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“One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« on: August 28, 2009, 11:59:57 AM »

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As long as we’re on the subject of humor this morning, what kind of jokes did the late Ted Kennedy like to tell his closest friends?  One of Kennedy’s close friends, former editor of Newsweek and New York Times Magazine Ed Klein, tells the Diane Rehm Show that Chappaquiddick jokes were high up on the list (audio here, at 30:10):

    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.

Jules Crittenden wonders (with a great deal of snark) if “you had to be there.”  Mark Hemingway is aghast:

    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.” ...

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/28/one-of-his-favorite-topics-of-humor-was-indeed-chappaquiddick-itself/



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Re: “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2009, 12:04:24 PM »
Posted in politics.

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Re: “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2009, 12:07:40 PM »
Holy. Flaming. Dogshit!
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Re: “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2009, 12:17:42 PM »
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Re: “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2009, 05:11:19 PM »
That article would make a splash if it were a republican.
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Re: “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2009, 05:41:54 PM »
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