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Mr. Pierson’s analysis is trenchant and quite above the criticism of the former New York Times “journalist”, Sterngold. (Full disclosure: in thirty years as an aspiring semi-public figure and punching bag of the Left, only one American reporter ever lied to me, betrayed off-the-record confidences, and generally tried to sabotage my career: the inimitable Mr. Sterngold. It is a mark of his ineptitude he failed to understand my career had already suffered all the damage the Left could inflict.) That said, his leftist shriek of “right-wing” agitprop is self-contradictory if one but reads JFK’s inaugural — or any other public statement or act. Would that the Kennedys had indeed used the assassination to further JFK’s goals: hawkish Cold War engagement, tax cuts, and muscular advancement of American superiority in Space as examples. Rather, it became a tool in the hands of the decayed, effete, Abbie Hoffman/Pete Seeger/Woodstock Left who saw us only as evil and seemingly romanced a vision of Soviet Hegemony (presumably presided over locally by a cabal drawn from Manhattan’s Upper West Side and the West Side of L.A.) They embraced Jacquie’s Camelot myth with both arms, and now, like White Russians in Paris of the 1920s dream of a Romanoff Restoration (can you say “Obama”? Or, in dire straights, “Hillary”?) and thus fight jealously for the custody of the JFK memory, all the better to ensure their distortions remain current cant. Careful, thoughtful analysts of Mr. Pierson’s caliber need not be bothered by such hive-minded, robotic-mouthed “criticism”.