Why are the corporate media so terrified of Ted Kennedy?

[leftstreet]

Every time Ted takes a strong stand on issues, the media shit themselves trying to give us all a history lesson on Chappaquiddick.

Go to Google News and search Kennedy + Chappaquiddick and you'll find articles and editorials, all current, and all bringing up something that happened almost 40 years ago.

Keith Olbermann's number one story tonight was about a book Kennedy's writing on politics for kids. But Olbermann has to dig up Chappaquiddick and question whether or not it was wise for Ted's dog to be featured as the books co-author, since the dog's name is "Splash."

Quick tip for M$NBC's corporate owners = Ted didn't KILL that poor woman.

Although we don't know if the same can be said for your own anchor Joe Dead Girl In My Office Scarborough.

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[ewoden]

1. Simple . . .

The media is fixated on missing white girls. They get a lot of mileage out of 'em. Teddy has a very similar story and they are intent on filling air. When in doubt do what you do best.

[leftstreet]

16. Yeah really.

:eyes:

Welcome to DU!

[Mabus]

2. Or Laura Bush causing the death of her classmate

Claim: While a teenager, future First Lady Laura Bush caused the death of a classmate in a car accident.
Status: True.

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In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It Laura Bush contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.

How fast Miss Welch might have been driving is open to question. That part of the police report is illegible, although two biographies of the First Lady refer to her as having been going 50 mph at the time of the collision. The speed limit on that portion of road was 55 mph. According to the police report neither driver had been drinking, but no tests were performed. No charges were filed as a result of the accident.

News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been travelling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing.

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The accident is difficult to understand it that it took place on a clear night on dry pavement at a crossroads described as "the middle of nowhere," where the view was unobstructed and the stop sign that faced Laura Welch was clearly visible. (The intersection was a two-way, not a four-way, stop.) Yet looking to only weather and road conditions to explain what happened is to miss the obvious: there were two teen girls in the car, girls who were on their way to a party and thus who likely would have been bubbling over with chatter about who would be there. Laura Welch, the driver, had turned 17 only two days earlier. She and her passenger were still of an age when they could all too easily shut out everything going on around them, even the approach of another car and the recognition of a stop sign.

rest at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

As for KO, he does what Stewart does, he notices the absurdities of things and makes fun of them.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. It was her boyfriend

[Mabus]

8. I was using the text from snopes

so I wouldn't be accused of exaggeration.

[Horse with no Name]

3. They are terrified of Kennedy because

he isn't for sale.
It's very simple.

[Mabus]

7. Plus he's also a reminder that people don't trust the press

and haven't for a long time. It brings up questions of what the people in the media know and what they choose to tell the American public. For example, both of Ted'ss brothers were assassinated. A lot of Americans have never been satisified with the ensuing investigations and started questioning the media. Teddy was also the heir apparent of a liberal Democratic dynasty at a time when the tide was beginning to turn on the Viet Nam War. Don't forget that the MSM had advertisers they had to appease. So any time they can cast derision on the Kennedy clan the MSM goes for it full speed because it brings up too many uncomfortable questions.

Or is this too :tinfoilhat: ?

[Horse with no Name]

9. I don't think so

Although I would trade my tinfoil gladly for a some transparent saran wrap.

[Mabus]

23. LOL

To make it easier I could give you one of those saran wrap covers that look suspiciously like plastic shower caps. :)

[leftstreet]

12. That's an interesting perspective

I've always wondered if was difficult for the Kennedys to have to walk away from things they may have known about the assassinations.

[Mabus]

27. I know it wasn't easy for the rest of America

My mom started buying tabloids in the late 60's because of the way they treated the Kennedy family. She'd bring them home and say things like "they will do anything to destroy that family" and "they will hound each and every one of them to their graves." Mom's theory, such as it was, was based on her own experiences. She got politically involved because of what JFK represented - hope for the future. She was convinced that's why they hated the Kennedy family - they woke people up. By denigrating the family they are, in effect, killing our dreams.

While she freely admitted that the Kennedys weren't squeaky clean she believed that they would piss people off for the greater good. My mom was the one who told me that if I wanted to know what the average person thought that I should look at the tabloids. Although most people don't buy the tabloids they do see the headlines and those headlines get in the subconscious and are hard to dislodge. The headlines help subliminally shape how America views things. The tabloids capitalized on the Kennedy name and their association with unsatisfying investigations and bam, they had a formula sure to sell. Any Kennedy or anyone related to them became automatic fodder to ask the question "what else is going on that they aren't telling us". It's become rather Pavlovian.

Anyway, neither of my parents trusted the results of the Warren Commission. They both said that after the McCarthy era it was hard to believe everything the government wanted you to believe and the Warren Commission's conclusions solidified that way of thought for them. They instilled in me a healthy respect of media propaganda and how it can affect the average person's view. They also taught me the importance of looking at things as a whole rather than get bogged down looking at something in isolation. For example, when you have a bad day all you're focused on is how bad things are for you. Similarly, if we look at things in the news in isolation than we can miss the larger picture and how things are interrelated. Sometimes we get so focused on what is happening now that we forget how we got ourselves in the current situation.

[leftstreet]

13. Boy that's for sure. They've grown accustomed to "buying" our reps. n/t

[EST]

5. The Kennedys were the old mafia.

Ted Kennedy still represents class--with a heart. Most people who have no claim to fame of their own operate (in their grimy little souls) like the key to equality is not to elevate themselves, but to tear down those of demonstrated superiority.
Sen. K. was a lot like a smart duhbya, when he was a callow youth, and he made some really stupid mistakes for which he has spent his life atoning.
He has earned his place in history and a lot of small minded people hate him for it.

[Nutmegger]

6. I've heard that Kennedy killed a woman

but I refused to believe it. Some student, a freeper no doubt, practically was frothing at the mouth. First off, Kennedy didn't kill anybody to my knowledge and second, GEORGE FREAKING BUSH HAS KILLED COUNTLESS IRAQI CIVILIANS AND 2212 SOLDIERS!!!

[leftstreet]

10. The woman did die, but no, Kennedy did not kill her

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy#Chappaquiddick

There's a wikipedia entry about it here. It's not remarkably biased.

[Nutmegger]

11. Thank you, I found it after my post. n-t

[me b zola]

14. His name carries power and he advocates for what is good & true.

That simple. Anyone who posesses these two charactoristics must be stopped or the house of cards folds.

There are many people who advocate for what is good & right, but if they possess no power, the press ignores them, thus keeping them from gaining power Senator Feingold is an example of this. Once a good person gains enough power to be noticed, or conversely, a powerful person advocates for what is good & right, they will be stopped one way or another. The easiest, least messy way of stopping someone is to perpetuate an unending smear upon them.

[leftstreet]

15. Hmm. Sounds like a familiar story.

I think if Jesus of Nazareth were here today, the RightWing Corporate Fundamentalists would happily crucify him all over again.

[me b zola]

17. Yep. Irony evades wingers.

And yes, they certainly would crucify Jesus all over again. If I'm not mistaken, it was people exactly like them that crucified him to begin with. In modern times, though, they would bring out the swift boat liars, smear him from here to kingdom come, and if need be they would render him a secret cia prison. He was, after all, Mid-Eastern.

[leftstreet]

18. ROFL!

Thank you for that.

Sometimes humor is the only thing that keeps us going.

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[in_cog_ni_to]

21. Use a dictionary asshole ...It's not YOUR....it's You're and you're in the

wrong forum. Here's a link. USE IT....www.freerepublic.com

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. So fleeting

It's like finding a shooting star. 3 RW posts, and still there! Woo hoo!

How do you say it back at the cave you came from?... Ah yes... "IN BEFORE THE ZOT!"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Because the other two could only be stopped with bullets.

What's Bob Jr. up to these days, by the way?

[dogday]

24. Because the name Kennedy is synonymous with

individual and civil rights...

[KoKo]

25. They aren't terrified of him...he's always useful to kick around because

they can get away with it. Just like trashing Dems as "Liberals" because they managed to turn the word into a negative.

The Kennedy's were once a threat to the Dynasty power structure. The only one left is Teddy. So, they want to make sure the last one standing is always tarred and feathered every time he opens his mouth.

Pay Back...it's all the Repugs know and it's always successful.

[stepnw1f]

26. Because He Is a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT!!!

They are jealous and intimidated of the man. And the more they attack him, the better for us all.