CBS Sends a Valentine to the Kennedys With Gushing Segment on Jackie
CBS has not even mentioned a new book spilling unflattering details about former President John F. Kennedy, but they devoted over 8 minutes Tuesday morning to a fawning report on former First Lady Jackie Kennedy's scripted interview with CBS inside the White House.
Liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley hailed the day when Kennedy "became America's sweetheart," adding that "50 years later, she still is." [Video below the break.]
On February 14, 1962, CBS aired a scripted tour of the White House with the First Lady, who wrote her own notes for the occasion and pointed out all the family's renovations and elegant furnishings they added in the previous year. 80 million viewers watched the broadcast of what the first family essentially wanted everyone to see, and to this day CBS still acclaims the event.
White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell called the broadcast "historic," adding however that it was scripted and thus "helped drive the perception that the Kennedy White House was different from its predecessors. One of grace and elegance."
CBS kept heaping a generous portion of praise on Kennedy's already voluminous esteem from the media. Brinkley could not stop acclaiming CBS' tour of the White House, saying that it "was just very important in TV history." He furthered that "we've never had the word 'chique' applied to the White House until this particular tour."
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Notice she kept them away frm Jack office
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:15pm.
where Marilyn was hiding in the closet and Jack was banging his intern on his desk!
The Kennedys were very savvy when it came to . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:27pm.
. . . using TV -- still a relatively young medium -- as an image shaper. Jackie's tour of the White House combined her debutant-groomed persona with the imagery most Americans had never seen before. The combination was a hit.
That having been said, it's hardly worth celebrating a "50th Anniversary" of its broadcast. But perhaps in the wake of the Alford revelations, the serfs of Camelot decided it need to remind old viewers and educate new viewers on just how amazing the Kennedys were. (ugh)
LOL, that's the red Dior suit!
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:27pm.
I referred to in the Mooch style icon article earlier today.
THAT's fashion!
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America's sweetheart
Submitted by JeffC... on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 5:32pm.
... but not necessarily Jack's sweetheart.
Who was Jack's sweetheart that Valentine's Day--Jackie, Marilyn, the intern, or the mob mistress?
February 14, 1962 was a Wednesday. The intern was likely in classes, although Jack might have flown her down for the preceding or following weekend. Marilyn wasn't filming at the time--filming on "Something's Got to Give" started in April.
After a year of marriage a friend said of Jackie, "Jackie was
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 6:34pm.
wandering around looking like a survivor of an airplane crash." (Reeves p.116)
It appears it wasn't just John F. Kennedy's good looks and Richard Nixon's appearance of looking pale and underweight from a recent hospitalization that won the first Nixon/Kennedy debate for Kennedy. "During his Presidential race with Nixon, Jack inquired if there were any girls waiting for him before one of their debates. An hour and a half before they were supposed to go on the air, Kennedy was in a hotel room with a hooker." (Sexual Affairs by U.S. Presidents)
"Klein's account of the young senator's response when Jackie suffered a stillbirth in 1956 is not new, but it's as chilling a tale as ever. Off partying in the Mediterranean with a boatful of women, Jack decided there was no reason to return home; what good would that do? Not until press coverage of his absence threatened to make him look churlish did he agree to fly back. Klein, like other observers, believes that Jackie may have taken at least one lover in retaliation for JFK's behavior over the years: Gianni Agnelli, the Fiat heir. "(Love in the Ruins)
Of course the 'chique' was introduced to hide the
Submitted by bfrank on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 6:31pm.
drugs, sex and rockin roll occurring in the other parts of the residence including the affair between Jackie and Bobby. The Left will be there iconic worship till hell freezes over regardless of all the sordid details they swept under the rug for over 50 years. Thankfully, the Kennedy mystic is dead so that none of the leftist offspring are ever elected or in the news. Unless one of them are starring in a 'Desperate Housewives' reality show on Bravo.
Now that is how I like my promotional propaganda!
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 6:41pm.
Thanks Brinkley!
Meanwhile, as Jackie is giving a White House tour to CBS, JFK is giving a White House Bedroom tour to a 19 year old girl or other mistress.
Weren't the Kennedys of the 1%?
Submitted by RR GOP on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 5:45am.
Maybe these Libfreaks should occupy the "compound" in Massachusetts? Of course, they never will.
Also, I never got the Jackie O "mystique". Even as a kid I thought she was a simpering airhead. There again, the Libtards always tout their own as having superior intelligence no matter how clueless said fellow Libtard really is.
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