To Bork someone: "Sen.Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork declaring:
Well, Judge Bork did indeed have some troubling positions that needed to be discussed.
Ted Kennedy: Lion or Jackal? "On April 6, Chappaquiddick, a movie detailing the events involving Senator Ted Kennedy on Martha's Vineyard in July 1969, will be released. That incident demonstrated the depths to which the Kennedys were willing to go to salvage the political career of the last of the Kennedy sons. In subsequent years, the actions of Ted Kennedy that night were forgiven by the Democrats, as were subsequent actions as noted below.
"The movie is based on a book, Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Coverup, by Leo J. Damore, who committed suicide in 1995.
"Well, that is the official version, at least. The Kennedy family exerted pressure toblock the making and release of the current movie. Similar pressure was reportedly put on Mr. Damore, which may have added to the issues that resulted in his death.
"In the history of politics in this nation, few families have equaled the Kennedys in both political power and despicability for their personal actions." . . .
‘Chappaquiddick’ is a long-overdue dismantling of the Kennedy myth
. . . "Ted Kennedy passed by nearby lighted homes and the local fire department as he walked back to his inn, away from the pond he’d later claim was deep and at high tide. He slept that night as Mary Jo took her last breaths.
"The next morning, Ted refused to appear at the scene when summoned, demanding that the chief of police come down to the station. There, the chief finds Kennedy behind the cop’s own desk, reading a carefully worded statement. He doesn’t mention Mary Jo by her full name because he doesn’t know how to spell “Kopechne.' ” . . .
Juan Williams's comparison to Chappaquiddick could not have been dumber . . . "Williams said he didn't know the "story" of Chappaquiddick. You would expect that someone whose job is a paid political commentator would know the story. Kennedy would have been the Democratic nominee for president but for Chappaquiddick. Kennedy was lauded by the Dems and the media as the Lion of the Senate.
"It is important, therefore, to know . . . how Kennedy acted. It isn't that complicated. Kennedy drove off the bridge into the pond, swam away, and left Mary Jo Kopechne in the submerged car to die. Kennedy waited close to ten hours to report to the police. Had he reported it immediately when he swam away to safety, Ms. Kopechne would have probably survived. It does not take a detective to figure out that the ten-hour delay was for Kennedy to sober up and concoct a story. The details have been known to anyone interested, at least since Leo Damore's factual, exhaustive book Senatorial Privilege, The Chappaquiddick Coverup, published in 1988.
"If not knowing about Chappaquiddick isn't bad enough for a paid political commentator, Williams then outdid himself. He said that while the left wanted to block the Chappaquiddick movie, the "right" wanted to block the movie about President Reagan's last years while he was afflicted with Alzheimer's. This is beyond stupidity and civility. How could anyone compare a movie about President Reagan's Alzheimer's with Ted Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die in a car submerged in a pond that he put her in?" . . .
Williams's tasteless, stupid remark shows again that leftist commentators will say anything about Republican presidents.
