Tales From the Grave: Ted Kennedy Denies Having Affair With the Woman He Drowned

Yes, I guess he couldn't have been romantically attached to Mary Jo Kopechne. Otherwise, he might have made an effort to save her life rather than leaving her to die a slow, painful death.

What a sport.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in a new book that he was not romantically involved with young Mary Jo Kopechne and that he never escaped the despair he felt after she died in the 1969 car crash that has been seared into the national consciousness as "Chappaquiddick."

Seared into the national consciousness? If that's indeed the case, then why were some completely oblivious to it?

"I didn't know about Chappaquiddick and the rape case until yesterday," says Miriam Perez, a 25-year-old editor at Feministing.com. She admires Kennedy's accomplishments, but is perplexed. "Like every person, he's human and there are lots of flaws involved," she says. "But a big feminist tenet is: The personal is political. So I don't feel it's fair to fully ignore it in this case."