Fox News’ Brit Hume brought a ridiculous op-ed to the attention of Twitter today:
The author of this twaddle is actually a journalism professor. Holy cow. http://t.co/ESvHmH74MU
— Brit Hume (@brithume) November 22, 2013
You read that right. A University of Texas journalism professor named Bill Minutaglio has attempted to implicate the Tea Party in the assassination of JFK 50 years ago.
From the op-ed:
To find the very roots of the tea party of 2013, just go back to downtown Dallas in 1963, back to the months and weeks leading to the Kennedy assassination. It was where and when a deeply angry political polarization, driven by a band of zealots, burst wide open in America.
Wow. Was Sarah Palin there too?
I think twaddle is too kind. RT @brithume: The author of this twaddle is actually a journalism professor. Holy cow. http://t.co/2dfRqGQcw9
— Susie Moore (@SmoosieQ) November 22, 2013
@brithume The author could almost be described as unhinged.
— Steve_Jacobson⭐⭐⭐ (@Steve_Jacboson) November 22, 2013
@brithume @bminutaglio That might be the sloppiest whitewash of the JFK assassination.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) November 22, 2013
@brithume No one should be surprised. You have a kid in university, he's hammered with this crap every day by "professors."
— Dave (@flynfr) November 22, 2013
https://twitter.com/Hiereus/status/403976950286270464
https://twitter.com/Dixie_DarlinKY/status/403971829548982272
https://twitter.com/RaySimarJr/status/403966475351756800
Of course the prof. never mentions “Oswald,” because it would have obliterated the “blame Tea Party roots” house of cards he spent so much time putting together:
.@SmoosieQ @brithume Dallas right-wingers opposed the president. So of course a Marxist killed him.
— Spam Elliot (@jones4440) November 22, 2013
@brithume he was killed by a communist. dumb a__
— Lisa Thompson (@Bucs06) November 22, 2013
@brithume As a journalist, he failed to mention the overwhelming pro-Kennedy crowds and the commie/lefty who killed JFK.
— Bill Lord (@blord123) November 22, 2013
What a great example of honest “journalism” for his students.
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JFK assassination? Totally George H.W. Bush’s doing, according to some
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