Open Thread * Fox News Special Programming Tonight (Let’s All Watch and “Live Blog”)
By SusanUnPC on December 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM in Current Affairs, John F. Kennedy
Here is Fox News’s promo for this important programming. (By the way, Fox’s schedule says this program is at 10 p.m. ET, but I heard an anchor say it’s at 9 p.m. ET. Please check your TV at both times, because this isn’t the first time that Fox’s scheduling and actual programming have been off by an hour.)
BELOW THE FOLD: There is a powerfully moving statement by Robert F. Kennedy (oh, what might have been * and, on that note, you’ll want to listen to Bud White’s great radio show about RFK, “Hidden Agenda: Bud White interviews Thurston Clarke“)” and much more … So, do click “Read more.”
Can you all do something this minute? Can you go to this link, and click on the video, and give it five stars? Appallingly, at the moment, this video has received a three-star rating from Fox News readers and viewers. I do not know who the people are who gave this video such a low rating that it’s cumulatively at three stars. And I pray that I do not know them. – Susan
“This weekend, Geraldo delves deep into the heart of a crisis that has gripped America’s disabled for years …
‘The Waiting List: America’s Healthcare Crisis’ is an extension of a story he broke nearly 37 years ago. Geraldo will bring to light once again the imminent need for action in one of the most important issues our nation faces
Here’s a flashback to the horrific living conditions at Willowbrook State School for the disabled:
Here are three additional videos that Fox News has made available to us:
Part 2:
Part 3:
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And, if you have joined NoQuarter’s readership since October, please listen to Bud White’s remarkable program about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “Hidden Agenda: Bud White interviews Thurston Clarke.”
As a off-topic additional note: In the Summer of 1968, my mother said to me one day, “Robert Kennedy is going to speak at the University of Washington today. Why don’t you go and hear him?” I thought that was a great idea, even though I then supported Eugene McCarthy for president in the Democratic party primary against a sitting president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Well. I have rarely been so transformed by a single speech. Robert F. Kennedy so moved me, so motivated me, so filled me with the belief that somehow we could get out of the madness of Vietnam and thousands of American soldiers and Vietnamese dying needlessly, that I began to campaign for RFK that day.
Two months later, I was back for the fall term of college.
I heard a scream. So did other women, and we all dashed down the hallway because we feared something had happened to our fellow dormmate.
She was from a very wealthy family. She was one of the very few students who had a television. It was a tiny black-and-white tv.
She had just seen Robert F. Kennedy shot on live television.
it is impossible to know how living through the assassinations of so many great Americans, in such a short period of history, has affected all of our lives.
When I was still growing up in a small town, our superintendent of schools arranged for school buses to take every single student to hear John F. Kennedy speak at the Hanford Nuclear Project near the Tri-Cities area of Washington state.
It was a long, hot, dusty ride on those little two-lane highways that we all had in those days.
But, standing along with 40,000 other people that day in the desert, it was an experience I will never forget. John F. Kennedy was both a gifted speaker and a gifted writer, and he moved us all on that day.
Then, a little more than two months later, our principal came in to our classrooms to tell us that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.
I only share this because — if those two men had lived out their lives and if both of them had been able to serve full terms as president — the care of disabled children in this nation would be far more advanced than it is to this day. As Geraldo will sadly make clear tonight.
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I’m also thinking about the mental cruelty inflicted on me by the “Obamabots,” so much so that I’ve had to go into hiding, pretty much everywhere, including most of the time on this blog.
And I think about their fervent belief in a man who has, at best, 100th of the lifetime of experience that both John and Robert Kennedy had.
Last spring, drawing on an article in the Washington Monthly by an expert on John F. Kennedy, I explored thoroughly how little experience Obama has compared to JFK. I realize that most Obamabots assumeM that JFK was a man of little experience, but they simply are ignorant of history and of the actual biography of JFK. As Bud White could also tell you, since he is a true expert on JFK.
Then there’s RFK, who had DECADES of experience in the White House, as Attorney General, in the Senate, as an aide to senators (some not so great, eh?), and much more.
And he had traveled the world, as had his brother. RFK, in the Arthur Schlesinger biography I’ve read, wrote the most extraordinary diaries as a young man traveling through the Middle East and through Europe.
Please read:
1) “Obama and Kennedy: Gut vs. Experience”
2) “Obama and Kennedy: Gut vs. Experience: Part II”
3) ALL of Bud White’s writings related to both Kennedy brothers
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