Kennedy Liked to Joke About Chappaquiddick
From Kennedy’s close friend Ed Klein:
I don’t know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, “have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?” That is just the most amazing thing. It’s not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.
EXCUSE ME? If that’s true it makes Kennedy kind of a monster. The odd thing is that if you listen to the whole show, the tone of everyone involved is nauseatingly haigographic and reverential. Klein apparently let his guard down a bit; after he lets it slip Kennedy liked to joke about the woman he killed you can actually hear in his voice that he’s trying to backpedal. The show actually cuts to a break as he’s trying to explain himself, and I seriously wonder if it wasn’t the producers trying to do Klein a favor. But I’m sorry, there appears to be little to that could explain this. It goes way beyond “you had to be there.”
It does set free Kennedy’s critics to talk at length about Chappaquiddick and its proportion to Kennedy’s public life. After all, if Kennedy thought it was a topic for humor in private, then it certainly is a valid topic for serious analysis of his life as well.
Sick, sick, monster. Nothing quite so humerous as jokes about a woman that died in your car thanks to your own cowardice.
See? Not only is cracking wise about the girl that he left to die while he was rummaging around in his luggage for Alka Seltzer proof that he was feeling so very, very guilty about it, it’s actually proof of what a wonderful person he was, constantly finding the funny and ridiculous side of murder, adultery, drunk driving, obstruction of justice etc.
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Posted by Jay on August 28, 2009 11:46 am
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Kennedy was a sociopath.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Kennedy should still be in prison and buried in the prison cemetery. What a coward the nation is mistakenly mourning upon his desth. GOOOOOOD RIDANCE
Moms Mabley said it best: “Don’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead, good”!
I wonder if her friends and family would appreciate his sense of humor here.
“…not that he didn’t feel remorse…” but… he obviously didn’t, because he never accepted full responsibility, never paid even the penalty that others without his money, family power and influence would have had to pay, and COLLECTED JOKES ABOUT MJK’s DEATH!!!
This cowardly, drunken waste of oxygen died far, far too late.
It’s not any different than Michael Jackson, before death he was a bad joke too.
Best Ed Kennedy line ever: A few years ago A television report about him mentioned the personal tragedies that befell other members of the family; assassination, plane crash, etc. Then the correspondent speaking to Kennedy says that he, too, had experienced a personal tragedy,… at Chappaquiddick. And the thought that immediately came to mind: “That’s like saying Jack the Ripper experienced a personal tragedy!”
I told this to my Dad, generally a liberal, but not a worshiper of the Kennedys. He laughed out loud.
Do you think T.K. would have laughed if someone told him a joke about the murder that took place in Dallas Texas on October 12, 1963?
I may have gotten my date a little confused as this event took place a long time ago, but I trust my intent was clear.
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Editor’s note: The correct date is Nov. 22th 1963
Also I wonder what the “other side” of Chappiquiddick, and “the ridiculous things” of Chapp. were? Please Ed Klein tell us more about the interesting side of this unusual (read “stupid”) senator from MA.
‘…this unusual (read “stupid”) senator from MA.’
James, I respectfully submit that “stupid” is not the correct word. “Venal” or “disgusting” or “vomitous sludge” or “complete waste of oxygen” but not merely “stupid”.
Sadly our nation is morally bankrupt, we forget the grotesque things people do and allow the media and liberalism ideals amount to ‘heroism’ one celebrity after another, just because they are rich, or can shoot a ball thru a hoop.
Until we start recognizing true heroes and ethical behavior as a nation, we are doomed to live in this mess we have allowed to continue unchecked by complacency.
correct me if i’m wrong, was she with child.
She was with child as I recall. We have two morons here..Ted Kennedy, the Cowardly Lion and Tin Man wrapped into one–and then we have Ed Klein, the Scarecrow! In this case the ending wasn’t good….Dorothy (Mary Jo)didn’t wake up with a bump on her head surrounded by people caring, praying.
Idolizing a drunken, womanizing, self serving hypocrite is typical of the country. The man superficially, through staff, helped 1000’s but callously let one woman die to protect himself. A human being, probably 2 are dead because he failed to act responsibly.
Ed Klein Scarecrow just doesn’t have a brain..how could he be so insensitive about the death of a human being that he would try to “humanize” Lion/TinMan by revealing he liked to hear jokes about Chappaquidick? Was the moron aware of the pain he inflicted on relatives, friends or people her story touched?