Sunday, February 19, 2006
Truth That Makes One Smile
I know I'm always linking to and quoting from Canadian columninst Mark Steyn. There are reasons, he's usually well worth reading--funny and insightful--and I often agree with him. His latest column at the Chicago Sun Times, about Cheney hunting accident coverage, is here. Money quotes:
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969."
Hmm. Let's see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory's make-up girl!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius' insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot.
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969."
Hmm. Let's see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory's make-up girl!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius' insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:46 AM 
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Rog,
What's your point? That Dick Cheney is a big a schmuck as Teddy Kennedy? Or not quite b/c nobody died. I can't say that I surprised The Mr. Cheney failed to learn from Mr. Kennedy's experience. Mr. Cheney is not a great student of history which certainly accounts for some our recent foreign policy failures.
I am feeling like an equal opportunity basher today. Ever been to Chappaquiddick? I have. It is an island that sits just across Edgartown Harbor from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. It is accessible only by ferry from Edgartown. The accident, however, occurred on the E side of Chappaquiddick. The bridge in question does not span a river, but the lagoon that connects Cape Poge Bay on the N and Poucha Pond on the S. The road, Tom's Neck Lane, connects the main part Chappaquiddick to a barrier type part of the island that is bounded by Nantucket Sounfd on the E. The road goes nowhere but to the this spit of land that is uninhabited. In my opinion, there is no way that anyone could take the road and go over the bridge by mistake. Go to Mapquest and check it out.
What's your point? That Dick Cheney is a big a schmuck as Teddy Kennedy? Or not quite b/c nobody died. I can't say that I surprised The Mr. Cheney failed to learn from Mr. Kennedy's experience. Mr. Cheney is not a great student of history which certainly accounts for some our recent foreign policy failures.
I am feeling like an equal opportunity basher today. Ever been to Chappaquiddick? I have. It is an island that sits just across Edgartown Harbor from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. It is accessible only by ferry from Edgartown. The accident, however, occurred on the E side of Chappaquiddick. The bridge in question does not span a river, but the lagoon that connects Cape Poge Bay on the N and Poucha Pond on the S. The road, Tom's Neck Lane, connects the main part Chappaquiddick to a barrier type part of the island that is bounded by Nantucket Sounfd on the E. The road goes nowhere but to the this spit of land that is uninhabited. In my opinion, there is no way that anyone could take the road and go over the bridge by mistake. Go to Mapquest and check it out.
# posted by 
: 8:56 AM
: 8:56 AM
No, it's again the double standard in the press involving Republicans and Democrats. But you can't see it, I guess. I have not been to C'dick, but my history teacher in high school had and said Kennedy went off the wrong side of the bridge (the opposite one you would expect if he took the turn to the bridge too fast). What is your point about no one could cross the bridge by mistake? Did Kennedy claim that he tid that? Good comment.
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