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Fake news in the old days.
JFK & the press. I remember at the time we used to hear terrible things about Kennedy:
* He had zipper issues that sometimes became national security issues.
* He didn’t write the book he got the Pulitzer Prize for.
* The missile gap that got him so many votes was a deliberate lie.
* His father, who had been an appeaser if not an actual Nazi sympathizer, bought him enough votes to beat Humphrey in the primaries.
* He was so sick that he wouldn’t have made it through two terms even if he hadn’t visited Dallas.
They were all true.
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conuly
* He had zipper issues that sometimes became national security issues.
* He didn’t write the book he got the Pulitzer Prize for.
* The missile gap that got him so many votes was a deliberate lie.
* His father, who had been an appeaser if not an actual Nazi sympathizer, bought him enough votes to beat Humphrey in the primaries.
* He was so sick that he wouldn’t have made it through two terms even if he hadn’t visited Dallas.
They were all true.
Thanx to
conuly