Early Show's Smith Bizarrely Hints At Obama Assassination

[Judi Lynn]

Early Show's Smith Bizarrely Hints At Obama Assassination
January 29, 2008 10:50 AM

Senator Ted Kennedy, having endorsed Barack Obama for President, has begun his barnstorming on behalf of the candidate in earnest. This morning found Kennedy on CBS' The Early Show, where anchor Harry Smith, apparently lacking the wit or the wherewithal to pursue a more substantive line of questioning, took the opportunity to do a little whistling past the Kennedy family graveyard:

SMITH: When you see that enthusiasm though, and when you see the generational change that seems to be taking place before our eyes, does it make you at all fearful?

Naturally, Kennedy really didn't catch on to what Smith was driving at, and responded, "I think that what people are basically saying is that they want a new day and a new generation."

Lacking a more heavy-handed way of getting his point across, like, say, whipping out the Zapruder film or something, Smith delicately waded back into the matter of political assasination:

SMITH: I just...ahhh--I think what I was trying to say is, sometimes agents of change end up being targets, as you well know, and that was why I was asking if you were at all fearful of that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/29/early-shows-smith_n_83816.html

[Occam Bandage]

1. "Well, what I'm trying to say, Ted,

is that your brother John was shot dead, and your brother Robert was shot dead. They were living, breathing, dynamic young men trying to change the world, and people shot them. Barack Obama is a dynamic young man trying to change the world. Does he remind you of your brothers who were shot dead? And did the tragic deaths of your brothers scar you to the extent where you might project them on Obama--and do you fear that he will die by being shot the same way your dead brothers were shot to death?"

[featherman]

2. Ouch... targets

Well maybe it was innocuous

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. that must have been awkward for all involved

Smith, Kennedy, and everyone watching.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Smith guy has no Class....

[question everything]

9. Actually, Smith is the best of all of them

and has more class than Lauer, Sawyer and the rest of them combined.

[Coexist]

4. what a dick

[samdogmom]

5. Wow! That's a breathtaking leap for Harry Smith to make!

I'm speechless and dumbfounded! I simply can't fathom WHY this thought would occur to anyone. Could he know something that the rest of us don't?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. better not fly a small plane

seriously!

[question everything]

8. A friend of mine had a similar reaction when heard of Kennedy's endorsement

You cannot escape this, and not thinking of this possibility is being in denial.

Why, do you think, has Obama been provided with secret service since he entered the race?