Though Kennedy Was Killed
In Largely-Conservative Texas
In Largely-Conservative Texas
Greg Campbell, TPNN Political Analyst — Fifty years ago today, November 22nd, 1963, the country was shocked when shots rang out and our president, John F. Kennedy, was murdered. Our president that embodied youthful excitement and fought so vehemently against Communism was murdered, according to the Warren Report, by a Marxist sympathizer who had defected to the Soviet Union and married a Soviet woman.Still, in the earliest moments after the death of President Kennedy, conservatives were demonized. Because the murder had occurred in Dallas, Texas, many in the media and around the country jumped to the conclusion that conservatives must have slain the Democratic president.
Fifty years later, several leftist media outlets continue to lay the blame on conservatives- despite the fact that Kennedy was killed, according to official reports, by a pro-Castro communist.
In the hours after the news of Kennedy’s assassination, NBC News, an outlet that serves as a bastion of liberal bias today, spoke with people on the street, asking about their feelings on the assassination. A man in New York, guarded in his declaration that conservatives were behind the assassination, claimed that “some people” held animosity towards Kennedy and may have been responsible. When asked to clarify who “some people” were, he explained,
“I don’t feel expert enough to express an opinion but the only evidence I have as to who these people are are [sic] these ultra conservative groups who have been distributing literature and spreading hate in Texas and who attacked [UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson] about a week ago.”
Adlai Stevenson, a liberal Democrat, was hit with a sign by a member of a protest in Dallas nearly a month prior to the assassination.
The reporter then offered a pointed question to a woman who offered her opinion. The reporter asked that since the president was murdered in the South, if she felt that Kennedy’s racial policies had anything to do with the murder. She replied,
“That’s the first thing I thought of when I heard about it. Yes- I thought that probably some segregationist crackpot or something just- they had it all planned out. I really believe that his blood will be on their hands forever.”
The rampant speculation in the aftermath of tragedy often serves as a macabre and unhealthy testament to partisan vitriol. Though Kennedy was killed in largely-conservative Texas, the left’s willingness to immediately believe, without evidence of any kind, that the bestial conservatives with their backwards, hate-driven agenda must have made their political voices heard with murder, speaks to the polarization between the right and left that existed then and continues today.
Such rhetoric has no place in a discussion until more is known. This same conversation has happened several times in the wake of tragedy even in recent years. After Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the left immediately presumed it was the work of conservatives. When a madman shot up a movie theater in Colorado- the left, again, claimed it must have been a right-winger because an Aurora man with the same name as the shooter belonged to a local Tea Party group.
Facts seem irrelevant to the leftist who need to highlight right-wing extremism. Just last week, the New York Times mirrored the aforementioned opinions on President Kennedy’s death and blamed conservatives for the assassination. James McAuley wrote,
FOR 50 years, Dallas has done its best to avoid coming to terms with the one event that made it famous: the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. That’s because, for the self-styled “Big D,” grappling with the assassination means reckoning with its own legacy as the “city of hate,” the city that willed the death of the president…
The far right of 1963 and the radicalism of my grandparents’ generation may have faded in recent years, they remain very much alive in Dallas. Look no further than the troop of gun-rights activists who appeared just days ago, armed and silent, outside a meeting of local mothers concerned about gun violence. If this is what counts as responsible civic dialogue, then Dallas has a long way still to go.
Days later, the Kansas City Star wondered if the same kind of conservative element might cause the assassination of President Obama. Pretending that legitimate political expression is the same as cold-blooded murder, the Kansas City Star noted,
We live again — or perhaps still — in angry times. And today, as in 1963, much of the anger is directed at a leader who is seen by many as “different,” a disruption of the image that some people hold of the nation and the person who represents it as president.
In 1963, Dallas was a hotbed for conspiracy theories, contempt for the federal government and insinuations about the president’s loyalties and motives. Half a century later, all of that mistrust and anger has metastasized through the Internet, cable news and other media.
Fifty years ago, Americans were shocked to learn that a group of influential Dallas businessmen had circulated “Wanted for Treason” pamphlets before Kennedy’s arrival. Today, material like that directed at President Barack Obama is abundant.
It’s odd that the KCS failed to mention the pro-communist leaflets routinely handed out by Lee Harvey Oswald for “Fair Play for Cuba.”
The left appears so curious and paranoid about the right. Seemingly uninterested in legitimate discourse, so-called “progressives” posture as if political outrage (even staunch political outrage) is somehow creating an environment of hate. While media outlets opine about the appropriateness of the NRA to speak out after a tragedy or about Sarah Palin’s website that used gun imagery, they gruesomely seize upon tragedy to push an agenda while claiming that the right has created a toxic environment of hatred.
Fifty years after President Kennedy was murdered, we can look back at the world then compared to now. We will never know what a full Kennedy presidency would have provided; the anti-communist Democrat was murdered by a communist and theories aside, no amount of convenient, politically-oriented revisionism will change that. » Full Article
NBC News Plays The Race Card,
Blames Conservatives,
On The Day Of Kennedy’s Assassination
Blames Conservatives,
On The Day Of Kennedy’s Assassination
“Even though a Communist was held responsible, NBC News jumped to conclusions about who killed the President.”
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A former contributor for The Oregon Commentator, a conservative journal of opinion, Greg is the Chief Political Analyst and Correspondent for The Tea Party News Network, and a regular contributor for RightWing News and DustinStockton.com. His main field of expertise is firearms and Second Amendment-related issues. He lives in the Northwest with his wife, Heather, and enjoys writing, marksmanship and the outdoors.About TheTeaParty.net
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