Enough With all This Ted Kennedy Glorification Already!

Check out This Article from GQ by the late Michael Kelly from 1990. Don't remember this one making a huge splash or Kennedy responding to it. Then again, in 1990 I was probably more excited about the impending release of Use Your Illusion I and II to buy GQ. God bless the internet!

There's lots of stuff here that got Clinton in all kinds of trouble. But that bloated, drunk, murdering man-child was never called to task. And now that he's dead he gets sainthood. Sickening.

From Kelly's article:
Kennedy regularly finds himself in unseemly scenes. One East Coast playboy recalls an incident a few years ago in a popular Palm Beach bar when “a definitely drunk” Kennedy shoved him against the bar and spilled his beer as the senator rushed out the door with a blonde so young, the man at first mistook Kennedy for an angry father come to take home an underage daughter. Dropping in for a 2 A.M. drink in the Manhattan bar American Trash in January 1989, Kennedy reportedly got into a shouting match with an obnoxious (and possibly intoxicated) off-duty bouncer, which climaxed with the senator’s throwing his drink in the other fellow’s face. Unkind Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr writes of Kennedy as “Fat Boy” and says it isn’t really considered summer in Cape Cod until the senator drives on the sidewalk for the first time. Reporters wonder at his behavior. “He really will do anything at all,” says veteran Washington gossip columnist Diana McLelan, “I think he’s mad.” Says Bill Thomas, writer of the “Heard on the Hill” column for Roll Call, the well-regarded newspaper of Capitol Hill, “He’s off the reservation…out of control…He has no compunctions whatsoever.” Thomas likens Kennedy and Dodd to “two guys in a fraternity who have been loosed upon the world.”

Oh and I hear he's getting a burial in Arlington. WTF?!!?! I bet in the coming years all these people from his past are finally going to have their say. As soon as the Dirty Liberal Media get tired of stroking his corpse.