Editorials/Stone Dead/The Great Bungler
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Stone Dead It is only right that someone step forward to serve the needs of this country's ignoramuses. We have built vast libraries and schools for those who...
...And where has former secretary of state Dean Rusk been all these years...
...If Pentagon generals plotted to thwart the good President Kennedy's attempts to end the Vietnam war, McNamara is the man to ask—and is it not interesting that he served both Kennedy and Johnson...
...But we have done very little for those who do not want to know the truth, who find the requisite thinking painful and the facts inscrutable...
...It is hard to believe as powerful a man as Johnson would just up and die...
...You might want to investigate this, too...
...But many of Johnson's aides are still around, for instance former attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach...
...Every meathead in his audience believes as much...
...He gave us a fantasy about capitalism entitled Wall Street...
...An energetic independent counsel could surely dig up the dirt...
...Well, there is no arguing with an ignoramus (and, incidentally, to watch Stone fanAdapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by King Features...
...Scores of other Johnson aides are all over Washington...
...Or at least he is reportedly dead...
...We have built vast libraries and schools for those who want to know what's what...
...subpoena Johnson's aides and have them testify as to what they saw in those dark days of the 1960s...
...He was Johnson's shadow...
...Surely, he will make available all profits from JFK for the campaign ahead...
...died...
...It challenged the notion that only one gunman fired, but otherwise pretty much endorsed the Warren Commission's findings...
...Stone has stepped forward from Hollywood, California, to serve the needs of those neglected Americans who have no minds...
...Stone gave us a fantasy about the war in Vietnam entitled Platoon...
...and former Sancho Panza to President Johnson, Bill Moyers...
...former secretary of defense Robert McNamara...
...In JFK, Stone, a practiced dope-fetcher, tells the dopes that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy that included a group of New Orleans homosexuals, Cuban exiles, the FBI, the CIA, the American military, and the martyred President's successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...Ipso facto, Stone attests, the deaths were "all linked...
...All of these movies are made for those dolts who cannot remember the facts, and so Stone's message is a soothing one, to wit, that the facts do not matter...
...Getting the government to act is going to necessitate a massive public relations campaign...
...The philanthropist's name is Oliver Stone, and, whether history eventually ranks him with Carnegie or not, let us thank him for giving the stupid among us something to think they think about...
...The ignoramus is too benighted to understand simple fact, orderly thought, or the rules of evidence...
...Then there is Bill Moyers...
...The great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie built libraries for those who would seek the truth, but it is only now that a great American has come forward to serve the ignoramuses...
...They have all been falsified by conspirators, hordes of conspirators...
...Something has to be done for the meatheads...
...Now you should be urging an investigation into the coverup...
...Let us have an independent counsel (won't Lawrence Walsh have time on his hands soon...
...Just remember the fantasy, and maybe two or three facts...
...Stone loves this country...
...Stone, if you will allow me, I fear you are just skimming the surface of our national evil when you make such a milquetoast recommendation...
...An investigation is in order...
...Stone believes such enormities cry out for renewed investigation, though, given all the conspirators in the land, I cannot imagine whom Stone would trust to conduct it...
...tasize in a CBS interview and on the op-ed page of the New York Times, it appears that he is pretty much an ignoramus, too...
...Stone claims that all he wants is to open sealed records of the House committee that investigated the assassination in the 1970s...
...True, the leader of the coverup, Lyndon Johnson, is dead...
...Now he gives us a fantasy about: the assassination of John F. Kennedy entitled JFK, exploiting the murdered President's name...
...Any committee so soft on the Warren Commission is obviously part of the conspiracy, and, anyway, you and your meatheads are already convinced that there was a conspiracy to kill the Kennedys and Dr...
...What The American Spectator February 1992 11 did he know about the coverup, and when did he know it...
...In the movie JFK, it is a fact that the President died, his brother died, and Martin Luther King, Jr...
...King...
...We have trained teachers and scholars to dispense knowledge...
...Fortunately, Mr...
Vol. 25 • February 1992 • No. 2
