When the Chickens Come Home to Roost

A master troll tweet reveals Conservatives’ empty, fake patriotism

One of my earliest memories is sitting in a doctor’s office on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles and hearing the radio announce that Robert Kennedy had been shot and had died. I remember asking, “Can’t the doctors put him back together again?”

The doctor came out into the waiting room and said, “No honey, we can’t.”

I was just a baby when Bobby’s brother Jack, the most charismatic and loved U.S. President of my lifetime, was gunned down in Dallas. Although I was too young to remember the real horror, I feared visiting Dallas as an adult. Driving through Dealey Plaza, I felt a cold wave of genuine evil. As a college student, someone gave me a book about the Kennedy assassination and I read part of it before feeling waves of evil emanating from the thick paperback. My best friend and I took it outside, tore the pages from the book, and burned them.

So, we have just celebrated Memorial Day and the great Ken Klippenstein pranked notable and ignorant conservatives like Matt Gaetz (currently facing accusations of pedophilia), Matt Schlapp (husband of “The Schlapper” — don’t ask) and Candace Owens by asking them to retweet an image of his “grandfather,” a Veteran. The picture was indeed a Vet, but no…