Today Joan Vennochi, at the end of one of her signature Globe op-ed pieces -- turgidly unreadable prose, phobic avoidance of taking any editorial stand beyond the banal middle-of-the-road, and gratuitous Kerry bashing -- achieves a new rhetorical low in her attempt to smear the Democratic presidential hopeful. Her topic is a press luncheon hosted by Ted Kennedy. After portraying the Kennedy dynasty in a "Whatever happened to Baby Jane" light,
Everything looks the same, but everything is different. A beauteous but creepy movie lot is all that is left of Camelot by the sea.
and making a cheap shop at Kennedy's weight,
...I did not press the Massachusetts senior senator up against the buffet table to interrogate him further...
and expressing her usual horror (be nice ! be NICE !) at the very idea of someone taking a principled stand
On the Senate floor, Kennedy said, "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management -- US management." Such rhetoric is inflammatory, to say the least.
she concludes
It is delicate politics for Kerry. How do you embrace what is left of the Kennedy magic but escape the Kennedy ghosts from Camelot and Chappaquiddick?
I bet even Karl Rove hadn't thought of pinning Chappaquiddick on John Kerry.
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