A very bad for television show concluded last night ---- the surely high rated The Kennedys: After Camelot.
[ I've watched it and this is a review of sorts ]
No one can think that JFK or the Kennedy administration was composed even of decent men let alone heroes.
Beginning at the top these people were bums of the highest ( or lowest ) order.
There is a "halo" which protects each assassinated US president.
Many years ago famed British journalist and historian Alistair Cooke made that observation.
Cooke didn't live long enough to watch the 2 part bubblegum chewing TV travesty which concluded last night.
The worst thing about shows so nonsensical is that they repeatedly peddle the nonsense that somehow Kennedys ( in the JFK age )stood for something good and noble.
JFK stood for nothing.
Idiocy knows no political affiliation and doesn't spare those populations which think they cling to a proper ideology and are "pure" in some way.
Idiocy is no more obvious than in any American who believes that John Kennedy even was a passable human being, let alone a good and decent president.
He was a bum. And, granted the power of the presidency, he was a mass murdering thug.
He ordered multiple murders of foreign heads of state...the list of his inadequacies and obvious moral shortcomings is much longer than I care to detail here.
Actually, the details long have been available to anyone who wants to do anything actually so easy as simply to read the details in long available sources .... how about starting with The Pentagon Papers and anything related to Cuba?
For that matter, anything dealing with his years in power detailed in the family jewels revelations by CIA?
Or look at the fact that he did absolutely nothing to advance Civil Rights...though of course he did find much time to actively hinder it?
This is a guy who, early in his marriage was informed his wife had miscarried and was sure to die...and who didn't leave the Mediterranean yacht on which he was ensconced with multiple whores until his father sent big, armed men to force him stateside.
Which good man won't return to the deathbed of a wife?
Even unlearned ( meaning, resolutely ignorant ) libertarians can be found who insist that somehow JFK planned to deal some kind of death blow to the Federal Reserve.
They are ignorant to the point of being offensive and should be ignored at every opportunity...actively.
The Kennedy family were a part of and represented the elite in American and world politics and the last people JFK ever would have considered disrupting were those members of that selective club of which he and his father were members.
The Kennedy's never would have disrupted the FED for they WERE the FED.
Anyway, the show does have the bright aspect that Katie Holmes plays Jackie, and Katie is always good to look at... far better to look at in my humble opinion than was Jackie.
It's not that Jackie wasn't pretty in her own right. It's just that Jackie married a murdering thug and Katie never did that.
[ I've watched it and this is a review of sorts ]
No one can think that JFK or the Kennedy administration was composed even of decent men let alone heroes.
Beginning at the top these people were bums of the highest ( or lowest ) order.
There is a "halo" which protects each assassinated US president.
Many years ago famed British journalist and historian Alistair Cooke made that observation.
Cooke didn't live long enough to watch the 2 part bubblegum chewing TV travesty which concluded last night.
The worst thing about shows so nonsensical is that they repeatedly peddle the nonsense that somehow Kennedys ( in the JFK age )stood for something good and noble.
JFK stood for nothing.
Idiocy knows no political affiliation and doesn't spare those populations which think they cling to a proper ideology and are "pure" in some way.
Idiocy is no more obvious than in any American who believes that John Kennedy even was a passable human being, let alone a good and decent president.
He was a bum. And, granted the power of the presidency, he was a mass murdering thug.
He ordered multiple murders of foreign heads of state...the list of his inadequacies and obvious moral shortcomings is much longer than I care to detail here.
Actually, the details long have been available to anyone who wants to do anything actually so easy as simply to read the details in long available sources .... how about starting with The Pentagon Papers and anything related to Cuba?
For that matter, anything dealing with his years in power detailed in the family jewels revelations by CIA?
Or look at the fact that he did absolutely nothing to advance Civil Rights...though of course he did find much time to actively hinder it?
This is a guy who, early in his marriage was informed his wife had miscarried and was sure to die...and who didn't leave the Mediterranean yacht on which he was ensconced with multiple whores until his father sent big, armed men to force him stateside.
Which good man won't return to the deathbed of a wife?
Even unlearned ( meaning, resolutely ignorant ) libertarians can be found who insist that somehow JFK planned to deal some kind of death blow to the Federal Reserve.
They are ignorant to the point of being offensive and should be ignored at every opportunity...actively.
The Kennedy family were a part of and represented the elite in American and world politics and the last people JFK ever would have considered disrupting were those members of that selective club of which he and his father were members.
The Kennedy's never would have disrupted the FED for they WERE the FED.
Anyway, the show does have the bright aspect that Katie Holmes plays Jackie, and Katie is always good to look at... far better to look at in my humble opinion than was Jackie.
It's not that Jackie wasn't pretty in her own right. It's just that Jackie married a murdering thug and Katie never did that.