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Crazy Left-Wingnut conspiracies: In 2003 I told union peers Iraq had no WMDS and would not greet our invasion with candies and flowers. They laughed at me. Today these clowns say I made a lucky guess.
Camelot Dies With Ted
Below are Kennedy Bros links and rants from Puzzling Evidence - my pop culture ebook on this site:Election of JFK
Kennedy Camelot
1962: The Kennedys symbolized what young Americans wanted to be and where they wanted to go…a young, strong, optimistic couple, looking forward to the future with great hope…rather than clinging desperately to a stagnant past. Eisenhower reminded Americans of a slow, tedious round of golf…the Kennedys, a vigorous game of touch football on the lawn. In superficial media reflections like new soap opera and TV toons Ike was “The Edge of Darkness” (1954) and the “Flintstones”… Jack was “The Clear Light” and “The Jetsons” (both 1962)
Assassination of JFK
How did we miss the obvious media reflections and not recognize the detour sign in the road dead ahead? Network schedulers brazenly predicted catastrophe: “Breaking Point” followed “The Outer Limits”. New soap opera titles, optimistic since JFK took office, suddenly hinted where fate would soon take us: to “General Hospital”, with “The Doctors”. Even the pop charts supplied us with easy clues as of the impending pain. (“Don’t you know it’s”) “The End of the World” (“? It ended when I lost you.”) topped the charts for seven straight weeks in 1963 and “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” climbed to #7.
NOTE: America’s Baby Boom (4 million births per year instead of our norm of 2) began in 1946 (exactly 9 months after our brave soldiers returned from WWII), lasted 18 years and ended exactly 9 months after JFK’s assassination! Look it up.
Kennedy 24/7- NO COMMERCIALS!
For the first and only time in its glorious career, America’s greatest salesman (TV) hadn’t made a single pitch for nearly four straight days. Finally on Monday night, a few stations returned to their regularly scheduled programs. It seemed like an eternity since escapism had been offered and America jumped at the opportunity. The intro of the first program on ABC (“Outer Limits”) assured us that “There is nothing wrong with your TV set. We are controlling transmission… we will control all that you see, and hear (and think)…”
Assassination of Bobby
Teddy and Chappaquiddick
1969: True believers took to the road on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Woodstock to listen to the gospel of the high priests of Rock&Roll. From the heavens there came a sign: Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon and declared, “One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”. America time-warped back to Camelot and Kennedy’s dream was resurrected. Jack had predicted that a miracle would happen far off in the New Frontier before the end of the Sixties…and here the heavenly event appeared as promised, long after the departure of our cosmic seer. For a brief moment every American shed all problems as we took a pleasant stroll with our astronauts along the shore of the Sea of Tranquility. Our only regret was that JFK could not join us here to see his dream come true.
How ironic that only the day before (July 19), little brother, Senator Edward Kennedy stumbled along the shore near Chappaquiddick Bridge, searching for his clan’s last hope of reentering the White House… now dead beneath the water’s surface.
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Published by Nick at 11:04 AM on July 12, 2002