Annals Of Right Wing Lunacy

You're reading a typist who read "None Dare Call It Treason" at ten merely because it was around the house. (To further their home-schooling agenda, our reactionary parents deprived us of telebision, forcing this reporter to the printed word at an early age. We never could force ourself to read Human Events though.)

Therefore this sort of crap cracks us up, especially when viewed through history's fuzzy lens.

Representative Quotes:

• "History will give [Senator McCarthy] a rightful place above all inferiors." (February, page 2).

• "[The American Medical Association] hopes to have a blitzkrieg going -- the objective being to exterminate all of the minority healing professions by 1958." (September, page 2)

Another:

Still, Winrod's truth-torch hasn't been entirely snuffed. He damns President Eisenhower for supporting "the crucifixion," snarling that rightblogger evergreen: "the government as organized by our founding fathers [has been] replaced with something fashioned according to a leftist pattern."

Funny, yes, but as noted:

In 1955, when the United States senate dared to censure its anti-communist inquisitionist Joe McCarthy, few Americans heard the spirited nonsense roared by Wichita evangelist Gerald B. Winrod in The Defender, his monthly journal of sermons and horseshit. Only Winrod dared call the censure "crucifixion."

Our bolding: As in, not many. A different story today. We don't remember the John Birch Society busing 10,000 "Patriots" to Washington on a moment's notice to protest Eisenhower being a communist dupe. (Of course Ike was neither swarthy nor of the Hebrew persuasion.)

So there's a conclusion to be made, or at least something to be inferred from John Birch beliefs & values now being financed by Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks & the like. See Susan of Texas. We can't even conceive of a project like that ("Work?") but we have a diagnosis to excuse us.

(Tip o' the chapeau to the constantine institute for advanced media studies.)