“There never was a Camelot except in fantasy and Broadway shows.”
Yes, but there was and is a legend.An early example of Fake News?
Posted on 05/17/2023 11:22:31 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
Jackie Kennedy Onassis died on this date in 1994.
But when did Jackie Kennedy die?
Where did Camelot go?
Jackie herself said, “Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”
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I dare anyone to sit through a high school presentation of Camelot and not fall dead asleep.
“There never was a Camelot except in fantasy and Broadway shows.”
Yes, but there was and is a legend.An early example of Fake News?
Cameltoe. Vice in the White House.
Who’s the next Men Starr?
LOL!!! The press groveled and peed like a puppy believing the myth of Camelot. History revealed that it was more like Camel dung. He was a disgraceful President and she was a silly snot. There were and are, much better people to admire.
Election cheating has deadly consequences. JFK was assassinated and we got a big eared dog face thug for a President. He then sent tens of thousands of good American men to die in Viet Nam. (For clarity, this comment is aimed at LBJ, not our military men)
Bump!
Newsom 2024 is ready to bring it all back. :).
Ken Starr.
Typo.
The whole Camelot thing was placed in the media by Jackie Kennedy after JFK’s death.
Nobody said during JFK’s presidency that we are in the Camelot era because of him and Jackie.
It was only in retrospect that people started calling it the Camelot era , and that was probably due to people’s shock and sadness over Kennedy being assassinated. They wanted to remember him and his time as president.
So the Camelot names stuck. But nobody called that time Camelot while JFK was president.
If he had lived they would have ended up divorced or like the Clintons one in Chappaqua and one in the Hamptons.
Camelot was part of a bigger myth. There was a kind of apostolic succession in the Democratic Party. People who went to Washington DC with Wilson, had students, protegees, and relatives who went to DC with FDR, and they had students, protegees, and relatives who went to DC with JFK. The country couldn't shake off Averill Harriman or Clark Clifford whatever it did. That line was broken with Jimmy Carter and 12 years of Republicans in the White House. Now they have a new myth, and we have a new succession: Clinton to Obama to Biden.
Camelot was a myth that Jackie herself invented. She handed it off to the press and the propaganda wing of the People’s Socialist Party (AKA the mainstream media) has been running with it ever since.
How “Camelot-ish” could it be knowing you’re married to a drug-addicted serial adulterer?
Great post in its entirety! Sad but true. Caroline as the ambassador to Australia is the last gasp of the Kennedy dynasty unless RFKjr can pull one out of the fire.
As regards the Kennedy admin, perhaps. But the myth of Camelot itself goes back to the 12th century. And at the time of Kennedy's presidency, the musical by Lerner and Loewe was touring live onstage all over the U.S., and would soon be made into a movie as well.
As a teenager, I saw it live at the National Theater in DC, steps from the White House, starring Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet—strictly as a production, it was mindblowingly excellent and correspondingly influential ideologically to the fact-free emotional voters who make up the Democrat ranks.
The musical's exquisite lyrics spun the story of a time in English history when King Arthur started the Round Table, hinting at a "democratic" governance, only to have his heart crushed by his wife's infidelity, as Arthur was cuckolded by his self-righteously virtuous knight, Lancelot. Yes, the white Christian male was positioned as a hypocritical betrayer, even in the early 60s.
LOL! A political marriage that sticks together only because, according to law, neither spouse can be compelled to testify against the other.
Yep, I’ve heard some of those escapades by President Kennedy, right there in the White House, with women such as secretarial hired help, and also a White House intern.
Nobody talked back in those days, and the news media didn’t report on such things. People in the media knew some of what was going on, but never reported publicly.
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