JFK Just Like Clinton

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[Sean]

Kennedy had affairs. I'm shocked at this topical, heretofore unknown, news story.

 

[CHNOPS]

Kennedy had affairs. I'm shocked at this topical, heretofore unknown, news story.

I've heard some talk that he might not have died of natural causes, either.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

More like prior to Nixon our Press had a tacit agreement with the government that they weren't here just to make them look bad and that some shit should stay in house. It was a more honorable time but not as honest. Which is better is debatable but this wasn't a conspiracy.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

You didn't live through it, I did. When the press agreed to protect his immoral behavior from the wrath of the people, it was a conspiracy. That's not to say you can't bring the Easter Bunny into it and come up with a more comfortable explanation.

Okay. It was a conspiracy my point was more that it wasn't liberal media protecting their boy. As we find out increasingly as we do research on the presidents from back in the day a lot of them had flaws. It's a recent development that the president was fair game for tearing down.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

You didn't live through it, I did. When the press agreed to protect his immoral behavior from the wrath of the people, it was a conspiracy. That's not to say you can't bring the Easter Bunny into it and come up with a more comfortable explanation.

So let me see if I have this straight: When we criticize you and your sleazoid Marine buddies of bartering cans of corn for sex with destitute Asian women, we're unfairly applying today's moral standards against the existing standards of the early 1960s.

However, when it's convenient for you to make a point against a political opponent, you're justified in applying today's moral standards against the existing standards of the early 1960s.

And why is okay for you to grant yourself an exception here?

Because....(say it loud and proud, class!) ...that...That...THAT'S DIFFERENT!

 

[Sean]

It started when Reagan got elected and the Democrats lost Congress. If it wasn't for the Internet we wouldn't have heard about Clinton's foibles either.

Yeah, no-one would have ever heard of Ken Starr or Monica Lewinsky if it wasn't for the internet. Do you actually believe the utter shit that you post?

 

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[Sean]

It would have never gotten to that stage, ya big dummy.

Riiiight. Tell me, are special prosecutors often appointed to investigate internet rumours?

 

[JohnnySavage]

The press has been brutal on Presidents since the very first one. If anything the press gives them more deference than they did 200 years ago.

 

[Sean]

The press has been brutal on Presidents since the very first one. If anything the press gives them more deference than they did 200 years ago.

It's a running joke among British political journalists about how deferential your press are compared to ours.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The internet wasn't really that big when the Lewinsky thing happened anyway. That was just barely after AOL went free. That story would have broken with or without the net.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

YEah and relatively few people had it. It's like claiming that cell phones existed in the 80's. Sure it's true they did but they didn't hit saturation until the early 2000s.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

You didn't live through it, I did. When the press agreed to protect his immoral behavior from the wrath of the people, it was a conspiracy. That's not to say you can't bring the Easter Bunny into it and come up with a more comfortable explanation.

It wasn't just the immorality of his behavior, but the dangerous nature of it. Sharing a girlfriend with Sam Giancana fer chrissakes? Also, Kennedy kept his serious health problems from the public. Doesn't the public have the right to know whether or not they're electing someone to office with Addison's disease?

 

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[Daehreppoc]

If this woman cannot produce the President's DNA, she is just another dowager with a yarn to sell...

Sucks to be elderly and broke, I guess.

 

[KRCummings]

Did she keep the dress?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Obviously, this book imperils our national security. House Republicans are working tirelessly as we speak to retroactively impeach JFK for crimes agains semenity...err, humanity.

 

[KRCummings]

Shouldn't it be Clinton just like JFK?

 

[Peregrinator]

It started when Reagan got elected and the Democrats lost Congress. If it wasn't for the Internet we wouldn't have heard about Clinton's foibles either.

Ah, yes, Watergate was after Reagan. And the "Teflon Don" was something that...just never happened. Importing cocaine was a story that the MSM reprted faithfully and indepth right from the start.