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The Spectacle Blog
“Neither Beck, Hannity nor Savage nor the hate
merchants at Fox News and talk radio can
claim to have invented their genre.”
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
On a hot June day in 1968, I stood in line for six hours to walk into St. Patrick’s Cathedral and touch the flag covering the casket of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. I was 17 years old and heartbroken. RFK was my political hero.
But I began to learn something that day. Actually, it was a continuation of a lesson that had already begun to trouble me as I learned more and more about American history –- and began to examine the words and actions of the American left that at that point in my life I thought I wanted to join.
It is a lesson that comes to mind yet again all these years later as I read a disgraceful post at Huffington today by, of all people, Robert Kennedy’s namesake son.
It’s one thing to stake out a position. It’s another to deliberately ignore historical fact, to make wild, mean-spirited, nutty and truly disturbing accusations about Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Fox News. In the latter case, one well recalls that Kennedy’s viewpoint on the environment was given a full and unchallenged airing on Fox News, with an hour-long documentary showcasing his view of the issue. This is hardly the behavior of a network devoted to what Kennedy calls “right-wing hatred and violence.”
What really disturbs this no-longer 17 year old Bobby Kennedy fan is his son’s dabbling with left-wing hatred — from his presence on the hate-fest that was Air America radio (which has thankfully gone under, unable to find a large audience for left-wing radio hate) to the nutty conspiracy theories about the 2004 election to his hate filled rhetoric about corporations.
This latest outburst isn’t just pathetic. It’s sad. Unworthy of his father.
Someone’s famous son is embarrassing his father’s name.
And he should be ashamed of himself.
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Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.12.11 @ 6:29PM
Thanks MR Lord, I followed your link to the article RFK Jr. wrote, and then spent the next 20 minutes or so, reading the post there, until I couldn't take it anymore (with all the RFK Jr. ass kissing and all).
"I WANT MY 20 MINUTES BACK MR LORD!!"
You know those post were kind of funny, because I always thought a Commie killed JFK in Dallas, but by reading that article & posts, I'm reminded that it was those EVIL clapping little School-Children that did it. Right-wing Evil Clapping School-Children!!
I've got to go take my reality pills right now, I'm not feeling very well, I'm starting to believe in Global Warming again. One Liberal Article forward, two Right-Wing Conspiracies back!!
Alan Brooks| 1.12.11 @ 11:58PM
He writes that Robert Kennedy senior WAS his hero.
But no more.
RFK was too liberal for Lord.
Patriot| 1.12.11 @ 6:50PM
That's another vicious lie from the Left; the school children in Dallas were clapping because they were being let out of school early. Nothing more.
Sick bastards will crawl over anybody, even children, to spread their filthy ideology.
kingsmill| 1.12.11 @ 7:13PM
Beware, another Kennedy nincompoop is being primed in Massachusetts.
http://www.boston.com/news/loc.....niver.html
Intelligent Design| 1.12.11 @ 8:06PM
I think Robert Kennedy (Sr.) was a pretty good man. He had a poetic side, and really cared about people less fortunate. When tending bar as a college student in NYC, I had the pleasure of serving him a drink: double Johnny Walker Black on the rocks. While on the ground in Vietnam, I read about his assassination in Stars & Stripes, and it struck me the whole world was going crazy. He wrote a very good book titled "The Enemy Within" which was about the Mafia and corruption in the teamsters union. The political spectrum has swung so far to the left, that I think RFK and JFK would be Republicans today. Wow, would that upset Junior!
Liberal Reader| 1.12.11 @ 10:22PM
That's a great story.
Both Kennedy brothers would be very difficult to locate in today's political parties. It's possible they'd be Republicans, but they may retain the memory of the Republican party's anti-Catholicism. (There's a reason why the first Catholic president was a Democrat.) Both brothers represent a kind of Democratic politics that is submerged in today's party and generally drowned out by the partisanship -- in my opinion.
j| 1.12.11 @ 10:44PM
If there is a medical reason for it that I'm not aware of, beg pardon. But....
Doesn't Robert Kennedy Jr. look and sound an awful lot like Katherine Hepburn nowadays.
Mel Torme| 1.12.11 @ 11:21PM
"Doesn't Robert Kennedy Jr. look and sound an awful lot like Katherine Hepburn nowadays."
No, Robert Kennedy *Senior* sounds a lot like Katherine Hepburn nowadays - they are both dead, and therefore I don't hear a peep out of either of em, so they sound the same.
Junior's still talking unfortunately.
(am I missing something here ;-)
Occam's Tool| 1.13.11 @ 2:12AM
Uh, Mel---isn't Mel Torme dead these days? (d.1999)
As he was immortalized in one of my favorite movies of all time, "Girls' School," starring Mamie Van Buren and her breasts (featured on the greatest Minnesota TV show of all time--- MST3K), a moment of silence for the great "Velvet Fog."
Occam's Tool| 1.13.11 @ 2:27AM
My wife, as usual, corrects me---it was Girls' Town---which also starred Dick Contino and his accordion fueled biceps. Truly classic cinema, which I am now going to watch. Thank you, Mr. Torme.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 3:31AM
Quick, Occam--what is the color of Mamie's eyes?
Please don't pretend you know because you dang sure weren't looking at them. You crack me up.
Mel Torme| 1.13.11 @ 10:22AM
Yes, the Velvet Fog has passed on - that explains the incoherency in some of my posts. Now, go to sleep, the both of you!*
Unless you're overseas.
j| 1.14.11 @ 10:31PM
Yeah. You are missing something.
Listen to the tone and warbling of RFK,JR.'s voice. He is either ill or he has evolved into the spitting ...er....soundsalotlikeage of the LATE
Miss Hepburn, before she left us to join RFK,SR.
Tish | 1.12.11 @ 11:43PM
Those on the left feel no shame. If they were capable of feeling shame, they probably wouldn't be Leftists.
John Hoving| 1.13.11 @ 12:39PM
Not 24 hours have passed since a call to civility from both sides, who we all know are equally at fault and one finds this derogatory piece of blogcrap while strolling around the web.
Seems there is little to nothing one can do to encourage a civil discourse in this country without the predictable idiotic comments that people make thus continuing the the lowest levels of articulation I have ever seen in my life. This post just follows the continued call to unrest, to untruth, to reckless foolhardy bad behavior, to the continued manufacturing of lies and propaganda to incite the population into believing things that are simply not true.
Were all really sick of you, and sick of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and her idiotic reckless quoting out of context, of the Westboro Babptist Church, of Rush Limbaugh and yes the evil of all evils, Fox News and its owner Rupert Murdoch.
The entire country is really sick and tired of all of it, so why not consider toning down your moronic rhetoric and giving us all break for awhile.
Please just go find a large rock and dig yourself under it, because the tide has turned and were just not going to take anymore of your bullsh*t!
cardoc| 1.13.11 @ 4:27PM
Wow, a sane comment on this pile of you know what.
Thank you, I couldn't have said it better.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 11:34PM
I thought I smelled something fetid! What foul tide swept you human excrement our way? Please return to the rotting cesspool where you live.
Hey, Hoving--regarding the 2010 elections--WE WON! Chew on those facts for awhile. America rejects you and your fellow Leftist filth, and we're just getting started. See you in 2012, loser.
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 11:38PM
Idiot. The Westboro freaks are registered DEMONCRAPS like you. It's so easy to destroy your stupid lies.
BW| 1.13.11 @ 9:53PM
"It's one thing to stake out a position. It's another to deliberately ignore historical fact, to make wild, mean-spirited, nutty and truly disturbing accusations about Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Fox News." -- J. Lord
>>> Oh please, like those three whores don't do exactly that on a regular basis. Whaaaa!
Patriot| 1.13.11 @ 11:36PM
You Leftists know a lot about whores.
BW| 1.14.11 @ 2:50PM
Yes sir, from watching the handmaidens of the money'd interests, otherwise known as the professional right, ruin this country for 99% of the people.
Nobama| 1.15.11 @ 3:46PM
There's plenty of big money on the Left, you just won't admit it. The Kennedy family is hugely wealthy--you're a joke.