If today’s extremist rhetoric sounds familiar, that’s because it is eerily, poignantly similar to the vitriol aimed squarely at John F. Kennedy during his presidency.
What Mr. Minutaglio miraculously fails to mention is that the man who killed Kennedy – Lee Harvey Oswald – was not religious, conservative, or an ancestor to the Tea Party by any stretch of the imagination. Oswald lived in the Soviet Union for a number of years, married a Soviet citizen, and it would be hard to make a case that he wasn’t, for all intents and purposes, a communist. Kennedy was killed by a sniper’s bullet passing uninvited through his cranium – not by conservative ethos of Dallas, Texas, or American conservatives as a whole. Mr. Minutaglio’s article isn’t history. It isn’t journalism. It’s spin. But, of course, nobody cares.