The Looney Left Report: Right Wing Hatred Killed JFK?

The Looney Left Report: Right Wing Hatred Killed JFK?

The nutjob left wing website Media Matters has posted this little goodie:

A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this

September 18, 2009 9:10 am ET by Eric Boehlert

That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.

I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer.

The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile object of disgust--into a crusade. It's a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.

But I've been thinking about Dallas in 1963 because I've been recalling the history and how that city stood as an outpost for the radical right, which never tried to hide its contempt for the New England Democrat.

Now, in this this month's Vanity Fair, Sam Kashner offers up in rich detail the hatred that ran wild in Dallas in 1963. To me, the similarity between Dallas in 1963 and today's unhinged Obama hate is downright chilling.

The only hate of late (hey, that rhymes!) has been the injection of race by the left into the debate over Obamacare.

Someone should remind Mr. Boehlert that JFK received a warm welcome in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 and that he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, who, it just so happened, to be a self-described Marxist and communist sympathizer who renounced his US citizenship to live in the Soviet Union. Oswald had more in common with the radical left that's currently running the country than with any right wing groups.

The last paragraph above also interests me. Could this Sam Kashner be the same Sam Kashner who co-wrote Hollywood Kryptonite (about the death of television's Superman, George Reeves)? The book was so bad that former Jimmy Olsen Jack Larson called it "Hollywood Kraptonite." If it is, I wouldn't put any stock on what Kashner has to say.

Nutjobs of a feather flock together!

To read the full article, go here.

UPDATE (9/21/09): Yes, it is the same Sam Kashner who co-wrote Hollywood Kryptonite. He has been a contributing writer for Vanity Fair since 2007.