House of Eratosthenes

I cannot find a source for this, anywhere. But I’d already researched all these facts, most of ’em anyway, at the time they rolled into my mailbox…at least, I was already aware of them at a thirty-thousand-foot level.

I don’t fault anyone for hearing of these tidbits and making a decision to dismiss them, and I don’t fault anyone for their indictments and grudges against Republicans who were deferred for pimples on their asses, or didn’t serve, or failed to fill out their billets in the Texas Air National Guard, or what-not.

To do both, however — to dismiss out-of-hand these things said against loyal democrats, and to embrace wholeheartedly the “high-grade dirt” dished out against influential Republicans — is an egregious sin of ideological puritanism. Or plain ol’ intellectual dishonesty. And it’s widespread. The effect is we now have a plurality of generations of people who are entirely unaware of what has really taken place…

Ted Kennedy, the hero of Chappaquiddick; As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt at canonization of old Teddy by the main stream 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 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 Chappaquiddick Island 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.

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, after passing several houses and a fire station. Then two friends 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 pled 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, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the “standard-bearer for liberalism”. In his very first Senate roll, 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 and 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 were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of 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”.

If you want to excuse all of the above because you like his political agenda, then fine. Just admit that’s what you’re doing, and I don’t wanna hear you trying to recruit people into hating Bush & Cheney because “he was born on third and thought he hit a triple.” There’s a saying about throwing stones when you live in a glass house, knowwhatimean?

Teddy also wrote the “No Child Left Behind Act,” for which Bush has gotten no end of flack from the teachers’ unions simply for signing the damned thing. The media has made sure it has been widely known as a Bush initiative. However, read the actual text of the bill, and tell me whose name is at the top. Yeah.

The man is a drunken sot. I knew about him drowning that girl, but I wasn’t aware of just how dishonorably he’s behaved the rest of his life. Nonetheless, it does not surprise me a whit.
- cylarz | 01/11/2009 @ 00:01
What fascinates me about Ted Kennedy is not the number of such scandalous tidbits, or the severity of some of ’em (there aren’t too many things worse than leaving a girl to drown in your car, but I can think of many worse things than cheating on a test)…but the flavoring. Look at that list again, top to bottom. What do these things have in common?

These phrases he’s spent 45 years tossing around under the Capitol dome…”equality,” “diversity,” “opportunity for everybody,” “for the benefit of ALL” — they have nothing to do with any of ’em. He’s got a giant hole in his soul he’ll never be able to fill because he is, really, an individualist. He practices individualism to the point of self-destruction. It’s always been all about Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, and hell with everybody else. The entire time, he’s been compensating for it by cranking out laws that force the rest of us to go through life lock-step with each other.

He’s exactly like the guy with the teeny penis driving the big truck. Compensatin’.
- mkfreeberg | 01/11/2009 @ 11:03
In related media news, 1984 is now public domain and available on Youtube. The entire film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE
- JohnJ | 01/11/2009 @ 12:21
You’re forgetting the most important thing: he was not only a useful idiot for, but a direct collaborator with the Soviets, often meeting with them or sending his top aid to discuss how to undermine the conservative leadership in Washington in the 80’s. He discussed how to discredit them, how to spread disinformation, and most important, HE GAVE THEM CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.

Here’s an article about that: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGM2ZTE4Y2ExNDU3NGMyNmNhMWNkYjU3ZWNhYTk0NGQ=

Much of this is discussed in “The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World,” by John O. Sullivan.

Not just a disgusting character, but a traitor.
- Apollodorus | 01/11/2009 @ 14:04

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