{"id":4658,"date":"2018-03-26T06:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/ted-kennedys-car\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:28:53","slug":"ted-kennedys-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/ted-kennedys-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In this Age of Feeling, fact-based cogent arguments have little effect on the febrile pates of liberals. So one needs to supplement calm reasoning with bumperstickers, invective, and contumely, not that &#39;contumely&#39; is a word one could expect a liberal to understand. And so, for your viewing enjoyment, I present:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09fe8b0b970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ted&#39;s car\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09fe8b0b970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09fe8b0b970d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Ted&#39;s car\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Of course, cars don&#39;t kill people; people kill people with cars. Ergo, etc. Therein lies the brilliance of the bumpersticker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">If you are not aware of the backstory, see the movie <em>Chappaquiddick<\/em>. It is supposed to come out in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Read the lovable and avuncular Howie Carr&#39;s <em>Boston Herald<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/columnists\/howie_carr\/2018\/03\/carr_chappaquiddick_shines_light_on_ted_kennedy_s_darkest_moment\">review<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And another thing. Liberals who are presently &#39;storming&#39; over Trump&#39;s sexual excesses ought to look in the mirror and take responsibility for their &#39;normalizing&#39; of such behavior by their complaisance over the sexual predation of the Kennedy brothers, not to mention that of Bill Clinton with the acquiescence of his hilarious enabler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Liberals who have made our trash culture should not be surprised by the Trump phenomenon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Addenda<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I said above that cars don&#39;t kill people. 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So one needs to supplement calm reasoning with bumperstickers, invective, and contumely, not that &#39;contumely&#39; is a word one could expect a liberal to understand. And so, for your viewing enjoyment, I present: Of course, cars don&#39;t kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/ted-kennedys-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Car&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}