RFK, PC, AND THE BEATLES, BAD?

...and mud in yer "Beetle" eye




I've been messin' around on the WWW for over 10 years, and I done seen some pretty bizarre shit.
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Yet a book I recently came across in a used store competes with anything I've seen-so far-on the Net.
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Blood in the Face, a scholarly work by former Village Voice journo James Ridgeway on racist/extremist groups in the US, contains one of the most bizarre pop culture references this writer has seen-so far.
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A right wing lunatic-tool by the name of Gerald L. K Smith opining in around
1965, wrote a piece as a "revelations" that best that I can decipher
accuses Bobby Kennedy of taking up a "scandalous...Beetle" haircut,
which in turn, the Beatles themselves copped from Prince Charles(!),
whose hair, writes Smith, grows out of his eyebrows!
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Click on left for Smith's full fantasy.
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Any olde ways, history students of the Fabs shall recall that the
KKK, and other paranoid schizophrenics urged Beatle fans in '66 to renounce the group and burn their records, when John Lennon made a comparative opinion regarding religion and pop music and the popularity of both at the time.
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Actually, when one comes to think of it, the Beatles, for all their earth-shaking cultural change got off pretty easy when it came to attacks from these hate-groups.
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Luckily for the lads, the sheet-wearers were more concerned with US internal politics and race-relations than cheeky long hairs from England.
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Still, a very interesting window into a time when obviously insane propaganda was not always seen for what it was.