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I was sitting in the examining room waiting for the doctor to appear. I wanted to be reading the Sports Illustrated issue I started reading in the waiting area, but like the good little rule-bound, obedient patient I am, I left it for the next nervous soul to distract themselves with. Gazing around trying not to let the lump I’d come in for worry me, I spotted a magazine rack on the wall. Three kid’s magazines and the issue Newsweek did on the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. I reached for Newsweek and began to skim through it to pass the time.
I missed the irony of my reading about one of the driving forces behind the push for nationalized health-care while waiting for an outstanding doctor who may very well become a rarity if the left has its way. It hit me on the way home (after I had been reassured that the lump was nothing to be concerned about) because the Newsweek issue had struck a nerve with me as most “elite” media reporting and opining does these days. The whole time I was in the examining room I was steaming about a piece written by Eleanor Clift regarding Ted Kennedy’s relationship with women in general and feminists in particular.
In “All the Senator’s Women” Clift writes, “Organized women’s groups overlooked a lot to stand by Kennedy.” She also states that people may be “willing to measure the benefits that Kennedy brought to countless people through his politics, and give them proper weight on the scales of the man’s record.” At this point I am compelled to mention that on July 18th or 19th of 1969, Senator Kennedy drove a car off a bridge near Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and left a woman inside to die.
Never brought to trial for his role in Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, Kennedy was allowed to give a speech apologizing for his behavior and only offering to leave the Senate if the citizens of Massachusetts decided he should. His license was suspended and he was sentenced to two months incarceration (the minimum allowed for “leaving the scene of an accident causing injury” but suspended the sentence. While the Kopechne family planned a funeral and mourned the loss of a daughter, the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts got off scot-free.
Why do I dredge up this forty year old scandal that most have forgotten by now? It is a perfect example of how the left views the world and their heroes. Mention Nixon and his positive accomplishments to a lefty and you’ll hear, “what about Watergate?” The hatred the left has for those with whom it disagrees is palpable. Julianne Malveaux hopes Justice Thomas eats lots of eggs and dies early because she disagrees with his politics. But for one of their own they will put up with almost anything as long as the politics are left-leaning.
President Clinton’s worst offense was not sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, perjury in front of a grand jury, or sexual harassment. To the left, Clinton’s greatest sin was his cooperation with the Republicans following the 1994 mid-term elections. Only when he faced impeachment did they rally to his side. No idiocy is too much for the committed lefty. No behavior is beyond the pale if the political leaning is far enough over on the liberal side.
The final piece of evidence I’d like to present also comes from Clift’s article. The article begins with an anecdote regarding a small town newspaper in Iowa reporting on Kennedy’s death. “Be sure to mention Chappaquiddick,” the editor said, drawing a blank stare from the young reporter. Clift’s first thought is how “relieved the Kennedy family must be that a generation of Americans doesn’t automatically reflect on the tragedy that for so long clouded Ted Kennedy’s life and career.” It reminds me of a famous fictional quote, “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
I guess the lefties who worshiped at the feet of the “Lion of the Senate” consider Kopechne’s death a very late-term abortion.
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