A fine reminder that "Camelot," that magical fantasyland where everyone was joyful and happy and wonderful and JFK was our handsome wonderful happy wonderful leader, is a post-assasination myth:

it is a startling thing to behold: Nearly 45 years after the man’s tragic death, the liberal establishment remains enthralled to the cargo cult that is the John F. Kennedy myth.

And it is a myth. Start with the “Camelot” label. It’s worth remembering that nobody used that word to describe JFK’s presidency when he was alive. The media’s marketing of the term stems from Jackie Kennedy’s recollection that her husband liked the Broadway musical “Camelot,” which had opened a month after Kennedy’s election. Theodore White, a journalist-admirer of Kennedy’s, convinced Life magazine to run with the idea. The musical’s tagline “for a brief shining moment” became an overnight cliché to describe the supposedly glorious idealism of Kennedy’s “thousand days.”

All this media fawning over the "legacy of Camelot" being passed on to Obama by our "American Royalty" (Teddy Kennedy? "Royalty"? Really?) just sort of rolls off my back, though. It must be shocking to the old media types out there who cut their teeth back in the Nixon/Kennedy era that there is now a class of Americans who don't idolize JFK as some sort of a political god.