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 | | From: | Hottie 4 Dik | | Subject: | Re: third time around....works rather well | | Date: | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:26:41 GMT |
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 | were written afterward that presented
them in a sympathetic light, usually as liberal icons. This was
tolerated by the media establishment as sentimental sop until the
revelations of both Watergate and the Church Committee. This
"good guy" image then needed to be altered since both those
crises seemed to reveal that the Kennedys were actually different
than what came before them (Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers)
and what came after (Nixon). Thus began a series of anti-Kennedy
biographies.
3. That Marilyn Monroe's death was somehow ordained by her
"involvement" with the Kennedy "bad boys." Again, this was at
first a rather peculiar cottage industry. But around the time of
Watergate and the Church Committee it was given a lift, and going
back to a 1964 paradigm, it combined elements of the first two
movements into a Gothic (some would say grotesque) right-wing
propaganda tract which is both humorous and depressing in it
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