| Melissa Lafsky
Writer for publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, Salon, Wired, Page Six Magazine, and Radar. She spent a year as a contributor and then associate editor at The Huffington Post, where she wrote reported pieces, editorials, and media commentary.
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""We don't know how much [Ted] Kennedy was affected by her [Mary Jo Kopechne's] death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. [. . .] [One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."
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 Writing in the Huffington Post, August 27, 2009.
Source: "Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy -- Quote of the Year," Watchdog, February 2010, page 5.
Posted here: June 7, 2010.
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Comment: Sometimes boundless partisanship elicits utter silliness. I think we have an example here. Ms. Lafsky would have us believe Kopechne's influence on Kennedy's life [probably miniscule to insignificant] was sufficient to justify her dying a disparate and agonizing death by drowning. Such silliness borders on absolute looniness!
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