Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!fed1read02.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hifumi Subject: Re: =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlOD88TGslIiVLJWElaiU5JUgbKEI=?= Ver.1.0 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email,fj.rec.animation References: <41B44215.7147E8CD@dd.iij4u.or.jp> <41B5DD08.D66D095D@fsinet.or.jp> Message-ID: <83C45DA8.58488C0C@fsinet.or.jp> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Lines: 28 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:02:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.108.19.241 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read02 1102800398 68.108.19.241 (Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:38 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.rec.animation:2842 that Smith - between interviews of Barbara Streisand and Julia Roberts - has been digging through the newly declassified record and will now set us straight. But her only source is Exner. And, like Kelley, Smith seems to avoid asking the tough questions, probably because these two have been pals since 1977. At one point she calls her a "real star." None of the inconsistencies or absurdities I have noted get into the article. In fact, Smith adds more of her own. As with Demaris, one of her aims is to make Exner a victim of the press so that she can imply that the "liberal media" is "protecting" the Kennedys. As demonstrated above, this is preposterous. Exner was a media creation used by that press to pummel the Kennedys who the Times and Post - and their ally the CIA - never liked. To camouflage this, Smith claims that after her book came out, the Exners "fled" to California. Yet, according to Demaris, Exner and her husband were already in California when he met them to start work on the book. Smith can actually write the Orwellian statement that Safire - author of no less than five pro-Exner columns - "derided" Exner's story. Again, contradicting her book, Exner now says she never went to bed with Giancana. In fact, in the Vanity Fair version, the whole scene where he proposes to her is different from the book. In the revisionist go round the suggestion is that good Italian Catholics, even though they may be murdering