Fox News marks 50th anniversary of JFK’s death by painting him as ‘quite conservative’

[RandySF]

Fox News host Chris Wallace marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s murder by first suggesting to members of the Kennedy family that he was “quite conservative” and then by following up with a second segment to drive home the point.

“There is a growing body of thought that, in fact, President Kennedy was quite conservative in some of his policies,” Wallace insisted to Kathleen Townsend Kennedy, the former president’s niece. “He was a fierce Cold Warrior, he believed that tax cuts spur the economy.”

Townsend Kennedy pointed out that at the time President Kennedy advocated cutting taxes, the top marginal rates were at 90 percent.

“So he lowered it to 70 percent,” she explained. “One could say, 90 percent to 70 percent is not down to 22 percent, where we are now. So, I think he was a smart guy, and balanced.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/17/fox-news-marks-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-death-by-painting-him-as-quite-conservative/

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. He supported organized labor.

And he praised European style socialized medicine. He was a regular Mitt Romney that JFK was.

[Submariner]

2. JFK was a Liberal....period.

[Octafish]

10. What Submariner said.

FWIW: Roger Ailes is shameless.

[eShirl]

3. Wait, are they trying to say history isn't all black & white?

And humans are complicated?

Interesting...

[exboyfil]

4. Missile gap and marginal tax rate

He was to the right of Nixon on these two points. Of course we are talking about a 65% marginal tax rate versus a 90% rate. The missile gap did not exist and Kennedy knew it did not. Intervention in South East Asia? Who knows how that would have turned out if he lived. It was Eisenhower who should have walked away after Dien Bien Phu.

Still he would think that the modern Republican party was insane. Except for the John Birchers probably most Republicans at the time would think the party today was insane (including Goldwater).

[Victor_c3]

5. I guess they're going for revenge after this (see article)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/12/college-plaque-in-land-lincoln-labels-abe-democrat/

We took Lincoln so now I guess they're after Kennedy.

[Skittles]

6. f*** them

no sense of decency

[Half-Century Man]

7. No grasp on reality

When they look up, they see deeper into their colon.

[frylock]

8. i love the argument that "kennedy cut taxes"

sure, okay, fine. let's go back to that tax rate, dumbshits.

[Initech]

9. These are the same morons who try to claim our founding fathers were religious.