First: He might be totally innocent so let's all give Pat Kennedy a momentary benefit of the doubt.
That being said, it is an outrage that he was treated any differently than you or I would be under such circumstances. In case you hadn't heard he was involved in a automobile accident and then released without any form of test of his sobriety. No other person in America (not even an illegal immigrant) would have gotten such a lenient treatment. We see the insidious hand of favoritism once again.
Investigation of the police official(s) who demanded his release without breathalizer or blood test is underway. And I'm sure journalists are scouring Washington D.C. to see if they can find his bar tab from that evening.
My only hope involving this whole incident, above and beyond an end to special treatment is that someone will put together an audio/video blurb of Pat and Teddy featuring the Hank Williams Jr. song "It's a Family Tradition"
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After he did his "press conference" today I switched from cnn, fox, and msnbc to watch the varying coverage. CNN was all sympathetic (and pathetic), msnbc was also but not to as much extent, and Fox was more to-the-point about what was actually said. The thing about the Capitol Police is that they are probably weary of being in the spotlight from that McKinney incident and they might even have been told to 'walk on eggs' around the representatives for a while. I suspect that the cops who stopped him discussed what might happen to them if they arrested him. They might have decided to 'let it go' to try to avoid a big fuss. Of course, the media make a big fuss no matter what.
Not that I agree or condone that action if that was what happened. I think it's terrible that he tried to invoke his Constitutional protection in this situation. And now they've taken the time to create their 'cover' story. Spin, spin, spin.
The story I heard on Fox suggested that the message came down from on high to release him with as litttle notice as possible.
Funny word verification= dlegl
delegal ?
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