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Where Displacement Theory Can Lead
By Ed Driscoll · June 10, 2007 04:14 PM · Bobos In Paradise · The Future and its Enemies · The Memory Hole

Libertas's "Dirty Harry" writes that HBO and Tom Hanks will producing a mini-series version of Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Variety states, the ten-part series "will debunk long-held conspiracy theories and establish that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone". Dirty Harry adds:

Liberals loath remembering that Kennedy was a fervent anti-Communist. But he was. Kennedy was the guy who tried to invade Cuba for crying out loud. Yes, take out Uncle National Healthcare. Kennedy was the guy who got us into Vietnam to stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. The left doesn’t want to be reminded that their cherished martyr was much closer to Reagan in ideology (Kennedy also lowered taxes across the board and increased military spending) than John F’n Kerry.

The Vietnam War is the left’s Holy Grail of hate-justification for America. It defines who they are. It’s their theology and rallying point. But John F. Kennedy is also their Prince. So, to justify both a wild-eyed conspiracy must be created whereas Oswald was in fact an anti-Communist used by the military industrial complex to assassinate Kennedy because Kennedy was going to pull our forces out of Vietnam.

That's the thesis of James Piereson's brilliant Commentary essay last year, "Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up" which itself is being expanded--though not into a mini-series.

As for modern-day displacement, Allahpundit explores “The Soft Trutherism of the Mainstream Media".


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