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Chris Matthews Reacts to JFK Mistress: Kennedy a Hero Who 'Still Arouses the Country' (News busters)
Following a revealing interview with former JFK mistress Mimi Alford on
Wednesday's NBC Rock Center, left-wing MSNBC host Chris Matthews, along with
liberal historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Richard Reeves, were invited on
the broadcast to give a sycophantic defense of the womanizing president.
[_Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump_]
Touting his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," Matthews proclaimed:
**"The greatest heroes are often the most flawed."** The Hardball host went on
to gush over how Kennedy "colorized American politics....made it a technicolor
movie, he made it exciting." In his characteristic fashion, Matthews
concluded:** "And so with it all, the total picture still arouses the
country."**
Host Brian Williams introduced the fawning discussion of Kennedy's legacy:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains a mythic figure in American public life and in
the memories of so many of us. Meredith [Vieira]'s interview here tonight has
just added, in a way, another chapter to that. So, what do we make of all of
this? How do we square it with JFK's vaunted role in our history and our
society?
While the airing of the interview had only concluded minutes before, Goodwin
immediately attempted to dismiss Alford's ...
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