oops, meant to ping a few others. Everyone, please feel free to ping anyone else.
------------------------------ We made it onto Snopes!!!
This e-mail that started here has made it onto Snope's Urban Legend site! http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/homes.asp
They are known around here as having a left-wing bias, and they try to apologize for Kerry- candidate of the common man- but, it is weak. Good job fellow freepers! Please keep up the good work!
Freepers discuss Snope's left-wing bias.
Look what I found:
Maybe we need to spread the word that the Forbes (Kerry) Kompound is a private New England island named Naushon and consists of 30 summer homes! They have outdone the Kennedys.....big time!
http://www.usaweekend.com/celebs/whos_news/ USA Weekend Magazine:
Is it true that John Kerry comes from an old New England family that still owns the Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod?
Joseph Mendes, Hyannis Port, Mass.
Kerry, 60, is a member of the Forbes family (that's what his middle initial, "F," is for), which owns a few of the islands off the cape. Naushon, 7 miles long, is the idyllic anchor island where the extended family maintains more than 30 homes. And you thought the Kennedys had a compound!
Swim for That Green Light, John
It's in the fine print of my guidelines for writing this blog that I must link to anything that relates politics intelligently and interestingly to classic American literature. Jim Geraghty deservedly benefits from that policy today with a piece on John Kerry and Jay Gatsby:
Naushon Island, off the Massachusetts coast, has been known as the home of pirates, who confiscated the hard-earned wealth of merchants and businessmen; sheep, obedient creatures who demonstrate no independence; ticks and flies, droning annoying pests; and is rumored to be haunted by frightening, ghostly pale, gaunt figures. It is also a family home of John Kerry...
Note to college students: There's definitely a longish paper in this comparison, with many subtle, intriguing parallels and connections. (For example, the Forbes family, of which Kerry is an offshoot, made its money, in part, trading opium. Gatsby was a bootlegger, as was the Kennedy patriarch, if I remember correctly.)
Posted by Justin Katz
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