Posted on 04/12/2020 10:28:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
There's too much chatter about movies that are "so bad, they're good." These admittedly amusing musings distract from a truly insidious phenomenon:
Movies "so good, they're bad."
No such creature as "just a movie" exists. We may (believe ourselves to) be capable of separating fact from fiction, but millions of people never will.
Take the "Hitler's Pope" canard. It was popularized by, of all things, a Soviet-orchestrated stage play called The Deputy, back in 1963. How many individuals have heard of this play, let alone seen it performed? A few thousand? Yet the Vatican's supposed collusion with the Nazis is widely considered "common knowledge," despite all the well-researched critiques which have not, in like fashion, been rendered down into easily digestible, entertaining, two-hour public performances.
I remain perturbed by Ben Affleck's reduction of Canada's crucial role in the rescue of American hostages in Argo. Brits object, among other things, to the portrayal of their ancestors as war criminals in The Patriot. James Cameron had to apologize for slandering a Titanic officer. Do not get me started on Thirteen Days...
And it gives me no (okay, a little...) pleasure to inform those of you forced to sit through corporate "team building" exercises based on the "square peg in a round hole" scene in Apollo 13 that, in actuality, one man came up with that lifesaving fix; as in most situations here on planet Earth, a team probably would have taken much longer and just screwed things up.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
You don’t need to be an expert with guns to know that a large and messy exit wound is more likely to transfer kinetic energy to the target (and cause it to move in the opposite direction) than a small entry wound. It’s basic physics. The side of JFK’s head blowing off is what moved his head backwards. The conspiratorial assumption that this meant the shot came form the front is erroneous.
Bit harsh that....
LBJ was only an actor like all politicians.
If tomorrow morning I brought you a carcanoand a whole box of magic bullets and the next morning you went out and addressed what many would consider the top 546 problems in this country then what would change the next day?
The names on the desks.
Each politician would be replaced by the same powers that hired the first set of actors with new actors to represent their ideas.
Who hired LBJ for that role?
Exactly so!
No. The evidence collected by the Dallas Police on 11/22/63.
And isn't enough by itself. You need actual evidence.
"One wonders how Oswald got the job..."
That's part of the record, and doesn't argue for a conspiracy.
"...and then the route of the caravan was changed to go right by the building where he worked."
It wasn't changed. That's part of the false mythology.
"One wonders why LBJ at dinner the night before ,to his long time Texas secretary said, that “after tomorrow we won’t have to worry about the Kennedy’s anymore.”
That never happened. It was claimed by a book full of lies.
"One wonders, after Johnny Roselli visited Joe Kennedy to get his sons to lay off the mafia when the mafia had helped him in the WV primary and in the main election in Chicago Kennedy said he would talk to them when they came home for Christmas, but he had a major stroke; would that have changed the course of history? But then again the mafia usually laid off of elected officials in order to not rile up the public."
Not of any significance to the assassination.
There’s nothing that even hints at him being an asset. Even the soviets wanted nothing to with him. They recognized he was unstable.
And don't get me started on the portrayal of Poles in every Holocaust movie.
Or the movie U-571 where the US Navy captures the NAZI cryptography set, when it was the British who actually did it.
I actually operated the old analog style crypto gear in the USAF. That was a different time too.
I TOLD you to stay out of my melon patch!
Just a couple of thoughts on this:
It was never the multiple shooters that made me think it was a conspiracy. It was the fact that after Oswald was taken into custody, he was shot by a guy with mafia connections that owned a strip club, closing the loop.
Just amazing that JFK, RFK, MLK, John Lennon, and Ronald Reagan, were all shot by lone nuts.
Squeaky Fromme tried to shoot Gerald Ford, but her .45 semi-auto jammed. Seventeen days later, a former FBI informant with "mental problems" tried to shoot him. If Ford had been assassinated, the President would have been Nelson Rockefeller.
J. Edgar Hoover always claimed there was no organized crime in America. The JFK movie was made to muddy the water, not clear it up.
Were you in Oswald's pocket or were you just glad to see him there?
Who did that? The Turks? Or???
You don’t think the CIA/FBI uses marginal people? Stable people have too much to lose.
Bump
Yes, even if oswald was the successful lone gunman, that doesn’t disprove a conspiracy. After what the fedgov le/intel edifice has just done to try and get rid of trump, I can’t believe anyone can say they weren’t in on it. The Viietnam war was a cia war.
In my late adolescence I found the book "Something of Value" on my Mothers book shelf. The British used unconscionable acts as PSYOPS against the Mau Mau to crush the spiritualist tribal beliefs.
On a side note, I have no doubt that Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was an active militant in exile from the Mau Mau uprising.
I think he was accidentally shot by a secret service agent from behind. Best explanation why the head went forward.
Steyn didn’t write this piece.
I still believe Oswald acted alone.
If Castro did it, that would have been an act of war. Not even the USSR could have protected him.
If the Mafia did it, the entire Federal law enforcement arm would be down on their necks. Mafiosi were already running scared from RFK’s investigations.
The Soviets regarded JFK as both malleable & useful where he was and expressed deep sorrow at his death. They hated Oswald as an out of control extremist.
So, did LBJ back in 1960, sacrifice his powerful position as Senate majority leader for the powerless post of VP, just so he could hope that “someday that Kennedy boy’s gonna get shot and then I’ll just step right into the Presidency!!”?
Or even more fantastically, LBJ engineers Kennedy’s assassination, with the certainty of never getting caught?
Kinda doubt it. I’m a fan of Occam’s Razor.
I remember Jack Anderson on Art Bell promoting a career biography, which included the JFK assassination circus.
FWIW, Anderson said that the Castro brothers were tired of the Kennedy brothers trying to kill them, so Fidel baited the Mob to do it by “promising” to return seized casinos to Mob-operated status.
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