Grong Grong (band) originally meant for release as a demo. After supporting Melbourne band the "Corpsegrinders" word of Grong Grong's unique sound spread to Melbourne which gave them a spot supporting the Dead Kennedys at their performance at the Thebarton town hall in 1983. They managed to heavily impress Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra and he's quoted as saying this about them, "I lay awake for about two nights after seeing Grong Grong, still wondering if I actually saw what I really saw." Jello later signed Grong Grong to Alternative Tentacles and financed their first album. Jello later collaborated with Charlie Tolnay on
The Kennedys (miniseries) website stopkennedysmears.com was registered by filmmaker Robert Greenwald as part of the critical response to "The Kennedys". On February 24, 2010 Dave Itzkoff of "The New York Times" reported that historian David Talbot, whose recent book had been used as source material for the miniseries, had joined those preemptively criticizing "The Kennedys". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010), former presidential aide and speech writer for 35th President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, served 1961-1963), described the script as a "character assassination". At the time of all of this criticism, the miniseries had not yet even been cast. In an interview published in "The Los