Letters to the Editor
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Gordon Wagner, this isn't spin. It's psychodrama.
I've seen you pull this "drop everything and impeach Bush and all will be okay" stuff on other Salon LTTE's. That's your particular mania, okay? Other people have the mania for finding out who "really" killed JFK, and you should be just as considerate, because their quest is as quixotic as yours.
I don't know why you, personally, do your thing, but I've known some JFK conspirators. To them, the moment JFK was killed was the moment everything went bad. The country got worse and worse Presidents, Vietnam and Waco and Columbine and Iraq happened, and it was all because that wonderful, heavenly, saintly Kennedy was killed.
Which just shows the power of assassination to purify its target. I remember that Kennedy was going to have a hard time heading into the 1964 elections. He'd screwed up relations with the alumiumn, copper and steel industries, damn near losing the labor vote because he wanted to break the strikes and keep those industries running for defense purposes. To many people he seemed more style than substance. He practiced the "brinkmanship" that he so decried in Nixon, and almost went to war over the Bay of Pigs. But when he was killed, all that was forgotten.
And as we all know, the person who finds the true killer of JFK will gain immortality and will, through dint of his superb investigative skills, become the head of the Illuminati, which will then rule the earth for a thousand years of peace and prosperity.
Conspiracy nuts - and nothing I saw in the article eliminates Mr. Talbot from that classification - really believe this. But at least they don't interrupt every other column on Salon, whether TV, sports or movie reviews, screaming that we must all impeach Bush now. Hint, hint.