"Another Kennedy Living Dangerously" X-POST

[kster]

NY Times article on RFK Jr.
from "Another Kennedy Living Dangerously"
by Mark Leibovich

The New York Times, June 25, 2o06

... "Now it's much more fundamental than protecting the environment for Bobby," said his friend Laurie David, the liberal advocate and producer of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Al Gore movie. "He fears that the country is being lost, that democracy is at stake."

Mr. Kennedy said that he had "continually expanded my realm of interest." His recent focus on the 2004 election exists on that continuum, he added.

He had heard low-grade rumblings about alleged abuses in Ohio, faulty voting machines and minority voters waiting hours in line at the polls. But he remained skeptical, or complacent. "I kept the same kind of deliberate blinders on that much of the media did," he said, bemoaning the news media's relative preoccupation with "Brad and Angelina and the Duke lacrosse team."

THEN Mr. Kennedy spent Christmas skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, at the home of Ms. David and her husband, Larry David, the "Seinfeld" creator and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" protagonist. Mr. David urged him to read a book on the 2004 election by the news media critic Mark Crispin Miller.

Mr. Kennedy did, and a few days later he was skiing with the Rolling Stone publisher, Jann S. Wenner, an old friend and Sun Valley homeowner. Mr. Kennedy suggested that Mr. Wenner commission a story on the "stolen election." Mr. Wenner said he would, provided Mr. Kennedy wrote it. He had written a much-discussed and much-challenged story for Rolling Stone last year linking childhood vaccines and a rise in autism.

After some hesitation, Mr. Kennedy said, he agreed to write the election article. Since it was posted on Rolling Stone's Web site on June 1, the Web has been ablog with a split between those who believe this is the biggest unreported story ever and those who think it's old news, discredited long ago...


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/fashion/25bobby.html?...

POSTED BY: garybeck

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1502019

[autorank]

1. See a rarity - autorank posts correctly in LBN & comments on this article

LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2355212

[kster]

2. How the hell ya

been young man? Is it almost time to take these CROOKS OUT?

[autorank]

4. They've been "hot walked" at the Watergate...pictures at 11:00;)

...and you know what I mean...:rofl:

[ribrepin]

3. Great Find

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Why does the NY Times categorize this article under "Fashion and Style'

rather than "Politics" or "Election Reform". Kennedy isn't doing this to be an avant-garde trendsetter. He's protecting the principles of democracy in the traditon of his uncle and father.

[EFerrari]

6. Because that way they get to attack him AND marginalize him

at the same time.

[mod mom]

7. Thank you Larry David! nt