Let's see ... what else will they fail to mention?

He got kicked out of Harvard for paying someone else to take a Spanish exam. (Imagine if that had happened to George Bush at Yale)

When his sainted mother died after being bed ridden for nearly a decade in Hyannisport, Ted settled her estate in Florida to avoid the Massachusetts taxes. (Try getting away with that if you're not a Kennedy)

He was seen driving during the time his license was suspended for killing Mary Jo.

Ted showing up without his pants on during that "Traditional Easter weekend" he and his alleged rapist nephew Willie Smith had in Palm Beach.

An alleged "waitress sandwich" he and his old drinking buddy Chris Dodd had in a washington restaurant.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

1 more thing. I recall reading something about this only once. It was before Al Gore invented the internet so it got no attention that I know of.

Ted had a house either in Maryland or VA that he listed For Sale at something like $1.3 mil. Back when that was a lot of money. Some businessman purchased it for something like $2.8 mil.

I'm sure it was totally above board. Just like settling Rose's estate was.

Again, totally from memory so it's possible I've "misremembered" this and that what I read was incorrect.

You do realize now that the health-care takeover, cap and trade, and pretty much all of Obama's agenda will pass with overwhelming majorities.

No Republican is going to want to be seen despoiling the memory of a Kennedy.

We. Are. So. Fucked.

This is documented so no "alleging" is needed.

Ted sent a secret letter to the KGB during the Reagan years. He wanted to work with them to thwart Reagans strategy.

In case you don't recall, that strategy destroyed the Soviets and freed millions.

Ted was a real patriot all right.

The incident was mentioned, but not her name, during my local morning news today.

Don't forget that Mary Jo was not the only death this floating turd had on his conscience. He was also a life-long fervent supporter of the IRA. The whole wretched story is here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1159475/ANDREW-ROBERTS-The-obscenity-giving-Ted-Kennedy-knighthood.html

Nothing about the USA has ever been more unfathomable to me than the Kennedy Cult. Elevating JFK to sainthood after his assassination was one thing, but why was his entire clan propped up there with him? Nobody would have suggested, 45 years after Lincoln's assassination, that a dull, dim-witted descendant should be handed a seat in the Senate just because his or her name was Lincoln. Nor where any of his other relatives allowed to get away with murder, and no one ever referred to the Lincolns as "America's Royal Family". Why the difference?

If you're a democrat, the Kennedys are a legacy, the Bushes are a regime...

I was listening to NPR this morning, and they mentioned that a special election will need to be held to fill Ted's Senate seat. Until 2004, the seat could've been filled by appointment by the governor. When Kerry was running, the Dems were afraid that Romney would appoint a Republican to the seat, so they changed the law. Oops!

NPR and every other news source I've run into mentioned the tragic car accident.

I guess when it was breaking news people must have been charitable, but this morning puts enough distance between us and the death that we can start being critical?

NicholeK - they mentioned the car accident, but did they mention Mary Jo?

The articles I am reading today (and last night) seems to do as you've just done...qualify and minimize this accident as "tragic" and will give no fair mention to the name of the human being whose life was lost because good ol' Eddie needed to ponder the consequences of a life saving decision to call for help with his political aspirations.

That’s not tragic. That is murderous.

It was tragic...for MARY JO. For Kennedy - it was one of the more disgusting displays of human cowardice and absence of justice involving a political figure.

NINE HOURS LATER HE CALLS!!! After going home and taking a bath. If he was anyone but a Kennedy, he would have been doomed to spending the better part of his life behind bars.

The worms won’t even touch this guy.

Don't forget the games he played in 1980, toying with the Democratic nomination and destroying whatever slim chances Carter had of being reelected, thus costing his own party the White House.

"Don't forget the games he played in 1980, toying with the Democratic nomination and destroying whatever slim chances Carter had of being reelected, thus costing his own party the White House."

Well, it's good to see that someone has something nice to say about Teddy. I guess he wasn't all bad.

I don't think he actually called. He went to some pay phone at the site late the next morning, but by that time two local guys fishing found the car. The fisherman, unlike Kennedy, immediately went to the nearest house and phoned for help. I think Kennedy showed to "make the call" as they were pulling her out of the water.

I think about what he did - left her there, went back to his hotel, crashed, complained about a party, spent the morning chatting amiably with people at the hotel like nothing happened...and he got away with it because he was a Kennedy.

"He was also a life-long fervent supporter of the IRA."

He was not alone in that. A LOT of American Irish Catholics felt the same way. Pick up an Irish history book if you can't understand why.

"I think about what he did - left her there, went back to his hotel, "

He didn't just wander back to his hotel. He had to swim there. The ferry was no longer running so he had to swim the channel across to Edgartown. It's only about 200 feet or so but the current can be really strong. He had to work to get back to his hotel.

I know a guy who was drinking with him that afternoon after getting in from sailing/racing. (It was Edgartown Regatta week) He said he was asked many times about how much Ted was drinking that day by reporters/authors. His price was $100K to tell them. No one would pay and he never told me the answer either.

Yes, Feebie, they mentioned Mary Jo.

"He was also a life-long fervent supporter of the IRA."

He was not alone in that. A LOT of American Irish Catholics felt the same way. Pick up an Irish history book if you can't understand why.

Posted by: sean at August 26, 2009 2:36 PM

No doubt on the whys, it just kinda made all his silly statements about Bush and Iraq rather amusing. Doubly so when it wasn't politically convenient he dropped Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams, for a year at least. He was a terrorist supporting lush. I won't miss the bastard. May the Kennedy clan's last vestiges of power die out with him.

"May the Kennedy clan's last vestiges of power die out with him."

We can only hope. Most of the Kennedy kids left are pretty dim bulbs so hopefully we're safe. Although if his nephew former congressman Joe Kennedy decides he wants the Senate seat he'd have a pretty good chance of winning. He's getting filthy rich right now running a "non-profit" that distributes oil to low income families.
His buddy Hugo Chavez likes to make a grandstanding contribution of free oil each year to Joe's "cause".

I hope he decides he doesn't need the aggravation.

I think when JFK Jr flew his plane into the drink that snuffed out the future of the Kennedy dynasty.

I first heard about Kennedy's death about 7 am EDT today on NPR and the Kopechne incident was mentioned, as NicoleK stated.

I was never a fan of his liberalism. I was especially glad that in 1980, he didn't earn his party's nomination for president; it went to the worthier of the two candidates (there was no doubt Carter was the better of the two in my mind.) And Ted Kennedy was no model citizen in his personal life.

Yet, like other influential people he shouldn't be only by his failings. By and large, he conducted himself with considerable dignity in his long political career. Whatever his rhetoric, he especially cut a classy contrast with some notable Republicans of the last 15-20 years, to whom politics was/is a blood sport, who so consistently cast party and principles aside for the sake of winning. (Alas, the Democrats have a few pols like that, too.)

(there was no doubt Carter was the better of the two in my mind.)

I have to say that this is, without exception, the greatest insult I have yet heard hurled at Edward Kennedy.

Bravo, sir!

The NYT did mention, although somewhat glancingly, Ms. Kopechne's death. From memory:

"... he left the scene of an accident in which a woman was killed."

The NYT also mentioned he was responsible for Title IX.

As if that was a good thing.

"he especially cut a classy contrast with some notable Republicans of the last 15-20 years, to whom politics was/is a blood sport,"

Yup, that sure was classy what he did to Judge Bork. A smear so outrageous it coined a new term. Borked.

He's credited with bringing the nomination of Supreme court justices to a new level. A blood sport where all that matters is winning.

Thanks, Ted. Stay classy.

Todays's NYT more in depth obit gives Ms. Kopechne and the "borking" Sean mentioned fair (as in accurate and balanced) coverage.

NYT: He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly. He was a Kennedy.

For Christ's sake... Do people need this shit in this lives? How long until the New York Times is out of business?

Try to imagine the NYT writing that kind of nonsense about a Conservative Republican.

Accurate + balanced, my ass.

I'm not sure what's worse, MSM gushing ad nauseum over EMK'S death or the Democrat's likely use of his death to get "healthcare reform" over the top.