Douglas Brinkley. (John Kerry's biographer) John Kennedy Jr.'s most prolific mourner.

Slate.msn.com ^ | July 23, 1999, | David Plotz

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assessment of Douglas Brinkley John Kennedy Jr.'s most prolific mourner.

Douglas Brinkley is the William Ginsburg of the Kennedy death circus. Before the crash, the boyish, gap-toothed Brinkley was known primarily as a Michael Beschloss-in-waiting, a telegenic historian fielding calls from the cable news networks. Now the University of New Orleans professor has parlayed a contributing editorship at George and a friendship with Kennedy into a job as a necropublicist. Between Saturday and Tuesday, Brinkley appeared on MSNBC, Late Edition, Meet the Press, Good Morning America, Dateline, Today (twice), and NPR (twice). He also penned columns about his relationship with Kennedy for Newsweek and the New York Times, and was quoted everywhere else ink touches paper.

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Some background info on Douglas Brinkley (Kerry's biographer), who just hasn't been available to discuss Christmas in Cambodia.

It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame. "His name-dropping is almost pathological," says one friend. In my conversation with Brinkley, he touched on a dozen famous politicians and artists he knows. His writing is full of sentences that begin something like, "As John Cage once asked me ..."

[Thebaddog]

I like seeing the gap tooth goof going down. He was a major Clinton coolade drinker and I think that he finally bought a bad package in Kerry.

What is the entry level qualification for a historian? How old do you have to be to see history well?

[ken5050]

Notice that the major media's favorite historians are all of late, havign a tad bit of trouble...Doris Kearns Goodwin, Steven Ambrose...and now Brinkley...

[ghost of nixon]

from the article, it is easy to discover that Brinkley's a leftie - this sentence seals the deal: "He even wrote a kindly biography of Jimmy Carter"

[Leisler]

What a coatholding, bootlicking, 'rhoid sucking paintywaste fop.

[skaterboy]

I'm shocked he was able to pry his head out of Kerry's lap long enough to be a media tramp

[Leisler]

Decades of brownosing have left his infected sinus cavities blocking his ability to breath through his nose. Hence, the occasional organ release for a gasping breath...and, like the best ally street whore, a gargle.

[mtntop3]

Last Spring, at the time of the attempt to somehow denigrate the President for his ANG service, I heard Brinkley on NPR morning news commenting. It was immediately apparent that he was not an "historical observer" but part of the bunch trying vehemently to denigrate the President. And he could scarcely conceal his ECSTASY over actually - actually - being selected by Kerry as his biographer, and of Kerry actually - actually - letting him, Brinkley, read Kerry's "meticulous" notes (ostensibly) made during Kerry's tour in Vietnam. It seems that not only did Kerry make home movies of his real and unreal adventures there, but also found time and opportunity to (minutely) write down every heroic moment - as he saw it. Brinkley is no historian. He is a political hack.