Caroline has now taken umbrage at two NY Times reporters for asking when she decided to seek the Senatorship, and suggested they go to work for women’s magazines instead:
"But Kennedy appeared to insult women’s magazines when she responded to a question by one of the reporters to recall, for the sake of storytelling, the moment she decided that wanted to be the senator from New York.
**“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” **she asked, to which the reporter countered by asking what she has against women’s magazines?
"Nothing at all, but I thought you were the crack political team here," she answered.
The unscripted response was followed by Kennedy saying she wishes she could draw on a moment and will think about it a little more. (Perhaps once she’s recovered suffieciently from her glee at having been reminded of her voting record, she will at last be able to recall the moment when she decided to try to become U.S. Senator from the State of New York.)
She also appeared defiant and never gave a straight answer as to whether she’d entertain actually running for office if she weren’t appointed first.
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Her huffiness and ready aggression toward these reporters recalls an episode I remember reading about years ago when she was around college age. She and her brother John had gone to a bank in NYC, and, given that she was in a hurry, she tried to cut to the front of the line at a teller’s window. This predictably led to vocal objections by the other people already patiently standing in line waiting their turn. Caroline became loud and arrogant, and, showing the sense of entitlement that she apparently carries to this day, became so lippy and argumentative with the people insisting she wait her turn that her brother finally put his hand over her mouth and forcibly drug her away (it was suggested that he was concerned about public embarrassment to their mother, IIRC, and the context of the article was to show what a fine young man John, Jr. had become. (A sentiment I agree with, btw.)
Anyway, given that most of what I’ve seen of her the last couple of decade (or what the media has elected to show) has indicated that she has become a mature, pleasant, homebody and family woman, and it comes as something of a surprise to see that she’s apparently little removed from the spoiled, arrogant and entitled little brat she was in the late seventies.
But apart from that, you would also think that at the very least she would want to be encouraging the support, rather than the ire, of the NY Times and its reporters…unless of course she already feels sufficiently entitled and that the nomination depend upon the good graces of the NY Times and its readership anyway.
The woman appears far from ready for primetime.