Liberty Lobby

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'''Liberty Lobby''' was a right-wing U.S. group founded c. 1955 by [[Willis Carto]], and defunct as of 2001 due to a lawsuit brought against them by the [[Holocaust denial]] group, the [[Institute for Historical Review]] (also founded by Willis Carto).  Liberty Lobby promoted "controversial issues" (namely, a highly [[anti-Semitic]] worldview which they framed as [[populism|populist]] and anti--[Zionism|Zionist]]) which other conspiracist right wing groups such as the [[John Birch Society]] disavowed.
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'''Liberty Lobby''' was a right-wing U.S. group founded c. 1955 by [[Willis Carto]], and defunct as of 2001 due to a lawsuit brought against them by the [[Holocaust denial]] group, the [[Institute for Historical Review]] (also founded by Willis Carto).  Liberty Lobby promoted "controversial issues" (namely, a highly [[anti-Semitic]] worldview which they framed as [[populism|populist]] and anti-[[Zionism|Zionist]]) which other [[conspiracy theory|conspiracist]] right wing groups such as the [[John Birch Society]] disavowed.
  
 
Despite their name and office near Capitol Hill in [[Washington, D.C.]] they did little, if any, actual lobbying.  They possibly played a role in [[Lyndon LaRouche]]'s abandonment of [[Marxism]] when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976.
 
Despite their name and office near Capitol Hill in [[Washington, D.C.]] they did little, if any, actual lobbying.  They possibly played a role in [[Lyndon LaRouche]]'s abandonment of [[Marxism]] when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976.

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Liberty Lobby was a right-wing U.S. group founded c. 1955 by Willis Carto, and defunct as of 2001 due to a lawsuit brought against them by the Holocaust denial group, the Institute for Historical Review (also founded by Willis Carto). Liberty Lobby promoted "controversial issues" (namely, a highly anti-Semitic worldview which they framed as populist and anti-Zionist) which other conspiracist right wing groups such as the John Birch Society disavowed.

Despite their name and office near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. they did little, if any, actual lobbying. They possibly played a role in Lyndon LaRouche's abandonment of Marxism when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976.

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The Weekly World News of the Right

Their biggest influence came about because of their weekly newspaper, The Spotlight, which ran from 1975-2001. The paper was a notable source of several fringe topics, including:

They also took a special interest in investigative reporting on political and corporate scandals involving Zionists.

The talk radio show "Radio Free America" during the 1990s, hosted by Tom Valentine and heard over WWCR, was sponsored by The Spotlight.

In 1990, they reprinted Leonard C. Lewin's 1967 political satire Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, written in the form of a government panel report detailing that war is necessary to maintain power, convinced it was an actual government report and that it was in public domain. Lewin successfully sued for copyright infringement in court, proving he was the book's author.[3]

American Free Press

The weekly American Free Press is a successor newspaper to The Spotlight, founded in 2001 by former staffers. It is a significant source of 9/11 conspiracy theories, and is cited as a source by the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark Lane, one of the early JFK assassination conspiracy theorists and author of the best-seller Rush to Judgment on the topic in the early 1960s, eventually became Liberty Lobby's in-house lawyer; Lane came from a leftist background and his eventual involvement with Liberty Lobby (as well as Liberty Lobby's promotion of Lyndon LaRouche) is an example of something that sets Liberty Lobby apart from most hard-right groups: they sometimes attempted to form alliances with the far left.
  2. Liberty Lobby suddenly turned anti-Scientology very late in the game after Mark Weber, a Scientologist and Carto rival, took control of the Institute for Historical Review from Liberty Lobby's Willis Carto.
  3. John Kifner. "L. C. Lewin, Writer of Satire Of Government Plot, Dies at 82." New York Times. 1999 January 30
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