Is The History Channel Pushing Right Wing Smears Of The Kennedys?
Watch the Video | Sign the Petition | Send To Your Friends Dear Joan, The right wing has set its sights on the reputation of one of our nation’s greatest political families: The Kennedys. And The History Channel is providing them a soapbox from which to spew their bile. Joel Surnow, a hard-right activist and former Fox News producer who supported Rick Santorum and is close friends with Rush Limbaugh, is the executive producer of an upcoming mini-series on the Kennedys that is political character assassination of the most disgusting kind. I’ve read the script. It’s ridiculous, sexually exploitative, revolting stuff – everything you’d expect from a conservative re-writing of history. In my previous life, I produced and directed over 55 movies, mini-series and feature films. I thought I had pretty much seen anything and everything. But this garbage, coming so soon after Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, makes the worst commercial schlock look Oscar-worthy. Honor the legacy of the Kennedy famil
