You’re welcome! bttt
I’m sorry if I gave you the impression that I thought you supported him. I assumed all along you didn’t, but many FReepers are unaware of how many extremist nutcases and their web sites have been banned on FR.
Case in point:
Google Search of FreeRepublic shows over 1,200 pages with mentions of Alex Jones. Our censors must be falling behind, or yet again, others live in delusion of their greatness.
16 posted on Sunday, December 27, 2009 2:03:58 PM by kingu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415837/posts?page=16#16
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Partial list of extremist nut-cases banned from posting on FR:
Stormfront -a white nationalist and supremacist neo-Nazi Internet forum that has been described as the Internet’s first major hate site. (They just LOVE David Duke)
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/
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Lindon La Rouche and his trolls
http://www.larouchepac.com/
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Cindy Sheehan’s boyfriend Lew Rockwell and his trolls
http://www.lewrockwell.com/
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Prison Planet.TV and Alex Jones and his trolls
http://prisonplanet.tv/
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Infowars and Alex Jones and his trolls
http://www.infowars.com/
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The Birchers (The John Birch Society) and their trolls
http://www.jbs.org/
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06/25/2010
Glenn Beck is a Skousenite.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/232435/beck-and-birchers-daniel-foster
“....Then things get weirder... [Glenn] Beck’s ties to a Bircher named W. Cleon Skousen and his world of fringe conspiracy theories.
Read and watch enough Glenn Beck, and you realize that he is not only introducing new authors and ideas into public life, he is reintroducing old ideas. Some very old ideas.
The notion that America’s leaders are indistinguishable from America’s enemies has a long and sorry history. In the 1950s it led Robert Welch, the head of the John Birch Society, to proclaim that President Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist sympathizer. For this, William F. Buckley Jr. famously denounced Welch and severed the Birchers’ ties to mainstream conservatism. The group was ostracized for decades.
But not everyone denounced Welch.
One author, the Mormon autodidact W. Cleon Skousen, continued to support the Birchers as he penned books on politics and the American founding. And Skousen continued to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that American political, social, and economic elites were working with the Communists to foist a world government on the United States.
Glenn Beck is a Skousenite.
During the “We Surround Them” program, he urged his audience to read Skousen’s 5000 Year Leap (1981), for which he has written a foreword, and The Real George Washington (1991).
“The 5000 Year Leap is essential to understanding why our Founders built this Republic the way they did,” the author writes in Glenn Beck’s Common Sense.
More controversially, Beck has recommended Skousen’s Naked Communist (1958) and Naked Capitalist (1970), which lay out the writer’s paranoid scenarios in detail.
The latter book, for example, draws on Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope (1966), which argues that the history of the 20th century is the product of secret societies in conflict.
“Carroll Quigley laid open the plan in Tragedy and Hope,” says a character in Beck’s new novel, The Overton Window. “The only hope to avoid the tragedy of war was to bind together the economies of the world to foster global stability and peace.”
Wanna know more about Skousen? Well, after some pecking around the archives, I found an excellent sketch of his weirder beliefs by NROer Mark Hemingway, penned in 2007 when it emerged that Mitt Romney was also a one-time fan.
Some highlights from therein:
– Skousen thought the Communists were creating “a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters.”
– Skousen thought that criticism of the Mormon church’s policy against priesthood for blacks was a Communism attack.
– Skousen accused the Council on Foreign Relations and the Rockefellers of conspiring to elect Jimmy Carter and pave the way for One World Government.
By the way, this sort of thing is alive and well today. I received an e-mail not eight hours ago, from a Bircher conspiracy group that I’ll leave unnamed, detailing how the McChrystal firing figures into the Council on Foreign Relations’ plans for World Government:
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Beck: Still endorsing Ron Paul over Newt Gingrich
http://www.therightscoop.com/beck-still-endorsing-ron-paul-over-newt-gingrich/
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Mark Levin torches Ron Paul
http://www.therightscoop.com/page/3/
VIDEO: Ron Paul Defends Occupy Wall Street (Blasts America’s “Obsession with war”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2820134/posts
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Mark Levin slams Ron Paul caller
http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-slams-ron-paul-caller/
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Levin: Newt Gingrich is no Marxist or Socialist like these imbeciles suggest
http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-newt-gingrich-is-no-marxist-or-socialist-like-these-imbeciles-suggest/
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Mark Levin: I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he
Mark Levin Fan ^ | February 21, 2010 | Mark R. Levin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456317/posts
I was invited to be the opening speaker at Saturday’s CPAC session. I had accepted but then, to my amazement, I learned that the John Birch Society would be one of many co-sponsors. This takes the big-tent idea many steps too far for me. So, I withdrew. Apparently, others were not so moved. That’s fine. But it wasn’t for me. Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater, among others, chased the Birchers from the movement decades ago. And they’re not a part of the movement. So, to give them a booth at CPAC was boneheaded. .....”
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
I was alerted to this monster thread this morning and had to stop reading it after a while. I’ll leave this one post and then move along. These flame wars are vicious. They contribute nothing. If you love other hosts wonderful. If you don’t like my show wonderful. If you love other recent books, cool. If you hate my book, so what? But I will comment here as a long-time Freeper, on my show, and anywhere else about my views, whether you agree with them or not. I’ve worked too long and too hard in the conservative trenches to be chased or pushed here or there. I’ve seen great leaders up close and personal, like Reagan, and I’ve seen great talent up close and personal, like Rush. I fear for this nation. And I know the enemy. I have for 40 years. And I have fought them- at the polls, within the GOP, in Court, on TV, and in radio. I do not seek praise for it. I do it out of commitment to this society. And I did it when I didn’t have two dimes to rub together. It’s impossible to address all the poison here nor is it productive. But I can and do back up all I believe and say on the air and in my writings. They are the “links” some of the malcontents here demand. If you want to honestly know where I am coming from, how I get there, then listen and read about it. I explain myself in great detail all the time. Now let’s take our country back. Good day. (please excuse any typos as this iPhone keypad is murder.)
1,038 posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 9:16:42 AM by holdonnow
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2456317/posts?page=1038#1038
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