Well said.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *'Roderick T. Beaman'* > > > > Ben Bradlee, long time editor of The Washington Post has died & the > accolades pour in. Instead, I think of many questions that were never > even asked, let alone answered. > > He was a longtime friend of John F. Kennedy and toured with both him and > Richard Nixon during their 1960 presidential campaign that Kennedy won by > the narrowest of popular vote margins. If one voter in either every > precinct or every other precinct (I forget which) in the country had > switched from Kennedy to Nixon, Nixon would have won. > > My unanswered questions are: > > 1. Why was the public left unaware of Kennedy's numerous infidelities, > especially in Las Vegas where they were so flagrant that he was known as > Little Chickie? This was so potentially damaging that Kennedy sent Nixon a > thank you note after the election for not bringing out the dirt. > > 2. Why was the public not made aware that Kennedy had twice been > administered the last rites, Extreme Unction, of The Catholic Church? I > was born and raised in heavily Catholic New York City, am Catholic, and > lived there at the time. It was not even discussed. > > 3. Why did the media not seize on Robert Kennedy's patently disingenuous > denial of JKK.'s Addison's Disease with the statement that his brother > never had the disease classically described as Addison's Disease? JFK > never had the disease classically described as Addison's Disease because > it was 'classically described' as due to tuberculosis which he never > had. It was just beginning to become accepted that it was due to things > other than TB. > > Bradlee had to have known of JFK's extramarital trysts and if he did not > want to investigate & publicize it himself, he owed it to the public to > pass the assignment to someone else. The media are supposed to be the > blood enemies of the government and politicians to keep us informed. > > Just twelve years later, Bradlee would become a hero for his persistence > in the Watergate story. If Nixon's enemies had been like the media was > with JFK, he'd never have resigned. As one reporter said, on one > anniversary of the assassination, face it, the Kennedys seduced us. > > But it was much more than a seduction. It was a reflection of the > general deference, with a few exceptions to show some semblance of > 'balance' that the media give to liberals. > > In the late, 60s & early 70s, when conservative groups began trying to > chart liberal bias in the media and academe with surveys and other studies, > they both began to shout McCarthyism and censorship. > > It should also be known that the Nixon Administration's opposition to the > publication of The Pentagon Papers actually protected Kennedy & Johnson > more than it did Nixon. So yes, Bradlee and the media deserved praise for > it and the Watergate investigation but there is an entire other question > that they have never cooperated in answering; in a society where we depend > on investigators to ferret out the truth, who investigates the > investigators? > > Until it is answered, to me Bradlee is just another Democratic media hack > along with, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Dan Rather, etc. > > > > > > > Roderick T. 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