Posted on 11/21/2013 2:08:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For all these years, they’ve hidden the truth about the Kennedy assassination.
It didn’t require a conspiracy. It just took repeating a falsehood until it was accepted as conventional wisdom. The myth about the Kennedy assassination is that President John F. Kennedy, at great personal risk, traveled to Dallas a.k.a. the City of Hate, and was somehow murdered by an atmosphere of intolerance. The truth is that he was shot by a communist.
As James Piereson writes in his brilliant book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, liberals had the choice after the assassination to make Kennedy a martyr to civil rights or admit that he was a casualty of the Cold War. They found the notion of Kennedy dying for racial progress much more congenial and useful, even though it depended on a rank distortion.
The misdirection, as Piereson points out, began in the immediate aftermath of Lee Harvey Oswald’s act of murder. A New York Times headline intoned, “Why America Weeps: Kennedy Victim of Violent Streak He Sought to Curb in the Nation.” Earl Warren, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, blamed “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.”(continued)
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I was listening this morning, Gordo seems to know everything there is to know about Lee Harvey Oswald.
Why don’t we blame DC for killing Lincoln and Garfield? Or why not blame Buffalo for killing McKinley? Don’t forget evil LA, they killed RFK. Didn’t DC attempt to kill Reagan and Clinton? Heck, maybe the media needs to examine the hate in DC?
Three, that in a private letter to the vice-president, Ronald Reagan labeled JFK a Marxist, and asked to be allowed to campaign for Nixon, Reagan also said that he was switching parties.
Ronald Reagan-—””One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.”””
Arlen Specter was not much of a republican, and the Earl Warren Court was known as the “libertarian” court although very republican.
Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party.
Is is uncanny how true this article is. The only thing missing (and it is barely missing) is connecting W Bush to it.
If it were left up to the demodummies, they would blame the Tea Party or Bush.
Eh, I think the worst of the opinions came down during the Burger court.
Let them speak for their own lame history.
Traitor Roberts is in the running.
1960 Presidential General Election Results - Texas:
Similarly, although it's hard to fathom today, the Dallas Morning News was staunchly Conservative, Patriotic, anti-Klan and opposed the UN under the brave leadership of publisher Ted Dealey who fearlessly told Kennedy, to his face, in 1961:
The general opinion of the grassroots thinking in this country is that you and your administration are weak sisters. If we stand firm, there will be no war. The Russians will back down. We need a man on horseback to lead this nation, and many people in Texas and the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline’s tricycle.
In those days, the Times-Herald was the leftist organ favoring JFK/LBJ whereas the News took a pro-American, pro-liberty, anti-communist stance. Dealey's paper was strongly opposed to the tyranny of labor unions.
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