[Diana in Wisconsin]

Subtlety has never been a strong Birch tradition. Over the decades, the Birch conspiracy grew to encompass the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, public education, the United Nations, the civil rights movement, The Rockefeller Foundation, the space program, the COVID pandemic, the 2020 presidential election and climate-change activism. In short, things the Birchers don't like.

The plot’s leaders — “insiders,” in Society lexicon — range from railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt to former President George H.W. Bush and Bill Gates, whose vaccine advocacy is, they say, part of a plan to control the global population. While his main focus was always communism, Welch eventually came to believe that the conspiracy's roots twisted far back into history, to the Illuminati, an 18th-century Bavarian secret society.

[cgbg]

Once upon a time there was a crazy conspiracy theory that the CIA had major influence over the mass media.

Only a few right wing nuts believed it.

But—it turned to be conspiracy fact.

It was called Project Mockingbird.

The assigns and successors live on today....

[piasa]

They have turned out to be right much more often than the mainstream press has been in the last 40 years.

[Just mythoughts]

Greta Van Susteren was born in Appleton... Liz-a-belle Cheney was born in Madison, while daddy Cheney was in college...

[so_real]

The God-fearing right-wing Constitutional-conservative MAGA-proud conspiracy theorists are the only ones batting 1000 these days. When yer right, yer right.

[Regulator]

Gee.

Back in ‘66, was at a Birch Society meeting with my father.

Guy in the audience asked a question about MLK. Said, is he a Communist?

The chapter leader said, “Well we just characterize him as being pink”. Cautiously said, cuz of course you don’t wanna sound likea...’spiracy theorist! A phrase that hadn’t been invented yet...by the CIA.

So fast forward 50 years and everyone admits now that MLK was a flaming pinko, full blown Commie.

Gee how bout that.

[Firehath]

I was told

50 years ago

By a uniformed kkker

That civil rights

Was a communist conspiracy

Didn’t believe it

Till the antichrist obama showed up

35 yrs ago

I thought gay liberation

Was freedom for everyone

Ask kim davis - Russia about that one

Gog usa

Magog nato

Reb 13

[FarCenter]

Partly funded by the extremely rich H L Hunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunt

Before Rush there was Lifeline, sponsored by HLH Products. It was on over 400 radio stations at its peak.

https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/conservatism/conservatism-media

One of his many sons, Lamar Hunt, founded the American Football League and created the Super Bowl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Hunt