Interview most foul (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Of course, Douglas Brinkley wouldn't be CNN's "presidential historian," or

hold the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities at Rice University,

or, more than likely, be a US history professor anywhere, if he had ever dared

write honestly about JFK's assassination.

Nor—of course—would the New York Times, among the leading vectors of

the CIA's obfuscatory propaganda over that world-changing murder, ever 

print one honest word about it, or, therefore, about Dylan's liberating song. 

What we're now living through, this heavy maelstrom of gigantic lies, 

essentially began with what occurred in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and

the storm of falsehoods that broke instantly around it—lies that "our

free press" never will acknowledge and correct, having pumped them 

out for over half a century.

MCM 

 
 
 
 

 

Jun 14, 2020 

 

Interview Most Foul

Edward Curtin

https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/14/interview-most-foul/

Imagine this: A so-called presidential historian for a major television network publishes an interview in the most famous newspaper in the world with the most famous singer/songwriter in the world, who has recently written an explosive song accusing the U.S. government of a conspiracy in the assassination of the most famous modern American president, and the interviewer never asks the singer about the specific allegations in his song except to ask him if he was surprised that the song reached number one on the Billboard hit list and other musical and cultural references that have nothing to do with the assassination.

Imagine no more.

For that is exactly what Douglas Brinkley, CNN’s presidential historian, has just done with his June 12, 2020 interview with Bob Dylan in The New York Times.

The interview makes emphatically clear that Brinkley is not in the least interested in what Dylan has to say about the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, whose murder most foul marks in the most profound way possible the devolution of the U.S. into the cesspool it has become. Brinkley has another agenda.

He introduces the interview by sketching in his relationship with Dylan and tells us that he therefore felt “comfortable” reaching out to him in April after Dylan had released his song about the JFK assassination, “Murder Most Foul.”

He conveniently links to a New York Times piece by John Pareles wherein Pareles writes about the surprise song release:

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is its core and central trauma — “the soul of a nation been torn away/and it’s beginnin’ to go into a slow decay” — while Dylan tries to find answers, or at least clues, in music.”

That is simply false – for Dylan emphatically does not try to find answers or clues to JFK’s murder, but boldly states his answer. If you listen to his piercing voice and follow the lyrics closely, you might be startled to be told, not from someone who can be dismissed as some sort of disgruntled “conspiracy nut,” but by the most famous musician in the world, that there was a government conspiracy to kill JFK, that Oswald didn’t do it, and that the killers then went for the president’s brothers.

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