Is it just us or does NBC News turns itself into an oxymoron when it covers an event that happened 47 years ago. Note that there is no question mark at the end of that sentence, making it purely a rhetorical question.
Camelot still exists in the minds of the Washington-New York-Hollywood axis and they will attempt to reinforce it every damn chance they get, whether it’s calling Barack Obama the last Kennedy brother or finding a new way to mark the anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
For example, here’s Brian Williams on last night’s NBC Nightly “News”:
For more than one American generation, November 22nd will always be the day President Kennedy was shot. A new book just out is full of the imagery of those years. It’s called “Portrait of Camelot,” full of rarely seen family photos by the White House photographer back then, Cecil Stoughton.
They include JFK’s Christmas Eve in Palm Beach, making sure the stockings were hung by the chimney with care. The incredibly cute John Jr. on a boat in August of ‘63. Jacqueline Kennedy on a boat off Cape Cod while Caroline naps on a summer day.
Video released along with the book includes a First Family dip in the fountain, the backyard of the White House on the South Lawn. And for the First Family, of course, it all came to an end on this day, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
In the misty world of liberal memories, JFK wasn’t a womanizer. Teddy Kennedy wasn’t a drunk. Joe Kennedy wasn’t a Nazi-sympathizing rum runner. The family’s men had no warts and its women were perfectly-coifed paragons of virtue.
Don’t you just know that we’re going to have to live with this same sort of nonsense for the next 50 years after Obama leaves office.
Once again, a rhetorical question.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
