Tim Graham and the Media Research Center have been misportraying an article about Ted Kennedy for more than a decade now, and they’re certainly not going to stop now.
In a March 10 NewsBusters post bashing “left-wing crazy man Charles Pierce,” Graham adds that “Pierce is the (unintentional) funny man who imagined Chappaquiddick victim Mary Jo Kopechne thanking Ted Kennedy in her old age…’if she had lived.'”
As we’ve repeatedly documented, Pierce was not praising Kennedy — the full context, and Pierce’s declared intent, was to show that the Chappaquiddick incident effectively keeps him from having the “moral credibility” to be elected president.
But the truth doesn’t pay at the MRC — fitting a narrative does. And Graham is apparently going to keep cramming Pierce in his discredited narrative no matter what.