Markey and Kennedy — Take a Knee for Kaepernick

A recent headline in The Boston Globe dubbed it "TV's best new comedy." Columnist Scot Lehigh was referring to the Ed Markey-Joe Kennedy senatorial debates. Apparently, Lehigh failed to detect any parallels with the historic Lincoln-Douglas clashes. Of course, those contests took place long before television, and at a time when politicians were capable of stringing together more than a sentence fragment or two of coherent thought. Most importantly, the stakes were a bit higher in the lead-up to

A recent headline in The Boston Globe dubbed it "TV's best new comedy." Columnist Scot Lehigh was referring to the Ed Markey-Joe Kennedy senatorial debates. Apparently, Lehigh failed to detect any parallels with the historic Lincoln-Douglas clashes. Of course, those contests took place long before television, and at a time when politicians were capable of stringing together more than a sentence fragment or two of coherent thought. Most importantly, the stakes were a bit higher in the lead-up to…