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ORIGINAL: Griswold

That news reports have to spell out details this specifically?  (She's talking about why she held off being on news shows and such):

"Actually I went back to them this year and I said 'Okay, now this is ridiculous, I should be able to come back,"' Shriver told an audience of workers at Internet firm Google. "You know I've never had a conflict before and I've always been in a quote political family".
 
Shriver's mother is slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy's sister and her father, Sargent Shriver, was the Democratic candidate for U.S. vice president in 1972. "

Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

(Or is this so far back...that people under 30 think this Kennedy guy is like I think of Roosevelt?)

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

That news reports have to spell out details this specifically?  (She's talking about why she held off being on news shows and such):

"Actually I went back to them this year and I said 'Okay, now this is ridiculous, I should be able to come back,"' Shriver told an audience of workers at Internet firm Google. "You know I've never had a conflict before and I've always been in a quote political family".
 
Shriver's mother is slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy's sister and her father, Sargent Shriver, was the Democratic candidate for U.S. vice president in 1972. "

Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

(Or is this so far back...that people under 30 think this Kennedy guy is like I think of Roosevelt?)

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Anyone that died before I was old enough to remember is like FDR to me. I know about the Kennedy family, of course, but Camelot was dead before I was a toddler, and I am going to be 40 soon enough

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ORIGINAL: ancientseawolfe

Hell, Sanity, I knew a member of the GAR  (Grand Army of thr Republic)  That made him a Civil War veteran.
...hell, I flew B-25s, too
Jimmy Doolittle raided Tokyo in B-25s and one flew into the Empire State building - if anyone remembers that far back

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the press back then was so thoroughly biased that it could routinely got away with things like calling a Democrat Presidency "Camelot"

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: ancientseawolfe

Hell, Sanity, I knew a member of the GAR  (Grand Army of thr Republic)  That made him a Civil War veteran.
...hell, I flew B-25s, too
Jimmy Doolittle raided Tokyo in B-25s and one flew into the Empire State building - if anyone remembers that far back

Were you ever lucky enough to hear any stories from your grandparents? My Grandpa used to tell me about picking cotton during the depression, catching twenty-foot-long sturgeon out of the Snake River using chickens for bait, meat hooks, and teams of horses to pull them out. I have pictures of sturgeon like that too, hanging over the end of long farm wagons. He used to tell me all kinds of stories, and it's too bad I never recorded them or wrote them down, because the things he saw and went through were amazing to me.

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Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was

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....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

.....Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

(Or is this so far back...that people under 30 think this Kennedy guy is like I think of Roosevelt?)

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ORIGINAL: slaverosebeauty

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

.....Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

(Or is this so far back...that people under 30 think this Kennedy guy is like I think of Roosevelt?)

Ok. I will bite. I know OF Kennedy, and what I remember reading about him in high school was very little [mostly that he was the 1st Catholic President, he got killed, he had 2 kids, possibly something about the Cuban Missle Crisis and Bay of Pigs.... I may be wrong]. I think I know more about Ms. Shriver's husband's movies than about her late uncle.

{goes off and waits for a phone call or for the next post to make fun of my age :P }

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ORIGINAL: minnetar

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ORIGINAL: slaverosebeauty

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

.....Now...I kind of figured everyone knew who John F. was....and by virtue...who Schwarzennegars wife is....

(Or is this so far back...that people under 30 think this Kennedy guy is like I think of Roosevelt?)

Ok. I will bite. I know OF Kennedy, and what I remember reading about him in high school was very little [mostly that he was the 1st Catholic President, he got killed, he had 2 kids, possibly something about the Cuban Missle Crisis and Bay of Pigs.... I may be wrong]. I think I know more about Ms. Shriver's husband's movies than about her late uncle.

{goes off and waits for a phone call or for the next post to make fun of my age :P }

What about RFK and everyone's expectations?

minnetar

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Dude ... everybody thinks the media has bias against their side. It's like a basketball game, where both sides always feel they got jobbed by the refs.

You can point out an incident of bias towards one side ... and someone else can point out two towards the other ... to which ou can point out three in response ... and on, and on, and on.

The only bias in the media, is the bias towards making a shitload of money.

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I want to be able to tell smart-ass kids like me, that they need to STFU and learn, or I will give them an bad grade [/quote}
 
Careful, we live in a day and age where, if you give little Johnny a bad grade, you'll get sued for damaging his self-esteem.

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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
Amen! I marvel at the inability of both the left and the right to realize that they are mirror images of each other.