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What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak.

I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch'sÌýNew York PostÌýsavage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Ìýwhile he and his children are in great distress.

I will not answer, and thereby repeat, the cruel libels thrown at Kennedy by theÌýPost.

But let me get this on the record:ÌýKennedyÌýis, and this is no exaggeration, the most committed family man I know.ÌýEvery single day, he shuts down work, no matter the flood of urgent demands from around the world, for family time, for his kids. He is deeply religious, with a piety and intelligence he communicates with his family so impressive it makes me doubt my atheism.

Kennedy uses his family name, not to further his career, but to widen his children's understanding and involvement in the world and to try to teach our ignorant nation lessons in moral conduct that his kids have already learned well.

To blame Kennedy for his wife's illness is just further proof of the conclusion of Britain's Parliament thatÌýMurdoch is "unfit to run a newspaper." ÌýBut then, no one would say theÌýNY PostÌýis a newspaper.

Again, I want to extend the condolences of the entire Palast crew to Mary Richardson Kennedy's family.

When Bobby's grief and mourning pauses––because it will never end––we look forward to resuming our partnership with him.

- Greg Palast

NoÌýworst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

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...O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap

May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small

Durance deal with that steep or deep.Ìý

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- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journalist Greg Palast, with Bobby Kennedy Jr., investigated the threat to voters' civil rights for Rolling Stone magazine and BBC Television.