Posted on 08/31/2009 3:02:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Given the coverage the incumbent president is getting, orgive me if I’m skeptical about that.
The difference is Obama is an emperor with no clothes - and it is becoming apparent even to the blind...
It’s a media thang.
In America, the royalty is made by the media by kissing up.
In Britain, the media delight on the foibles of the royalty, but the royalty do not fear losing their status because it isn’t based on the media.
I am not so sure yet.
I think that the difference between the media handling of Kennedy and Obama lies in the fact that the adulation of the Kennedy’s in the ‘sixties was due to who they were- an incredibly wealthy and chic young family appearing in a more naive time than it is now. The Obama coverage springs from the fact that the family is black which assuages leftist guilt, and that President Obama is a light skinned black who does not speak like steppin fetch-it. I believe Mr. Obama would like to be thought of as Kennedy-esque President, which is works very hard to accomplish unfortunately.
The media coronated this family and they were suitable representatives of the lack of morality in the media.
And then there are those of us who never gave a fig for the Kennedys from the get-go.
JFK stole an election; sent a brigade of young Cubans across a beach, lost his nerve, cancelled their air support, and abandoned them; plunged the country into Vietnam; abandoned the balanced budget orthodoxy that had until then been dominant in both parties in peacetime, with the exception of FDR; was a sexual predator; and was an utterly ineffective legislator. I will give him credit for cutting taxes, but his substantive record is mostly negative. Absent the assassination, this would be the historical verdict.
On the other hand, he was personally charming, photogenic, fronted for a nicely written ghost-written book, and gave a nice speech. Post-assassination, this made him a god to the media, and to the democrat party.
Bobby and Teddy were non-entities propelled by sheer post-assassination sentimentality. That this lasted so long is simpy collective insanity.
Nice roundup on the Kennedy mythz... we can only hope that overplay memorials for the ultimate sleazebag Fat Teddy will quickly be exposed for more Moron Media lying!
Thanks to the free media!
No other politician would have been allowed to get away with what Kennedy got away with.
I seem to recall that the “self-made” millionaire made his millions as a smuggler and bootlegging? DemonRAT politics is a natural progression, though some wait to engage in organized crime until after they get in office.
In massachusetts we have an example where the vast majority of liberals there need to be institutionalized to protect America from their insanity.
The entire Kennedy Camelot “mystique” was the product of clever exploitation of the new medium of television by the best political marketing organization Joe Kennedy Sr’s money could buy. None of the Kennedys ever really ran for political office in the hitherto conventional sense; rather they were marketed to the American public as “political products” in very the same manner as toothpaste, underarm deodorant, or new cars.
An important book still remains to be written about this marketing of the Kennedy illusion.
Joseph Kennedy, a self-made millionaire,Illegal booze runner.
“Those who remember the 1960s understand viscerally, even if they do not share themselves, the almost mystical devotion the Kennedys inspired. “
And when it’s not the Kennedys it’s the Obamas. There are enough people in this country who don’t worship God, thereby leaving their worshipper waving in the wind and fixating on whatever demonic idol presents itself.
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles - anything will do for their worshipping antennas to get a fix on.
The Death of Ted Kennedy and as Barone writes, the Death of an American experiment with nobility, these also correspond with the Death of Obama, politically, for he will not recover, his polls will drop, he will either quit, be thrown out of office as a usurper, or be impeached and thrown out, or he will lose in 2012.
Obama was a Kennedy. They said it! He suggested it, again and again. He rode that same political tide, that’s why he spoke in Berlin. “I’m the black JFK!”
Well, he isn’t, yet the fortunes of the Kennedys and Obama are chained together — both are sinking into a cold briny deep quickly.
Excellent post.
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