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Shot down like a dog in broad daylight
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The day that they blew out the brains of the king Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing
No, the presidential historian knew the question wasn't serious. Did he think Dylan was nostalgic for the bloody murder of a man he calls the king, as he sings the part of Hamlet sending his midnight message of truth and revenge to JFK's ghost? Of course not. Brinkley was doing what all the mainstream corporate media do: Making sure the truth was hidden behind a stream of pop cultural references and questions that would appeal to The New York Times' aging readers who are nostalgic for their youth as they contemplate old age and death.
When Dylan answers one of his questions about his recent song, "I Contain Multitudes," by saying "it is trance writing," he uses a word that applies to this New York Times' interview. It is a trance-inducing interview meant to do what the Times has been doing for nearly six decades: obfuscating the truth about the murder of President Kennedy by the national security state led by the CIA. The same CIA that has always found a most receptive mouthpiece in the Times.
This interview, that begins with a witless question about nostalgia, ends with the question all the aging baby boomer Times' readers were waiting to hear Brinkley ask Dylan:
How is your health holding up? You seem to be fit as a fiddle. How do you keep mind and body working together in unison?
From nostalgia to health more or less sums up this interview.
Murder be damned - even when Dylan's song that initiated this interview, "Murder Most Foul," truly startles and is a redemptive song. For Dylan holds the mirror up for us. He unlocks the door to the painful and sickening truth of JFK's assassination. He shoves the listener in, and, as he writes in Chronicles, "your head has to go into a different place. Sometimes it takes a certain somebody to make you realize it."
Bob is that certain somebody.
"What is the truth and where did it go?" he asks.
Brinkley asks other questions to take your head to places where you won't see a thing. It's quite a magic trick.
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