Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Kennedy
By Steven Hayward
Power Line
January 16, 2012
Yeah, I know, that headline ain’t exactly man-bites-dog. Peter Schweizer’s previous book, Do As I Say: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, explained in detail how the Kennedy family escaped the estate tax that it wants everyone else to pay, and collects handsomely on oil leases it owns, even as Kennedys oppose oil exploration generally. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is notorious for leading the opposition to the Cape Wind project off Cape Cod in Massachusetts because it would supposedly spoil the view from the Kennedy Asylum, when he’s not flying in private jets to warmer winter climes.
By why should he have all the fun? Now it’s his sister’s turn. The New York Post’s Annie Karni breaks a big story today that the mainstream news outlets will surely ignore that Kerry Kennedy, RFK Jr.s’ little sister and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has accepted fees and a piece of the action from trial lawyers trying to pick the pocket of Chevron in the infamous Ecuador case where an Ecuadoran court issued a judgment of $18 billion against Chevron: ...
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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