Friday, April 16, 2010

Indignant? You Bet Your Sweet Ass I'm Indignant!

The training of Yugoslav pilots was interpreted as "Reds In Our Air Force," per the TIME of 8 December 1961.
An attractive Dallas housewife sees little of her neighbors these days. "I just don't have time for anything," says Mrs. Bert Shipp. "I'm fighting Communism three nights a week." In the Hollywood Hills, TV Commercial Producer Marvin Bryan spends his spare time working for the local Freedom Club, which is dedicated to opposing "compromisers" in local and national government and to smoking out liberals in the community. Says Bryan: "We don't want to coexist with these people. We don't want our children to play with their children." At a Freedom Forum meeting in Greenwich, Conn., 800 citizens recently paid $5 apiece to sit through a day of patriotic films, speeches on dialectical materialism and attacks on the U.S. State Department, federal income tax, philanthropic foundations and Harvard University. Questions to speakers were written out, explained Mrs. Charles Chapin, one of the meeting's sponsors, in order to screen those coming from Communists who might be in the audience.
This is related to the previously unknown (To us, & what do we know?) National Indignation Convention (We kid you not.) mentioned by Rick Perlstein in the NYT item we quoted somewhere in the mist below. We Googled it, only to find that others had done the same & then (as we have) typed about the Googling. Even as we realized what this meant we noticed a peculiar odor, & felt a bit light-headed. Then the room began spinning about us, & a voice called to us, as if from another room, or county & ...

The video includes Rev. B.J. Hargis.

1 comment:

Glennis said...

"The National Indignation Convention denouces the liberal taint of the John Birch Society."

Beautiful.