More on the left, parroting their hateful Faux smear on Faux Noise.
Remember the Rove-Rumsfeld-Cheney-Dubya lies that led to the illegal
invasion of Iraq!
On 1/23/11, Keith In Köln <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know who reminded me of this, it was probably you Bruce, but Rosie
> O'Donnell, Charlie Sheen, Cynthia "Queen Moonbat McKinney, Ed Asner,
> Jesse "The Body" (And former voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) Ventura,
> Whoopie Goldberg, and a host of other Moonbats are also
> conspiratorialists.....Far from anything remotely considered, "Right
> Wing". Once again, Lil' Tommie continues to spread hate, lies and smear,
> from the likes of a Moonbat like Michele Goldberg, (I'm sure, a good Irish
> American gal)
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I believe I met Michelle in DC.
>>
>> Typical middle brow whoreflak.
>>
>> What makes 9/11 conspiracy theorists "right wing"?
>>
>> John Stroebel, your fellow Obama supporting yahoogroup spammer, is one,
>> and
>> he was a socialist for years, though lately he has been pretending to like
>> Ron Paul (while continuing to smear anyone who criticizes Odumbie).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Cult Web Film that Inspired Loughner
>>>
>>> by Michelle Goldberg
>>>
>>> We now know a little bit more about the matrix of ideas that helped
>>> inspire Jared Loughner's murderous rampage on Saturday. According to a
>>> friend of his interviewed on Good Morning America on Wednesday, the
>>> conspiracy documentary Zeitgeist "poured gasoline on his fire" and had
>>> "a profound impact on Jared Loughner's mindset and how he views the
>>> world that he lives in." He was also, according to his friend's
>>> father, influenced by the documentary Loose Change, a classic of the
>>> 9/11 Truth movement. This does not mean that either of these movies is
>>> responsible for making Loughner do what he did, but it does show how
>>> his madness was shaped by a broader climate of paranoia, and offers a
>>> clue as to why he targeted Gabrielle Giffords.
>>>
>>> According to his friend, Zach Osler, Loughner "didn't listen to
>>> political radio, he didn't take sides, he wasn't on the left, he
>>> wasn't on the right." Naturally, conservatives have seized upon this
>>> to exonerate themselves of charges of incitement. But it's not that
>>> simple. It's hard to place Zeitgeist and Loose Change on the
>>> conventional partisan spectrum—both come from a shadowy conspiracy-mad
>>> subculture where the far right and the far left meet. Yet it's the
>>> contemporary right, the right of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party, that
>>> has mainstreamed ideas from this demimonde in an unprecedented way.
>>>
>>> To understand how, it helps to look at the career of Alex Jones, an
>>> Austin radio host and the country's most prominent conspiracy
>>> theorist. Jones was the executive producer of Loose Change, and chunks
>>> of Zeitgeist are taken from his documentary Terrorstorm. Jones
>>> disagrees with elements of Zeitgeist—he's a Christian, while Zeitgeist
>>> attacks religion—but he's said he supports 90 percent of what's in the
>>> movie, and he promotes it on his show. "A lot of people find my work
>>> because of Zeitgeist," he said during an interview with the
>>> documentary's director, Peter Joseph.
>>>
>>> The point, again, is not that Alex Jones, Zeitgeist, or The Tea Party
>>> are responsible for Loughner's crimes. The point is that he targeted
>>> Giffords for a reason, one rooted in his unhinged interpretation of
>>> recognizable conspiracy theories.
>>>
>>> Both Zeitgeist and Alex Jones promote the idea that world events are
>>> controlled by a secretive banking cabal that is using debt to enslave
>>> us all. Zeitgeist echoes Alex Jones in warning that the United States
>>> is about to be merged with Canada and Mexico into a "North American
>>> Union" that will use a new currency, the "Amero." "When the time is
>>> right," Zeitgeist informs us, "the North American Union, The European
>>> Union, the African Union, and the Asian Union will be merged together,
>>> forming the final stages of the plan these men have been working on
>>> for over 60 years: a one-world government." This government will
>>> implant microchips in all of our arms. "In the end, everybody will be
>>> locked into a monitored control grid, where every single action you
>>> perform is documented," it says.
>>>
>>> Zeitgeist, which came out in 2007 and has since spawned two sequels,
>>> is an Internet phenomenon. The two-hour documentary is available for
>>> free online, and according to its creators, it has been viewed tens of
>>> millions of times. Its claims are heatedly debated on Ron Paul forums
>>> and anarchist websites; excerpts appear on numerous Tea Party pages.
>>> It has a global following: When it played in a South African theater,
>>> the Cape Times described it as a "disturbing reminder" of "the subtle
>>> move towards a micro-chipped society, with the world's population
>>> potentially destined to be logged onto a monitored grid, leading up to
>>> a centralized one world economy."
>>>
>>> The idea of control and manipulation is the movie's real theme,
>>> knitting together its disparate parts. Zeitgeist's second-third
>>> rehashes classic 9/11 Truth theories that purport to show that the
>>> attacks were actually an inside job. This was done, the final section
>>> argues, at the behest of a banking cabal that has repeatedly goaded
>>> the United States into war in order to solidify its wealth and power.
>>> Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at the think tank Political Research
>>> Associates and one of the country's foremost experts on right-wing
>>> movements, points out that Zeitgeist borrows liberally from the G.
>>> Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, an "expose" of the
>>> Federal Reserve System popular with the John Birch Society, Alex
>>> Jones, and some Tea Party groups. It also draws on ideas from the
>>> Protocols of the Elders of Zion, though it never mentions Jews.
>>>
>>> Right-wing conspiratorial beliefs have long festered on the fringes,
>>> but in the Obama era, they've been injected into the center of our
>>> politics like never before. The distance between figures like Alex
>>> Jones and the contemporary conservative movement has shrunk
>>> alarmingly.
>>>
>>> Steeped in the rhetoric of the militia movement, Jones has promoted
>>> just about every conspiracy theory out there: He even accused the
>>> Illuminati of putting its symbols in the Starbucks logo as a taunting
>>> show of strength. Though rooted in the right, he also occasionally has
>>> guests from the far left—he's hosted Democratic Congressman Dennis
>>> Kucinich [Kucinich is on the "far left"? -- WH] as well as Texas
>>> Republican Louie Gohmert. His political hero is Ron Paul—he runs
>>> RonPaulWarRoom.com, and Paul is a frequent guest on his radio show.
>>> But until recently, most conservatives disdained him. In 2007,
>>> Michelle Malkin argued that Paul's association with Jones was enough
>>> to disqualify the congressman from participating in GOP primary
>>> debates.
>>>
>>> Since then, though, Republican politics have become a lot more
>>> paranoid. Tea Party groups and Fox News started echoing Jones'
>>> warnings that the swine flu virus was really a pretext to establish
>>> martial law. Lou Dobbs went on Jones' show in 2008 to discuss the
>>> coming North American Union. In March 2009, Jones released The Obama
>>> Deception, which argued that Obama is the front man for a
>>> transnational oligarchy working to create a one-world totalitarian
>>> state. The day after it came out, the online Fox News show Freedom
>>> Watch did a joint broadcast with him. "I appreciate what you're
>>> exposing," Fox host Andrew Napolitano told Jones. "I must tell you
>>> that there was a time when the types of things that you are warning
>>> against was not discussed openly and publicly." Glenn Beck
>>> fictionalized Jones-style conspiracy theories in his 9/11 truth-themed
>>> novel, The Overton Window.
>>>
>>> People who study the right have worried for months about the
>>> consequences of paranoid beliefs about treasonous government plots. In
>>> 2009, Berlet authored a report titled, "Toxic to Democracy: Conspiracy
>>> Theories, Demonization and Scapegoating." It traced the history and
>>> dissemination of the kind of conspiracy theories floating around the
>>> right, and said, "People who believe conspiracist allegations
>>> sometimes act on those irrational beliefs, and this has concrete
>>> consequences in the real world."
>>>
>>> Loughner was caught up in the sort of conspiratorial fantasy Berlet
>>> was describing. His YouTube videos are often unintelligible, but in
>>> their moments of lucidity, they rail against manipulation of the
>>> currency system and the illegitimate power of the federal government,
>>> obsessions of the right-wing populist milieu. In this milieu,
>>> politicians like Gabrielle Giffords weren't simply wrong, they were
>>> agents of an intolerable tyranny manipulating the economy and turning
>>> Americans into slaves. Hence the vitriol and intimations of violence
>>> that scared Giffords and her staff well before Saturday's shooting.
>>>
>>> The point, again, is not that Alex Jones, Zeitgeist, or The Tea Party
>>> are responsible for Loughner's crimes. The point is that he targeted
>>> Giffords for a reason, one rooted in his unhinged interpretation of
>>> recognizable conspiracy theories. Right-wing activists and politicians
>>> have traded on such theories, giving them far more mainstream exposure
>>> and credibility than they ever had before. Experts on political
>>> violence have been arguing for months that this is extremely
>>> dangerous. People like Loughner are the reason why.
>>>
>>> To read it all:
>>>
>>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-13/zeitgeist-the-documentary-that-may-have-shaped-jared-loughners-worldview/
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Have a great day,
>>> Tommy
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