Kennedy mini-series provokes outrage among American liberals (US media black out on this?)

www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11:10PM BST 29 Apr 2010 | By Nick Allen in Los Angeles

[Frantzie]

LOL! My guess lots of booze, drugs, womanizing, rape or intimidation, abortions, labotomies, murder, corruption, organized crime, etc etc.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Yet the same crowd always relishes in savaging the character and memory of Conservative icons.

[Tzimisce]

It’s racist.

[gov_bean_ counter]

History will ultimately record that sex and scandal were the least objectionable elements of the Kennedy Legacy.

[YHAOS]

A mini-series on the Kennedys, concentrating on sex and scandal?

Yeah . . . that sounds about right.

[RebelTex]

That would have more facts than the liberal legend does.

[Tennessee Nana]

American liberals and historians who have branded it a “political character assassination” concentrating on sex and scandal.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Without the sex and scandal, there’d be nothing to report on the Kennedys...

[LibFreeOrDie]

Apparently, the liberals protesting the dramatized version didn’t see “The Kennedys” documentary by PBS, which was astonishingly honest about Papa Joe and JFK’s extramarital romps.

You can watch it online:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/kennedys/

[ransomnote]

I haven’t heard about the ‘outrage’ in the US and yet it is featured in a British online paper. I am wondering if the media are not complaining much in the US for fear of attracting attention to it - is there a blackout? Someone who does have cable or watch TV wanna comment on this (I am online only, no cable tv)

[DeFault User]

the screenplay he read was "largely a soap opera about the Kennedy sex lives" and portrayed President Kennedy as a "lightweight dilettante."

Well, I suppose he could rewrite it so he's portrayed as a "witty, lightweight dilettante. The Soviets pegged him as a wuss, built the Berlin Wall and put the missiles in Cuber. But he did give good press conferences and came up with some witty responses on occasion (sans teleprompter).

[Mr. Blonde]

Wasn’t Kennedy fairly conservative by today’s standards in his positions?

[SirLurkedalot]

Oh God no kidding! Papa Joe’s Nazi collaboration for starters.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Wasn’t Kennedy fairly conservative by today’s standards in his positions?

By today's standards, yes on some issues. But not by the standards of the late 50's.

[Huskrrrr]

I didn’t know about the Bobby-Jackie affair until recently. While John was hosing anything wearing a skirt... Bobby and Jackie were getting it on. I love it!

[seowulf]

A Kennedy mini-series? Well, OK. As long as I don’t have to see a Teddy look alike stumbling around without his pants.

[Eagles6]

If this Surnow guy is so Conservative why did 24 swerve so far left these last few years?

[Prokopton]

If this Surnow guy is so Conservative why did 24 swerve so far left these last few years?

What's "left" about 24?

[mick]

The one quote in the article when JFK tells his brother that if he doesn’t get laid every few days with a new woman is true...in Harold MacMillian’s bio ( British PM in the 1960’s)he tells the story of JFK telling him this.....if he told the brit we can be sure he told his bro.

[Gargantua]

"...David Talbot, a best-selling author on the Kennedy family, said the draft screenplay he read was "largely a soap opera about the Kennedy sex lives" and portrayed President Kennedy as a "lightweight dilettante." "It's a distortion, I think almost perversely so," he said.

Hmmm. I see. What, do you think, would be Mary Jo Kopechne's opinion of its truthfulness... that is, were she alive to opine?

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