You can’t assail something that he no longer has. He left any character he had in the car to slowly suffocate and die along with Mary Jo when he didn’t report the accident until after it was discovered the next morning, over nine hours later.
Via Free Beacon:
In a New York Times op-ed published Friday, a liberal journalist and film critic complained the new film Chappaquiddick was a “character assassination” of its central character, Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.
“How ‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy” wrote Neal Gabler, who is working on a biography of Kennedy.
Gabler complained the film, released in theaters Friday, has been “heavily promoted by conservative media outlets, and reviewers across the political spectrum have praised what they deem its damning but factual approach. Damning it is; factual it is not.”
There actually was no “cover-up” of Kennedy’s car accident that led to the death of an aide, he claims, adding that “no one but the most lunatic conspiracy theorists see this as anything but a tragic accident in which nothing much was covered up.”