If we couch the views in the form of a question that means that this columnist doesn't personally substantiate their wild assertions. We just want to bring some new theories to the attention of the people who are connoisseurs of concocted conjecture.
Cub reporters are always urged, for legal reasons, to pepper their stories with words like "allegedly," "reportedly," "assert," and to inundate the readers with phrases like "according to a police spokesman," and "unsubstantiated conjecture."
So we were sure that we found the next candidate for the Conspiracy Theory Hall of Fame when we found folks asking: "Was George W. Bush's real father JFK?" They follow that up by asking "Did George H. W. Bush, play the role of jealous husband, and hire killers to rub him out in Dallas?"
Their wild assertions do seem to tie up loose ends and nagging question concerning JFK's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, in an Occam's razor sort of way. Folks (not just the good ole boys in Texas) can readily comprehend the "jealous husband" rational for using a gun.
According to this new way of explaining the Dallas Assassination, the common connecting thread is the CIA. Here are some links for readers who want to do their own play-along-at-home sleuthing and fact checking about this wild bit of speculation. (Embedded links seem so Tyler Durdin-ish.)
http://www.aviationbanter.com/showthread.php?t=4080
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/custom/JFKsealgoss.jpg
If a columnist writes about a new dance craze sweeping the discos, that doesn't mean he has to be the fellow who "invented" the dance. It doesn't mean that he has to be able to do the dance. It just means that, as a reporter and critic of the contemporary culture, he wants to point out what the latest development in that sphere of culture is. For those who are fascinated by conspiracy theories, this columnist just wants to bring their wild, intriguing question to the attention conspiracy theory fans. When it comes to drawing conclusions; you are on your own.
Herb Caen, who has his own room in the (imaginary) Columnists' Hall of Fame, defended his columnistic style thus (From "Don't Call it Frisco" Doubleday hardback pages 25 26): "That brings us to the third type the "scattershot" column, crammed with short items on a variety of subjects. This kind of column is, obviously, a lot more work, but it attracts a wider audience, at least theoretically. As that great practitioner of the art, Walter Winchell, once expressed it: "People don't get bored if you change the subject often enough.'"
Now, our disk jockey will play: Jimmy Dean's song "Big, Bad John," Dion's song "Abraham, Martin, and John," and Tom Clay's overdubbed version of "What the World Needs Now." (It is on Youtube and guaranteed to make surviving hippies weep.) Now, we gotta skedaddle. Have a "you're not gonna believe this . . ." type of week.
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