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The O'Reilly Factor
April 15, 2004

Don't be a Kool-Aid (search) person. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points" memo. In 1978, more than 900 people committed suicide in Guyana (search) by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at the behest of a religious nut named Jim Jones. Thus the term "Kool-Aid people."

They are folks who do not think for themselves. They are true believers committed to a political ideology or other belief system. And no matter what evidence is presented to them, they are incapable of change.

You see, Kool-Aid people most often in the political arena on both the right and the left. Don't be one. Think independently.

That brings us to some of the 9/11 people, who have chosen to use the tragedy that befell them to promote their ideology. About 100 of these people, less then 1 percent of the folks directly affected by 9/11, have joined a group called Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The group's goal is "to promote a safe, open dialogue on alternatives to war" and is an avowed left-wing organization.

Peaceful Tomorrows is partially funded by the Tides Foundation, an activist non-profit group that gives big money to liberal organizations. Tides has donated more than $300 million to groups "working for social change."

Peaceful Tomorrows is also associated with the Fentons Communications PR firm, which books people on radio and TV and generally provides their clients with national media exposure. Fenton also represents moveon.org and the new lib radio deal.

It is Fenton which advises the Peaceful Tomorrow folks, who have become increasingly involved in high-profile situations like protesting President Bush's terrorism ads and criticizing Condoleezza Rice and other Republicans at the 9/11 Commission hearings.

The problem is that few, if any, of the news programs identify these 9/11 people as belonging to a left-wing cabal. dedicated to defeating President Bush for ideological reasons. Most Americans thought and still think that these people who booed and applauded during the commission hearings were just plain folks.

Now you know. "Talking Points" believes that using dead relatives to advance ideology is very disturbing. If conservatives were doing this, we'd say the same thing. There's something tawdry about it. And the deception that's been going on in the media is staggering. To be fair, some editors and producers didn't know, but some did and chose not to honestly identify this Peaceful Tomorrows bunch. (can you say Chris Matthews' Hardball, the "Art Bell" of television)

Now we contacted a number of these people to come in here and tell their side of the story. They all declined, even though it was this program who went to their rescue during the 9/11 charity debacle.

Constitutionally, these people have a right to support any ideology they want and I respect that right if it were done independently of the terror action. But to use dead Americans in a stealth attempt to influence a presidential election is flat-out immoral in my opinion. The families for Peaceful Tomorrows should be ashamed.

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In order not to mislead everybody concerning the reference to the "Kool Aid People", the Reverend Jim Jones who led his flock to Guiana, and to suicide drinking Grape Drink, was also an ordained Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister.

Back in the "good old days" before he moved to San Francisco, he was located in Indianapolis where many of the most mind-numbed robot-like knee-jerk Liberal elements of that denomination's minsterial corps may usually be found.

Jim Jones was "their baby".

Every evening about 10 PM, Jim had a radio program where he spewd Socialist bile and Communist tripe. He did and said everything except that which would prove someone a Christian.

No matter how bad Jim got, his sponsoring Christian Church ministers always had some excuse for it. Jim was impregnating women , molesting children, ranting and raving like the madman he really was, and those guys would say things like "well, the Hebrew patriarchs had many wives" or "even Jesus liked to have young children around Him", and "yes, Jim's a bit charismatic, but that was in his background". (Like I said, mind-numbed, robot-like, knee-jerk Liberal jerks put this guy into business and kept him there.)

What is truly unfortunate is that even after Jim Jones was revealed for the demon he really was, his apologists in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) continued spinning the BS. Many congregations were lost to the Independent Christian Church movement. Some might have gone over to the Church of Christ (Christian) although I don't have any idea what they'd do with their organs and pianos!

CONCLUSION:Ergo, nothing to do with Jonestown, or the Rev. Jim Jones, or his friends, or his movement has anything to do with Republicans or Conservatives. On the other hand, Jim Jones and his running dog lackeys were all too typical of the Democratic party and the Liberals ~ restrict the term "koolaid drinkers" to them!