John McCain calls JFK's assassination an 'Intervention'.

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Notice his body language, too. What a strange thing to say.

[Incitatus]

1. hmmmm, nose touch on that statement

interesting

[fishwax]

2. intervention of tragedy

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. that is a weird word to use

don't think I have heard that one... I suppose MLKjr and RFK were "interventions" too in the strictest sense of RW thought, they intervened in something with which they did not agree.

[psychopomp]

8. He called the assassination a "tragedy," not an "intervention"

The OP is mistaken. Still, it was an inappropriate comparison, right up there with the reference to Robert Kennedy's assassination that Sen. Clinton made during her campaign.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Edited my post

I am editing out what I originally wrote. Decided to listen to the whole thing in context again. You are right, he was speaking of JFK and Goldwater agreeing to meet in a town hall form, "before the intervention of the tragedy in Dallas".

[Orrex]

4. And I call five years in a tiger cage a 'brief layover'

What a fucking asshole.

[glinda]

5. Is that a common way to state that????

I have never heard of that before and he shifts his words saying two words or tries to find a word. I don't trust the nose touch thing which is like saying something to the effect of brushing it off in a non-emotional manner. Almost guilty. Weird. I think this is the kind of thing that should be run on news programs and talked about. How very very odd. I hadn't noticed it at the debate it went by so quick. I think he was on speed.

[crankychatter]

6. I thought that was quite interesting... make of it what you will NT

[Delphinus]

7. I would love to hear

his explanation of that!

[razors edge]

9. Code word for CIA assasination.

Lawrence George Teeter was Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer until his untimely death in 2005. To mark the 40th anniversary of RFK's assassination, here is a talk by Teeter given November 14, 2000 entitled, "CIA Interventions: The Role of the CIA and the LAPD in the RFK Assassination". The talk was given at the Sepulveda UU Church. R.I.P. RFK (1968), and Larry Teeter (2005). You can order a DVD of this talk from justicevision.org
Category: Education

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h6thJeYm1sE

I found both of these videos somewhat shocking last night. Tried several times to post on DU but the URL would not recognize properly. I made about half an hour of this presentation and intend to watch the rest as time allows.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

10. Senile Bastard

SENILE: se·nile
Pronunciation: \ˈsē-ˌnī (-ə )l also ˈse-\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin senilis, from sen-, senex old, old man
Date: 1661
1: of, relating to, exhibiting, or characteristic of old age <senile weakness> ; especially : exhibiting a loss of cognitive abilities (as memory) associated with old age.

[enuegii]

11. I think he was basically just saying

something about Kennedy and Goldwater having talked about having some sort of town hall type meetings before the "intervention of the tragedy." It is an odd way of putting it, but I don't think he meant to trivialize Kennedy's assassination in any way.

[amber_86]

12. HUMMMM

Does McCain know something about this Intervention? Maybe someone should be looking into this,he seemed pretty sure of himself.

[Tiggeroshii]

14. JOHN MCCAIN KILLED JFK!!

I knew it!

He was the right age, he wasn't in prison yet, and he had been graduated from the naval academy for 5 years. Lemay ordered him!!!!!!!!

Okay sorry that's my idiot fringe conspiracy theory for the day.

[pam4water]

15. I'm sure he meant intervened. It's just that he was at his wife intervention yesterday and confused

the two ;)

[underpants]

16. I thought that was remarkable

I paused the debate at that point turning to my wife and saying, "Wow"

Letting us in on the inner workings?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. intervention sounds like the right word to me. The assassination was an intervention

to stop JFK.