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Home Front: Culture Wars
Wacko "Rightwingers" Beamed From Pluto
2006-03-18
Paul Craig Roberts and the Certifiable Right
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine

Quick – what columnist alleged in an article Thursday that President “Bush intends to attack Iran and that he will use every means to bring war about?” That Bush has used “bribery and coercion” to block “every effort to bring the dispute to a peaceful end”? That “in order to gain a pretext for attacking Iran,” he and a “’black opts’ [sic.] group will orchestrate [an] attack” on U.S. soil?

One would never expect to hear the author is “chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury” under Ronald Reagan. That progressively unhinged man is nationally syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts...
Roberts was a high profile, heavy hitter in the Reagan administration. As was Pat Buchanan a major Nixon speechwriter and spokesman. What happened? When their belief in the globalist aspect of the Neo-Con ideology collapsed, adoption of a critical conservative-nationalist position did not satisfy their piety lust, and they chose to run with the wild-eyed left. Buchanan has resorted to promoting Justin Raimondo's mean-world spews, and Roberts is predicting a Bush scheme (Plan 9, I assume) to explode a nuke off the Atlantic coast, as a pretext for stomping Iran. Reality dictates: Ha. Ha. Ha.
Posted by:Listen To Dogs

#13  mid 90's Paul C Roberts was a stable guy with solid/smart commentary....WTF happened?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-18 17:04  

#12  One thing that may be helpful is to point out to your son that there are many rich, unstable, and oppressive countries in the muddle east that are dependent on most of their populations (and a substantial subset of ours) believing such bullshit as "Mossad did 9/11" in order to continue existing, and they have a budget of tens of billions of dollars to push this very necessary (to them, at least) lie.

By comparison, the US propaganda budget is probalby something on the order of a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Posted by: Phil   2006-03-18 16:19  

#11  Not near as funny scary as Plan 9 the OS.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-18 15:54  

#10  3dc:
The Ed Wood' "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
Posted by: Listen To Dogs   2006-03-18 14:25  

#9  Which Plan 9?

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Outer Space



or various stores with Plan 9 in their name..

BTW... common theme being which medication?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-18 11:38  

#8  2b - The Internet is a two-edged sword, but you're absolutely right -- now we aren't stuck with only the filtered and "fixed" media version.
Posted by: Glunter Sneash8888   2006-03-18 10:47  

#7  Take heart, GS. Your son will learn at an early age that just because it's in writing, it doesn't mean it's fact. Unlike our generation that had nothing but the fake but accurate drum beat of Dan Rather, he will have information from many, many sources.

It's impossible to know where it will lead - but one thing is sure, this generation will learn to think for themselves.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-18 10:43  

#6  well said Matt! Let them be heard. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Being a nut isn't confined to the left of the right.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-18 10:37  

#5  Matt - My son, 13, asked me about a month ago if 9/11 had been a Mossad plot. Up to that moment, I had placed great trust and store in him, honors in math and science (yay!), I thought I had a real winner. My smug complacency vaporized and I realized that, no matter how absurd it was, I would have to very calmly explain it to him - or it would insult him that I didn't take him seriously. He actually thought that he had considered this idea carefully and it made sense. To my relief he hadn't arrived at this independently - he directed me to several websites to show where he had found the "proof" - he had filled in the blanks for himself and was sold on it. Scared the living hell out of me.

I am very careful, now, in making sure he knows I won't ridicule him but will, instead, work through the rationale. Since then, he's brought me several of these whoppers to discuss and a couple of his friends have joined in the "discussions". Thank God the 8 yr old couldn't care less, at the moment. One natural skeptic, and his gang of over actively imaginative buddies, is more than enough to keep me occupied tracking down facts that he can absorb on his own and arrive at the true story without my dictating it. That would terminate his trust in me in a heartbeat. Scary.
Posted by: Glunter Sneash8888   2006-03-18 10:35  

#4  Chomsky, et al, are doing a gang-busters business selling amazing whoppers to the lost children.

That's a great line. These guys (left and right) are the trolls of our national discourse. And we're feeding them like crazy.
Posted by: Matt   2006-03-18 10:09  

#3  This simply amazes me. I remember Roberts and he was no idiotarian. He may be a capitalist first and foremost, however.

It appears that the money is much better in the Illuminati Idiot Industry than in any legitimate or rational pursuit. Chomsky, et al, are doing a gang-busters business selling amazing whoppers to the lost children. This segment of the west is much larger than I would've guessed offhand.

The slew of turncoats who have been kicked out or have resigned from government over the last 5 years (and I guess the credit for their departures can be blamed on Bush, LOL) and the Clinton era sycophants who were, quite suddenly, left in the lurch when Gore lost... Altogether they certainly seem a powerful force if one only considers their "credentials" and doesn't consider their motives and apparent greed. The mainstream media collaborates with them, of course, even coordinating to hold stories from publication so they will coincide with their book releases and such.

What do we do with such parasites? I think many are much more than simply opportunists and gadflies, I think of them as traitors. What do we do with them? How do we end the constant requirement to refute their twisted arguments and charges? When will Bush get serious about prosecuting the leakers and slanderers?

Carter, Clinton, Wilson, Scheurer, Clark, Tenet... the list is long, indeed. It's a witch's stew of disinformation which has completely unhinged the Democrat Party and left our Republic flying on one wing. Something very wicked this way comes.
Posted by: Glunter Sneash8888   2006-03-18 09:58  

#2  or a mind unset.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-18 09:39  

#1  Buchanan in particular is a textbook case of the pre-WWII American isolationist. He is a true believer that the US needs to interact with nobody, to include foreign trade, can seal its borders to all outsiders, and probably thinks that it would be good if we jammed all foreign transmissions or other information that might enter our country.

It is an odd mindset, to say the least.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-18 09:28  

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