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TexasTowelie

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Thu Aug 15, 2019, 05:38 PM Aug 2019

Joe Kennedy III calls Washington Post column invoking RFK 'grotesque' [View all]

Rep. Joe Kennedy III says that a Washington Post columnist’s recent attempt to use his grandfather as a cudgel against the current Democratic Party was “grotesque.”

In his own op-ed Wednesday evening, the Massachusetts congressman responded to conservative columnist and radio host Hugh Hewitt’s opinion piece Saturday in the Post headlined “The party of Robert F. Kennedy is gone.”

Hewitt pointed to the former attorney general and New York senator’s famously moving speech in 1968, in which the then-presidential candidate announced the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to a largely African-American crowd in Indianapolis and called for “love and wisdom and compassion toward one another.”

Kennedy himself was assassinated two months after the speech.

In his article, Hewitt suggested that, in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, today’s Democratic Party sought to “score points,” rather than urge peace and healing.

Read more: https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/08/15/joe-kennedy-hugh-hewitt-rfk-column

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Hugh hewitt...he's grotesque Thekaspervote Aug 2019 #1
I know, TexasTowelie Aug 2019 #3
Hewitt is a useless meat popsicle. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2019 #2
"A useless meat popsicle" MyOwnPeace Aug 2019 #5
POS. sheshe2 Aug 2019 #4
Hewitt - how absurd! MyOwnPeace Aug 2019 #6
I know that firearm restrictions and regulations that most Democrats support abqtommy Aug 2019 #7
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