Mine Too
Jay Tea at Wizbang calls Paul Trost his new hero for shouting out “Remember Chappaquiddick!” at a peech by Ted Kennedy. I would hav to agree. I wish I could say I would have done the same when I was his age, but I wouldn’t have. He’s a brave kid. I hope this turns out well for him.
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Chivas) made an appearance at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, MA Tuesday. After a typically glowing introduction by Congressman Peter Lynch (D-MA), Kennedy took the microphone.
Before he could start stammering and bloviating to the assembled youths, though, one of them — a constituent of Ted’s, one 20-year-old Paul Trost of Foxboro — decided he thought the assembled masses could use a two-word history lesson.
He stood and shouted “Remember Chappaquiddick!” from the crowd, then walked out of the auditorium amid the gasps of shock and horror of his incredible uncouthness.
Mr. Trost has been informed that he could face expulsion for disrupting the assembly with his two-word shout.
I particularly like his justification for he outcry.
WorldNetDaily: Student under fire for yelling: ‘Remember Chappaquiddick!’
Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success.
“Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that’s a bunch of bull,” Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school’s student center yesterday morning.
It’s amazing how mere money, political power and influence, and an Ivy League education can help people overcome all of that hardship. As James Taranto as said more than once “Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.”