Rebuttal to the Article written by Eric Boehlert dated September
18,2009 9:10am, by Patrick Michael. I'll reprint Mr.Boehlert's article
first so there is no misinterpretation of my rebuttal.

"A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this"

September 18, 2009 9:10 am ET by Eric Boehlert

That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.

I've
been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the
increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As
Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being
exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge
them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and
name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer.

The
radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what
existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile
object of disgust--into a crusade. It's a demented national jihad, the
likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.

But
I've been thinking about Dallas in 1963 because I've been recalling the
history and how that city stood as an outpost for the radical right,
which never tried to hide its contempt for the New England Democrat.

Now,
in this this month's Vanity Fair, Sam Kashner offers up in rich detail
the hatred that ran wild in Dallas in 1963. To me, the similarity
between Dallas in 1963 and today's unhinged Obama hate is downright
chilling.

Kashner's fascinating cover story actually chronicles
the professional struggles of writer William Manchester who was tapped
by the Kennedy family, after the president's assassination, to write
the definitive book about the shooting. The Vanity Fair articles
details the power struggles, and epic lawsuits, that ensued prior to
Manchester's publication.

But this unnerving passage from VF
caught my eye. In it, Kashner retraces Manchester's step as he
researched his book. It's unsettling because if you insert "Obama" for
every "Kennedy" reference, it reads like 2009:

    Manchester
also discovered that Dallas “had become the Mecca for medicine-show
evangelists … the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry
Societies, and the headquarters of [ultra-conservative oil billionaire]
H. L. Hunt and his activities.”

    “In that third year of the
Kennedy presidency,” Manchester wrote, “a kind of fever lay over Dallas
country. Mad things happened. Huge billboards screamed, ‘Impeach Earl
Warren.’ Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas.…Radical Right
polemics were distributed in public schools; Kennedy’s name was booed
in classrooms; corporate junior executives were required to attend
radical seminars.”

    A retired major general ran the American
flag upside down, deriding it as “the Democrat flag.” A wanted poster
with J.F.K.’s face on it was circulated, announcing “this man is
Wanted” for—among other things—“turning the sovereignty of the US over
to the Communist controlled United Nations” and appointing
“anti-Christians … aliens and known Communists” to federal offices.

  
And a full-page advertisement had appeared the day of the
assassination in The Dallas Morning News accusing Kennedy of making a
secret deal with the Communist Party; when it was shown to the
president, he was appalled. He turned to Jacqueline, who was visibly
upset, and said, “Oh, you know, we’re heading into nut country today.”

  
Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that
President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a
fourth-grade class burst into applause.

Today, conservatives are
expressing outrage that Rep. Nancy Pelosi had the nerve to raise
concerns about the onrush of violent political rhetoric. The Noise
Machine claims it has no idea what Pelosi's talking about. But the
truth is, America's most famous bouts of political violence (i.e. JFK,
Oklahoma City, etc.) have always been accompanied by waves of radical,
right-wing rhetoric. Given that history, the GOP's insistence that the
hate now filling the streets couldn't possibly inspire violence seems
woefully naive.

Rebuttal:

"The grassy knoll was on the Right, the Far Right"

September 19th

Harvey Oswald wasn’t responsible for the assassination of JFK? Neither was LBJ nor Cuba nor the unions nor the Mob? No, it was caused by “right wing hatred running wild.”

This theory is advanced in “A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this,” an article written by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters.

Boehlert
draws heavily on his experiences in the 1960s which, we assume, may
have included ingesting numerous mind-altering substances.

“I’ve
been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I’ve watched the
increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled,” Boehlert says,
“as Americans yank their kids out of class in order to save them from
being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to
urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and
name-calling passed for health care ‘debate’ this summer.”

“The
radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what
existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama–making him into a vile
object of disgust–into a crusade,” he continues. “It’s a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.”

Unfortunately
for Boehlert, all the individuals and groups suspected in the Kennedy
assassination were of the leftist variety. Oswald was an communist
wannabe. LBJ was liberal. Cuba was and is communist. And union’s?
Pretty much leftists.

So pardon us if we’re confused as hell by Boehlerts’ theory.

But, then, we’re guessing that he’s confused, too.

Written by:  Patrick Michael

Now
along comes Jack Cafferty, King of teaser headlines and unfortunately
of only telling 1/2 of a story.  He wrote an article today (which kind
of makes me wonder if he is going through old Media Matters articles
looking for story ideas)  I have reproduced the article for you here:

 "Are Obama critics creating a hateful, dangerous environment?"  

Tom Friedman writes a scary and sobering column in today’s New York Times called “Where did ‘we’ go?” In
it — he compares the political climate today in the U.S. to Israel in
1995… right before the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Party Chairman Michael Steele says of people like Friedman, “Where do these nut jobs come from?” Which to me sort of proves Friedman’s whole point.

Here’s my question to you: Are critics of Pres. Obama crossing the line in creating a hateful and dangerous environment?"

Here's my question to you Jack,
who is talking about death threats?  The left or the right?  Other than
the idiotic facebook poll where the idiots in charge have apparently
been identified and will soon be apprehended, I have not read a lot of
right wing rhetoric about assassinations.  But both CNN and Media
Matters both feel the need to throw it out there.  It is almost as if
they are hoping to encourage some idiot to vent his anger so they can
write "Told you so!!" stories.  Even the more moderate left found
Boehlert's story ridiculous.

I personally do not hate Barrack
Obama, I am (like a good many others) infuriated by what I perceive as
his socialist agenda and by the graft and corruption that seems to have
followed him from Chicago into the White House.

Right wrong or
otherwise, Obama was elected, and the best (and only) way that I know
of fixing that problem is to utilize the franchise.  Now, it makes
sense that in order to get a majority of voters to overcome their
collective guilt and vote against this guy in 2012 and his party in
2010, we need to point out his shortcomings early and often.  And it is
not hard to do.  This guy is made up of and surrounded with short
comings.

But assassination Jack?  What an ugly thought.  I
hope that most Americans who profess belief in the constitution realize
that it does not support assassination.  It supports a political
process, which is what you are seeing.  You just don't like how the
political process is going right now with the shrinking popularity
polls, so you start painting it as hate-filled rhetoric which will
hopefully silence the Obama critics.  It sure did not bother the left
to erupt against Obama when they thought he was abandoning health care.
Boy, those were some hate filled rants.

By:Patrick Michael