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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Teddy Loved To Hear Chappaquidick Jokes

According to Ed Klein of Newsweek Ted Kennedy liked to hear about any new jokes about Chappaquidick:

Newsweek's Ed Klein (told interviewer) Katty Kay about Kennedy's love of humor. How the late senator loved to hear and tell Chappaquiddick jokes, and was always eager to know if anyone had heard any new ones. Not that Kennedy lacked remorse, Klein quickly added, seeming to intuit that my jaw and perhaps those of other listeners had just hit the floorboards. I gather it was a self-deprecating maneuver on Kennedy's part, exercised with the famous Kennedy charm, though it sounds like one of those "I guess you had to have been there" things.




Here is the transcript of the clip:

Kay: Ed Klein, that's what I'm hearing today, that people are sad at his passing, and yet celebrating this huge life and its huge long list of accomplishments.

Klein: I think he'd be the last person who would want us, those he's left behind, to, um, be, uh, morose and, and full of bathos. I think he, he --

Kay: He would come in with a big guffawing laugh and make us laugh too.

Klein: He would, yes. You're so right, he would. And he'd probably have a joke to tell as well.

Kay: At his own expense.

Klein: Well y'know, he, 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?"

I mean, 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, um, the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.

Kay: Ed Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and author of a new book on Ted Kennedy.


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"...he still always saw, um, the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too...."

Really, what other side, it's funny that someone died and you are responsible for it, it's funny that you refused to take responsibility for it, it's funny that a young lady's life was cut short because of his negligent and criminal act.

Oh yes there is a ridiculous side to all of this, it's ridiculous that we are honoring a man who was responsible for a young woman's death as a result of a criminal act and negligence on his part afterward.

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