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The best Chappaquiddick joke ever

Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor and long-time friend of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on Diane Rehm’s radio show and revealed something very disturbing about the late senator: he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?

Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor and long-time friend of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on Diane Rehm’s radio show and revealed something very disturbing about the late senator:

“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. Its 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.”

So in honor of The Lion of the Senate, here’s our all-time favorite Teddy Kennedy joke:

An aide went into Rose Kennedy’s bedroom early one morning to tell her the sad news that Jackie had died. “That’s terrible,” the old lady rasped. “Was Teddy driving?”

That, my friends, is a great joke. It’s short (just 29 words), yet manages to include three different Kennedys and evokes Chappaquiddick without mentioning it by name.

HuffPo writer thinks Kopechne might have been happy to sacrifice her life to advance Teddy’s career

Good news for Mary Jo Kopechne’s family. She would be happy to die a horrible death, gasping for air as her lungs filled with the cold, murkhy waters off Chappaquiddick Island. Seriously. That’s what ex-lawyer, blogger and writer Melissa Lafsky says in the Huffington Post.

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Good news for Mary Jo Kopechne’s family. She would be happy to die a horrible death, gasping for air as her lungs filled with the cold, murky waters off Chappaquiddick Island.

HAD SHE ONLY KNOWN THAT THE DRUNKEN DOLT WHO DROVE HER OFF THAT BRIDGE WOULD DO SO MUCH TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF LIBERALISM.

Seriously. That’s what ex-lawyer, blogger and writer Melissa Lafsky says in the Huffington Post:

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Yeah, maybe. But as the old saying goes, Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

Source: Huffington Post

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