The 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination will be coming up on Friday, and I have a post in the pipeline for that day, but I had to comment on this piece by James McAuley in The New York Times:
To which, of course, there is nothing to say.
Go here to read the rest. McAuley apparently has “issues” with his heritage since his paternal grandparents were involved in conservative causes in Dallas. Poor dear! I am sure that caused him some social ostracism as a student at Harvard and Oxford! He can work that out with a shrink. My amusement with his piece is the continuing inability of the left to accept that their hero JFK, a centrist Democrat, was gunned down by a deranged Marxist, Lee Harvey Oswald, and not by some sinister right wing cabal. According to McAuley I guess conservatives in Dallas were responsible for setting a tone that led Oswald to slay Kennedy. By that logic I guess abolitionists were responsible for setting a tone that caused John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln. I expected a fair amount of absurdity from the main stream media over the Kennedy assassination anniversary and this idiotic piece by McAuley is no doubt merely an opening salvo.
The left sees truth as malleable. I was studying philosophy at the University of Oregon when they shifted away from analytic philosophy to “deconstructionism”. They really do posit that things like logic are a means to oppress women and minorities, and if it doesn’t serve the politically correct purpose, it is not true. Something is true, no matter the variance with the facts, if it serves the correct purpose. It is an extension of Nietzsche’s ideas.
What is the function of intellectuals, but to tell us that things are not as ordinary people perceive them. You think the President was shot by an unsettled and intermittently employed man of 24 sporting a dishonorable discharge from the military, a wife and children who had been taken in by a local Quaker family because he could not provide for them, and a bad case of delusions of grandeur? Well that’s much too simple a view…
The scandal here is that this mess was approved for publication by a presumably middle-aged editor. The New York Times – where the callow never ends.
men like my grandfather, oil men and corporate executives, self-made but self-segregated in a white-collar enclave in a decidedly blue-collar state —
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Evidently, he described himself two years ago as an ‘aspiring journalist’. I seem to recall Tom Wolfe offered that the press corps is made up of people who got knocked around on the playground and want revenge. In this case, men of accomplishment from the Dallas business community are regarded as if they were specimens in an ant farm by a young man self-segregated at Harvard and Oxford.
Today’s Parade magazine (the Sunday supplement) recommends, as one of their “three favorite JFK reads,” something called Dallas 1963, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, “a riveting portrait of a city roiled by paranoia and hate.” There must be some point where clueless stupidity spills over into,stupid malice.
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I hate this “blame Dallas” crap so much. As someone who grew up in the Dallas area, I’ve lived my whole life listening to Northeastern and Midwestern liberals blame my city and alleged “right-wing radicalism” for the death of a president at the hands of an avowed Communist.
I still remember when the Dallas Cowboys met the Buffalo Bills for the first time in the Super Bowl – a whole 30 years after the assassination, and George Plimpton said in an interview that he was picking the Bills to win because he still hadn’t “forgiven” Dallas for the Kennedy Assassination.
Either poor William McKinley just happened to be in the wrong party, or Plimpton had somehow found it within him to be able to “forgive” Buffalo for McKinley’s assassination.
I will never forgive Chicago for vote fraud/electing JFK.
They have suffered enough. I would not wrap in the NYT a dead, reeking codfish.
Much has been made of the “Wanted for Treason” fliers distributed in Dallas before JFK’s arrival. They were the work of retired Army Gen. Edwin Walker and there is evidence that Oswald tried to kill him months before the Kennedy assassination. See: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/11/15/jfk_assassination_flyer_distributed_in_dallas_by_edwin_walker_s_group_before.html
In other words, Oswald was a nut determined to kill somebody.
Because Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist who hated America and idolized Castro . . .sorta sounds like Obama, NY Mayor-elect DiBlasio and millions of their blood-sucking worshipers.
Instapundit: “And the cognitive dissonance that created has made the left crazy for the past fifty years.”