JFK, who went sailing while the Berlin Wall was erected... Who partied as the Cuban Freedom Fighters were slaughtered in the Bay of Pigs... And who, when his spine finally stiffened - almost caused World War III in the Cuban Missile Crisis... Is now best known for his womanizing -laying the groundwork for Bill Clinton's exploits.
What differentiates his presidential legacy from that of... say... Jimmy Carter's?
Just a couple bullets.
Many museum visitors who are movie buffs head straight for the Sean Penn Repository of Worthless Cinema. Named for perhaps the most over-rated actor in movie history, this very large collection of stage and screen performers celebrates those who have inexplicably gained fame through their ability to bore audiences everywhere.
Recently opening over in the Journalism Wing, there is a long over-due exhibit.
The Christiane Amanpour exhibit is simply stunning. Here is a celebrated woman whose journalistic mediocrity and under-developed sense of reality is truly legendary. This woman, who was raised in Tehran, and led a privileged life under the regime of the Shah of Iran -amazingly managed to grow up in the Middle East without developing any sense or understanding of Radical Islam and its threat to the world. How did she do it? I'm sure I don't know. It just must be part of the magic of being Christiane.
Over in the the Elvis Presley Pagoda of Over-Rated Popular Music, which was once dominated by Disco Music... Rap now dominates - as one might assume. But whether it's Fabian, Helen Reddy, Air Supply, or Michael Jackson - All mediocre songs and voices from the present and past are well represented.
In the Donovan McNabb Sports Pavilion there is an entire section dedicated to the National Basketball Association. How did the NBA take the most exciting sport on the high school and college levels, and turn it into a complete yawner, lacking even a modicum of integrity? Come to Indiana and find out!
For directions and more details about the Indiana Museum of the Over-Rated, visit Indiana Tourism.gov and receive a free brochure.
4 comments:
Named for perhaps the most over-rated actor in movie history
That's not fair, I Am Sam was an okay movie. But then, how hard is it to play a retard?
PS -- JFK is a hero! He got shot in the head! That makes him okay.
Jacob...
Well said.
It's amazing what a bullet can accomplish.
JFK gave the Soviets every indication that he would back down - come what may. Then came the missiles in Cuba... And he turned the tables on them. During the Cold War, being inconsistent could be deadly... And almost was.
Don't forget Jimmy Carter. He's overrated too--even by the people who say he was the worst president ever. No, he was even worse than that.
Skyepuppy,
You make a good point. It is illustrated most significantly among those who became politically conscious after 1980.
History is such an easy thing to rewrite if you have an agenda - and haven't a lick of honesty.
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