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Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | January 5, 2009 |
As soon as Sen. Kennedy’s 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 eff ort 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 a s 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”.
Let’s not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero — how quickly
the American public forgets what his real legacy is…
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