"Fight back," as though the scandal had been inflicted on poor Teddy by eeeeevil outside forces he had to defeat, instead of his own irresponsible behavior. Amazing bias. Good catch.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

who had to fight back after Chappaquiddick

   He is a kennedy.  All he had to do was wait for an army of true believers to announce that his period of 'pennance' was over and it was time to allow him to take his rightful place as a leader of all that is right and true.  C'mon.... driving while drunk resulting in a fatal accident and then not reporting it is not as serious as saying 'macaca' in public.

When the chips were down, the guy thought only of himself and ran. He lacked nobility and heroism -- and some might say, even the most basic common human decency to help a sister in her hour of need.

His family thought only of themselves and rallied behind him.

That's the irreducible fact of Chappaquiddick. Has Edward Kennedy redeemed himself forty years on?

Who am I to say. (I like to think I would act differently than Kennedy, but who knows.)

That will be for a higher power to decide, whom the Senator would seem to be meeting sooner rather than later.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

goldenthroat,

One of the problems that we face in this country these days is all of the revisionist history that is daily crammed down our throats.  When you bring up what really happened you are mean spirited and not concerned for the feelings of others.  How dare we talk about Columbus' crew being wiped out after he left for Spain from the carribean?  How dare we talk of the Aztec conquests?  Those people might feel bad.

Same goes for the Kennedys.  Not sure who proclaimed them royalty, oh yeah, the omnscient press.  They know all!

Jack,

He is only following in the family footsteps.  The revisionists have the Kennedy clan as squeaky clean crusaders for social justice.  JFK was out for JFK.  How else to explain his private life and multiple out of wedlock liaisons?  Bobby the same.  The dad?  Don't need to get into that with any of you.  It would be nice if the rest of America had even a part of a clue.  The boys did some good things but saints they were not.  Not even close.

That comment from Herbert demonstrates the conscienceless elitism which permeates modern "liberal" culture. No shame, no soul. Mary Jo means nothing to a jerk like Herbert. How anti-American! She's is not equal to a "Kennedy"; she is simply a rag doll not worth even mentioning. Herbert casts her aside, as did the swimmer himself. And to imply that the poltroon Teddy had to "fight back" to save his reputation from those who would hold him accountable for his actions gives more evidence of the immature ignorance of so-called "journalists" today. Relativism at its worst. What ever happened to the idea that there must be a moral standard if a society is to survive? Much like Barry O., Herbert is a true "liberal"--- a little man with a small mind pretending to lift his audience to ideals, revealing instead his own shallowness, ignorance, and immaturity. It makes one sick to see what has become of a formerly great nation.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

"Horror" that he felt? What about the horror Mary Jo felt as she was left alone in a sinking car. I don't know the details, was she dead as the car sank, was she still alive? Whatever it was, Mary Jo did not get justice. I am sure her family remembers every detail. Sad.

 Funny I thought his toughest fight was the mile long swim from Chappaquiddick to Edgartown after thirty rum and Cokes.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

I wonder if Herbert and the "NY Times" ever worry about the fight of the S. Vietnamese after Kennedy voted to cut off funding to them.  Here is a link to a movie, that probably won't ever win an Oscar, because it doesn't say Communism is the greatest thing ever. 

http://www.journeyfromthefall.com/Synopsis.aspx