Joe Kennedy III calls Washington Post column invoking RFK 'grotesque'

[TexasTowelie]

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

[Thekaspervote]

1. Hugh hewitt...he's grotesque

[TexasTowelie]

3. I know,

but kudos to Joe for not making it personal.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Hewitt is a useless meat popsicle.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. "A useless meat popsicle"

[sheshe2]

4. POS.

Hugh and his party are the enablers of the shooters. They all have blood on their hands. I hope they all rot in hell.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Hewitt - how absurd!

For this guy to attack those that are speaking out against the obvious racism of IQ45 by claiming that they were "trying to score points" - well, that makes about as much sense as Hewitt and the Repugs always claiming after any mass shooting (and there have been a few, you know.......) that it's "too soon" to talk about gun control or what can be done to protect the American public.

A brilliant response from Representative Kennedy - and as for Hewitt......... He's an ASS!!!!!!!!!

[abqtommy]

7. I know that firearm restrictions and regulations that most Democrats support

will do a great deal to create peace and healing, no matter what the lying POS Hewitt says.