Anyone just hear Douglas Brinkley on Kennedy just a few minutes ago on Fox?

[BEG]

Shepard Smith (who personally makes me want to puke) asked Douglas Brinkley why so many conservates hate Kennedy (I'm paraphrasing here). Brinkley said it is because Kennedy was such a huge civil rights advocate and back in the day when the south was mainly democratic but switched to republican was when he was labled a liberal from the north. I can't remember word for word what was said but basically he said that the conservatives that can't stand Kennedy are the type of people who would stand in the way of the civil rights movement. It really offended me.

Anyone know how to get a transcript of the interview?

[franksolich]

I wish I could help, BEG, but can't.

Anyway, any biography of any of the Kennedy 3 longer than 200 pages points out that initially the Kennedys, instead of promoting civil rights, tried to deter them, because that particular movement couldn't be "controlled."

Especially the second of the Kennedy 3, then attorney general, who expressed the sentiments that blacks were being "too uppity," and "wanting things too fast."

I never cared for Vast Teddy because of his blatant hypocrisy, which had nothing to do with race or civil rights.  Vast Teddy was regarded as a caring, compassionate person, when in fact he cared only with other people's money, not his.

There's a difference here.