Burnt Orange Report

I went to Dealy Plaza today. By the time I was there, there were not as many people as in the photos you posted. When the national Fox (a/k/a Faux News) anchor was doing a feed, I (standing ca. ten feet away) yelled in my loud baritone, "Boycott Fox, Fair and Balanced my foot! They sued Al Franken and they were laughed out of the courtroom, etc." The news anchor did not expect it at all and it really threw him off. I am not sure whether it was live and whether he did another take - but it was fun.

I have to confess I was a little disappointed. It seems as if most people there were more interested about the trajectory of the bullets than about JFK's legacy.

Another incident disturbed me. Three girls asked me to take their picture in the enclosed Kennedy Memorial (For those of you who are not familiar - it is about a block away from Dealy Plaza in front of the "old red" courthouse) I thought they were going to stand by the "table like" stone that bears JFK's name, but they stood ON IT!!! I chewed them out and told them they had no respect for the man - they were taken aback. The whole event seemed representative that your average person there was "curious" and not "paying homage." I suppose Dallas still has the JFK assassination albotross around its neck.

When the national Fox (a/k/a Faux News) anchor was doing a feed, I (standing ca. ten feet away) yelled in my loud baritone, "Boycott Fox, Fair and Balanced my foot! They sued Al Franken and they were laughed out of the courtroom, etc." The news anchor did not expect it at all and it really threw him off. I am not sure whether it was live and whether he did another take - but it was fun.

I was going to make some comment about how this typifies the behavior of the left these days, but then I read...

Three girls asked me to take their picture in the enclosed Kennedy Memorial (For those of you who are not familiar - it is about a block away from Dealy Plaza in front of the "old red" courthouse) I thought they were going to stand by the "table like" stone that bears JFK's name, but they stood ON IT!!! I chewed them out and told them they had no respect for the man - they were taken aback.

... so I'll have to wait until my irony meter is no longer pegged.

Nothing ironic about it. The former example (statements about Fox news) was an expression of speech. An attempt to inform prople that Fox news is not fair and balanced as they claim, but a tool of the Right. If telling the truth is "disrespect" then the historic role of political dissent in this country means nothing (maybe this is the Right's aim).

The later example (the girls standing on the "tomb") had nothing to do with making a statement. The girls were not expressing an opinion. They were carelessly (not maliciously) disprespecting the deceased. To literally stand on someone's gravestone (whether literal or symbolic) is disrespectful and these young people needed to be reminded of that.

In sum, the "Left" is not up to whatever Jonathon implies. But his post urges me to propose a Truce: If Republicans stop telling lies about the Democrats, then Democrats will stop telling the Truth about the Republicans.

If Republicans stop telling lies about the Democrats, then Democrats will stop telling the Truth about the Republicans. - WhoMe?

Ooooh, not a very good bargain, IMHO! :-) I'm with Harry... don't give 'em hell, just tell the truth and let 'em think it's hell.

Byron, I don't know if Kennedy was a great president or not, but I do know he inspired a lot of people of my generation... I'm 55... and for all his screw-ups, we took him at his word for his good intentions for America. For all the allusions to mob connections, for all the hype about affairs with Marilyn, for all the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs, etc., etc., we believed, rightly or wrongly, in his good intentions. It was easy to believe: unlike our current commander-in-cheat, Kennedy came across as earnest and devoted to America. Maybe you had to be there to understand your elders' obsession with Kennedy. Great? I don't know. But I do know we would be fortunate beyond belief if we had a president like him right now. Leadership that inspires confidence is leadership indeed.

Come on, Steve, Bush inspires.

I'm surprised you can't see that his budget deficits, ill-conceived war, and donor payoffs have inspired a number of people against him. :)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.