"JFK may have effected athleticism for the newsreels, but Ford was the genuine article."
Kennedy affected athleticism. Otherwise, this was a very good article.
Sorry, wrong answer. Effected is a verb, and correct in this context. Affected is an adjective.
Yes. JFK was a fake. The media, so in love with him, protrayed Kennedy as an intellectual because of the Pulitizer Prize his father bought. His book was ghost written by Ted Sorensen.
Ford was a gifted athlete and smart as a whip. Here in Grand Rapids I've talked to old-timers who knew Jerry. They all same the same thing: he did not give public speeches very well, that was his glaring weakness; but he seemed to know everything about politics and the business of the House.
Unlike Kennedy, this was one smart guy. Difference is, the media dismissed him.
How dare you correct the cognoscenti! ;-)
He meant uninformed. It seems sloppy for there to be two errors of this type in a relatively short editorial.
No, "effected" is correct in this context.
JFK was an accomplished swimmer and diver, noted for pursuing the pay-for-action females he often swam with in the WH pool. It was said, with some authority, that his back problems began when he reached for one of the nude swimmers and twisted his back.
Great article, but the confused usage of "effected" caught my eye, too. Bad writer or worse editor? Products of publik skools?
I didn't realize Ford was MVP at Michigan and he won a scholarship to Yale. This is just another in a long line of examples of how the media create blatantly false images.