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What Killed JFK (barf alert: "right wing" hatred threatens Obama..just as it "ended" JFK's life)
New York Magazine ^ | November 20, 2011 | Frank Rich

Posted on 11/21/2011 8:38:16 AM PST by Seizethecarp

Immediately after the assassination and ever since, the right has tried to deflect any connection between its fevered Kennedy hatred and Oswald’s addled psyche with the fact that the assassin had briefly defected to the Soviet Union.

America’s violent culture wars had started before JFK was shot. They were all on display in Oswald’s Dallas. At least in 1963, polling showed that only 5 percent of the country—a fringe—subscribed to the radical anti-government views championed by the John Birch Society and other militants of the right. These days, that fringe, whether in the form of birthers or the tea party or the hosts of Fox & Friends, gives marching orders to a major political party.

…read Manchester or 11/22/63 or any other account of that time, and the vitriol that was aimed at Kennedy in life seems as immediate as today. It’s as startling as that “You lie!” piercing the solemnity of a presidential address like a gunshot—or the actual gunshots fired at the White House last week by another wretched waif. In the end, that political backdrop is what our 44th and 35th presidents may have most in common. The tragedy of the Kennedy cult is that even as it fades, the hothouse brand of American malice that stalked its hero stalks our country still.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aqueersfairytail; conspiracytheory; dallas; jfkassassination; jfkhit; kennedy; obama; oswald; queersfairytail
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To: Seizethecarp

How does the author reconcile Oswald’s attempt on MG Edwin Walker?!?!?


21 posted on 11/21/2011 8:45:53 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Seizethecarp

Looks like they might be setting up a “See, what did I tell you moment”. I wouldn’t put it past them.


22 posted on 11/21/2011 8:47:21 AM PST by Oatka (This is the USA, assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Seizethecarp

D*mn, all this time I thought that slimy communists were “left wing”.

Silly me.

I’m sooooo glad I’ve got the NYT intellectuals to set me straight.

/s


23 posted on 11/21/2011 8:47:29 AM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: Seizethecarp

I call that an abuse of the power of suggestion.


24 posted on 11/21/2011 8:47:34 AM PST by equaviator ( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Seizethecarp

Frank’s just got his panties in a wad because it looks like his messiah is toast.


25 posted on 11/21/2011 8:47:54 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Seizethecarp
HELLO- OSWALD WAS A RABID LEFT-WING COMMUNIST, THAT MEANS OWS NOT TEA PARTY......
26 posted on 11/21/2011 8:49:33 AM PST by stockpirate (Real hero's don't wear capes, they wear dog tags.)
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Chris Matthews is attempting to pawn his screed about JFK. Larry Elder on his radio show, kicked Chris Matthews @$$ for the omissions that Matthews left out of his new JFK book.
27 posted on 11/21/2011 8:49:33 AM PST by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: Seizethecarp
What Killed JFK

Colonel Mustard, with a lead pipe

28 posted on 11/21/2011 8:49:51 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Seizethecarp

I was watching a documentary on the Kennedy assassination last night. It was a series of “as it happened” news clips from the time of the assassination to the presidents funeral. I was struck by how the television continually made reference to Oswald as a “Marxist”, an “avowed communist”, a “communist sympathizer”, as well as his connections to his Fair Play for Cuba Committee and his time in the Soviet Union. I was struck by it because that part of Oswald seems to be cleansed from the narrative when discussed these days.


29 posted on 11/21/2011 8:49:52 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Seizethecarp

This magazine should go out of business.


30 posted on 11/21/2011 8:51:57 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Seizethecarp

Not just Oswald, but most of the whackjob assassins of the past century or so have been leftists, communists, progressives, anarchists, etc. Definitely not right wing conservatives.


31 posted on 11/21/2011 8:52:02 AM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: Seizethecarp

JFK? I think of RFK and the first moslem terrorist attack and his murder. While JFK’s assinsation was a sick crime the killing of his brother should have been a much bigger warning. One that told us NEVER do business in the middle east. Sirhan Sirhan’s was a much bigger warning than Oswald’s.


32 posted on 11/21/2011 8:52:09 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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To: Seizethecarp

The real rub for Rich is that it’s Foxnews leading the country! Communist zealots, like Rich, will continue their mind numbing rhetoric until something bad happens!


33 posted on 11/21/2011 8:52:13 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Seizethecarp

I guess Frank “Total Moron” Rich missed the fact that it was a Progressive/Marxist that shot Kennedy


34 posted on 11/21/2011 8:53:21 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Seizethecarp
anti-government views championed by the John Birch Society and other militants of the right

Most conservatives are really anti-waste, not anti-government. We're against the senseless destruction of wealth taken from those that created it. Fat government just happens to be the biggest destroyer of that wealth.

35 posted on 11/21/2011 8:53:57 AM PST by Reeses (Have you mocked a Democrat today?)
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To: Seizethecarp
'I Hear Stories That You Would Not Believe'
36 posted on 11/21/2011 8:54:08 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (For years the Left protested "the occupation of Iraq"- now they want to "Occupy" all across the US)
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To: Seizethecarp

Oswald handing out “Fair Play For Cuba” flyers...yeah, dead giveaway. He was a Goldwater boy!


37 posted on 11/21/2011 8:54:21 AM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: JRios1968

I was going to type something about the removal of the top half of his head, but I thought that might be insensitive.


38 posted on 11/21/2011 8:54:58 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Are they insane? He was a wild eyed communist.


39 posted on 11/21/2011 8:55:52 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Seizethecarp
What killed Kennedy was his shooting his mouth off about shutting down the Federal Reserve. He was seen as a loose cannon and had to be disposed of by the Progressives.

"We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation."

Ronald Reagan October 27, 1964

40 posted on 11/21/2011 8:56:17 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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