SocraticGadfly: Irony alert, or more - 'Private' Kennedy memorial service

August 28, 2009

Irony alert, or more - 'Private' Kennedy memorial service

I got an e-mail invitation from DemocraticMajority to watch tonight's "private" Ted Kennedy memorial service:

Dear ...,

Tonight, we will celebrate Senator Kennedy's life at a memorial service at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

We would like to remember his life in the same way as he lived it: with all of you.

Join us at 7 p.m. on TedKennedy.org, which will feature a live video stream of the service.

Now, it can't be "private" if you're streaming it like this now, can it?

And, while it may be dignified in general, I don't doubt that a fundraising appeal or something will be attached to it somewhere.

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