18-07-2015, 02:01 PM
It's irritating how casually elite opinion makers re-write history. The other day on Lawrence O'Donnell ("liberal" MSNBC), they were talking about Obama and the Iran nuke deal. One guest - didn't catch his name - talked about how easy it was for JFK to get the Test Ban Treaty through the Senate because there was a "national consensus", 80 Senators voted for it, everyone agreed with it. What bullshit! No mention of the hostility toward it from many powerful quarters, the national campaign Kennedy had to wage to turn opinion around.
It's like Chris Matthews saying to Cynthia Tucker that he didn't think the CIA was trying to kill Castro, just make his beard fall out. Never mind the Congressional investigations of the 70s. They never happened.
It's like Chris Matthews saying to Cynthia Tucker that he didn't think the CIA was trying to kill Castro, just make his beard fall out. Never mind the Congressional investigations of the 70s. They never happened.