That’s going to leave a mark.
To be fair, “Rest in Chappaquiddick” was a Twitter entry, so it had to be brief and to the point. Sure, “Peace” is a shorter word — important in Tweets —but it’s simply not on-point.
That’s why Andrew Breitbart made about 800 subsequent entries about Ted Kennedy’s death today, and started a minor Internet World War between himself and the ever so offended. Like “I’m more than willing to go off decorum to ensure THIS MAN is not beatified. Sorry, he destroyed lives. And he knew it.”
Breitbart’s deal-breaker with Kennedy — and decorum — was TK’s character assassination of Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork, and of course his manslaughter of Mary Jo Kopechne, for which he was completely excused by the media, on all counts.
Breitbart will be burned to a crisp on the liberal media’s spit for all this. And why is that, since as he asked in one Tweet, “Who’s a worse guy? Me for speaking ill of the dead? Or Kennedy for Chappaquiddick? I’ll join that Columbia J School Symposium – on my dime.” And later, “Esplain’ me this newly found progressive propriety-philes: How is speaking ill of dead worse than creating the dead?”
The Breitbart shish kabob will be served-up because, as he also Tweeted, “T. Kennedy is NOTHING without elite media bias & hyper-enabling. IF a GOP possesses 1/100 of human failings of T. Kennedy he/she is TOAST.” And furthermore, “Kennedy laid groundwork for legitimizing media-killing of conservatives. What he did to destroy Thomas & Bork is unforgivable. Mary Jo, too.”
And like a song sparrow, he kept Treating us —sorry Tweeting us:
• “In this moment I cant but recognize absolute backwardness of media & society. Bush=EVIL. Ted Kennedy=SAINT. Im gonna keep fighin’, folks.”
• “If you cant say something nice about a person then say mean things about them instead. Especially if they are unapologetic manslaughterers.”
• “…or perhaps im waking people to the corruption that exists between the powerful & those that cover & cover for them. go tea parties!”
• “How I calculated WHEN to attack TK: Multiplied time he spent trying 2 save MJKs life & to be safe multiplied it by billion. But still got 0.”
• “The very premise of his GREATNESS is a testimonial to liberal bias. He voted the correct way, and was granted FULL PROTECTION of the media.”
• “Ted Kennedy is the Rosetta Stone of why BIG GOVERNMENT is evil & how BIG MEDIA is its greatest enabler.”
• “If he apologized on his death bed, I will take it all back. Seriously.”
And when I last left his Twitter page, he’d directed this at another Twitterer/hater who might have asked if he didn’t have something better to do: “Don’t you have better things to do like attacking Palin’s children?”, thereby presenting an interesting moral or ethical simile for liberal media and bloggers and minions to chew on as a side dish to their Breitbart shish kabobs.
For his part, Bill Bennett wrote on the National Review’s website. “They say one should not speak ill of the dead. True. But I am of the view that one should not lie about the dead either. So I will not go on.”
Ditto.
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