Ted Kennedy's free pass with feminists.

[AztecWilliam]

Some inconvenient truths about Ted Kennedy. (Do you think, just maybe, that these items would be so overlooked by the media if the recently departed U.S. senator were a Republican?)

www.nypost.com/seven/08302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/kennedys_free_pass_with_women_187139.htm

AzWm

[Bob Forsythe]

Aug 30, 2009 9:41:26 GMT -8 AztecWilliam said:

Some inconvenient truths about Ted Kennedy. (Do you think, just maybe, that these items would be so overlooked by the media if the recently departed U.S. senator were a Republican?)

www.nypost.com/seven/08302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/kennedys_free_pass_with_women_187139.htm

AzWm

Sort of a dumb question since the Post is a member of the media.

=Bob

[AztecWilliam]

Aug 30, 2009 10:24:22 GMT -8 Bob Forsythe said:

Aug 30, 2009 9:41:26 GMT -8 AztecWilliam said:

Some inconvenient truths about Ted Kennedy. (Do you think, just maybe, that these items would be so overlooked by the media if the recently departed U.S. senator were a Republican?)

www.nypost.com/seven/08302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/kennedys_free_pass_with_women_187139.htm

AzWm

Sort of a dumb question since the Post is a member of the media.

=Bob

Read carefully, Bob! I said "so overlooked," not completely overlooked. The overwhelming tone of the coverage of Ted Kennedy's death is laudatory. I'm not even saying that such a tone is wrong. After all, the man served in the Senate for nearly half a century. I'm just saying that a long-serving Republican with such a skeleton in his closet would receive much less favorable treatment.

The fact is that Republicans with that kind of skeleton usually are rejected by the voters (including GOP voters), whereas the Democrats get frequent passes no matter how unsavory their behavior. Examples: Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds (why was he not charged with statutory rape?).

AzWm