Politically Correcting Jackie O.

Politically Correcting Jackie O.

People are sometimes tough to pigeonhole. Their public personas and statements are often at variance with their private selves and thoughts and we usually don’t learn much about the latter.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was such a person.

Mrs. Kennedy was one of the most beautiful, most beloved, and most discreet women ever to reign as First Lady of the United States. Properly deferring to her husband, she rarely if ever spoke out on controversial issues, as opposed to prior and succeeding graceless Democrat first ladies who have used their unelected positions as platforms to preach, harangue, and run for future office.

That is not to say Jackie didn’t hold strong opinions, she just didn’t air them.

Her views on a noted contemporary won’t get much airing or publicity since they don’t fit well with today’s mainstream media’s chronic case of political correctness and since her views contradict the prevailing attitudes toward an American “icon.” In a word, Jackie thought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a “terrible” man, so terrible she couldn’t even look at his pictures.

That revelation is heard in long-shelved audio tapes, an “oral history,” which ABC’s Diane Sawyer is featuring on in a two-hour commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kennedy’s inauguration as president.

In “Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words,” words spoken and audiotaped in interviews in 1964 which she insisted not be made public in her lifetime, Jackie expressed a number of opinions all of which will be thought-provoking, some of which aren’t politically correct in 2011.

The rumor mill is all agog over possibilities the tapes may include salacious material on the Kennedys’ private lives although that’s improbable considering Jackie’s demure nature. However, they surely will include her conviction that LBJ was complicit in the president’s murder which will become the major media focus on the tapes.

On the other hand, what will surely get little MSM play is Jackie’s distinctly negative comments on MLK since, well, that’s just not PC.

Among other things, Mrs. Kennedy said, ”I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible. . ."
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5402.)

Uncle Teddy, Liberal Lion, Rake, Snake

Uncle Teddy, Liberal Lion, Rake, Snake

You can lead a guy out of a tidal channel but you can’t make him drink.

That makes as much sense as sanctifying a murderer and treating him as God’s gift to America. I refer, of course, to the late Sen. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy.

Before I’m accused of gross insensitivity and needless abuse for telling the truth about Uncle Teddy, it should be noted that barely a year after the liberal lion passed from this mortal world to the Great Beyond–and 40 years after he sent Mary Jo Kopechne on that journey– failed liberal President Jimmy Carter lambasted him as “irresponsible,” ”abusive,” and spiteful in an interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl: http://tiny.cc/73zrr

The truth should be an improvement on that harsh evaluation, even if it is not. Now, true, Ted was never convicted of murdering 28 year old Mary Jo. He merely got drunk, drove off the Dike Bridge into Chappaquiddick’s Poucha Pond, and swam away to save his own life and political career. In Kennedy’s Massachusetts, that’s totally forgivable.

Also forgivable as perfectly in character is that, according to just de-classified FBI files, Ted rented a brothel while on an official visit to Chile in 1961 and invited one of his chauffeurs to participate in the night’s debauchery. If nothing else, Ted was always Ted.

What can’t be forgiven the Lion of the Senate is the revelation in those files that Kennedy didn’t just satisfy his lustful besottment on that excursion. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3776)