Let me rephrase what I said. If Sarah Palin's GRANDFATHER had done this to her aunt in he 1940s, the media would tell everyone all about it.
Get it? It makes no damn difference about understanding of brain medicine now and then. There are many other horrendous things Joe Kennedy did, including a death toll from mistreatment of poor Irish workers in his booze-smuggling phase, that the media will NEVER report.
Conservatives need to raise $40 million and produce a feature-length motion picture telling the FULL TRUTH about this disgusting family. The bubble the leftist have protected the Kennedys with must be burst.
And is anyone hiding this? It's not like there isn't a wealth of sources that you can read about this. There's not some coverup.
The fact of the matter is, despite what you want to believe, is that the timing matters. In 1940, a lobotomy was considered a cutting edge procedure that (seemingly) held a lot of promise to cure what the medical community understood to be certain ailments.
It is absolutely ridiculous to judge medical decisions of the past on today's knowledge. Why don't you next have a post about how the Founding Fathers were really tyrants because they used bloodletting and leeches?