Firestorm -- A Review of the 1996 Church Fire Scare

original opinion piece | 12/96 | Interesting Times

[Interesting Times]

This was my first FR post back in '98 -- in fact, I ran across FR while looking for a good place for this article -- but that thread has long since been devoured by the Troll of Inaccessibility.

Nearly six years later, the church fires disinformation campaign stands as an excellent example of leftist media tactics.

[IronJack]

Well done. And quite revealing re Gramscian/Leftist tactics.

[jaz.357]

Didn't XLINTON also say that as a boy he would go and watch the black churches burn when it was proved NONE burned in his area at that time???????

[Interesting Times]

Yep... it's in the article.

[Interesting Times]

A ping from the past...

[LurkerNoMore!]

Still relevant. Only some of the names have changed.

[Interesting Times]

ping.

[The Shrew]

Great post IT.

It's been a pleasure working with you and reading your stuff lo these many years.

Regards,

TS

[abner]

Wow. Impressive.

Worth another read. Or, in my case, a first read.

[Interesting Times]

Thanks, guys.

I gave this to my minister, curious to see if he was at all bothered by the NCC bearing false witness for political and financial gain. He wasn't interested, except to caution me against posting it on the bulletin board. That, you see, would be 'divisive'.

[3catsanadog]

The relationship between the NCC churches and CDR predated Jones – for example, the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society had been involved with the CDR for several years

Seems every time I read about the United Methodist Church anymore, they are embracing more and more liberal ideology. I'm about ready to drop UMC and become a Catholic. If my grandmother hadn't been such a rebel and left the Catholic church, I would be one now, I reckon.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...caution me against posting it on the bulletin board. That, you see, would be 'divisive'...hmmm - I would have thought "divisive" was when you promulgated lies about groups having no involvement in outrageous activities and spread suspicion and fear where none was warranted; posting an article setting the record straight would be better described as "charitable" and "healing", it seems to me. This minister should return to the seminary for some brushup work.......

[Interesting Times]

This minister should return to the seminary for some brushup work...

No help there.

Where do you think he learned that 'divisive' means 'opinions liberals dislike'?

[backhoe]

As a way of bumping this- and everyone should read it- I'll just mention that I really believe the 1990's will be remembered as "The Decade of Frauds..."

[Interesting Times]

I'll just mention that I really believe the 1990's will be remembered as "The Decade of Frauds..."

That's if we win.

Otherwise it'll be "The Decade of Enlightenment."

[backhoe]

Good point- some Editor at the Washington Times dubbed it "The Golden Age of Clinton..."

[Interesting Times]

Good point- some Editor at the Washington Times dubbed it "The Golden Age of Clinton..."

The Times or the Post?

The Washington Times is conservative -- I'd expect to see that heading in the Post, aka "Pravda on the Potomac."

[backhoe]

It was written with bitter, acidic sarcasm... I actually have a piece of it saved in my "anti-clinton" scrapbook and it seems to be from the WSJ, and is a reprint from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.... Excerpt:

...in the clintonoids' version of history, the .... economy was the worst in half a century till Bill and the FOB came to our rescue...

[AdSimp]

A bump to my friend in VA. Why can't our side tell the truth as well as the other side can tell a lie?

[Interesting Times]

Why can't our side tell the truth as well as the other side can tell a lie?

The bad guys own most of the opinion-forming apparatus: TV, movies, newspapers, education, church leadership, musicians, even cartoonists.

This is slowly changing (Rush, Fox News, the Net) but it takes time and effort to reverse decades of relentless propaganda.