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I’m going to be digging back into his writing to catch up with some things I missed, but to inject a lighter note regarding Newfield into very sad news, the HBO film, “Don King: Only In America”, starring Ving Rhames and based on Newfield’s book, is one you shouldn’t pass up if you’re into “guilty pleasures”. Not a great film, but a lot of fun.

RFK was an immensely complex figure but Marc’s dismissive cynicism aside, I think that Newfield – and Bobby Darin, no less – saw something real and transformative in the RFK of 1968. His murder was undoubtedly one of the tragic “what if” turns of the sixties that sidetracked progressive possibilities into divisiveness and disaster for the entire the nation. Newfield and Darin (!) understood RFK’s loss – particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King’s murder – as ultimately the loss of a lot of hopes that had emerged in the early ’60s in the wake of civil rights activism and that were fueled to some extent by the JFK “New Frontiers” myth. The doors that a second less-mythological-but-more-pragmatically-liberal Kennedy administration would have opened most likely would have stemmed a lot of the self-marginalization of the left and systematic unhinging of the Democratic Party from white working-class voters that began full-speed with Nixon’s ugly ascension.

Newfield was much more of a down-to-earth pragmatist than his friend Tom Hayden who veered into the ultra-left during those years, and he understood that protest divorced from practical politics with the potential for broad appeal is futile, if not counter-productive.

(Re: RFK’s riling the “Clean for Gene” crowd, Gene McCarthy was a great early catalyst for the anti-war movement among Democrats but he obviously couldn’t even get nominated, much less elected, and he would have been an ineffectual president.)

Damn shame.

Here we are today, and I just heard that Jack died of kidney cancer earlier this week. Though we later battled mightily over Israel, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, he was supportive when I was fresh off the boat at the Voice in the early 1970s.

Rupert has fired hundreds more editors and now has three floors instead of one. I don’t grudge him his triplex. He’s the one who has to climb up and down endless stairs or wait for the elevator so he can go to bed.”

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn12252004.html

Cockburn’s are nothing but crocodile tears. Alex is a cold and spiteful person, totally without personal ethics and as far as I can reckon, totally bereft of compassion. He has not flinched from using “friends” like Newfield for fodder, shredding them up and mischaracterizing them just to get him through one more column.

Do me a favor and dont post any more counterpunch links on this blog. I have not removed the one above only out of respect to Jack. Any other crap from Cockburn will go where it belongs — in the rubbish bin.

RFK was an immensely complex figure but Marc’s dismissive cynicism aside, I think that Newfield – and Bobby Darin, no less – saw something real and transformative in the RFK of 1968. His murder was undoubtedly one of the tragic “what if” turns of the sixties that sidetracked progressive possibilities into divisiveness and disaster for the entire the nation. Newfield and Darin (!) understood RFK’s loss – particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King’s murder – as ultimately the loss of a lot of hopes that had emerged in the early ’60s in the wake of civil rights activism and that were fueled to some extent by the JFK “New Frontiers” myth. The doors that a second less-mythological-but-more-pragmatically-liberal Kennedy administration would have opened most likely would have stemmed a lot of the self-marginalization of the left and systematic unhinging of the Democratic Party from white working-class voters that began full-speed with Nixon’s ugly ascension.

Newfield was much more of a down-to-earth pragmatist than his friend Tom Hayden who veered into the ultra-left during those years, and he understood that protest divorced from practical politics with the potential for broad appeal is futile, if not counter-productive.

(Re: RFK’s riling the “Clean for Gene” crowd, Gene McCarthy was a great early catalyst for the anti-war movement among Democrats but he obviously couldn’t even get nominated, much less elected, and he would have been an ineffectual president.)