I think Ted Kennedy was the greatest human who ever lived

I'm having trouble today reconciling the REALITY of this very, VERY flawed man -- also born with a silver spoon in his mouth -- with the absolutely GUSHING praise heaped upon him by EVERYONE.

I KNOW he indeed did do a lot of good. I KNOW he was the brother of two assassinated political icons. I KNOW he had a horrible cancer and is now dead and all the "respect the dead" stuff.

I also know he was a drunk politician, born into privilege and all its favors, who killed a 29-year-old woman 40 years ago this summer.

So I don't know what to think. Though my natural instinct is to be annoyed by all the long faces acting like he was Jesus combined with Mother Teresa. Hell, I didn't even hear anyone on Fox News question all of this...though in a quiet way, maybe they are. You see, Fox is the only cable network who did NOT have wall-to-wall coverage of Kennedy's death.

So, yeah, yet again I feel like i'm alone screaming here. To be sure, I get that it's the end of an era. Really, I do. Though even that's kinda media-spun storytelling, isn't it?