Mary Jo Kopechne Cannot Be Reached for Comment
November 27th, 2007 at 05:35am Mark Noonan
Does anyone really want to read Kennedy’s memoirs?
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the most prominent surviving member of the Kennedy family, has agreed to sell his memoirs for an advance of more than $8 million, people with knowledge of the negotiations say.
After a six-day auction that concluded Nov. 19, Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, bought world rights for the autobiography. Before the deal can be completed, Mr. Kennedy must clear his publishing contract with the Senate Ethics Committee.
Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor in chief of Twelve, said he hoped to publish the book in the fall of 2010. Mr. Kennedy is “walking, talking history,” Mr. Karp said, “and there’s no limit to what he can talk about with authority and distinctive personal perspective.”
With authority? Perhaps - but we won’t get honesty, and anyone who expects Ted Kennedy to tell the truth about his life just hasn’t been paying attention to Ted for the past 40 years.
$8 million for a bit of fluff which will likely be mostly ghost written and won’t add an iota to the practical knowledge of the human race…
Entry Filed under: Corruption, Democrats
12 Comments
1. TiredofLibBullShit | November 27th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Do we really need another How To Book on booze, broads and political corruption?
Is this another “My Life” book?
2. Angry Redneck | November 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am
So will this be in the fiction section at Barnes & Noble? I heard that Byrd (Dem. WV) is writing his memoirs as well…the pop-up book should be available in January.
3. plainjane | November 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am
TiredofLibBullShit | November 27th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Do we really need another How To Book on booze, broads and political corruption?
Have to agree with TLBS on this one. We just lived through a six year real life educational booze, broads(little boys) and political corruption course provided by the former Republican Congress.
4. Bigfoot | November 27th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I heard that Byrd (Dem. WV) is writing his memoirs as well
I’m sure he’ll provide a complete and satisfactory explanation of why he joined the KKK.
(Yeah, right….)
5. LaMano | November 27th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Will we get to read the details about the “waitress sandwich”?
“Dodd and Kennedy were also reported to have made a ‘human sandwich’ with a waitress at La Brasserie, another Capitol Hill restaurant. The report had it that Kennedy threw the woman on Dodd, who was slumped in a chair, and then jumped on top of her. She was said to have run screaming from the room.”
6. Parker | November 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Thanks LaMano, That vision just ruined my lunch.
7. TiredofLibBullShit | November 27th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I see planejane has her lib Presidential and Senatorial knee-pads on today.
Educaltional booze? (are you referring to the NCLB Act written by Kennedy?)
Broads (little boys)? (we were talking about Kennedy not Barney Frank…or do you know something we don’t?)
Political corruption? - surely you jest….We are still waiting for the most ethical Congress elected a year ago…..those corrupt Republicans are either resigned or facing their day in court…the Libs are still in their places of power and the only way they will resign is when they are at the door of the jailhouse…..your “ethical” leader Pelosi will not force them to resign unlike the Republicans have had their own do.
Your simple mind does you no credit.
8. Timothy Horrigan | November 28th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Just in case anyone doesn’t know… Mary Jo Kopechne was a young woman (a former Kennedy campaign worker) who died in an accident in 1969. Sen. Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard and he probably was drunk. It’s a tragic accident, but it was just an accident… and his career as a Senator since then has been an honorable one. There are Republican politicians who have dome dumb things and killed people, too.
But to get back to his Senatorial career…. as much as he is hated by the Republicans nationwide, he has only been seriously challenged a couple of times. Mitt Romney became a national political figure in 1994 just by coming semi-close to beating him. (The other time was in 1988, when Joe Malone ran a credible race… and eventually did win a down-ticket statewide office before fading away into oblivion.)
If he is really that horrible, how come no one wants to run against Ted?
9. t. stenger | November 28th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
HOw pathetic and sad that the above commenter chooses to omit from his description of the accident that dear, innocent Senator Kennedy swam away from the vehicle, left Kopechne behind, went home, changed clothes and tried to establish an alibi all while Ms. Kopechne sat beneath several feet of water in a vehicle drowning to death. Oh yes and then later Kennedy chose to claim he was dazed from the accident and not in control of his faculties or mind ( certainly true for him on a regular intoxicated basis) and finally, sadly, the Kopechne family recieved a substantial payoff to shut up and not press charges because quite possibly Kopechne- part of a group known as the “boiler room” girls was pregnant. Apparently the shame then of being pregnant our of wedlock coupled with the power of the Kennedys to make their lives a living hell was enough to make them go away. Ted Kennedy is literally a walking example of corruption and decay that may be single handedly responsible for the curse of HMOs amongst other thngs he has done to embarass himself and the US Senate.
10. Timothy Horrigan | November 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Well, it is still remarkable that Kennedy has never been really been seriously challenged, except by Romney… and even Romney actually lost by a landslide in the end, 58%-42%, and had to spend tens of millions of his own bucks to do so. If he really was a murderer, a drunkard, and a socialist, why the hell doesn’t the Massachusetts GOP run real candidates against him?
You could blame this on the Massachusetts voters being ultraliberals… but somehow Romney, the very epitome of conservatism, managed to be elected Governor with the EXACT same rock-solid, unchanging hardcore conservative principles he espouses as a Presidential candidate. You could blame this on the Kennedy family’s near-magical powers… but somehow several Kennedys have managed to fail to be elected to various offices. (This would include Joe Kennedy, Ted’s nephew, who failed to win the office Mitt Romney did win, i.e., the corner office on the 2nd floor of the Massachusetts State House.)
11. TiredofLibBullShit | November 28th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I wonder if he’ll mention his expulsion from Harvard for plagiarism?
His appointment , oh, excuse me “assignment” to Germany during the Korean War.
The whole Khopeckne affair….
His funds in foreign protected banks…..
His rewriting of environmental requirements for windmill power generation….
etc. etc.etc.etc.etc.
12. phnx | November 28th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Timmy,
You seem to have conveniently forgotten Teddy’s involvment in the coverup of the rape committed by his nephew at the family compound in Palm Beach.
To refresh your memory read:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/celebrity/william_kennedy/
Kennedy is a sleezeball, the fact that he has been continually elected by the voters in Mass, reflects poorly on the voters of that state. They would elect a potted plant if it were named Kennedy,