Bill Hicks on JFK assassination

[Myra Bronstein]

One of the gems from Hicks, appropriate here:

“I have this feeling man, ’cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a f**king conspiracy nut, it’s provable. A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media. I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-f**ks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.” And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it’s from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, “Any questions?” “Er, just what my agenda is.” “First we bomb Baghdad.” “You got it…” ”

Yep. That's a gem alright.

Then there's this one, that's been very popular of late, on the subject of Jay "Company Man" Leno:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUlvlHF9Ys

Bill Hicks himself was a gem.

Welcome to DPF Geoff.

(Team Conan!!!)

[Myra Bronstein]

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I have extensively researched pancreatic cancer due to fact my mother died of it and I was primary researcher and care-giver. It is very deadly, but also VERY rare in people under 60-65!....not unknown, but VERY rare indeed. Of the types of inducable cancers I've heard of that is not one...but that means nothing, given my security clearances......I can name a few other political comedians who died before the median age...

I've been reading about it recently Peter, and smoking is supposed to be the top risk factor. Bill Hicks smoked like a chimney. It's hard to even find a photo of him without a cigarette.

[Phil Dragoo]

There was a link to Bill Hicks on jfklancer a couple of months ago, and he knocked me out. Absolutely knocked me out of my chair laughing, and crying.

Geoff, regarding the new presidents being shown the Zapruder film from a new angle, that is exactly what Jim Villanucci the afternoon host of the top Albuquerque AM station said circa 2004.

Jim Douglass in JFK and the Unspeakable notes Allen Dulles later commented, "That little Kennedy--he thought he was some kind of god."

The implicit subtext is, "In future we shall show them at the first who is running the show."

[Geoff Heinricks]

Phil, I would imagine Jim Villanucci was very aware of Hicks's little metaphor.

It has a shorthand now in conversation for when reality dawns on someone: it's called their 'Bill Hicks Moment'.