by:Mike |
#4 Fox (among others) is carrying his |
Posted by: Frank G 2009-08-28 19:45 |
#3 Nothing like memorializing a drunken, philandering, lying murderer to make me happy. Ted Kennedy: One kill more than most Marines in Afghanistan. |
Posted by: anymouse 2009-08-28 19:36 |
#2 I'm sure Charles Manson likes to tell jokes about his murders too. |
Posted by: DMFD 2009-08-28 18:28 |
#1 History books will teach that Senator Kennedy was a “Statesman”. They will tell of his ability to “cut deals” across party lines while never compromising his principles. His personal and political downfalls will be folded into the collective Kennedy tragedy. The narrative of a man of redemption will eclipse the unimpressive beginnings to his legislative career. All his ambition will become altruism and all his privilege will turn out to be selfless sacrifice. Whether Senator Edward Kennedy is worthy of such blind praise is debatable but what’s not debatable is America has a penchant for post-mortem white washes. |
Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-08-28 14:22 |