Should Bernie Goldberg Be Fantasizing about JFK, just as Ed’s Pawlick’s Irish Grandmother Would Be Doing Today?
       Bernie Goldberg has every right to fantasize about JFK, just as Ed Pawlick’s Irish grandmother would be doing if she were still alive today. But he cannot do so when he claims to be a conservative.
       And he must stop writing about all Conservatives as “fruitcakes” when they may not agree with him. Bernie writes with great anger and passion when liberals do that to him.
       He has written the following about Hubert Humphrey and JFK many times:
       “I consider myself to be an old-fashioned liberal. I'm a liberal the way liberals used to be when they were like John F. Kennedy and when they were like Hubert Humphrey.”
       And then he adds: “When they [JFK and Hubert Humphrey] were upbeat and enthusiastic and mainstream.”
        Okay.
       You certainly have the right to believe the legends that have formed around our “martyr” President, but believe it or not, Bernie, many of our readers were peers of JFK, before he became a legend. They remember him as just another rich member of the Fitzgerald family whose leader was the Mayor of Boston and the father of JFK’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
They remember the other grandfather of JFK, Joseph P. Kennedy, as another leader in the power structure of Boston, who was the very conservative U.S. Ambassador to England before World War II. When JFK’s brother was killed during a bombing run over Europe, the family dreams were shattered but the father persevered and had JFK substituted as the Kennedy to become President.
       Therefore, many of our readers still remember JFK as another young officer in the U.S. Navy who returned home after WWII --- with one difference: he was rich and a member of a powerful family.
       As if to prove the point, JFK was elected to Congress at age 28 only one year after his discharge in 1945. He moved up to the Senate at age 34 only six years later in 1953, and then became the youngest person ever elected as President at 46 in 1960.
       Whether he was a great President, a good one, average or poor, is for everyone to decide, not for Bernie Goldberg to choose for us.
        Make Your Choice Bernie
       So make your choice, Bernie. Either you are 1) a good liberal who believes that JFK’s policies (Teddy’s also?) should be forever enshrined as the best of America  by a compliant media (headed by Pinch Sulzberger and the New York Times) and never again questioned by anyone or 2) you are a “reformed” liberal who will allow every person to make his or her own decisions about JFK, or 3) you are a conservative who will encourage everyone to decide these issues for himself or herself without the heavy hand of Pinch Sulzberger intruding upon our beliefs.
        This is not a game that you can play if you expect us conservatives to buy your books in the future. You deny that what you are really seeking is an analyst spot on one of the networks, but many people question that. They believe you would jump at such an opportunity. It would much easier and more lucrative than writing books.
        They have trouble imagining you as the ultimate “conservative” on one of the networks, explaining to everyone about the force behind “us conservatives”.
         You must decide and tell us: “Who is the real Bernard Goldberg?”