I hate to go back to politics on a Friday afternoon, but if you have a few minutes, click over to Revolution 21 and watch the collection of videos featuring W. Cleon Skousen, Alan Keyes and Glenn Beck's conspiracy-mongering. Alan Keyes, who is shown being introduced warmly at a 2000 campaign event by Skousen, is shown on a more recent video saying: "Obama is a radical communist, [and] either we are going to stop him, or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
Please, if you can, listen to the 27-minute recording Favog posts from a 1976 Skousen lecture quoting Mormon prophecies and warning about the "secret combinations" -- Satanic conspiracies in political parties, labor unions, the churches, the wealthy (especially the Rockefellers), all of whom are working behind the scenes to bring about what Skousen calls the "One World Order."
Favog also has some choice Beck video in which he completely distorts what Obama thinks of the Constitution, to make Obama seem like he's trying to overthrow the constitutional order behind the scenes. Lying, Skousenite, paranoid propaganda. And man, you have got to watch the clip he has up of hidden communist and fascist art in Rockefeller (!) Center -- notice especially how, in the course of a genial eight-minute crackpot monologue, Beck ties up fascism, communism, corporatism, the United Nations and the Rockefellers in one big conspiracy.
This man has a national TV show.
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While we are mentioning the Federal Reserve, how has this not made the National News? Ron Paul must have been the onlu human on the planet that saw this. Very scary. Wonder who the woman is behind the IG for the FED?
I guess you removed my previous post.
Anybody who criticizes the government is a "conspiracy theorist" and has a "tinfoil hat."
Convenient way to discourage people from any intellectual inquiry.
Poor Ron Paul has been labeled a wacko for years...then you listen to the man and realize Oh My God, he makes perfect sense.
The mainstream media has it in for anybody who sniffs out what the elites are up to. The media, in fact, won't even allow anyone to mutter anything about "elites" without branding the person a kook.
Fact is, open any history book, and history is simply a long tale regarding how various elites have run the world since the beginning of time. I wonder why things are different now? Oh! It's different now because there is no great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small contingent. How wrong I have been to chase facts. Guess I better remove my tinhat and join the Obama worshippers.
Always great when Rod's detractors only prove his point more by attempting to refute him.
How is the weather underground any different than the anti-Obama movement today? Sure the weather underground blew up buildings...which I'm sure will be coming soon from the teabaggers and company.
The Weather Underground thought that the US was doing something wrong in Vietnam. Forty years later we know we were. Not only that, but the people in charge were crooked murderers. Nixon and Kissinger...mass murderers who did illegal stuff and it was recorded on tape. Overthrew governments. Put dictators in power.
Now I'm not saying that Obama isn't doing bad stuff. I have no way of knowing. But Bush did bad stuff. It's pretty clear. And the people protesting now were in full support of him and his policies.
All I'm saying is that the Weather Underground of the sixties is the same as the Teabaggers of today.
The right and, more specifically, the GOP know an empty suit when they see one. Obama, like Clinton, is a politico with a capital "p" and thus keenly attuned to the daily pragmatics of spectacle. The GOP willingly unleashes its worst elements, risking legitimation, for the sake of scoring political victory derived from compromise via its so-called more moderate wing, which seems rational, by comparison--or so will say the wizards at the NYTimes, et.al. And so it goes. Both sides of "the debate" get more of what they want: the status quo.
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