Camelot and the Cultural Revolution (American liberals took leave of reason after JFK's murder)

Opinion Journal ^ | 7/12/2007 | Fred Siegel

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"Inherit the Wind" is running on Broadway again, night after night pitting the righteously rational Clarence Darrow against the Bible-thumping antievolutionist William Jennings Bryan. The 1955 play--a chestnut of high-school English courses across the country--concerns the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 and is meant to capture the moment in American history when science and reason superseded, at last, the myth and superstition of foolish reactionaries. It has become something of a liberal sacrament. But as James Piereson shows in "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution," myth and superstition were the essence of the liberal response to John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. It was the liberals who threw evidence and reason to the winds, inheriting the crippling effects of their own bad judgment. Mr. Piereson is not concerned with showing yet again that, yes--in defiance of all conspiracy theories--Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman on that fateful day. "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution," Mr. Piereson explains, is less about "the assassination itself than the political reaction to it and the lasting consequences of that reaction." It is one of the best accounts we have of why liberalism--which "owned the future" in 1963--fell from grace and has yet to recover.

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I refuted those 'facts'. It's insanity.

No, you've simply insisted that Posner refuted those Warren Report facts about Oswald; - that is incorrect. - Posner is just another whitewasher of the Reports many erroneous conclusions.

I see no need to speak further with you on it if that's where your beliefs come from.

My beliefs come from the Reports contradictory conclusions.

Just let it be known that you believe that Richard Nixon sided with Nazi war criminals to murder JFK and RFK and force Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile into the waters of Chappaquiddick.

Those are your beliefs, not mine.

That's exactly what your cherished ["old jewess"] source says,

Shes not my "cherished source". The source cited is the Warren Report.

and that's precisely what this thread was about to begin with:
The True Politics of the Paranoid Style -- American liberals took leave of reason after JFK's murder.

And you're attempting to tar me as a liberal by having an irrational hissy fit about how Richard Nixon sided with Nazi war criminals to murder JFK and RFK and force Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile into the waters of Chappaquiddick

I rest my case against you, Kiddo.