This really pisses me off. So his dad was JFK, what did jr ever do for us? The media spent his whole life trying to make him into a hero and treating him like royalty. But the really fucked up part came when they started talking about stamps for him and shit when he died. He got in a plane that he was barely qualified to fly, flew it out in horrible weather and crashed into the water. He fucking killed two women through typical Kennedy arrogance, and we’re gonna make him a hero? So I guess if you get a couple of people in a car drunk off your ass and crash into a wall killing them and yourself your a national hero too, as long as you have some Kennedy blood in your system.
He was akennedy, and people seem to think they owe him something. I could really care less.
Anyone see the headlines on the Enquirer? Seems JFK Jr. was supposed to be the victim of a kidnapping, and turned into a sex-slave…It seems someone took too long to put together a plan.
Where’s the A-Team when you need them? 
-Sam
Part of it is the need to sell magazines. JFK, Jr. was an extraordinarily handsome man, after all, and putting him on a cover will boost sales.
Part of it is American celebrity worship. For some reason, people want to identify with the rich and famous. A common refrain in news reports was, “I felt like I lost a friend.” What BS!
It’s also some base need in our society to grovel. Why do we treat the Kennedys like royalty? They treat public office like a birthright, and they act like they’re above the law.
It’s shameful that a free people act like worshipful serfs.
Oh, God, not this again . . . We went through all this last year when he died.
No one is trying to make him out to be a “hero,” I’ve never once heard that word associated with him. He was a celebrity. A good-looking, nice enough, not-terribly-bright guy born to power and wealth. There have been celebs as long as there’s been the printed word, and there always will be, because people “need” them.
They are featured on TV and newspapers and magazines because that’s what the public wants—and what’s wrong with that, if it “brings a little joy and cheer into their dreary and hum-drum lives,” to quote Lina Lamont?
Yeah, yeah…if he’d’a been a golfer, Eve would’ve REALLY torn into him.
Ow! What the hell IS that?
Oh, it’s just my chain being yanked again. Cut it out, willya, you got my skirt caught in it!
Pssst.
Ike. Pull harder.
. . . or off a bridge.
The Kennedy’s didn’t make themselves hero’s, we the public did.
Whether anyone’s trying to make him a “hero” is debatable. Whether he deserves stamps honoring him is debatable. But there’s no need to exaggerate. He was qualified to fly the plane - true, he had only recently gotten his license but how are people supposed to rack up 10,000 hours if they don’t fly shortly after becoming qualified? And the weather wasn’t exactly “horrible” - makes it sound like there was a blizzard or something.
People make stupid mistakes all the time. John made a big one, and probably exercised poor judgement by leaving so much later than originally planned, but that is hardly the same as a drunk knowingly getting into a car and driving.
Furthermore, anyone who knew John (and Caroline, for that matter) or spent 5 minutes reading anything the media has ever printed about either of them can see that if anyone in that family didn’t display the “typical Kennedy arrogance” (whatever that means), it was those two.
He died on the same day my son was born. Probably not interesting to anyone. Just thought I would mention it.
Darby
Uh… if you say so. I think he was rather generic and bland looking, myself.
So… do you believe in reincarnation? heh. (actually the soul would have “moved in” long before the day of birth, but it made for a funny thing to say. OK OK it wasn’t that funny a thing to say, either. Ok so it was lame. And carrying on like this is probably making it worse, isn’t it… oh hell.)
I think the simpsons put it best:
[when Bart faked a kid getting stuck in a well]
The media seems to try to make people heroes when they die tragically. Although, not all the time, I don’t remember any talk of Sam Kinnison stamps. Just think about Christopher Reeve. He fell off a horse, and now he’s brave because a machine does his breathing for him. Meanwhile, he’s diluting the minds of paralyzed people who think that they’ll be able to walk normally again within their lifetimes. The Onion attacked the herofication of celebrities with “Christopher Reeve Placed Atop Washington Monument.” The funniest line from that article was, “I wish I had the courage to be crippled like that.”
bradysg
Oh this is swell. I say Scott Hamilton isn’t as great as they say on tv and evryoen acts liek I’m the devil, but this guy rags on dead people and yuo all agree. WTF?