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05/12/2003 Archived Entry: "Retroactive Icon Destruction"
Retroactive Icon Destruction
So, now Robert Dallek is revealing in a new book that JFK had a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old intern during his time in the White House.
As our old friend the Church Lady would say - 'How conveeeeeeeeeeenient.'
Does it seem that there's a concerted effort afoot to discredit all Democratic icons who have ever existed? What, exactly, is the point of revealing this information about JFK now?
And it's also mighty handy that most of the Kennedy family is not around to refute these charges. I can't wait to hear what Teddy has to say on this. Dallek should be ashamed of himself - it's clearly an effort to 'Clinton-ize' one of the Democratic party's most revered leaders, even as they use JFK's tax cuts as an excuse for Commander Joystick's giveaway to the rich. These fuckers are shameless.
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Next think you know, they'll throw St. Reagan's face onto the nickel, and the unelected fraud on the dime.
Posted by Dave Jansing @ 05/12/2003 11:52 PM NY
Dunno about the nickel, but they've definitely gotta get FDR's face off the dime. He was the closest thing they had to Satan's-Right-Hand-Man-on-Earth until the Big Dog took office. They firmly believe that if That Man (as they called FDR when they absolutely had to speak of him) hadn't died when he did, the hammer and sickle would have been flying over the White House by the end of his fourth term, just like they spent the entire Clinton administration convinced that the black helicopters would be landing any day to cart gun owners, Christians, heterosexuals, white males, and other enemies of the New World Order off to the Alaska gulag.
Posted by Tuxedo Slack @ 05/13/2003 12:02 PM NY
If Dallek was sitting on this information and there's proof that it's true, then isn't it a researcher's/journalist's/historian's obligation to disclose what he knows about the president's life? Frankly, whether or not Kennedy got with a 19 year-old intern makes little difference to his performance as president; I don't think this is as bad as you say it is...
Posted by Kal @ 05/13/2003 02:27 PM NY
