Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
So tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. Well, not to speak ill of the dead, but I will tell you plainly that I have no particular sympathy for the hoopla that has been building up to it over the past week or two among teh Elites.
Of course it was an awful tragedy. Of course it was an act of pure evil. Of course it knocked the Nation for six. But all this “The Event That Changed The Course Of History For Evah” stuff? Well, in my humble opinion that’s just Boomer jacking o-……um, hrrmph, well, never mind (you know what I mean), and I am of neither the age nor the temperament to feel any inclination to participate. Next April marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln, an event which arguably had a greater influence on the course of American history by several orders of magnitude. Let’s see how high the fires of homage are piled by this lot then. My guess? Not so much.
Oh, and the rhetoric being bandied about (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) concerning what a hide-bound, reactionary nest of hate-filled conservative whacko-birds Dallas was at the time? Let’s remember the simple truth of the matter: Oswald, in addition to being a crackpot, was a Communist. A Fellow Traveler with his visa stamps all up to date. A goddam Red. Nuff said.
Oh, and as for the whole “Camelot” thing? I still recall the day I suddenly realized that the imagery had nothing to do with Sir Thomas Malory or Geoffrey of Monmouth, but instead with Lerner and Loewe. At first I was dumbfounded. It had always been bad enough to me to believe that the Arthurian Legend, which I cherish even more now than I did back then, had been so outrageously hijacked by the Kennedy PR machine. But that they were in fact bent on co-opting a modern musickal? Well, that actually began to make sense, albeit in a sad way. Tinsel Age play-acting frippery and all that.
Sorry, but the older I get and the more I see, the greater my loathing for politicks. And tomorrow is all about teh politicks.
UPDATE: Via teh Puppy Blender, Ann Althouse offers some tips about commemorating teh day, most of which take on the form of shut up, already….
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November 21, 2013 at 11:38 pm
Captainned
At least in “real” Camelot Arthur wasn’t the horn-dog.
The Left’s angst over the JFK hit is their now half-century unwillingness to grok that a Leftist did it. I was in utero at the time, so I know I’m off the hook.
November 22, 2013 at 4:47 am
Vicki
When what we should remember is that it’s also the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Jelly baby, anyone?
November 22, 2013 at 6:11 am
IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
The Kennedy Myth Making Machine will continue, as will the Plethora of Lies coming out of Washington DC.
November 22, 2013 at 9:01 am
the gripping hand
Perhaps Kennedy regenerated at the first Doctor!
November 22, 2013 at 9:02 am
the gripping hand
*as* the first Doctor, dammit. I blame the Daleks…
November 22, 2013 at 9:17 am
rbj1
Right there with you. And given how the Kennedys used the fairer half, this is just part of the Democrats’ War on Women.
Although I do appreciate JFK’s standing up to communism, which is unsurprisingly ignored these days.
November 22, 2013 at 9:15 pm
Robbo
Yeah, he stood up to Communism, but I saw a fantastic “tweet” from somebody this morning that went something like: Message to Doves – JFK was a Hawk. Message to Hawks- He was an inept one.