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After beginning the morning by dismissing President Trump’s first official State of the Union address as an event that would be quickly forgotten, the stacked liberal panel on ABC’s This Week was overjoyed that the Democrats had selected Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) to give the party’s response. They were excited about his good looks and his “moral voice,” because if the Kennedys are known for anything it’s a “moral voice.”
ABC’s Cokie Roberts kicked off the Kennedy love-fest by praising the Democrats for doing something intelligent against Trump. “I think the Democrats are doing something smart and having Joe Kennedy give the response not that people pay that much attention to the response,” she touted. “He's not only a Kennedy, he's young. And that's been a big rap against the Democratic Party, that their leaders are too old. And he's a young, attractive guy, whose name is Kennedy.”
Just before host Martha Raddatz ended the show, anti-Trump resistance fighter, and ABC commentator Matthew Dowd glorified Kennedy. “And he’ll have a moral voice! And he’ll use a moral voice, which I really think is important today,” he declared. The idea of praising a Kennedy as moral was laughable considering that a movie (Chappaquiddick) was set to be released that was about how Senator Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne and the family involved campaign to keep him out of prison.
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