14-11-2015, 05:40 PM
Don Jeffries Wrote:As usual, we see how differently almost all huge political figures are treated compared to the Kennedys. LBJ is probably the one President about whom it is impossible to find a positive anecdote. Everyone who knew him, who has chosen to comment, has mentioned his cruelty, his crudeness, his insensitivity towards others. He clearly was a rotten human being.
The fact that another well-known "leftist" like Rob Reiner has chosen to portray this horrific man in a favorable light illustrates again just how phony this "left" and "right" paradigm of ours is. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Reiner thinks Oswald killed JFK and that he wasn't nearly as good a President as LBJ. How are the Kennedys portrayed in this film?
The old adage about putting lipstick on a pig should apply here.
Hear!, hear!, Mr. Jeffries
He bulldozed, blackmailed, bullied himself onto the 1960 Democratic presidential ticket, and was merely days away from being under intense public scrutiny for his role in at least a handful of shameful scandals unbecoming of a sitting Vice-President. But go ahead, Mr. Reiner, crown him the greatest thing since honey. What next?, a Reiner production entitled "Benedict Arnold, His Bright Side"...