Posted on 11/21/2017 4:10:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Never miss a chance to smear conservatives, even if that means somehow connecting the right to the murderous cult leader Charles Manson. That’s apparently the view of the New York Times and Newsweek. Both liberal outlets on Monday used Manson’s death to attack political enemies. A tweet for the NYT opinion piece by Baynard Woods slimed, “Charles Manson wasn't the inevitable outgrowth of the Sixties. If anything, he was a harbinger of today's far right.”
Woods insisted that the killer “had more in common ideologically with far-right groups like the John Birch Society than he did with the anarchic leftism of, say, the Yippies.” Desperately trying to connect Manson to conservatives, he argued:
[Manson] believed that African-Americans would soon rise up and begin to murder white people. Mr. Manson and his followers would be spared; they were going to hide beneath the desert in Death Valley until the war was over, when they would surface from their underground layer and rule over the black population, which, Mr. Manson claimed, would be unable to govern itself.
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Today, this sort of logic is all too familiar to us. The paranoid, racist and apocalyptic ramblings of Mr. Manson are the DNA of the reactionary alt-right. In the days leading up to Dylann Roof’s murder of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., he talked to his friends about a “race war” and later used the same language in interviews with investigators. He was an enthusiastic reader of alt-right websites.
Memo to the New York Times: Monsters like Manson and Dylann Roof aren’t "the right."
Newsweek’s Melissa Matthews on Monday talked to psychoanalyst Mark Smaller about how cult leader Manson can help understand Trump and his supporters:
Smaller is clear that he does not believe President Donald Trump is similar to the convicted killer, or that their followers have any shared beliefs or characteristics, but he did say we can look to the current president to see how language is used to form a bond with followers.
“Our current president speaks in an emotional or affective way to large numbers of people in our country who feel a kind of alienation or disconnection from the government,” he said. “They feel very responded to and become his political base.”
In case it wasn’t clear enough, the headline connected the dots: “How Murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump Used Language to Gain Followers.”
Is it possible, liberal journalists, that the rantings of a depraved cult leader/murderer don’t tell us anything about conservatives?
Manson was a liberal/leftist in its purest form.
He wanted to incite a race war between blacks and whites, but he didn't think that blacks would be competent enough to run the country after the bloodbath, so Manson thought he would come in as a "benevolent dictator" and oversee the ones left.
Maybe it's just me, but that sounds an awful lot like what liberals think of black people. That they need white liberals to take care of them.
Don't get me started on Manson supporting just about every liberal cause out there.
Manson was a global warming cultist, who spewed out whatever hot gas he could think of regarding mother earth.
Big-time eco-freak.
Charlie knows now he made nig mistake. I follow Jesus.
Oh please! Manson was a product of the 60s counter culture movement. Left Wing all the way.
The Manson Family and the far left teamed up to try to assassinate Gerald Ford because they said Ford was Nixon wearing a new face, about the same time the SLA tried to help the Family break Manson out of prison.
I was alive back then. He was scum. He was no Republican. He was a anarchist hippie. Hillary was a hippie, Elizabeth Warren was a hippie. Bernie Sanders was a hippie. They are all in charge now
Punk Charlie Manson was just a Hitler-wannabe
Trump has been called Nazi and compared to Hitler so often its refreshing for the NYT take it easy on him and equate him to Charlie.
Thanks Kaslin. Apparently the stupid lying ********er didn't notice Ira Einhorn, the Occutard rapists, etc.
Anybody can play at that game...
California Times Slimes: dozens of past democrat and legislative elected pervert women abusers were (and continue to be) Harbingers of today's "New York Times, CNN and CBS Slimes..."
Baynard Woods needs a dictionary..underground layer??
If one lives in NYC and knows any of That publication’s advertisers confront them,:
Take that issue and hold it up where they can see it and ask them: “How can you support this” ?
What cracks me up is that the POTUS that the Left hates the most has the longest hair since Zachary Taylor (not counting LBJ’s post-POTUS hippie locks). It’s no wonder they can’t shut up about his hair. It completely throws them off balance.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."
William Jefferson Clinton
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
Barack Hussein 0bama
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE????
I know Alex Jones isn’t popular with the owners of this forum but on his show Monday, Jones broke down on how Manson was in tune with the modern day left.
Jones played clips of Manson talking about the environmental movement, population control and the need for a one-world government. Manson sounded like Al Gore on the environment, Bill Gates on population control and David Rockefeller on globalism.
Yep, Charlie was left all the way.
Is that why he was so revered by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn?
W.T.F.
I don’t want to even read it. Yes, everyone on FR really has admiration for a low level sicko with evil charisma who wanted to kill kill kill innocent people, and influenced others to join him. Every conservative agrees with it.
I suppose every liberal wants to boil body parts of murder victims in their tea and eat them, like Jeffrey Dahmer. Right? Makes the same amount of sense.
Did libs just make the connections to all this during the last few days? Man, can put anything by the lib press. s/
My mistake.
Far right = National Socialism, communism’s twin.
Also, today when I opened the sections of the LA Times for mom to read, I noticed long depth pieces in three sections on Manson, and how he was in with the music industry, how he affected this city, bla bla bla. If only he had followed USC football, they would have had him on the sports section too. I sadly thought how pleased Charlie would be to see all the attention.
(They should have just said “Manson Dead. World Rejoices and Moves on.”)
The NYS has been an arm of the Commie Party of Russia for about 100 years.
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