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So Now Hollywood’s Going To Glorify Teddy Kennedy…For Drowning A Lady

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The director of Fifty Shades of Grey is in talks to helm Chappaquiddick, an upcoming movie about the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s 1969 scandal involving the drowning death of a young woman he was driving home from a party.

The Hollywood Reporter quoted the film’s producer saying, “Everyone has an idea of what happened on Chappaquiddick and this strings together the events in a compelling and emotional way. You’ll see what he had to go through.”

Poor Teddy, we’ll finally see what HE had to go through.

The Washington Free Beacon points out that, “The Hollywood Reporter uses passive voice to describe the incident, saying Kennedy ‘becomes entangled in a tragic car accident'”:

“On the eve of the moon landing, Senator Kennedy becomes entangled in a tragic car accident that results in the death of former Robert Kennedy campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne. The Senator struggles to follow his own moral compass and simultaneously protect his family’s legacy, all while simply trying to keep his own political ambitions alive.”

SPOILER ALERT: A quick explanation of Ted “passively being entangled” in recklessly killing a woman. Via the Daily Mail:

A drunk Ted had been driving back from a party to the family ‘compound’ on Martha’s Vineyard when he veered off a bridge and into a deep tidal dyke.

Mary Jo was in the back seat and, while he claimed he was just giving her a lift back to her hotel, it was widely thought that he had picked her up for sex. Kennedy swam ashore to save himself, but left Mary Jo to drown – in fact, it was even worse than that.

It was nine hours before he reported the accident. In the meantime, he walked back to his motel, complained to the manager about a noisy party, took a shower, went to sleep, ordered newspapers when he woke up and spoke to a friend and two lawyers before finally calling the police.

Divers later estimated that if he had called them immediately, they would have had time to pull out Mary Jo. She had not drowned, but had survived in an air pocket inside the car – she was asphyxiated only when the oxygen ran out several hours later.

Which is why he’s perfect for a Hollywood film glorifying him. He’s a hero to them. He’s Charlie Sheen before there was a Charlie Sheen. But instead of “tiger’s blood” and self-righteous rants about Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorree, Sen. Kennedy spent a lifetime giving bloated speeches, abusing his power, and then making laws for the peons to obey. Laws like: don’t drink, drive, drown your passenger, and not report it until you’re caught.

If you need one more dose of Ted “The Lion of the Senate’s” escapades, this time including Princess Leia and his drinking buddy Chris Dodd, click the link below:

Propositioning Carrie Fisher and “the waitress sandwich” incident

Exit thoughts…

For Ted’s life set to an Irish jig: click here.

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