Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Jason's Latest



Note that the JFK quote about secret societies and secret oaths, so popular among conspiracy nutbars, is exhumed once again. It comes from this speech gave on the topic of the press (to the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The speech is basically an exhortation to the media to consider what stories they should run in the interests of national security, in light of the communist threat. Nobody who lived through those tense times would mistake it for a speech about the Illuminati, but because Kennedy used carefully vague terms, it can be read that way by the kooks.

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