Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the "Kennedy curse," a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim - and not, as Mary Jo perhaps recognized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us to call his bluff, and, when we didn't, he made us complicit in what he'd done. We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation.
Read the rest of Steyn's NRO post here.
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