Remember what Mark Twain said:
"If you don't read a newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you are misinformed"

strong>Now that Ted Kennedy has met his date with the Almighty, there is an attempt to memorialize him far beyond his actual contributions to public service. The following should help filter the impurities that the media are spewing in their attempt to revise history.

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Last Of The Kennedy Dynasty

As soon as his cancer was detected, and even more so now that he has passed, there was an immediate attempt at the "canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real story.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was
expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a
classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed
up for four years instead of two. (Oops! The man can't count to four!)
His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step
up from his days of bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to
two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war
was raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that
President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of
Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person
of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia , he was
cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked
driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his
headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never
revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and
hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at
the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The
results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when
the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media,
did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island
in Massachusetts .. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys
to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo
Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with
no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into
Poucha Pond.

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several
houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the
scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him
what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report
the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his
hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police
the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered.
Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her
head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry
would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family,
before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but
after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying
to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he
was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he
held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem
overnight.. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have
referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He
pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a
SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small
payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was
later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family
successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid
their attorney's bills... a "token of friendship"?

8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but
considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored
or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights,
increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for
the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is
widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first
Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S.
immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants
from third world countries.

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of
every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the
latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the
pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was
the standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what's right". What a
pompous ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous
and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than
"great American". "A blonde in every pond" is his motto.


Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the
American public forgets what his real legacy is. Let's keep this going
for truth, justice and the American way!