Kirk Gallaway

I came upon this clip a few months ago of RFK Jr. talking about "Growing up Kennedy" on what looks to be a morning show. And it's rather timely now that he's is running for President. I've always felt his father, RFK had a much greater opportunity to be a great President than JFK. RFK Jr. comes off a little stiff but I found this program very interesting and insightful into what it was like to be brought up as a Kennedy in the 60's, and would recommend it to anyone here! But this might be a bit controversial, Around the 25 minute mark RFK Jr. recollects a story about his father regarding his actions on Oct.29th 1960, when Marin Luther King was thrown in jail in Mississippi. This was an October Surprise, only a week before the Presidential election between JFK and Nixon.. RFK Jr. said that his father Bobby phoned up the sheriff who was holding MLK and forcefully told him that he better release King now because, if he doesn't, once his brother gets elected in the following week, he'll make life hell for him in so many words. This however does not square with the news accounts of that period, which said RFK was not behind any activity to release King, but was livid when the news got out that his brother had phoned Coretta King to assure her he was dong all he could to secure King's release and from the NYT, Bobby said to his aides. Bobby had made the political calculations and didn’t like what it all added up to. “Do you know,” he fumed, “that three Southern governors told us that if Jack supported Jimmy Hoffa, Nikita Khrushchev, or Martin Luther King, they would throw their states to Nixon? Do you know that this election may be razor close and you have probably lost it for us?” Keep in mind, JFK hasn't been elected. Bobby was not Attorney General. Bobby was JFK's campaign manager, and this seems like a likely reaction from a campaign manager. All the records I've seen say Bobby had nothing to do with the release of MLK from jail. JFK had been working behind the scenes with the Mississippi Governor and it was JFK's brother in law Sargent Shriver and Civil Rights Attorney Jim Wofford who convinced JFK to phone Coretta King and bring JFK's sympathies out in the open. Bobby later got more involved in the civil rights movement for JFK as AG. The phone call to Coretta King turned out to be critical campaign move as MLK's father found out and endorsed JFK swinging a great many blacks to vote for JFK and ensure him the election. I'm not sure how RFK JR. could have made such a mistake in his accounting of the story but all major accounts including from the NYT and WAPO, and in recent years, the Daily Coz ( some here would say all CIA publications!) say Bobby had no real role in the release of MLK and was dead set against JFK's call to Coretta King which turned out to be an election game changer! To be fair, RFK JR. was himself was almost 7. But obviously this is quite a 180 degree spin RFK Jr. has somehow put on this story. You'd think some aides or members of his family might have fact checked him on this. Curious as to any dispute of facts.

Wrong, if you can't get your quotes down Ben, use the "copy and paste" function. "The title of the article is "RFK Jr. would be the worst possible President Kennedy." First off, I don't necessarily believe the Daily Beast is CIA because Ben Cole says so. He's also just recently refused to give evidence that Faucci is personally invested in the Wu Han lab, and conveniently quotes another of his alleged CIA sources, Business Insider, when it suits his interest. Apart from that, would you suppress their right to criticize RFK's vaccine policy simply because you don't agree with it? You made me read the article, which I suspect you haven't. The article is focused on the vaccine topic, that's not unusual. It wasn't supposed to be an article about all of RFK's stands on the issues. And that's done all the time. As I suspected, they could probably do a more effective job of attacking RFK Jr's policy, but they're the Daily Beast. Over all effect at changing existing opinions of a relatively few current Daily Beast readers? IMO, very little.

Which is probably why Ben has been reading nothing else but the Daily Beast from Thailand! I come back here and I see this thread about the Daily Beast from Ben, and I'm thinking. "Did Ben, all this time single handedly keep this lame thread alive? But No, Ben had another thread, about the Daily Beast reviewing that stupid movie about Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys. We informed him what a lame online site the Daily Beast is, but it's too late, he's hooked! The Daily Beast is not in the list of top 50 most visited online news sites. I couldn't check further. And what's the conspiracy here? No matter what you think, you're living in a bubble if you don't think RFK Jr. isn't going to be assailed for his vaccine policy. You remember you also thought we were being manipulated against Trump. But no, the majority of us denied Trump the Presidency by 7 million votes! Now we're trying to bite our tongue about who was being manipulated.

Whoa! Back to Dallas again! and "The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997 when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBRE) for approximately $2.2 billion. That buys a lot of National Socialist memorabilia. And Thomas entering his fourth decade now! Thomas's appointment was from George Bush SR., under some Republican political pressure to appoint a Black Conservative Justice, which became very apparent at the hearings to be scraping the bottom of the Justice barrel! **** Joe, it looks like you got your wish. heh heh Cohen looks like that Jewish comedian actor who can be pretty funny!. Is it Richard something?

Wow Matt, What a complete schmuck RFK Jr. is! He must really think he's playing both ends against the middle. He's aligned with the slimiest devils he could possibly align with. What a naive fool! He's toast!

Goldman: Apparently this committee is no longer focused on the so called dozens and dozens of fbi whistle blowers who were supposedly going to show some massive government conspiracy to attack on conservatives. 3 of them have already came in for transcribed interviews over a month ago. Where are those witnesses Mr. Chairman? Let's bring them in right here, so the American people can see for themselves what the entire basis for this subcommittee is. And from Jordan and the Republican-silence. There will be no showdown! Just like Taibbi won't release Musk's cherry picked twitter files!

I saw this Joseph, it's well worth watching. I always hate it, when people create a clip on youtube and entitle it. Such and such "shreads" such and such. But in Joseph's clip. Matt Taibbi is completely unprepared for Meidi Assan's questions, is forced to correct egregious errors, and at times looks confused. Incidentally Bill Maher is going to appear on Tucker Carlson's show. They asked Maher if they could just talk about things they agree on, and Maher refused, but they're going through with the interview anyway.

Paul: In my opinion the reason this is true is that the media and government are beholding to the producers of junk food. Without them nothing can happen. I agree in that I think the MSM should actually undertake to really inform people about issues, rather than through little sound bytes. And in this case, with more "healthy living" programs. But the way it stands now. If people had an interest in healthy living programs, they would sell, but they simply don't sell. When I see those programs, I mostly don't watch them Paul. And I'm somewhat health oriented. And obviously if you tell, for example Gil or Joe or me that you're going to take away our 'guilty pleasures". We may resist you! Most people know when they're eating food that's not good for them. Politicians, particularly in a Democracy don't gain support by telling people what they don't want to hear. (start getting in shape, and eat right! Dammit!)They gain support by telling people what they want to hear. People don't want to be told they have to make any sacrifice. And they blame a President or official who tells them they must sacrifice. For example, despite current comments about the CIA removing Jimmy Carter from office, the economic problems that removed Jimmy Carter was a runaway train of inflation that started 4 years before he even took office! The voting public is fickle. They'll get rid of Jimmy Carter for economic problems just as they got rid of George Bush Sr., who at one point got a 90% approval rating for his handling of the Persian Gulf War. Only to watch it plummet in 18 months when the U.S. went into a minor recession. (Remember Carville, it's the economy stupid!) And out of nowhere, Bill Clinton was elected. Having a basic understanding of human nature. And understanding that social engineering can only go so far does clear the picture of why we've come to where we are, quite a bit.

I agree Paul, but what are politicians going to do? That will never gain momentum politically because people are lazy and don't want to change their eating habits and develop a healthier lifestyle, and any politician who would try to do that would just lose, and unfortunately that's called Democracy. By middle age , most people know of somebody who was given a choice to either quit an unhealthy habit or die, and has consciously chosen to die. Junk food is an American exported health crisis throughout the world. Getting rid of unhealthy food would be the answer. But everyone would squawk that it's their freedom to live the lifestyle they choose. The U.S, has made great strides in eliminating cigarette use, but in Europe, they still smoke like trains! The closest thing I remember of someone banning junk food was New York Mayor Bloomberg trying to ban big size sugary drinks, and what of lasting value came of that? Probably the best example of a candidate who emphasizes health is Marianne Williamson, who makes a lot of sense, but a majority of people will never accept the message..

Anyone with any understanding of American politics know that's a pipe dream. Karl:I can imagine a Trump/Kennedy ticket, which would require a swich by Kennedy from donk to phant. ( It is impossible the other way around) arl Ho yeah, I get your priorities there Karl. "Imagine" If only RFK Jr. could have the good sense to put the better, more powerful leader above him? Right? Are you saying here that Faucci is personally invested in Wuhan Lab research? That what it sounds like Ben. What facts do you have? If you mean approved the NIH doing some funding of the Wuhan Lab, that might be more believable. About just the funding, I found this. The Trump administration kicked in 700k too. It's hard to conceive but all this is peanuts! It's just something to say they did it! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-admin-wuhan-lab-grant/ While it isn't unusual to see international cooperation in the field of virology, this claim stretches the truth. Unfortunately the idea that there are people throughout the world who are interested in alleviating human suffering and avoiding world pandemics apart from any one's nationality, but just on humanitarian grounds is just inconceivable to some conservatives that any country wouldn't use such information to wipe out the rest of the world if they had a chance. But there are such people. . Now that's interesting though debatable. Though three's no denying Wasserman Shultz antics in Florida to try to stave off Bernie's election, the truth is, Hilary did get more votes in the primaries in 2016 than Bernie. Prior to the Super Tuesday in 2020, there was no doubt Bernie was leading Biden. This was definitely due to the party heads In 2016, in their zeal to defeat Trump at any cost thought Biden was the better choice even though separate polls showed Bernie was a better candidate against Trump. There's no doubt the Democratic establishment party heads favored Biden, and offered the more centrist candidates backing in the future if they abandoned their failing campaigns. But i think they did end up making the wisest choice. And i think most independents and non MAGA Republicans agree with that. Although I later voted in the primary for Bernie. I think there is a point of voter appeal that Bernie doesn't have. Just viscerally, I think Americans prefer strong men,even if they are weak within,to an ethnic, sort of egghead, though Bernie is good at making his message simple. I'm not sure he could beat Trump. I could see where there would be disagreement about that. But I think it would be great political theater. I would think the Kennedy name alone does take votes away from Bernie. RFK Jr. seeing Biden's vulnerability to Bernie is a bit like RFK seeing LBJ lose the New Hampshire primary to Eugene Mc Carthy. He also has a head start if Biden doesn't run. Nobody really sees Kamala Harris as the next President.

First I do believe, like Michael and Chris, that RFK's speech problem is a big impediment to his getting elected. It will also be difficult for him to win the Presidency just as it was for Ted Kennedy unseating Jimmy Carter, unless Biden decides not to run. I do applaud that he, IMO has isolated the single greatest problem in the U.S., and that is the preeminence of the Corporate State. Only 2 other people who have run for office have made that distinction. Ralph Nader in 2000, and Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and came to regret it as a number of people who voted like I did made it easier for Gore to have the election stolen from him. I'll only say that as a person who doesn't believe in the electoral college and someone who actually believes Gore probably won Florida. I think there were 2 basic reasons I was mistaken voting for Nader. I think it's important to say that no American politician, Republican or Democrat would have a ghost of chance of being reelected if he passively let 911 pass. The chief difference between Gore and Bush's reaction to 911 would be that Gore wouldn't have launched a major domestic surveillance spy state as Bush did and 2) Gore would never have invaded Iraq. And certainly RFK wouldn't have. These differences are historically huge. And the differences in the 2 parties perceptions on geopolitcal strategy would not be near as clouded as it is now. Even though sometimes I think Michael offers a unique perspective,and I did like his link, which does give voice to recent weather anomalies, but says it's within historical precedents and talks of the difficulties of achieving any real consensus politically on climate change goals, between have and have not nations. I don't agree with his' putting down of Gore's predictions in "An Inconvenient Truth" as he in fact said in 2006 that if there was no serious action taken to effect climate change in 10 years, you would start seeing very visible effects, and at least from where I live in California. It was right around 2015 that things started getting pretty crazy. As I always understood it, the climate scientists were not predicting greater frequencies of hurricanes and other various extreme weather phenomena but just more extreme incidents, like in Missouri just yesterday! To me it's unquestionable everything's going out of whack. I'm completely in RFK's corner on that, as well as the points made about ensuring clean water, rethinking food supply and the preservation of species on earth etc.. IMO, We need someone who won't just put lip service to climate change, and his anti corporate stance works hand in hand with that. I don't want to misinterpret RFK's anti vax stance because I frankly don't understand it, and to me, it's not completely clear. And that's bad political baggage that he's just going to be continually having to stave off. He's villainized Faucci as evil, whose not been perfect but the worst you can say with certainty about him is that he's a government bureaucrat /turned in part politician, living in a Capitalist economic system whose had to maneuver around a President who could see nothing beyond his desire to get re elected. And despite some people's wishful thinking. There's not going to come a day when RFK Jr.is going to suddenly look brilliant on that issue. This Banon, Roger Stone connection is new to me. But both those guys are politically very smart. All of Trump's rhetoric about the issues of protecting the border and Globalism, (which is the closest thing Trump has to an ideological base outside of his Culture War rhetoric) didn't come from Trump, but from Steve Banon. Steve Banon's stated aim is the dismantling of the administrative state, including the nation's safety net. He and Stone are smart enough to know that RFK is diametrically opposed to that. So it's obvious they are just cynically using him trying to stir up more sh-t against the government, and allow an opening for Trump to get the plurality in 2024, because their proximity and influence to Trump was their single politically greatest life achievement, and would like to see it continue. I think they're grasping at straws, as I don't think there is any more real evidence that RFK will start a third party movement than Ted Kennedy would have in 1980. I think the Kennedy's are smart enough to know they need the Dem Party apparatus. IMO, that possibility of unseating Biden, could have been much more interesting if he didn't have the vaccine baggage. I was kind of hoping for the next generation of Kennedy's because I wanted to think my generation was someday going to pass the baton, and that this story could be better told now by a younger person. But we will see if some of that Kennedy mystique is left. Either RFK Jr. or someone similar, could have the ideas whose time has come.

You and I came to the same conclusion on this Tom. Specifically, as far as the charge that Ruth neglected to inform Lee of a better paying job. As a friend, and not even the wife of Lee. Why would she even be told the wage? There is no proof she was.. And for example, Why couldn't she just have been tired of trying to find Lee a job, and then be relieved she no longer has to find this guy a job, and lose interest, and not pursue it? Then months later, after hours of intense questioning , she gets defensive and fumbles when she finds that her neglect was being turned into a motive when confronted? Tom, thanks for that interview snippet,. with Rankin and Marina. Lee and Marina agree that Ruth was a "stupid woman" (Lee) and "not very smart." (Marina) ha ha!

Re: the thread. "Nothing to see here folks, move on!" heh heh heh The Dallas police should have insisted they stay, but they are the Dallas Police! Nobody can conceive of this now, but it was actually prevalent behavior that people who felt they had nothing to hide, actually trusted the police! And the biggest embarrassment to a middle class American back then would have been to be seen by his neighbors stopped in their car by the police! They weren't considered any flight risk. And as far as the Paine's international connections filtering down to the DPD when they knocked on the door, I think that's quite a stretch! Though I'm sure some disagree.

This is what I mean by wacko conspiracies theories. The people who made a film containing a salacious scene involving JFK couldn't just be out to make money? Ben never considers the profit motive. Ben:The left-wing, Donk-centric Daily Beast seems devoted to altering the public perception of JFK, even as the JFK Records are deep-sixed in perpetuity by Donk President Biden. Why? Is there a larger game plan? This couldn't just be one person writing a movie review. Not,according to Ben from Thailand. This is the left who have now become part of the government globalist "deep state" ( a phrase Ben has used more frequently than anyone on this forum) and is now besmirching the reputation of their 60 year old icon of World Peace because, why? What are you alleging Ben? That they think he was too soft on the Russian threat back in the 60's? If you read your articles in the link you provided. Their lead article and most currently relevant article "What the Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach the U.S. About How to Deal With Russia and Ukraine" praises JFK and Khrushev and their handling of the Cuban missile crisis against all their advisors and says that Biden and Putin should do the same. This is pro JFK! The same regurgitated "human interest" stories about Marilyn Monroe and the mob, and it's easy to see why they do it because it even generates some interest here! But another article among the links you've provided to presumably make your case is entitled. "How JFK Became the Poster Boy for Idealism and Hope" And under it the caption says, "There is a shared sense among historians that Kennedy was on his way to greatness when he died. An excellent new biography says the greatness was there all the time." Are you reading your links? Are you disappointed because you insist that all articles written about JFK, whether true or not, have to be positive? Ben:What drives The Daily Beast and its coverage of JFK? Why now...as the JFK Records are under review? I guarantee you. This article about this movie will have absolutely no effect on the release of JFK records. I seldom read the Daily Beast,You're making an assumption that the Daily Beast opposes the release of JFK records. I've checked earlier articles This is just plain false! Ben: Why? Is there a larger game plan? Ok, I know citing articles, from links that you provided that tended that exalt JFK rather than scandalize him will not persuade you. What are you alleging is the Daily Beast larger game plan, Ben? Be specific, go into some detail. Who are they ideologically aligned with?

I have here on the forum, very elaborately gone into my reactions about first hearing of the assassination in the 7th grade. I had, maybe the only teacher in the 7 half day home room class rooms, who had a radio and was listening to coverage in class to the announcement of JFK's death. The story on that Sunday, was a little more commonplace. I saw it live , having just got back from church. Everyone in my family was just stunned. My Mother was the only woman left in the house with 3 boys, of which I was the youngest, and she was very upset the entire weekend. My Dad was a socially liberal fiscally conservative Republican who voted for Nixon in 1960.. I know it shocked him. But he said nothing. But that was the way he was. He didn't offer much unless you asked him. I don't think it was for another 10 years that I really brought the issue up with him. But by that time, we had had a lot of disagreements about the Vietnam War. It might have been just the age I was going through. But it was almost as if, such a whirlwind of events happened over those next years , there never seemed to be that much time for anyone to reflect.

Joe, But it was Nixon who appointed Ford! If Nixon is fighting for his political life from the "Deep state", wouldn't he just be giving them greater incentive to remove him from office by appointing their presumed "lackey" from the Warren Commission as VP to succeed him?

Paul:I always presumed that Agnew’s indictment was part of a move to get him out and put Ford in so that Nixon would be pardoned by someone with credibility. I'm not sure why? I said they've been investigating Agnew since 1966! Of all possible new VP's, what guarantee would there be that Nixon would pick Ford? There was no obvious conclusion he was going to pick Ford. So you think the whole end point was that whoever these powers be,they could be sure that Ford would pardon Nixon? How could they be sure of that? I'm trying to understand Ben's assertion. If Nixon is fighting for his political life from the "Deep state", wouldn't he just be giving them greater incentive to remove him from office by appointing their presumed "lackey" from the Warren Commission as VP to succeed him? I'm just trying to logically play out, what it sounds like your assumptions here. That doesn't mean I necessarily accept them.

Agnew was indicted because he was a crook. They got him on criminal conspiracy, extortion , bribery and tax fraud. The DOJ had been looking into Agnew since 1966 for bribes,long before Nixon picked him out of nowhere in 1968. Nobody predicted Nixon would pick a relative unknown like Agnew. .He plead to a deal to avoid prison. He resigned before Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. So Nixon picked Ford to appease your "Deep State"? Nixon's still battling for his job.Why? I bet he never once considered Ford on the WC as a reason but wanted a malleable, perfect centrist, rather than a bad cop ideologue like Agnew. He was trying to come back to center by picking none other than the Republican Minority Leader Ford because he knew he was going to need him in his fight to remain in office, That was the political logic of it. But let's take your logic that almost could have come through. Ben, you were living at this time, but you don't mention he appointed none other than Nelson Rockefeller as his VP! Which could have been perfect according to your plan.Except, the last DUMPED VP of an incumbent was none other Nelson Rockefeller when Gerald Ford picked Bob Dole as his VP in 1976. There goes the perfect coup! Apparently Rockefeller wasn't that powerful! But politically, All this can be explained logically.

I'm in favor having a thread. When i made that comment/joke about deregulation, I was saying something similar to John and I think now Chris in that I think the mods should have stepped in sooner in these last few months, and established guidelines. But the blame game is over. What's done is done. Obviously the sooner we stop bitching at each other or at the mods, the sooner that's likely to happen.

Yeah I'm banned too. No, not really. But I am currently out of the U.S. at an undisclosed location. I got the word from my good buddy Peter Thiel and we got our funds out just before he yelled "fire!" in our Texas Theater. heh heh I guess the deregulation of the forum didn't work out so well. But there are some naysayers who said it was working out fine. But I still be believe in intellectual capitalism. But you do need some intellectual honesty. Or people will run it into the ground. ******** No, I got out of here soon because it was getting too crazy. Ok, everybody shares some blame. But now we have a guy who personally trashed a few people here unlike I've seen before. And he has no problem even casually saying he's sorry and even deleting his post yet he knows he can go right back to attacking others with impunity, and is incapable of learning anything. JMO There was a guy here who was banned for refusing to apologize for outrageously slandering a public figure with no evidence. He had a choice, and he's probably reading this now because he realizes any other website he's gone since with people who were just like him has degenerated into wacko boundlessness. Just my guess. But both these guys just laughed at the undeserved suffering of people they thought to be on the other side of their politics. And this guy much earlier had called me an as-h-le in huge letters, and I didn't report the guy. I just ignored him. Later, I was among the people who protested to the mods what he said. Of course other people who might have felt an ideological affinity with him or thought anything he said should be tolerated still could have had a conversation with him about his conduct and decorum. Whatever you think about free speech. We don't live in a inhuman. barren wasteland. That's what I would have done. I would have PMed him and told him he was screwing it up for our side. I would express my solidarity with his view but I would caution him that he could screw it up for everybody. Again, I don't mean to end this just totally blaming the other side. I would stand by the 56 year thread as a great time capsule for at least 2 years since it's inception in April 2020? About the the time of the beginning of the covid pandemic was it? There were a lot of good people who put a lot of good work in it. I think it has a more unique perspective than other political threads (though honestly I'm no expert in that I haven't participated in a lot of political threads) in that everyone in it believed that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy. That's a unique subset of people.

Leslie , I'll tel you why it didn't take long at all for these little ninnies to start their misogyny rant. They're followers of Jordan Peterson who has made a very lucrative business of cattle farming young and apparently even middle aged white males who find themselves being rejected by more educated and better trained woman, who aren't near ADD as them, and in this case not as prone to spending a 100 hours a week, 52 weeks a year on conspiracy forums. In reality, this is a serious problem that's not to be made light of. If they could be more honest with themselves and approach others in a spirit of humility. They might be surprised how much compassion others may have for them. But the way they're choosing to lash out is just a dead end.

W. made a reference to this. Paul, I guess just got turned on to a 9 month old article about Naomi Wolfe. If this isn't a case of someone not seeing the forest from the trees. He obviously heroically sees himself as striking a dagger at the heart of American liberals! But honestly all I know is about Naomi Wolff is she's a feminist. Now you make me have to research her a little more to see around the same time she had a vision of Jesus and became an anti vaxxer. Which i guess is a great comfort to you Paul. But unlike you, that hardly adds credibility for me. She strikes me as a gullible idiot, who was never very discerning. That you would find this relevant and noteworthy to post here, doesn't say much for you either. Besides, the less of this tabloid consciousness about who said what, the better. But isn't it curious that it's always the right wing that looks at the left as the "experts" and so celebrates their turning to the other side? Maybe you should stick to your home country Paul, about petty matters such as this. Because I've yet to find anybody even residing outside the U.S. having any real perspective or sense of proportion on what's going on in the U.S. It does after all, have 5 times the population and so 5 times the input of the U.K., which if you weren't brought up in , you would probably find staggering. Paul:I suspect Kirk is a more dedicated follower of Kenneth Williams – he of "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me" They've all got it in for me! a-ho ho! Oh really Paul?, well I don't have a million conspiracies to rationalize why my life hasn't worked out or why so few of my calculations or predictions turn out to be true. h h

Chris seconds Matthew's recommendation of "Everything I don't like is Hitler" I'm sorry my time zones and proclivities don't match up much at this time. Let's be clear here. I've never called anyone here a Fascist. All my opposition being voiced now just represents their uneasiness at being asked more probative questions about where their leanings lie. So I see I now have successfully sucked in, and outed some posters here to their true leanings. Yet interestingly enough what lead to this great revealing was a really petty intolerance crying to the mods about a one sentence offhand very indirect reference to a "misunderstood historic figure" such as Hitler. I guess my silly comment about someone's personal "struggle" turned out to in fact be "a prophecy"of a second coming now to the forum of what we might have previously thought a "crypto" right wing ideology, but now coming to the fore! I say "crypto" because Chris by never identifying the leanings of his most esteemed writer certainly doesn't give reason for others to trust him. Le Bon's leanings are important. Most of us are not so impressed by Chris's repeated recommendations and don't have the time to research Le Bon. Why not just say who he is? Why specifically you like him?, and how does it specifically apply to today? Those were always opportunities. But these are questions I found Chris can never answer. But on the other hand of course would cry, to the mods to censure, if he thought he was being unjustly maligned! What a surprise! Go ahead, Chris, just bury the mods in endless controversy because you take offense at the slightest thing, but can't explain in any depth what your ideas really are. Make into a game, where all the mods have to take time out and study your complaints. So Chris, Paul and Matthew, You're saying Hitler wasn't as bad as everyone thought. I don't have time to read your recommended reading. You have the forum. What did Hitler get right? How is he misunderstood? I fully suspect Paul to be the most articulate, if he doesn't launch into the stratosphere and race away from us commoners.

And your silly little profile picture Matthew? Hiding behind a light and trying to portray yourself as some sot of enlightener. And like I asked Chris, how did that work out ? If I were a mod here, I wouldn't have allowed that from the onset! But I'm willing to let that all go Matthew, if you would consent to be play the lead role in my newest indy film. It's a biography about Mr. Peanut. Oh, by the way , are those shoulders or a folded lounge chair?

I've been on an all night flight. Quite a firestorm here. About Chris's fixation on Fascist, Le Bon. Chris:Think about it, it’s been a manual for understanding the popular mind and how people behave in a group. You’ve just named some of the most famous effective propagandists in history. Learning how its done will help you identify when the techniques are being used on you. That was my primary reason for reading it. Again, stop bs'ing us Chris. You've showcased this Le Bon probably 5 times. And there's never been a mention of even, "This is a quote from Gustave Le Bon, who was actually an influential writer to both Hitler and Mussolini. I posted this so we should always be aware of the rhetoric Fascists may use to influence people." But never was there a word about him being a fascist. That was just immaterial, wasn't it Chris? Of course you didn't say that.You never gave any real explanation of why you were such a fanboy of Le Bon , but somehow you were confident in your thinking , just the weight of these words will resonate with everyone here, which was one in just a series of miscalculations you've made. This is the most quoted statement that you over and over have declared on this forum for yourself. Could Leslie be any more right about Chris being the forum's foremost pseudo psychologist? Something about the Old World rigidity of 100 year old European fascist writing has a rather corny ( or maybe corn syrup?) strange appeal to you. Even though by today's standards, it's not the least sophisticated and seems almost midieval. Ok, let's digress a bit. You rail on, curiously with Cotter about equality of outcomes in life, as if that's such a profound concept. Oh duh, who in this life has ever seen equality of outcome.? What is important, and it's not to say it always happens, is that all people should have equal rights before the law and it's apparent to anyone with any kind of trained mind that this asshole is giving his justification and scheming to disenfranchise people by hook or by crook, and sees them as only a means to an end. And you're trying to rewrite your history that all along you were only trying to warn us about how fascist's control people? We've had about 7 year real life education on this, thank you! Again, stop bs'ing us Chris, you really eat up on this sh-t, like a dog with a bone. and that's the way you've always portrayed it, before Le bon was exposed.. We've had people sort of like this in the U.S. There was Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, they also were scumbags, but they are historically small time up to now, and were willing to abide by elections. But this guy was an inspiration to Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. Ok, but, but you admire his powers of manipulation, Do you Chris? Do you really aspire to such power? So how's that been working for you on the forum? heh heh.