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May. 17th, 2008 09:01 amI was watching CNN for coverage of the Ted Kennedy story that broke this morning when I flipped to MSNBC because The Tim Russert Show was coming up. The coverage on MSNBC was kind of appalling. The anchorperson was speaking to an expert or correspondant on the phone not about his current physical condition or the latest news from MGH, but analyzing his legacy.
I'm paraphrasing so the wording is mine: "Can he escape the laundry list of scandals that made the Kennedy name notorious?"
Not an invalid question, but this is hardly an appropriate time for such a question. He's not even running for office. It was completely indecent.
I decided to flip over to Fox News to see what they were doing. They were surprisingly complimentary of him as a person but asked whether or not Obama had reached out to his endorser's family. Also not really an appropriate question, but somehow not quite as bad, even though they're probably motivated by finding fault with the presumed Democratic nominee for President.
I flipped back to MSNBC and ironically the Tim Russert Show was about John Kennedy, speaking with some guests that knew him, though I'm pretty sure Tim Russert's program is pretaped.
I'm paraphrasing so the wording is mine: "Can he escape the laundry list of scandals that made the Kennedy name notorious?"
Not an invalid question, but this is hardly an appropriate time for such a question. He's not even running for office. It was completely indecent.
I decided to flip over to Fox News to see what they were doing. They were surprisingly complimentary of him as a person but asked whether or not Obama had reached out to his endorser's family. Also not really an appropriate question, but somehow not quite as bad, even though they're probably motivated by finding fault with the presumed Democratic nominee for President.
I flipped back to MSNBC and ironically the Tim Russert Show was about John Kennedy, speaking with some guests that knew him, though I'm pretty sure Tim Russert's program is pretaped.
