Lame radio

WKRS, 1220 on your AM dial, runs these unscientific polls, some which appear to ask legitimate questions. However, the one that somebody called my attention to was this: " Are the Kennedys supporting Obama because they hold Hillary responsible for the death of JFK Jr?" What?

There's some fringe Web sites, conspiracy theorists and plain wingnuts who subscribe to the theory that the Clintons, in cahoots with the Bush dynasty, put a contract out on John-John because he was going to run for president. The theory goes that somehow they had somebody rig his airplane which crashed on its way to a weekend retreat on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in July 1999, killing himself and his wife.

These same whackos claim a coverup of young Kennedy's death and tie it to the Dallas assassination of his father back in 1963. Most mainstream media ignore the JFK Jr. conspiracy theory as fancy, although Clinton bashers are quick to point to Vince Foster's death. Also, there's the so-called "Clinton Body Count", a list respected news outlets have investigated and found it to be another example of oddball Internet ramblings. Then there was the Bush tie-in that JFK dated Barbara Bush one summer before World War II.

As The Hound noted, "respected news" organizations have debunked most of this conspiracy trash, but WKRS decides to continue the "big lie" by posting the poll. One saving grace was one of the answers, besides yes and no, was: "What kind of question is that?" Indeed.

But one should expect no less from an organization that readily rips and reads newspaper copy, making it seem they actually have a news staff. That's lame, too.