Loss of Trust

We begin with an article from the esteemed Thomas Sowell:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/351269/loss-trust-thomas-sowell

Let us focus upon this paragraph with Mr Sowell’s thesis: Even those of us who were not John F. Kennedy supporters, and who were not dazzled by the glitter and glamour of the Kennedy aura, nevertheless felt that the president of the United States was someone who knew much more than we did about the realities on which all our lives depended. Suppose instead that we perceive the Russian (Communists) as being supreme bluffers.

Nikita Khrushchev: To: President Kennedy. We have sent ships to Cuba with IRBMs on board. The IRBMs will have atomic weapons for payloads. You know that we could launch missiles with atomic warheads toward the United States from Cuba, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. We could easily strike Washington DC, and New York City from Cuba. You have similar missiles located close to our borders. We don’t like that anymore than you will like having such missiles in Cuba. Here’s the deal. You remove the missiles from the area close to our border, and we will allow your navy to "confront" our navy on the subject of supplying missiles to Cuba. You make loud noises about how your are going to stand up to the Russians. We will "back down", and the American people will love you forever. They will come to think of you as being the bravest, most competent U. S. President in history, even though you would rather spend your time fucking Hollywood starlets. Do we have a deal, Mr. President?

Sowell goes on to contend that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were shameless liars. They destroyed, he says, not only their own credibility, but the credibility of the office. If my thesis is correct, John Kennedy was also a shameless liar. His entire Presidency was a lie based upon two facts: Kennedy’s campaign was, first of all, engineered by Mafia money (the first lie … that he was a clean-cut guy) in such a way as to steal the election from Nixon by rigging the results in a key state (the second lie). Rather than subject the country to an extended fight over a rigged election (as Al Gore would in later years), Nixon conceded, but vowed that he would return, and that the election would not be stolen from him again. The enmity on the part of the Press toward Richard Nixon grew out of his prosecution of the Communist Algier Hiss. Hiss was a brother-in-arms to today’s "journalists", and the "journalists" of the day were relentless in their hatred of Nixon as a result . By contrast, the Press treated the ever crooked Lyndon Johnson with kid gloves. Even through the days of Billy Sol Estes (who died two months ago, but never spoke a word against Johnson), they never suggested that Johnson was a master criminal. So, the question, Mr. Thomas Sowell, is one as to whether or not the images of of both Johnson and Nixon were controlled by the Press, and is it not a question of trust in the Press that is at the root of the decline in trust for President Obama?

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NOTES:

It just sticks in your craw that people loved JFK and he was a great president, doesn’t it Alan? [SHARPSkinkid] [p]

This represents a considerable misunderstanding on the part of youth, regarding the views of people who have actually lived through a particular era. Most of the youth of the nation (at that time) bought in to the manufactured mystique of "Jack" Kennedy. My parents knew better. They knew that it was "just liquor money" that put Jack Kennedy into the White House". They had lived through the era of Prohibition and experienced the reality that is seldom referred to today in glossy versions of the "royal" Kennedys.
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This is such a good point you make here … that those in the press, while getting busy acting as propagandists, will nevertheless shine a light of suspicion on people like Obama. [Graffiti Forensics] [p]
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I think you meant to name this *loss* of trust. [SHARPSkinkid] [p]
I thank [SHARPSkinkid] for his attention to detail. In my haste to put up an entry (before taking off for Millbrae for a presentation on the subject of the Roma People) I tried to be too cute with the title.
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