The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | May 29, 2008
The problem for McClellan is that he appears transparently foolish, reciting charges about the Iraq War and so forth that have mostly been raised before by the President’s political enemies.
Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist “journalist” named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin.
But the connections don’t end there. Boudin’s son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin’s comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the lives of two policemen and a security guard. Dohrn later served jail time for refusing to cooperate in an official investigation of the crime.
Obama stands to benefit from the McClellan book because it was obviously crafted, under the guidance of Osnos, to inflict maximum damage on President Bush and, by extension, fellow Republican and Iraq War supporter Senator John McCain. None of this can be called an accident.
One question that has been raised by critics is whether McClellan is in it for the money. But that’s less important than the fact that the network that has made this book into a reality incorporates many elements of the far left. Some of these links have been commented on already. For example, the Osnos firm, PublicAffairs Books, has also published books by George Soros, John Kerry, and Vladimir Putin. But Osnos’s ties to I.F. Stone and the media constitute the story behind the story.
The network that included Stone, who died in 1989, was the subject of Susan Braudy’s 2003 book, Family Circle, about the Boudin family’s communist and socialist ties. Page 185 shows Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn together, “after Bernardine’s return from Cuba,” where she had “a warm meeting with members of the Viet Cong.” That was before she and Ayers finished their bombing campaign, which included a blast that killed a San Francisco policeman, and helped launch Barack Obama’s political career.
None of this background, of course, is being mentioned by those anxious and eager to interview McClellan, even though virtually all of his former friends say that what he is writing and saying now doesn’t sound like him at all. The obvious explanation is that, for whatever reason or motivation, he is reading from a script prepared by Osnos & Company and the far left.
The ploy is working. So far, according to the firm’s website, McClellan’s interviews are scheduled to include:
- NBC-TV “Today” – 5/29/08
- CNN “The Situation Room” – 5/30
- CNN “American Morning” – 6/2
- Comedy Central “Daily Show” – 6/2
- NPR “Fresh Air” – 6/3
- NPR “Talk of the Nation” (Live from the Newseum in DC) – 6/11
Favorable stories about the book have already appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today.
This is quite impressive until you realize that Osnos says that every book he publishes includes a dedication to Benjamin C. Bradlee, I.F.Stone and Robert Bernstein, former head of Random House. The first two are worth mentioning. Bradlee was the executive editor of the Washington Post, famous for once remarking that, during coverage of the Iran-Contra affair under President Reagan, he was having “the most fun since Watergate.” Bradlee was hoping to bring down Reagan, as they had brought down President Nixon in the paper’s coverage of the Watergate scandal.
Nixon had developed a national reputation as a Congressman and had laid the basis for his runs for national office by helping expose Soviet spy Alger Hiss in the State Department and a communist network inside the U.S. Government. Interestingly, one of Bradlee’s reporters on the Watergate story was Carl Bernstein, whose parents were members of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.
Iran-Contra did not bring down Reagan, but the far-left apparently hopes the McClellan book will help bring down or further damage President George W. Bush. It can also, in their view, do some collateral damage to McCain.
It is a tactic that has been employed time and time again. Pegging their coverage to a book, the media create the appearance of a “scandal,” this time with a former “insider,” and try to inflict political damage that benefits the Democrats. The problem for McClellan is that he appears transparently foolish, reciting charges about the Iraq War and so forth that have mostly been raised before by the President’s political enemies. McClellan, who never objected to the policies when he promoted and defended them, is acting like a puppet.
Osnos is the key to understanding the network that is working behind-the-scenes. A former national news editor of the Post, Osnos was an assistant to I.F. Stone in the 1960s. Stone postured as an independent radical writer but was exposed as a Soviet agent in the transcripts of Soviet messages known as the Venona intercepts and by other sources.
Former Soviet KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin had identified Stone as a Soviet agent, but under pressure from Stone’s friends in the media later backed away from that precise description. However, in his book, The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, Kalugin still identified Stone as a “fellow traveler” of the Soviet Union who “made no secret of his admiration for the Soviet system” over a period of many years and had regular contacts and lunches with him.
Osnos is still one among many far-left journalists who do not want to accept the terrible facts about their hero and icon. But as AIM founder Reed Irvine told the New York Times back in 1992, “The charge that I.F. Stone was a Soviet agent does not surprise those who knew that as a fellow traveler, if not a [Communist] party member, Stone remained a faithful Stalinist through the purges, the Hitler-Stalin pact and the absorption of Eastern Europe…”
Braudy’s book about the Boudins, Family Circle, has a lot to say about Kathy Boudin and her uncle, I.F. Stone, also known as Izzy. Before turning to a life of crime as a communist terrorist, she had wanted to work for her uncle’s newsletter, which is also where Osnos worked. On page 72 of the book, which tends to avoid harsh judgments, she tells us that Stone tried to organize opposition to U.S. involvement in the Korean War, in order to make South Korea safe for communism, and that he would later work to remove U.S. forces from South Vietnam, in order to pave the way for a communist military victory there. Stone and his comrades were successful in the case of Vietnam. His pro-communist record was clear for all to see, except to Osnos and his ilk.
According to Braudy, Stone had “achieved fame in the 1950s for fighting for the rights of people who were accused of having been members of the American Communist Party.”
But none of this apparently bothered Osnos, who went to work for Stone in the 1960s. And Osnos’s tie to Stone didn’t bother the Post. “After working for I.F. Stone, Peter Osnos became a correspondent around the world for The Washington Post and the newspaper’s foreign and national editor,” the official I.F. Stone website proclaims.
I first came across Osnos back in 1980, just a year or so after coming to Washington, D.C., when he was guest-lecturing at the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS.) I signed up and covered the Karen DeYoung class on “foreign reporting.”
DeYoung, then a foreign reporter for the Post, is now an associate editor at the paper. The IPS class was being held during a time when the old Soviet Union and its surrogate, Communist Cuba, were destabilizing Central America and hoping to install a series of communist governments. Reagan had stopped the Soviet takeover at a critical juncture when he ordered the military liberation of communist-controlled Grenada. However, Reagan was also supporting the democratic government of El Salvador, which faced a communist terrorist movement, and freedom fighters in Nicaragua. It was the latter that led to the “Iran-Contra affair” when National Security Council staffer Oliver North arranged for unofficial assistance to the Nicaraguan resistance when the liberal Congress was attempting to cut off their aid.
To Karen DeYoung, as she told the class, “most journalists now, most Western journalists at least, are very eager to seek out guerrilla groups, leftist groups, because you assume they must be the good guys.” This betrayed the left-wing media bias that continues to this day and is reflected in the publication of the McClellan book. Any Republican president who dares to take on America’s enemies is targeted for destruction.
For his part, as I noted in an April 1983 Human Events article, “The IPS and the Media: Unholy Alliance,” Osnos exhibited a strange view of communism. He claimed not to know why the Soviets behaved as they did. But he had visited Cuba, where he found no evidence of Soviet control, and came away convinced that there was “’apparently genuine rapport” between Castro and the Cuban people.
On March 12, 2008, as he was preparing publication of McClellan’s book, Osnos found enough time to pay tribute to I.F. Stone on the anniversary of Stone’s birthday. Others paying tribute were Robert Kaiser, associate editor and former managing editor of the Washington Post, and Myra MacPherson, author of a book about Stone and former reporter for the Washington Post.
This is the milieu that has spawned the McClellan book. Whatever you may think of Bush, McCain or the Iraq War, there can be no doubt that Bush’s former press secretary has fulfilled the function of “useful idiot.”
Once again, the media are having their fun.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Just watch McClellan when he is on TV now, he looks very uncomfortable. Everybody is writing a book these days and unless it is controversial it will not sell. The Democrats have fun with this one and we with Obama’s. It is all par for the course and politics stinks.
Cliffs expose’ takes half the cover off the ball. Do we accept McClellan as author and Osnos the impartial publisher? I don’t. Every man has his price. Even with full media interference, SM’s moment of spin & glory has a max. shelf life of 3 days before his return to obscurity much like Elliot Schpritzer. More proof that spin can’t hide that Dems have no hand in their glove when it comes to policy. Yet it doesn’t seem to disuade their continued efforts to fabricate truth from the lie repeated. I’d expect at least 4 more such diversionary scheme’s from Camp Clintama between now and the election. Did anyone notice the Iraqis are scoring some embarassing victories that require our attention on Scott McClellan this week?
It’s funny you say McClellan is “acting like a puppet” now. He was already a puppet when he was the White House press secretary.
You forgot to mention that when McClellan’s mother ran for governor of Texas, Bush endorsed her opponent. That may also be some of the motivation for writing this book.
Nonetheless, the book is not controversial because it just confirms what many people have been asserting for years.
Cliff Kincaid wrote:
AIM Column
The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book
By Cliff Kincaid | May 29, 2008
Obama stands to benefit from the McClellan book because it was obviously crafted to inflict maximum damage on President Bush.
That’s what he thinks, fair enough howwever looking at the results of Bush antics, I voted for the man, some might conclude that Bush antics were so crafted, that is to say Bush’s actions were devised to inflict maxium damage on Bush himself. Politicaly suicidal perhaps but that is the way the thing could be described.
Bush has been a tremendous disappointment to conservatives…no question about that. But the political system on both sides of the aisle is corrupt. The media is not impartial, so you don’t get the whole story. If that was a left winger (like a Zel Miller) who turned on Clinton or the democrat party, he wouldn’t be on Good Morning America. But the right is not above these tactics either. They have done plenty of this stuff too. The left gets a pass when it comes to this stuff…as in Obama who can talk fluff about change without ever having to talk in detail about his policies (when he does, he inserts foot in mouth) because the media likes to think the left is caring and compassionate while the right wants everyone to die painfully. If this situation were reversed, the mainstream media would not be covering it and shows like GMA…but plenty of others would.
Larry Wiseman, absolutely, they are all corrupt.
Now, if we can recognize that, we can take a step into the light and realize there is so difference.
In their own way, with their different rhetoric, they are all working to destroy this country. The things that are hurting this country has been going right along for decades.
Things like outsourcing of jobs, increased immigration (with no thought to the benefit or detriment to this country and no demand for assimilation), globalization, welfare, interference in education, illegal immigration, etc., both so called sides have worked to get the job done.
Under the guise of Civil Rights, education, gun control, drug war, war on poverty, terrorism, etc., they have all helped to put in place laws and rules that have taken all power from the states, and almost all from the individual, and gathered it into that behemoth of a central government - the thing feared by the founders of this country - and with good reason.
He needs to “repent” so he accuses everybody else. What a crock! This phony insults my intelligence by trying to put that one over. My intelligence tells me that he is driven by greed - money is at the root of this evil. He uses the “repentance” scam to add credibility to his tall tales. No. He isn’t clearing his conscience. He’s clearing people’s wallets and in the process is piling on sin after sin as he continues to lie. There is much more devil than God in this man.
Dear Scott, I am gentle as a dove but wise as a serpent. Your conscience isn’t cleared, it is seared.
I have said from way back, that both sides are working together and are memebers of the same club of Rome, any fool can see the no borders, lawlessness, big Pharam and the two oil men in office, party when no one is looking. How blind we all are..and the worst is everyone wants to love their party more than America,,some are so G-dless these day, they will put their names behind everything G-d calls abomination..and then think G-d will bless us, especailly trying to take the land from Israel..Na…dream on,,He is coming all right and not as what some think,,NO,,he is coming as the LION of JUDEA to destroy the nations who try to destroy HIS people and HIS land. I am very angry that our president is leading the pack, Since G-d warned He would destroy for that, HE MEANS it whether one likes it or not, America made the choice to be blessed or cursed,,so why blame G-d…and IF Israel were to die, so would we..they own the Olive Tree that we were grafted into, not replaced..what a mess and no one wants the truth..
Keep researching and writing, Mr. Kincaid. You are the only one who dares use the prohibited “C” word without fear of being accused of McCarthyism (although I personally think it is a compliment). I wonder how long it will take for people to realize what we will be up against if Obama is elected. If he is elected, and the Dems make a sweep of both houses as some are predicting, his inauguration speech will start to reveal the man’s true leanings. Chavez did not even wait for the speech. At the swearing in ceremony when asked to repeat “to uphold the Constitution”, he said: “to uphold this moribund Constitution”. That should have given everyone hint of things to come.
war boy bush sucks…closet racist obama hussein sucks…Hillary sucks…shotgun cheney sucks…kinda scary rice sucks…They all suck…
Re Jim’s comment, the following comes to mind re candidates for the nations highest elective office.
I too do not particularly care for any of the above mentioned. Having said that, isn’t it sad that the three mentioned are presumably the “best” our political system in capable of producing?
Isn’t it time to conclude if these three are the best the ‘system’ producing, something is wrong with the system.
Somewhere, someone (s) or something, has far too much power to decide the eventual choices we have.
I’m saddened when someone uses words like ‘bush-bashing’, as that is spin from the WH. It is what has been used since he came into office. That bothers me. I wish everyone would use their own minds and their own words rather than give more mileage to an administration that is as corrupt as any we have had.
Yes, Obama is the media’s darling. He has been since day one. But if we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit this media has been very friendly with this President, with few exceptions. This war would probably not have happened if we had had a media that was a reporting organ, not a propaganda organ. We probably would not have had the Patriot Act, and our illegal problem. Yes, we had illegals here, but one of the first stated goals of this President was to give amnesty to illegals. He invited Vicente Fox to speak to Congress where Fox made demands for his people here illegally. The PResident called us bigots who spoke out against his ‘hardworking people looking for a better life’ and ‘people just doing the work Americans won’t do.’
We must, simply must, take of the blinders and look at all of them as they are, all of them - no matter whether they wear the Dem/Rep jerseys.
Yes, we need some conservatism in this country - but we won’t get it by taking the side of anyone who calls themselves conservative and delude ourselves they are working for this country. That is the most dangerous thing we can do. That is refusing to see the dangers that are in front of us.
Does McCellan and his publisher have an agenda and a reason for publishing now - certainly. All politicians have an agenda and a reason for writing their books and the timing of the release. It could be to hurt McCain, it could be to strike while the iron is hot and make more money.
The rag isn’t key to anything! Where Baroque hailed a comrade, it called an abrupt halt to his presidential bid.
It is one thing for international communist to openly brag about what they did to their black Christian relatives 654 years ago, but to then try to spin it in the opposite direction, that in toto is most wicked!
Whether we realize it or not, this country is in for major problems if the silent majority does not get off their duffs and do something about it.
Take Mr. McClellan preaching the official line of the administration while according to his book he knew that he was laying, if he is correct. Isn’t that great?
As to the candidates in this election there is very little difference amongst them with the exception of the war on terror but even the majority of Republicans have questions about how it is run and how it will end.
To get some real lesson I suggest that many of the respondents should read “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville to get some insight on the history of this country.
We will lose, period, unless we do what Jules says and ‘get off our duffs’. We will loose more quickly with Obama.
As for Mr. McClellan working for the administration knowing he was doing wrong - that is what they all do. I don’t think, for a tiny second, any of them have any real core beliefs or allegiance to anything but money and power.
With few exceptions, there is no difference on the war - except rhetoric. The ‘other side’ has voted for every destructive thing this President has done. They may talk out of the other side of their mouths, and shuffle up to the microphone and claim they were ‘duped’, or they were not in the majority and had no power.
The questioning on either ‘side’ is nothing more than electioneering. Election time is the silly season -
Now that we are in a war, they can say what they please, as there is little or nothing they can do about it.
Ask yourself, if you were in the position of power these lawmakers have, with access to the media and people of this country, what would you do if you saw this country headed in a totally wrong direction? What would you do if you realized things were about to happen that could seriously cripple the country? Would you say you were not in the majority or could do nothing?
Would you allow yourself to be duped on something as horrific as a war?
Personally, I would have used my power, my access, to let the people know what was happening. I would have written to editors, gone on talk shows, written my constituents, had town hall meetings - preached on the street corner. I couldn’t have been complicit or quiet (same thing) and allowed it to happen. No decent person could.
What the reader will find in many of Cliff Kincaid’s articles is the very essence and definition of McCarthyism: Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty by saying they were Communists. What the reader will not find in these articles is an omission of all the facts as well as most of the sources.
In this article the author falsely infers McClellan’s writing partner, Osnos was affiliated with communists because he was a one time assistant to I.F. Stone, here falsely referred to here as as a “pro-communist journalist”. If Izzy Stone or Osnos are communists, then you can be rest assured Cliff Kincaid here is a boot licking Nazi, or at best a fascist. Even though neither Izzy Stone or Peter Osnos can in any way be labelled as ‘communists’ in thought or action, it can be repeatedly seen in articles like this from Kincaid that he is far enough to the right to be deemed a fascist.
Note that Cliff here, as usual, fails to provide sources for most all of his ‘alleged facts’, that in this case amount to nothing more than decade old accusations by Herbert Romerstein, a former employee of the House Unamerican Activities Committee [McCarthy’s committee] AND this right wing [fascist] organization he writes for called Accuracy in Media. [New York Review of Books, December 3, 1992, The Attack on I.F. Stone: An Exchange”] More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone
In a 1992 Nation article, D.D. Guttenplan claims that the evidence shows clearly that Stone was never a witting collaborator with Soviet intelligence. [D.D. Guttenplan, “Izzy an Agent?”, The Nation, August 3/10, 1992; Romerstein’s letter in response and Guttenplan’s “Stone Unturned,” September 28, 1992. For a more comprehensive critique of Romerstein’s limitations see Stephen Schwartz, “A Tale of Two Venonas” in The Nation, January 8, 2001.]
Cassandra Tate, of the Columbia Journalism Review, argues that accusations of Stone’s involvement with the KGB are based on a few lines at the end of the KGB officer’s speech and that after some research into Stone’s history she concluded that he was not an “agent” and there is no evidence he was a collaborator with the agency [ Tate, Cassandra, Who’s out to lunch here? I. F. Stone and the KGB, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1992. Accessed online September 9, 2006] http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/92/6/stone.asp
Yes, Craig writes for the very same AIM today that aided and abetted McCarthy’s Unamerican Activities Committee out to persecute anyone that wasn’t a far right enough fascist for them. This Unamerican Activities Committee initially was started to determine the facts behind Corporate America’s 1930s fascist right wing plan to overthrow FDR and install fascism in America. A plan led by Dupont, the House of Morgan, GM, and a host of other right wing fascists at the time including George Bush’s grand daddy Prescot. This early version of the House Unamerican Activities Committee succeeded in covering up this fascist plan to overthrow America and never indicted its perpetrators.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/Plot1.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm
Whoops - correction on above “What the reader will not find in these articles is an omission of all the facts as well as most of the sources.” Obviously I mean “What the reader will also find in these articles is an omission of all the facts as well as most of the sources.
Above post continued:
In a 1992 Nation article, D.D. Guttenplan claims that the evidence shows clearly that Stone was never a witting collaborator with Soviet intelligence. [D.D. Guttenplan, “Izzy an Agent?”, The Nation, August 3/10, 1992; Romerstein’s letter in response and Guttenplan’s “Stone Unturned,” September 28, 1992. For a more comprehensive critique of Romerstein’s limitations see Stephen Schwartz, “A Tale of Two Venonas” in The Nation, January 8, 2001.]
Cassandra Tate, of the Columbia Journalism Review, argues that accusations of Stone’s involvement with the KGB are based on a few lines at the end of the KGB officer’s speech and that after some research into Stone’s history she concluded that he was not an “agent” and there is no evidence he was a collaborator with the agency [ Tate, Cassandra, Who’s out to lunch here? I. F. Stone and the KGB, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1992. Accessed online September 9, 2006] http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/92/6/stone.asp
Yes, Craig writes for the very same AIM today that aided and abetted McCarthy’s Unamerican Activities Committee out to persecute anyone that wasn’t a far right enough fascist for them. This Unamerican Activities Committee initially was started to determine the facts behind Corporate America’s 1930s fascist right wing plan to overthrow FDR and install fascism in America. A plan led by Dupont, the House of Morgan, GM, and a host of other right wing fascists at the time including George Bush’s grand daddy Prescot. This early version of the House Unamerican Activities Committee succeeded in covering up this fascist plan to overthrow America and never indicted its perpetrators.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/Plot1.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm
Why bother with going over a period in Europe which span 654 years?
Back then, European Christians found themselves involved in a holy war when gays, lesbians, gangs and boozehounds found reason to do so.
When that period came to a close, their Christian
cross was bent, and shoved down the throat of India. Why else would England see the need to establish laws such as The Untouchables, which seems to follow French plantation owners that set
up Jim Crow?
Therefore, if we did not like blacks in Europe what were we doing in the Americas exterminating
God?
If and only if the nazi swastika is of Native American origin, then did we participate in a soviet takeover of the Kremlin once upon a time known as the Russian Orthodox Church?
If Karl Marx was used by the gay mafiya of Europe
to extinguish all freedoms worldwide, yet Eleanor
Marx’ tome is lost when it set the gay and lesbian alliance in context to today’s war in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Ready to delete my comment again there Craig because it’s FACT rather than confront it with more of your FICTION?
In this article the author falsely infers McClellan’s writing partner, Osnos was affiliated with communists because he was a one time assistant to I.F. Stone, here wrongly referred to here as as a “pro-communist journalist”. If Izzy Stone or Osnos are communists, then you can be rest assured Cliff Kincaid is a boot licking Nazi, or at best a fascist. Even though neither Izzy Stone or Peter Osnos can in any way be labeled as ‘communists’ in thought or action, it can be repeatedly seen in articles like this from Kincaid that he is far enough to the right to be deemed a fascist.
Note that Cliff here, as usual, fails to provide sources for most all of his ‘alleged facts’, that in this case amount to nothing more than decade old accusations by Herbert Romerstein, a former employee of the House Un-American Activities Committee [McCarthy’s committee] AND this right wing [fascist] organization he writes for called Accuracy in Media. [New York Review of Books, December 3, 1992, The Attack on I.F. Stone: An Exchange”] More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone
In a 1992 Nation article, D.D. Guttenplan claims that the evidence shows clearly that Stone was never a witting collaborator with Soviet intelligence. [D.D. Guttenplan, “Izzy an Agent?”, The Nation, August 3/10, 1992; Romerstein’s letter in response and Guttenplan’s “Stone Unturned,” September 28, 1992. For a more comprehensive critique of Romerstein’s limitations see Stephen Schwartz, “A Tale of Two Venonas” in The Nation, January 8, 2001.]
Cassandra Tate, of the Columbia Journalism Review, argues that accusations of Stone’s involvement with the KGB are based on a few lines at the end of the KGB officer’s speech and that after some research into Stone’s history she concluded that he was not an “agent” and there is no evidence he was a collaborator with the agency [ Tate, Cassandra, Who’s out to lunch here? I. F. Stone and the KGB, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1992. Accessed online September 9, 2006] http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/92/6/stone.asp
Continued:
“Records of investigations of Stone from 1953 through the 1970s by the FBI, CIA, Army, State Department, and U.S. Postal Service have been declassified; years of tailing by agents, informants, illegal car searches, and even pawing through his trash produced not a shred of evidence of clandestine activities. Had Stone done anything wrong, US authorities would have found and disseminated it, since Hoover hated Stone.”
http://www.ifstone.org/biography-refuted.php
Yes, Craig writes for the very same AIM today that aided and abetted McCarthy’s Unamerican Activities Committee out to persecute anyone that wasn’t a far right enough fascist for them. This Unamerican Activities Committee initially was started to determine the facts behind Corporate America’s 1930s fascist right wing plan to overthrow FDR and install fascism in America. A plan led by Dupont, the House of Morgan, GM, and a host of other right wing fascists at the time including George Bush’s grand daddy Prescot. This early version of the House Unamerican Activities Committee succeeded in covering up this fascist plan to overthrow America and never indicted its perpetrators.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/Plot1.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm
What the reader will find in many of Cliff Kincaid’s articles is the very essence and definition of McCarthyism: Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty by saying they were Communists. What the reader will not find in these articles is an omission of all the facts as well as most of the sources.
Mistake in last sentence again that should read:
“What the reader will also find in these [Kincaid] articles is an omission of all the facts as well as most all of the sources.”
I do not think that anybody is above making journalistic errors! With that said, I would like to add a few facts which if they are buxing I herein take full blame: 83% of homeowners in China pay cash when they purchased a house. 75% of the world’s conctruction cranes, are now in China.
During the latest Teslated earthquake in China, 67,183 dead, 361,822 injured, 20,790 missing, 46.61 million were affected [does this correspond
to 41.61% of a Christian population]?
The Chinese government has allocated 70 billion renminbi ($10.1 billion) to reconstruct China, and they should also be hoping th at 15 billion renminbi ($2.2 billion) will be enough for that nation’s current disaster relief!
Don’t we spend too much time discussing ‘isms’ and not discussing the people involved, their decisions, and the consequences to us all of their decisions.
Don’t we use political spin too much and not our own words?
Things change - meaning change.
I was raised by stern Republican Conservatives. I would be upset if anyone put me in that category today, knowing the ones calling themselves that and the things they have done.
I think I will always be at heart a Republican.
To me, it is like going to church. A lot of people say a great deal about God and the church,
but very few walk and talk right.
I also think the party whats to please everyone, but just like the Democrats they wind up hurting everyone! That’s why I see Ron Paul as a wake up call, for not just those now running for the office of president, but for the entire nation.
What is both amazing and appalling to me is that Bush hasn’t already been brought down. He’s easily the worst presidunce this country has ever had. His list of crimes against this country and the world are literally endless.
Was 9-11 God’s punishishment on America for Bush being allowed to steal two elections?
I dunno… but it sounds a heck of a lot more plausible to me than the silly line spit out by that idiotic porker Jerry Fatwell that it was God’s punishment on America for the gays, feminists, and pagans. That was utterly laughable.
Then again, I think Bush knew 9-11 was going to happen and not only did nothing to stop it because he knew he’d benefit from it… and remember his loooooooooong vacations right before 9-11 when all the intelligence reports were coming in? ...the ones he denied ever existed. The ones Cunnilingus Rice lied through her big buck teeth and then lied some more, in front of the Senate subcommittee and all the TV cameras… The system was and had been blinking bright red and in retrospect it was obvious they were playing hot potato and didn’t want to have anything to do with what was obviously about to happen.
But because Bushitler’s brother Marvin Bush (remember him from the Silverado Savings and Loan collapse in the 80’s in which he walked away a free man with no criminal charges and we the taxpayers paid off all the FDIC-insured depositors?—it must be nice having your daddy as president) was the guy in charge of security for the entire WTC complex, he allowed the military-grade thermate to be placed in the towers to make darn sure they were going to come down.
Did you hear the media report on any of this? I don’t think so (the only place to get any real news is to watch Free Speech TV, which unfortunately is only carried on Dish Network [ch 9415]). Did you hear the media report on the dozens and dozens of times Jeff Gannon went in and out of the White House? Many times arriving late at night, and often not leaving until the next morning. Remember him… the gay prostitute with the website and naked pictures of himself… The phoney journalist who was given a White House Press Pass by someone way up in the White House, way ahead of real journalists who wait years for such a pass. Yet the story was suddenly dropped. Why?
I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that Bushitler’s nickname at his all-male prep school was “Lips” (just google George Lips Bush if you really want the details), or the fact that he likes bald guys.
Just like the scandal in the late 80’s where children were being kidnapped and used for sex toys for Republicans when Bushitler’s daddy was president. Again, story suddenly dropped even after more than sufficient proof had been established (old articles are still available if you google them).
Somehow these Republicans have enough money and power to control the press and apparently threaten to have their FCC licenses yanked if they report on any of their shenanigans. Even if it involves them murdering 3,000 innocent Americans on 9-11.
The very best way to bring Bush down is accuse him of constructing a system of Privatized Social Security which only exists in three Texas counties.
This way, you can get him lock, stock and barrel! The nerve of that guy. Trying to hide the fact he and his friends in Texas are the only ones allowed to benefit off that system.
I, for one, believe that this is an impeachable offense, and I personally think he should be taken out and shot. Isn’t there any laws that can stop him, even if he was governor of Texas when it was enacted?
Unlike governor Grope. Ho swore to us he never touched a LaLaLand female who sued him, and was awarded an undisclosed sum, paid for from the taxpayer’s till!
The Democratic congress was 100% right to stop his ill advised scheme to bring Privatize Social
Security on the national scene. What if it succeeded?
It’s hard enough to bilk taxpayers with Teslated earthquake, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, tsunamis, and of course, the ever loving
magnetic levititational device where planes, cars and trains can be controlled by computer with libertarian backed laws to punish everybody
but the ones who actually caused deadly problems.
Never you worry, Bush will be impeached just as soon as the antiwar movement can figure out a way
to clear their name about their getting Tillaman popped when he snitched them off to the CEO of the antiwar movement! Bush knew better than not to notify the antiwar movement that the antiwar movement shot Tillman and covered it up, by fabricating a fantastic fairytale! Yessuh, mark my words, Bush is going to pay for that inaction indeed! Did you see how a month to the day Bush
got out of Englands scam against him and the Gulf
War two Arabs in London blowed themselves sky high! I am willing to bet dollars to donuts Bush was behind that too! Gettin’ the A-rab chillins’
tuh turn themselves into blobs of jelly. It’s a total disgrace I tell you a total disgrace!
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Bush deserves any and all criticism we can muster. But that’s not to say that Obama and Clinton don’t either. Either way, with Bush, Clinton, McCain, Obama, we all lose.