As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt to canonize old Teddy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. For my part, I say let's get a couple of things clear and not let the facts about the "Lion of the Senate" be changed to reflect a phony legacy.
1. Teddy was caught cheating at Harvard when he was a student there. 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. (What - the man can't count to four?) His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (A slight promotion for him from bootlegging liquor into the U.S. from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have Teddy's 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. Teddy Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of private, and returned to Harvard after his discharge. (Imagine a person with his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of private.)
4. A few years later, while attending law school at the University of Virginia, Teddy 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 the 1980s 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, Teddy took the keys to his Oldsmobile limousine from his chauffeur, 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 ended up in Poucha Pond. Teddy managed to get out of the car, swam to shore, and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station along the way. Two friends returned with Teddy to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told Teddy what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead, Teddy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Teddy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne is believed to have 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. Ms. Kopechne's body was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain. 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 the hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident, Teddy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. Teddy 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 a later 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"?
7. 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 role, 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. (Editor's note: A bill that effectively ended legal Irish immigration to the United States.)
8. Since that time, Teddy 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 and wrong. What a pompous ass.
9. He is known around Washington as a public drunk who is loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a more fitting sobriquet for Teddy than "The Great American" or "The Lion of the Senate".
Editor's note: With all the corruption in the Irish establishment, is it any wonder that it fawns over Uncle Teddy.
Thanks to "Chieftain" at the ESFLEA Forum for making this available
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