How Sick Can They Get?

I am not sure how to put this, as it is … stunningly crass. Ace of Spades is reporting an NRO post that a writer at the left-wing Huffington Post has said of Senator Ted Kennedy’s career that Mary Jo Kopechne would “… [maybe] feel it was worth it”.

There goes the left again; I said Senator Kennedy had plumbed the depths and continued on for fathoms, then less than four hours later those left manage to go even further than their mentor. Even I, who have few illusions about socialists often being unpleasant and self-righteous people, am truly stunned by this.

Ted Kennedy’s Sick Sense of Humour

I really cannot believe this. Not sure how to express my stunned astonishment. I first saw this on Small Dead Animals, which linked to Jules Crittenden, but I really had to listen for myself as I could not believe what he was saying. I really thought that Jules Crittenden was having a dig at Kennedy, that nobody would be so crass, but even when you think Democrats have plumbed the depths, they go a few more fathoms.

On radio station WAMU, American University Radio, Katty Kay interviewed various people about the Senator, including Edward Klein. All are fans of Kennedy and Klein edited the left-wing New York Times and was foreign editor of the equally biased Newsweek. You can listen on Real Audio or WMA, but it gets tiresome quickly.

If nothing else then download it and skip to the 30:24 point. Apparently Ted Kennedy liked Chappaquiddick jokes; he liked to tell them, and would ask people if they had new jokes. Jokes about the young woman who had died because of him, and who he had abandoned to her death in order to save his own career.

Not only did Klein think it was an appropriate story to tell in a pro-Kennedy interview, but he thinks it is “…just the most amazing thing”. Not only that but the other Kennedy groupies don’t say anything, it appears that none of them see anything wrong in that picture of Kennedy.

I’ve heard and told plenty of sick jokes; in any business where death is a constant concern it happens. I have never imagined any rational man could delight in jokes about the death he caused of an innocent person, let alone a death that occured in such disgraceful circumstances.

Most Succinct Answer to Ted’s Sycophants

From Ace of Spades via Small Dead Animals, regarding Senator Edward Kennedy:

“If they’re going to talk about Camelot, then we get to talk about The Lady in the Lake.”

Update: too many people even on the Right fell for Ted Kennedy’s charm, his name and his power, so I was not looking forward to the eulogies. Most were as bad as I expected, David Blackburn's in the Spectator Coffeehouse not much better. However it seems that far more people than I expected saw through him. Read the comments under that one; the phrase ‘as popular as a pork pie at a bar mitzvah’ springs to mind.

The Selfish Left

It is forty years ago today that a young woman died for the rash actions of a young, left-wing Senator in the USA. It is quite possible that she could have survived but for his career ambitions. At best he drove recklessly, probably drunk, and then reported the accident to his political advisors many hours before he reported it to the police and lied about almost every detail of events. At worst his deliberate delay killed her; had he reported to the police they might have saved the young woman. There is a possibility that she survived for a time in an air pocket in the largely-intact but overturned, inundated car.

That Senator is, of course, Ted Kennedy. He is still in the Senate. If anyone ever tries to tell you that the right is selfish and the left altruistic then remember Chappaquiddick.

Small Dead Animals reminded me of this anniversary.

Update: More at Power Line.