(For you kids, the Massachusetts senator drove a car into the drink in Chappaquiddick in 1969. Kennedy swam away, passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, drowned. The accident was tragic. Kennedy's behavior afterward, however, was criminal. Rather than rushing to police after the 11:15 p.m. accident so that they could try to rescue Kopechne, Kennedy went back to his hotel. He did not call police until the next morning.

And BTW, readers will find "ABC Adopts Liberal Depiction of CAP: "Discriminatory, Opposed to Women & Minorities"" very much related to Kennedy's CAP interest and the media's reporting of it. (And the groups own founder says that Judge Alito had next to no involvement with the group, whatsoever. This, besides the fact that the group was not as described by the liberal senators and parroted by the media):

ABC adopted as fact the liberal Democratic allegations about the supposedly bigoted agenda of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas referred to Alito's "membership in a controversial group opposed to women and minorities at his college." The subsequent report from George Stephanopoulos highlighted a soundbite of Democratic Senator Richard Durbin describing CAP as one which "would discriminate against women and minorities." Stephanopoulos relayed how Democrats "say the group was notorious for its discriminatory agenda when Alito listed it in his 1985 job application for the Reagan Justice Department. So notorious that prominent Princeton alumni like Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist had publicly disavowed it."

In fact, a founder of the group, William Rusher, told National Review Online that CAP was simply "a group of alumni who were concerned over various liberal tendencies that had developed in the Princeton administration." A member of the group, former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano, now an FNC contributor, told FNC's John Gibson late Wednesday afternoon that it was not "anti-integrationist, anti-feminist," but instead "was a traditional, conservative mainstream organization." Napolitano added that the group's magazine, from which Senator Ted Kennedy read to smear Alito with guilt by association, had as its editor a woman as well as a man who was a native of India. (More from Napolitano, as well as transcripts of the ABC and CBS stories, follow.)

Borger described CAP as "a group that opposed affirmative action and co-education at his alma mater." On the NBC Nightly News, Pete Williams refrained from pejoratives as he relayed how Alito in 1985 had called CAP "a conservative alumni group" and Williams later referred to "the alumni group."