Regaling the old days of Kennedy on a radio show, Ed Klien, former editor of Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine remembered a lighter side of the Lion of the Senate. Kennedy, known for being an advocate for the downtrodden, a voice for the weak and poor, a man bringing the issues of the people to the halls of Congress, this patron saint of the Left loved to hear jokes about how he killed a woman.
Mary Jo Kopeckne died not from drowning, but from asphyxiation. The doctor who prepared her body for embalming “noticed a severe lack of water in the lungs which would confirm death by asphyxiation rather than drowning.”
She could have been saved, but Kennedy was more worried about other things, like himself.
Mary Jo lived long enough to breathe the last remaining oxygen in that air pocket. And while Mary Jo was breathing her last . . . what did Ted Kennedy do?
Well, among other things, he began trying to concoct a cover-up story: "Why couldn’t Mary Jo have been driving the car? . . . Why couldn’t she have let him off and driven to the ferry herself and made a wrong turn?" His own cousin, Joe Gargan, talked Ted out of attempting to get away with that.
Kennedy beat the rap. Multiple witnesses have testified that Kennedy had been drinking all day. It was a clear-cut case of vehicular manslaughter, but he was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
The media will forgive liberals anything. Just look at the passive-voice construct in his obit: "an accident that left a young woman dead."
Think about that, about Kennedy soliciting jokes concerning the death of young Mary Jo, and ask yourself if this is really a man who should be raised up and admired.
If you are honest, you know he is not.
Hat Tip on the Video: Hot Air
